Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update 12.11.o6

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER:
We recently held a successful Elements event on the 5th of December. The event brought in 300+ people and raised $800 for our future project. We were told by the student union staff that it was the most successful event a student organization has ever organized. We also also collected a ton of canned food and got a lot more people interested in learning the elements. – Tom

CAL STATE LOS ANGELES:
CSULA HipHop Congress Presents: 1st Annual HipHop International Festival. It went down December 7th, 2006 @ The CSULA Golden Eagle Ballroom. The whole entire purpose of the festival is show how ALL nationalities, races, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, and everyone period can get together for hiphop… -Laquan

WAYNE STATE:
This is Gerald Terrell Vice President of Hip Hop Congress Wayne State Chapter, Detroit MI as far as updates we are moving forward quite smoothly and things are really looking up. We are doing heavy recruitment right now so we can build our member base. We are holding our second mingle session on December 13, 2006 venue TBA. We are inviting all of our students and residents of Detroit out to this event to push the name of Hip Hop Congress. That’s going to be the end of this semester for us and trust me we have big things ahead for Winter 2007!!!

WASH U:
We are getting our budget mess figured out, we got a pretty good line up for next semester including One Be Lo, Brother Ali, Screenings of Rize, an STL showcase, and a round table on prisons. Other cosponsored events include the Chicago Afro Beat Project, the Eidan Reichel Project, and the Elena Rubin trio. – Yoni

USC:
Just a little facebook fun with our HHC group. We are getting people to post their favorite video via link to youtube on our group page. Finals are around. Nothing too crazy, just some procrastination fun.

WILLAMETTE:
What up? Willamette is holding it down in the northwest , recently we put on a farewell party to our Tokyo international students who are going back home at the end of the month. We sent ‘em off with the hip hop vibe, with DJ’s on the table, and a couple of our very own performing. As far as plans we are hustling up the university to get some money for a the Black Brown Unity Tour which all ya’ll should look into it. Hope everyone has a good Christmas. – Austin

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
The IU Chapter is continuing planning for our 7th Annual Awareness Festival scheduled for late February. The past 2 weeks have been weeks of relationship building with other student organizations as well as local businesses/non-profit community groups. We established a strong bond with the African Student Association as well as the Global Living and Learning Community.

In other news, there is currently a Ugandan Rapper/Activist in the LA area that we are trying to bring to IU in February with the African Student Association. His name is Saba Saba and he is interested in doing performances/lectures/panel discussions and has already been to Syracuse and Penn State. You can contact him through myspace at http://www.myspace.com/krazynative. I believe he also has some type of documentary out too. – Tim

CHICAGO COMMUNITY:
Peace, On December,22nd and 23rd the Community Chapters of Englewood Chicago and Cabrini Green will be holding a Hip Hop X-mas Cook-out for the homeless and needy. – Willie J.R. Fleming

LINK OF THE WEEK:
This ran in Rolling Stone this week. Its a site that is constantly digitizing old concert audio from a former sound man. Its free (for now), so if you want to hear some great audio from 60s – early 80s of everyone from Jimi Hendrix to The Clash this is a great site.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/

Peace
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