Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o4.26.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE—HOTEL INFO:
Shamako has been on the ground in Boulder, Colorado for the past week. He has been making connections, scouting locations, and getting a taste of what we will be experiencing on June 22nd to the 25th for our 5th annual National Conference. Make sure you are there. Book your flights now.

And for the long-awaited hotel information.

We have reserved 30 rooms with the Boulder Outlook for you all. The hotel is great! Walking distance from the conference events and only 90 bucks a night. You can fit up to 4 people per room so it works out to something like 25 a night with tax.

To reserve your room, go to www.boulderoutlook.com. 1800 542 0304. We have 30 days to fill them up at this rate so please call and book the room today. It’s better to reserve and cancel if for some reason you need less rooms than to need another room and not be able to get it at our rate.

If you are interested in attending, performing, or just want to say hi to Shamako, please email him at Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do yo? Last week was Hip-Hop Congress week.

We took over the campus amphitheatre on Wednesday by bringin out Biggo Entertainment and our own HHC members opened up the show for them, we had our president Young DM aka “Craziness” and Madman rock the mic first. That night at approximately 8:18 p.m. we had a open mic at the dining commons which popped off and we had some dope pieces from spoken word to poetry to freestyles. Then on Thursday we had Black Thursday with the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. which we helped out with in the amphitheatre. Then on Friday we had Young DM aka “Craziness”, Madman, II-II, D-Labrie, and Yung Kash perform on tower lawn for Relay for Life to fight cancer. We’re also about to bring out Remind from legendary breaking crew Style Elements on May 9th. Other then that we been bizzy riding the yellow bus doin our thizz. yadabooboo! one.

CAL STATE LA:
CSULA HipHop Congress presents, Bring Your Skills: Back 2 Basics
Location: Golden Eagle Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Time: 7:30pm – 11:45 pm

Featured Acts: K-Lien, Kidd(Black Collar Ent.), E.A.R.T.H., Western Conference, DJ Frank(e) doing a DJ scratch exhibition, Soul Elevation (DJ Icy Ice from 93.5 KDAY and Toquon)

Main Event: Fresh Air, Curse, and the hip hop congress battle between Rahman Jamaal going against Darkside in a 3 Round Emcee Battle

If anyone needs any info call (323) 559-5428 and ask for Laquan

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“You know what else is pouring over our borders? Greenland.” –Bill Maher

Weekly Update o4.2o.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE—HOTEL INFO:
Shamako has been on the ground in Boulder, Colorado for the past week. He has been making connections, scouting locations, and getting a taste of what we will be experiencing on June 22nd to the 25th for our 5th annual National Conference. Make sure you are there. Book your flights now.

And for the long-awaited hotel information.

We have reserved 30 rooms with the Boulder Outlook for you all. The hotel is great! Walking distance from the conference events and only 90 bucks a night. You can fit up to 4 people per room so it works out to something like 25 a night with tax.

To reserve your room, go to www.boulderoutlook.com. 1800 542 0304. We have 30 days to fill them up at this rate so please call and book the room today. It’s better to reserve and cancel if for some reason you need less rooms than to need another room and not be able to get it at our rate.

If you are interested in attending, performing, or just want to say hi to Shamako, please email him at Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

TEXAS STATE:
This upcoming week will be dedicated to preparing for Trio next Saturday. This event is going to be HUGE! We have tons of entertainment and other orgs who plan on participating as workshop leaders!

This Friday is Bobcat Gold which we will be performing at. This Saturday is the Campus Activities and Student Org awards. We’re nominated for Org of the Year which we took last year!

LORAS COLLEGE in DUBUQUE:
Hey all, we’re just winding down our semester, but have a lot of things planned. Our dance team will be special guests at a dance show for Iowa State University this weekend. This is one of the biggest shows in the area this year and they have worked really hard on their dance. We also have a special hour that we are hosting for dance marathon where we will be teaching some dance moves and playing hip hop music. This is a great service project to be apart of and we encourage other chapters to get involved with their school’s dance marathon. A few members of the dance team will be back up dancers this weekend at the Coolio show. We will be apart of the Taste of Loras in a few weeks. Hosting a booth and performing spoken word and dancing as well. The last event we have planned for the semester is an end of the year BBQ fundraiser. This is just a good time to get together, eat and play some music. We are looking into the national conference in June, to see who will be available to be there. Have a great end of the year if you don’t hear from us.

-Allison Evans
Loras HHC Chapterhead

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Weekly Update o4.o5.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED:
Join us for the 2006 National Conference of the Hip Hop Congress in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The event jumps off on June 22nd to June 26th. There will be conferences, performances, workshops, national board meetings, and some of the most exciting times you can have as a Hip Hop Congress member. Schedules, applications and other information will be released in the coming weeks. Please make your arrangements to get to Boulder.

If you have questions, please email ron@hiphopcongress.com

IU CHAPTER – 6th ANNUAL HIP HOP AWARENESS FESTIVAL:
Sadat X, Saul Williams, $1000 B-boy Battle, $500 MC Battle! Etc.
April 10-18

The goal of the 6th ANNUAL HIP HOP AWARENESS FESTIVAL is to show the true spirit of hip hop culture, a culture that was born out of the worst living conditions in American history as a means of expression to substitute violence. For six years, our festival has been growing and bringing together more people in a peaceful, enlightening, energetic, educational and non-violent manner.

The Awareness Festival is the premier annual hip hop event in Indiana. The Festival has two primary objectives. First, to offer the community quality, hip hop programming. Second, to put IU and the surrounding Bloomington community on the map as a leader in the preservation and advancement of hip hop culture. In previous years attendance has spanned coast to coast, from San Jose, CA to Atlanta, GA.

All but one event comprising the festival are FREE and open to ALL AGES so that the highest quantity of people can enjoy and benefit from them.

WE WANT CREWS TO ROLL DOWN FROM OTHER CHAPTERS! If you are from another chapter (Midwest or not) give us a heads up so we can help you get here! If you are on the national board, we have some funds allocated for you to come down, so don’t sleep on this!

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