Login



Sign up for TLA newsletter

Fill out your e-mail address
to receive our newsletter!
E-mail :

TLA's FEATURED ARTIST!





Urban Culture News The First Annual Washington DC Hip Hop Peacebuilding Festival
The First Annual Washington DC Hip Hop Peacebuilding Festival PDF Print E-mail
Written by Robert ID4314   
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:03

The First Annual Washington DC Hip Hop & Peacebuilding Festival features 5 Days devoted to Hip Hop promoting peace in the world! April 16th thru April 21st.

From D.C. to Dakar there is only one universal language: Hip Hop. The first annual DC Hip Hop & Peacebuilding Festival will showcase Hip Hop as a cultural global movement that is transforming a generation toward a future of peace. This event will feature 5 days of hip hop events and nightly live performances with artists from five nations, coming together in one place to increase awareness of political and social turmoil in the world and the role hip hop can play in empowering youth to maximize their potential. With an alarming number of youth turning toward extremism and violence, new approaches to conflict resolution and peacebuilding must be crafted. As Hip Hop continues to spread and connect with youth on a global level it is important that this artistic cultural movement be understood and harnessed to facilitate conflict transformation and transcend conflict narratives.

The first of its kind, DC's Hip Hop & Peacebuilding Festival will bring hip hop artists together with conflict resolution experts, community leaders, educators and activists to examine what is working in Hip Hop and how together we can do more to empower and transform communities by uniting the hip hop generation. DC artists will perform alongside artists from Uganda, Haiti, Tanzania, and Senegal & Palestine bridging the divide to achieve global impact. This event is a gift to the community in celebration of the energy and heart of hip hop and its potential to achieve positive social change in the world.

Stacy Willyard Festival Director: "The core of hip hop lies within the beat, the beat is what you can feel, and it is the element that connects. In order to prevent destructive conflict we must find more ways to connect and humanize one another. Hip hop allows us to do this by finding a common beat."

For more information and complete details visit www.beats4peace.org

Full Schedule of Events

Wednesday April 16   

 DC premiere of "Diamonds in the Rough" A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution

   3:00 pm Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

 Kick –Off International Hip Hop Show featuring Da Negus (Haiti/France), Regime Change (NYC/Haiti), Rah-P (Tanzania), Babaluku (Uganda), Flex Mathews (DC), and others.

   9:00 pm DC9 Music Club

Thursday April 17

 African video conference call with Kenya's Hip Hop Parliament

   9:00 am Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution

 Sounds of the City DC Hip Hop Showcase featuring incredibly talented artists from throughout the Metro DC area.

   8:00 pm Bohemian Cavern Jazz Club

Friday April 18

 Academic Panel "Can Hip Hop Beat Conflict?"

   2:00 pm United States Institute of Peace

 DC Hip Hop Summit & Freestyle Cipher

   6:00 pm Atlas Theatre

Sat. April 19

 Peacebuilding & Arts Workshop

   4:00 pm Atlas Theatre

 Academic Panel "Hip Hop 2.0"

   6:30 pm Atlas Theatre

 Global Hip Hop – Global Citizenship Hip Hop Show featuring DC artists performing alongside Sabreena da Witch (Palestine), Baay Musa (Senegal), Azbac (Senegal), Dumi (Zimbabwe/USA), Bavaluku (Uganda), Rah-P (Tanzania)

   8:00 pm Atlas Theatre

  

Monday April 21

 African All-Stars "Democracy in Dakar"

   12:00 pm George Mason University

This Festival was made possible by the following organizations, United States Institute of Peace, Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Project Nur, Rosetta Stoned, Nomadic Wax, and Subterranean Network.

 
Urban Culture News The First Annual Washington DC Hip Hop Peacebuilding Festival

"This site is dedicated to the legacy of Tupac Shakur and all the other souljahs who dare to struggle; alive & dead"

The layout, text and images on this website are protected by (c) Copyright and may not be used or reproduced without written consent of [email protected].
No copyright is implied or expressed towards any of the pictures on the site except site images owned by ThugLifeArmy.com . ‘Hot linking’ of our content (images, text, audio and video) is strictly prohibited by law.
If our news articles are used we expect source credit and a live return link to be given to ThugLifeArmy.com.
The photograph of Tupac used on the home page is owned and copyrighted by Gobi. Photo is used with permission from Gobi to ThugLifeArmy.com. Many more of Gobi's photographs of Tupac can be seen in Gobi's book 'Thru My Eyes'.
Picture graphics and design are by [email protected] and [email protected] (Selphie)

Thug Life Army is a division of Star Sound Music Group®
7336 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 800 Hollywood, California 90046
E-mail: [email protected]
Privacy Policy | Contact Us | About Us | Sourcing Policy | DMCA | RSS Feed feed-image
(c) Copyright 2002-2024 www.thugelifearmy.com. All Rights Reserved