Weekly Update 11.3o.o5
OHIO UNIVERSITY:
This will be our last update for a while, we have a six week winter break before winter quarter starts up. Winter Quarter we are bringing Bakari Kitwana down to speak winter quarter. Kitwana is the author of the book “Why White Kids Like Hip Hop.†We also plan on doing a “Violence in Hip Hop†seminar as well as another elements workshop for a local elementary school. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.
peace,
Tommy
USC:
What up?! Fourteen weeks into the semester and twelve emails later…brought to you by the good folks at Hip-Hop Congress here at the University of Southern California. This is it, people. The final email of the semester for HHC. School is coming to a close here at USC. Good luck on all those upcoming finals. This week HHC there is be no meeting here at USC. We wish all of you the best of luck in your final classes and a happy holidays. Stay tuned for next semester. Usually in our emails, we drop a calendar of all the hip-hop events in the LA area going down within the upcoming two weeks. But for our ‘SC heads this update, we jotted down the hottest events in the LA area all the way up until Christmas Eve. That’s nearly a months work of jam-packed hip-hop fun. Also, every week we hit heads up with an article the peeps at HHC feel is important for everyone to be reading. This week we got an article entitled “50’s ‘Bulletproof’ Kept Off Australian Shelves, Rapper Allowed Into Canada” By Tiffany Hamilton. Stay Fresh. Stay Up. Till the next update. Holla back. Respect. HHC.
MINNESOTA:
Students are beginning discussions to organize a new chapter at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, site of the HHC Minnesota Summit from Feb. 17-19. Toki Wright of the non-profit Yo! The Movement (www.yothemovement.org) and HHC group the C.O.R.E. is working on getting a chapter together as well. Various discussions with interested parties at North Dakota State, Minnesota State-Moorhead, Carleton College, St. Thomas University and others are in the works with hopes of creating additional chapters. The goal right now is to have 3-5 new chapters up and running in the region by this time next year.
FIRST MINNESOTA HIP HOP CONGRESS REGIONAL SUMMIT:
Peace everyone!
For the first time ever, the Hip Hop Congress (www.hiphopcongress.com) will host a regional Summit in the state of Minnesota. The Summit will feature performances, workshops, and discussions featuring numerous artists from around the country and the world.
Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, will be the host for the event hosting people from throughout the region and the country. If you are unable to attend, please let anyone you know who is in the region or who may hold an interest in the event.
For additional information, please do not hesitate to email Amer@hiphopcongress.com or call 218-299-3872.
*Please note, performance schedules are filled so we are unable to accept requests for performances at the Summit.
Information for the Summit will be posted on the website by next week.
