Category: Hip Hop Related Events
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Focus on Ghana: LGBT+ Allyship as Queer Work
We have featured the work of several queer artists in Africa, as well as the increasing number of artists who are allies. This video is of a panel discussion at that took place at Howard University this month, which brought together Ghanaian activists and allies of the LGBT+ community in Ghana in light of the
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Special podcast series announcement
We’re partnering with Words Beats & Life to host a special series of episodes that will be recorded live with African Studies students at Howard University and George Washington University. The show will be live streamed on Words Beats & Life’s Facebook page on Wednesdays at 5pm New York time. The episodes will later be
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17th Annual Historic Hip Hop Celebration in Uganda
THE B-GLOBAL INDIGENOUS HIP HOP GATHERING 2019 by Bwette Gilbert Daniel, UG HIPHOP ARCHIVIST As we gear up to celebrate 17 years of Hip Hop in Uganda it seemed only appropriate for us, the Hip Hop Community to introduce a unique gathering. Our aim is to develop beyond the local impact and to connect with
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Hip Hop, African Diaspora and Decolonial Futures
This is a program for US based students: Hip Hop, African Diaspora and Decolonial Futures program (https://studyabroad.sit.edu/programs/semester/spring-2020/sgd/). The Hip Hop program is the only study abroad program that engages hip hop as a decolonial and pan-Africanist philosophy. In fact, our goal is to transform our classroom into a studio as we rethink the idea of
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Battle Of The Year Nigeria 2019
You don’t wanna miss this!
Brace yourself for yet another Hip Hop Dance Battle action as Battle Of The Year Nigeria 2019 Brings Da RuckusCome watch the best B-boy Crews from across the country as they compete for the spot of the number One B-boy Crew in Nigeria.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival
The Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival and Conference is seeking submissions for performers and presenters for their 15th annual event to be held at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, on March 26-29, 2020. This year’s theme is “15 Years of Hip Hop: Past, Present and Future”. This year, the festival is honoring the roots of hip hop as a vehicle of empowerment and resistance for marginalized voices while celebrating how hip hop has also dynamically changed as a movement through time. Looking back in order to step forward, this 15th year’s focus is to honor the foundations of hip hop as well as to celebrate the artists that keep hip hop alive. We invite all artists from around the world to celebrate the roots, seeds, and branches of hip hop as we honor how it has existed, developed, mobilized, and sparked change throughout the decades.
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Today @ Apple Workshop on Hip Hop Lyricism in Washington, DC
Howard University professor Msia Kibona Clark, Ph.D., from the Department of African Studies, will host a “Today at Apple Workshop” on June 12, 2019, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the new Apple Store in the Carnegie Library, 801 K Street NW, Washington, DC. Pen your own rap verse and celebrate the power of storytelling with African
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2 Post-Docs in Global Hip Hop Studies in Ireland
Two Post-Doctoral Researcher posts in Hip Hop Studies, are available at the Department of Music in the School of Film, Music, and Theatre at University College Cork. We look to hire two Post-Doctoral Researchers with specialization in the hip hop cultures of any world culture region(s) outside of Europe and North America. Especially welcome (but not necessary) will be hip hop scholars with specialisms in two or more cultural/musical/linguistic areas (e.g. Japanese and Mandarin; Wolof, French, and Arabic; Spanish, Tagalog, and English).
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Can’t Stop Hip Hop: The Education Movement
2019 Hip Hop Education Conference Saturday, April 6, 2019 Harvard Graduate School of Education https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhhyrac%2Fphotos%2Fa.2483571468339051%2F2490181934344671%2F%3Ftype%3D3&width=500