Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update 11.2o.o6

CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT:
This year has been REALLY exciting with chapter development.

WAYNE STATE: The Wayne State chapter is up and running! This is our first chapter in Michigan, holding down the motor city.

UCLA: The hip hop club at UCLA has recently affiliated with HHC. This is our SIXTH chapter in the So Cal region. So Cal is heating up.

GEORGIA STATE: We have a very aggressive campaign to get into Atlanta. Our first step is Georgia State, where students have begun setting the groundwork for a chapter. We already have office space.

CHICAGO: We are kicking ass in Chicago. With the formation of a Chicago council, we have created a strategy to engage the community and the local schools and organize the entire hip hop community in this important and influential area.

INDIANAPOLIS: Our good friend Nick started a community chapter in Indianapolis. Already a dozen members strong! Great job!

COLORADO: Our National Conference in Boulder led to the development of TWO new chapters in Colorado, one in Denver and one in Greeley, Colorado. This is on top of our chapter in Boulder and our chapter at Colorado State. Be on the look out for an entire state organized hip hop scene!

HOUSTON: Our work at the NHHPC (National Hip Hop Political Convention) connected us with an organization that will affiliate with HHC, making our second chapter in Texas in Houston. We’re really looking forward to what comes out of there. Texas State cats, get at jordan@hiphopcongress.com if you want to link with the Houston group.

PHILLY: Our former Grinnell College chapterhead is now in Philly spreading the HHC love with high schools he is working with. Look for our first Philly chapter sprouting up soon.

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Weekly Update 11.12.o6

Welcome back to the weekly update. Our tech people are still in the final stages of getting the lists back up and running so hopefully this reaches everyone. Next week the update should include more chapters!!

CAL STATE FULLERTON:
Cal State Fullerton has been madd busy this semester.

We got accepted back into the Association for Inter-cultural Awareness (AICA) and have been working on building and collaborating with some of the organizations in AICA.

We held a production workshop on with DJs: Nevi Nev (Soul Rock Affiliates), frank(e) (Fresh Air) and Choice37 (Captions) on September 18th and an emcee workshop with Congress artists: Rahman Jamaal and DLabrie on October 16th.

We participated in the Rally Against Hate on October 4th with various clubs and organizations on campus, as well as the Greeks, in responseto a hate crime that involved CSUF students from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer and Greek community.

We started a weekly jam called All Your Bass are Belong to Us (Kuddos to the nerds who get the reference), which is held in the Titan Quad every Thursday from 12noon – 1pm.

Friday, November 10th, we’re holding Slow Your Role, a night of live bands, spoken word, and art with Mike the Poet, Blue Key Coretet, Kane, Brandon Francis, Kareya, Casablancas, and HHC DJs. It will be held in the Titan Student Union Underground Pub from 8pm – 12midnight.

Thursday, November 16th, we will be holding our end of the Fall semester main event: Revival of the Fittest 2 featuring performances by Brawdcast (myspace.com/brawdcast) and Gio (myspace.com/gioforadvice). Breaks and an open floor will be provided for our very supportive bboy community. It will be a great end to a crazy and hectic semester!

Peace.
gorgeous tone, jessquest, samurai, newtrishis,
soulfunky, jenita applebum, luis, and frank[e]
[ Cal State Fullerton Hip Hop Congress 2oo6 Core ]

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY:
Wash U HHC is working to create a new generation. We are working with several organizations to bring in Idan Reichel, an Israeli performer who incorporates Arabic and Ethiopian musical traditions along with hip hop.

We are trying to get some stuff moving for a budget for next semester as well. For right now, we’re just chillin on things, trying to get people back into the fold

Yoni

SACRAMENTO:
Hey I would like to welcome the brand spanking new Sacramento Chapter. To give everyone an intro to this community I have copy and pasted a quote from Wikipedia, “Sacramento has a reputation as a center for Dixieland jazz, because of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee which is held every Memorial Day weekend. Events and performances are held in multiple locations throughout the city. Each year thousands of jazz fans from all over the world visit for this one weekend. Sacramento is also home to the Sacramento French Film Festival, a cultural event held every year in July that features U.S. premiers of French films and classic masterpieces of French cinema. In addition, Sacramento is home to the Trash Film Orgy, a summer film festival celebrating the absurd, B-movies, horror, monster, exploitation.”

I for one am excited to someday visit this city. Here’s Wes with his update:

What thizz it? Yo the Sacramento chapter was formed and met yesterday for our first meeting at Pieces Pizza in Downtown Sac. We’re trying to get recognized at Sacramento State University and pulling together the Sacramento hip-hop heads in the community to form like voltron.

wEs KuRuHara – raekwondahchef@yahoo.com

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