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audience during a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Regina Freer of
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ITVS Community Cinema hosted the Los Angeles premiere of HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and
Rhymes with a screening and discussion event at West Hollywood's Pacific
Design Center. More than 400 people turned out for the event, including
entertainment industry leaders, college students, hip-hop heads, artists
and others. Special guests included hip-hop recording artists Talib Kweli,
M-1 of Dead Prez, and the legendary Yo-Yo. Also in attendance were
Independent Lens Series Producer Lois Vossen, noted documentary filmmaker
Stanley Nelson, NBPC Executive Director Jacquie Jones and BET Vice
President Keith Brown.
On February 1, 2007, Professor Cathy J. Cohen of the Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago will release data from one of the first national studies to comprehensively measure the attitudes, actions, hopes and beliefs of African American youth: The Black Youth Project.
Learn more about The Black Youth Project >>
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PUBLIC TELEVISION STATION GRANTS
ITVS has awarded outreach grants to five public television stations working with local partners on the HIP-HOP Community Engagement Campaign. Each station received an outreach grant in the amount of $10,000, to fund the following projects. Read their descriptions below:
GPB—Atlanta, GA
For our HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting will seek to increase awareness, create dialogue and provide resources with respect to the myriad of issues present in modern day Hip Hop music. The outreach will target high-school educators, mentors and will focus on several preliminary trainings that will further shape the discussions and materials and culminate in a symposium for adults and youth. To this end, Georgia Public Broadcasting will partner with several prominent groups already involved in educator training with regard to media literacy, violence prevention and the positive influence of Hip Hop music.
For more information contact: mwilson@gpb.org
KQED—San Francisco/Oakland
KQED Education Network will collaborate with Youth UpRising in Oakland, CA to raise awareness around the issues explored within the documentary HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes such as gender-based violence, misogyny and homophobia. The campaign efforts will explore these issues through an educator and provider workshop, peer facilitated youth sessions and a community screening.
For more information contact: mfata@kqed.org
WHYY—Philadelphia
WHYY’s project will focus on media literacy and responsibility by facilitating dialogue among high school students through community and school-based assembly workshops in media literacy and the impact of hip-hop on African-American male youth. Through workshop participation, students will create short films that critique the issues around Black relationships, through the lens of hip-hop. A community screening of HIP-HOP Beyond the Beats and Rhymes will engage and educate the community about the history and elements that comprise in hip-hop as genre and culture. To reinforce hip-hop as a creative and positive element of expression, the working pieces that are created through inspiration of the workshops will be showcased at a Youth Arts Showcase Event. WHYY’s local partner is kaPow! Inc.
For more information contact: kpacini@whyy.org
WHUT—Washington, DC
In collaboration with local community partner Guerilla Arts Ink, LLC, WHUT will work with area youth to produce 25 positive hip-hop creations for the ITVS website in order to emphasize the positive creative force that is hip-hop culture. WHUT will also host an event at Howard University to include a screening of HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a performance of original hip-hop music by local youth, and a panel discussion with filmmaker Byron Hurt. WHUT will sponsor a Teacher Training Workshop designed to bridge the communication gap between students and teachers, by using popular hip-hop music to teach literacy skills. The workshop will be conducted by Hip-Hop as an Educational Literacy Program (H.E.L.P).
For more information contact: Elizabeth.ventura@gmail.com
WXXI—Rochester, NY
The HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes project will provide an opportunity for participants to document their assets and challenges for becoming responsible adults in our community by using their choice of hip-hop art. The project will help to develop an approach to engage community organizations, from many sectors, as partners by “building on the broadcast” and strengthening the development of disadvantaged youth into leaders who effectively deliver important messages to wide segments of their communities. WXXI and community partners will host a daylong Youth Summit on January 15, 2007 for about 60-100 youth and young adults. Participants will preview the film, engage in a facilitated discussion around the documentary, and attend a series of workshops focusing on the process of hip-hop-related art and/or a “how to” hip-hop raps and rhymes in the form of: written lyrics, photography/visual art or spoken work pieces. Participants will be charged to “create” their own hip-hop art piece to share with the community at a follow-up event on February 19, 2007.
For more information contact: sfigueroa@wxxi.org
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