SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008!
We Are Hip-Hop:
Remixing the Art of Social Change
March 22, 2008 – HIGHLIGHTS
- Herstory Month Talent Showcase: YEAR OF THE HIP-HOP WOMAN
- Digital Graffiti Art Show by Maria “Toofly” Castillo
- Workshops on using Hip Hop & Social Networks to Change Your Community
- Workshops on the 4 elements of Hip-Hop: Mcing, Breaking & More. . .
Schedule
10:30 am On-site Registration
11:00 am Lunch & Herstory Month Showcase
12:00 pm Opening Keynote & Workshop
12:40 pm Workshop Round
11:45 pm Workshop Round
2:55 pm Workshop Round
3:55 pm Creative Workshop Track
5:15 pm Wrap Up
Power in Numbers!: Building an influential Social Network
Remix your definition of community and learn how to become a powerful agent of change. This workshop gives both a big picture view and gets into details of building a powerful coalition and finding a common agenda. Learn how to move beyond how we normally identify people or groups to organize with and build a common agenda for community change. Examine case studies of movements that redefined how to build an effective coalition and why coalitions are more powerful than the alternative. Guest Presenter: Hon. George Martinez.
Next Level Community: TechnOrganizing™ Tools to Collaborate Online
Organize at the speed of light. . .or at least the speed of technology. Come learn technOrganizing™ tools that will allow you to outwork, out maneuver, and out network the masses. Learn how the Hip-Hop Generation is leveraging advances in technology in order to share education and media. How will Hip-Hop Social Networks help grow Hip-Hop Social Capital? Come learn what social capital is, how much of it you already have, and how to use it effectively. Guest Presenter: Rolando Brown
Hip Hop=Action: Activism for the Everyday Person
Activism can be done by anyone regardless of their age, education, or background. Learn from, May Lee Yang, a community organizer, artist, activist and playwright about how she successfully organized community efforts for change through inclusive leadership and participation. Learn how her organization, VISION, has been engaging everyday people in community work. Guest Presenter: May Lee Yang
Ladies First! The Power of Women Community Leaders & Entrepreneurs in Hip Hop
This workshop is part of a national launch of the Year of the Hip Hop Woman & the Hip Hop Womanhood Learning Project. It takes a close look at the numerous models of female leadership among the hip hop generation in community organizing. This interactive workshop uses the media, past and living history to give life to the powerful examples of female leadership and uses them to find lessons and tools for models of collective leadership. Guest Presenter: Martha Diaz
The Art of Activism: Telling Our Stories In Our Own Voices
As a Hmong American, May Lee-Yang comes from a community that historically has had their stories told by others—scholars, journalists, anthropologists. Since 1998, she has joined forces with other Hmong writers and artists to do a paradigm shift—to tell their own stories in their own voices and, therefore, move from being objects to subjects. Learn how she has transformed art into an agent of change.
Hip Hop 4 Life! Hip Hop Academy:
- B-Girling & B-Boying: The Art of Breaking
- Roc The Mic Hard: The Art of MCing–Honorable George Martinez
- Power is Knowledge is Shared: Spoken Word & Media Workshop–May Lee Yang & Martha Diaz
Be Heard.
OurTime 2008.
OurTime. Your Choice.
Make Your MARK.
REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE
Join us on: www.myspace.com/ourtime2008
Brought to you by:
Anchorage Urban League Young Professionals www.nul-anchorage.org
In Partnership with the Hip-Hop Association www.hiphopassociation.org
Sponsored in Part by:
Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities