Hip Hop Congress

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.

LORAS COLLEGE
Our dance group is doing well putting together dances for the breakdancing competition. We’re working hard on planning our breakdancing competition for March 24th. I will have details soon, but right now it is a 3 on 3 competition. Two crew per team max and large first prize money (between $800 and $1,000). We have our break coming up so we’ll fill you in with an update after we get back. Contact me if you are interested in signing your crew up, spaces are filling up fast!

-Allison Evans
(608)438-7828

WAYNE STATE
We had our second board meeting on friday…discussing our events for march and april. We will focusing on community based events for the month of march. Hip Hop Awareness Week will be in April from 16th-20th. Ending with our fashion show Draped In Black on the 20th at 9pm-12pm.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
Nothing new from University of colorado. We are just getting a breather from are last event.

CHICAGO COMMUNITY
(This newsletter is sent as an update for the Chicago Hip Hop Community. Newsletters are usually sent out at the beginning of the week. Submit all news, information, and events to chicago@hiphopcongress.com by Sunday evening).

Peace Everyone

This newsletter is being sent a little late in the week, but there are a few great events to wrap up this month. Come check them out and support!

EVENTS

||FRIDAY, FEB 23rd||
Innercity Muslim Action Network’s
Community Cafe
Featuring Akbar (one of Chicago’s most talented emcees)
Tammy McCann (wonderful jazz singer)
and Youth Open Mic Competition for cash prizes.
Hosted by Capital D , Music by Man-o-Wax
@ Spoken Word Cafe - 4655 S. King Dr.
Doors at 6pm, $5 Suggested Donation, ALL AGES
www.imancentral.org

Universal Zulu Nation presents
The TAKE OVER
Featuring Jitu the Jugganot King Kamonzi, Taste Emcees, Black Reign
Man-o-Wax on the 1s and 2s
Lord Cashus D Hosting
@ US Beer Co. - 1801 N. Clybourn, 21+
Doors at 10pm, $10, Ladies $5 before 11pm
Calling all B-boys and B-girls

||WEDNESDAY, FEB 28th||
Black History Month Celebration
Fred Hampton Day
Co-Sponsored by Cabrini Green Hip Hop Congress
@ Malcolm X College
5:30pm, ALL AGES, FREE
Featuring:
Bucwild the Comedian, Darkchild Entertainment
2Face and more
info: iamhiphopchicago@gmail.com

LINK OF THE WEEK
Language is a Virus
http://www.languageisavirus.com/

Helps cure writer’s block!