Hip Hop Congress

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED
Hip Hop Congress will be holding its 6th annual conference in Athens, OH from July 4th to July 8th.

This year’s national conference, co sponsored with our partners Unite Here, SPAN, and H2A, will continue to develop a national service infrastructure for HHC with a variety of other national organizations, student groups, artists and partners. This means working with more students, more artists and more communities. Workshops will include not only intensive sessions on the initial four elements of hip hop but also interactive discussions on Health Care, International Hip Hop, Hip Hop and Education, Women in Hip Hop, Event Planning, the Recording Industry, Youth Violence and much more. In addition, each night there will be showcase featuring independent acts. Performers that have participated in Hip Hop Congress events in previous years are Ghostface, Brother Ali, Zion I, Percee P, Living Legends, Jurassic 5, Tha Jacka, DJ Crucial, Common Market, and All Natural Inc.

We are extending an open invitation to our peers in Hip Hop activism, such as The Zulu Nation, The Temple of Hip Hop, Hip Hop Caucus, Mississippi Artists and Producers Coalition, Hip Hop Action Summit Network, to join us in Athens. We also want to encourage and invite not only artists, organizers and friends of the organization from all over the country but also anyone with a desire to push hip hop, education, and society forward. With such an explosive year on the national and international front, this year’s conference plans to be a charged event with ripples that will be felt throughout the country.

Registration and officially schedule for this conference will be announced in the coming weeks. If you are interested in participating in workshops, performances, as a sponsor or supporter, please contact PR Chair Aaron Berkowitz at 314-809-2502 or email berkowitz@hiphopcongress.com.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Hip Hop Congress’s 7th Annual Awareness Festival was last week. Here is how it was broken down. (ed. note) Its in present tense b/c it was in my mailbox for a minute so read it as if it already happened…cuz it already did…and it was crazy.

Come over to the Whittenberg Auditorium tonight at 7pm for a small DJ workshop/showcase featuring HHC DJs and any special guests that might drop by from out of town (shhh.). The main event of the night will be a screening of the movie “Scratch” which is said to be THE best DJ-focused hip hop documentary. John Carluccio will also be in attendance and will be conducting a Q+A about the flick or probably
anything else DJ related.

Tuesday – IU Auditorium – Bakari Kitwana Black History Month Lecture. 7pm.

Wednesday – IMUG – Poetry Slam. 7pm. Open to all, come early to register. $100 Cash Prize.

Friday – 4 Elements of Hip Hop Gallery @ the McCalla (10th and Indiana). 7pm
DJ Battle hosted by DJ Topspeed
All Natural Recording Label Showcase (Chicago)
Jet One & Stak
Atari Logic and Alaska Westwind (W. Laf)
IU Bboys
Graffiti from all over the state.

Saturday – Alumni Hall IMU – 5pm.
$500 MC BATTLE – sign up at iuhhc@indiana.edu
Iomos Marad
C-rayz Walz
Percee P
FREE!

The whole week is free.

Thanks to everyone for helping out and showing support at the party. I know it was cold but we appreciate it. Big ups to Heather for holding it down harder than anyone. – Tim

WILLAMETTE
Willamette has finally sealed the deal on our two events this semester. The first is the Black and Brown Unity Tour that will be stopping by our school March 15th to lecture about Hip Hop activism. Then we got a show coming up on the 14th of April with headliners Blue Scholars, we’re showing a little Northwest love. Besides that were just working on getting our attendance numbers up for club meetings, anyone with suggestions
should let us in on the secrets

peace
Austin

CAL STATE FULLERTON
Hey all. Big things happening in the So Cal region right now. Not only is the month of March and April filled with big shows at our fellow HHC chapters, but we’re having a DJ workshop with DJ frank[e] on Monday, February 26th @ 4pm in TSU Tuffree and we just announced our openers and headliner: Gio, Giant Panda, and People Under the Stairs for our Saturday, March 31st event. Also, we may be working with CSUF’s ASI to plan two April events. You gotta love So Cal in the spring time! Peace and Love.

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The quality of this update is nearly unmatched. HHC across the country is throwing some major events over the next few weeks and I hope everyone understands how amazing that is. Shouts out to Vex b/c I keep my word. I encourage everyone to call me at the Hat Store!

CHICAGO
This week, HHC Chicago’s premiere artist crew – F.E.W – will be travelling to the Minnesota Hip Hop Congress Summit in Moorhead, MN (Feb 16 – 18) to perform, lead workshops, interact, etc. The crew includes DJs, MCs, B-Boys, visual artists, etc.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE
The Columbia Chapter in Chicago continues holding it down consistently. They have confirmed events in February with the Zulu Nation and many other local artists. The chapter is also an official co-sponsor for “Louder than a Bomb” the worlds largest youth poetry slam (March 2nd). On March 16th, Columbia College HHC will have its first major event in Chicago Featuring Legends Akbar, Jitu (Zulu Nation), Frukwan (Gravediggas) and more!

Upcoming Events

Feb 17th
Citywide Youth Open Mic
Presented by Street Level Youth Medie
Cosponsored by Hip Hop Congress
at the McCormick Trubune Freedom Museum

February 21st
Northside and Southside Screenings of
Turn Off Channel Zero
a movie by Public Enemy’s Prof. Griff

February 23rd
Zulu Nation and Hip Hop Congress show
featuring Jitu the Jugganot, Cashus D
Man-o-Wax, Black Reign, Taste Emcees and more

PEACE Asad

INDIANA UNIVERSITY
The IU Chapter is one week away from it’s 7th Annual HHC Awareness Festival. So far its looking like a Scratch Screening with John Carluccio, a lecture from Bikari Kitwana, Poetry Slam, Ugandan Hip Hop Activist Saba Saba will be lecturing and performing, DJ Battle, MC Battle, All Natural Recording showcase, Percee P and C-Rayz Walz. This week we are also co-hosting a pre-awareness week concert at the Student Union.

Tim Zawada

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Congrats to the Colts for their Super victory over the Bears. To bad the game wasn’t exciting after half time.

NOTE
All chapterheads should have gotten an email from Sarah Harris regarding the Women’s Project information. Please respond to her asap. If you never got the email, hit Sarah up at sarah@hiphopcongress.com

CHICAGO COMMUNITY
This past weekend, almost 20 HHC Chicago members traveled a couple of hours south to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s campus for their Hip Hop Awareness Week festivities, namely IL Breaks. The event brought in hundreds of people and some of the illest b-boys from across the nation.

This week we are getting ready to travel out to Moorhead, MN for the Hip Hop Congress Summit there (Feb 16th – 18th) and the rest of us are planning on attending the Zulu Nation Annual Event in Seattle, WA.
Peace Asad

WASH U
After some struggles with dates and things like that, we have decided to throw a hip hop week to feature Brother Ali, Pslam-One and Upski, in addition to DJ lessons, old school hip hop parties and more to come.

Anyone that has thrown a few of these and would like to give us some tips (Anh) feel free to give input.

Peace
Yoni

CONCORDIA COLLEGE
We are in the final push for the upcoming Minnesota Summit from Feb. 16-18. Promotions are in full swing and the word is getting out. We’re really hoping to have a great turn out. Peace…Amer

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