Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o4.o6.o5

GRINNELL:
Whas up Congress?! We just got back from break but we have a load of events coming up. This Friday we have Chicago BeatBox coming in to do a performance. It should be off da hook. Next weekend is Chicago Poet Kevin Koval who will be doing a variety of workshops/discussions and a performance. Loras should hit us up if they want to come down for any of these events. Elena-communities chair

STRETCHIN IT:
hip-hop / theater / music / poetry / dance / community / cross-generational / artistry / heart & soul

Dear Naked Souls Family,
This collaboration has been long in the works, and we are very blessed to finally bring it to you. Naked Souls Artists Alliance and La Peña Cultural Center are teaming up for a night of live hip-hop, spoken word/poetry, soulful sounds, b-boys & b-girls, live painting, cross-generational community and DJ’s that are sure to get you movin

Peace, Love & Respect,
The NSAA Crew

04.08.2005 @ La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
$10 general admission, $5 under 18
doors open 9pm, show begins @ 10pm
For more information email info@nakedsouls.com

Universoul and Soul Searchers Entertainment / Bay Area Urban Dance Crew
Audio Pharmacy (Kaotic Souls) / Mamaz / Abbye Atkinson
Live Painting by Naked Souls Visual Artists
DJ Noshun / DJ Offerings

The purpose of the NSAA is to build an alliance of conscious local Bay Area artists who think with their souls and act with their hearts. We are here to promote the careers of emerging visual, literary and performance artists by providing them with the space to express themselves and present their work to the community through a wide range of events such as Art Galleries, Open Mic’s, Special Feature Presentations and much more. We are open to various expressions of art that are oriented around diversity and community issues. Our goal is to become the ultimate connection between local upcoming artists and those who are in search of them.

To join our growing community of artists or to contact us for more information email info@nakedsouls.com.

UC IRVINE:
UCI is coming back from spring break in full force. just last week, we carpooled over to the free roots show at usc. today, we helped out with the beat junkies show on campus. the quarter outlook is good- we plan on doing a lot of promotion for the club while also preparing for the conference in Chicago.

Jeremy

USC:
What up from Hip Hop Congress! As usual we’ll be having our weekly meeting this Wednesday night. Last week featured a special freestyle workshop with the ever-popular Rahman Jamaal. We also got a taste of Sage Francis’s latest release, “A Healthy Distrust.” This week we’ll be talking about the latest hip-hop news and we get a listen at the new offering from Boston super-group, The Perceptionists (Mr. Lif, Akrobatik, DJ Fakts One), entitled “Black Dialogue.” As well as having a healthy discussion on an article that appeared on DaveyD.com entitled “Knock the Hustle: How to Save Your Job and Your Life From Corporate America” By Hadji Williams. ‘Til the next update…holla.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
Big and little things keep rolling here at the IU Chapter. The month of April will feature a number of events. Here let me list them, Channels of Rage (4/5 w/Jen Gubitz) movie screening, Def Poetry Showcase (4/13), Young Buck and Beat Street MC Battle w/ATO + The Roots w/Union Board + J-Live and Living Legends at Bluebird all on 4/14, Snaky Chan and Agile One Asians In Hip Hop (4/15 w/Asian Culture Center), Blueprint and Illogic (4/22 w/WIUS Pure Student Radio), and this Friday HHC is throwin down for the JOKES AND JOKES APRIL FOOLS MC BATTLE. I am exhausted from just listing the events, can’t wait to attend them! Shouts to John Hull cuz I know you read these and I am still not sold on Cody Chesnutt.

Peace
Your favorite chapterheads’ favorite chapterhead Aaron

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
We have an event coming up on April 16th, we will be putting on a workshop for high school students that will be visiting the campus that day. Besides that, we are working on fundraising for Hiphop Awareness week.

peace,
Tommy

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY:
This weekend we had our First Annual Hip Hop Congress Exchange on April 2nd! 1st Annual Hip-Hop TRiO Student X-Change on April 2, 2005, in association with Multicultural Student Affairs. The 1st Annual Hip-Hop TRiO Student X-Change was a new event which hoped to establish a common ground where 100-150 disenfranchised adolescent students could learn and discuss the importance of education and identify higher education as a means to eliminate barriers to problems associated with socio-economic status and cultural diversity.

It was a great success! the kids really in joyed themselves and the congress members did also. We are already looking forward to the next Hip Hop Exchange.

Monday April 4th we had our funraiser at one of the local restaurants where we received 20% of the receipts total. We had a pretty good turn out and we had a great time fellowshipping with local residents, college students, and friends.

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

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