The Harlem Arts Alliance is pleased to once again partner with The Field and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on :Uptown/Downtown: A Workshop and Performance OpportunityApplication Deadline: Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 5PM How do you define uptown or downtown work?Through aesthetics? Culture? Geography?For seven weeks this spring, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Field, and Harlem Arts Alliance will bring together 10 performing artists, five from “uptown,” five from “downtown,” to explore these questions while developing short works for performance.What is Uptown/Downtown? Uptown/Downtown consists of six weekly sessions in which artists will show works in progress and share non-directorial feedback with a moderator present. Half of the workshops will be held in Harlem and in Lower Manhattan. A seventh session will feature guest presentations by Manhattan arts professionals. The workshops will culminate in two consecutive nights of performance in two of Manhattan’s newest performance venues, Dance New Amsterdam and Harlem Stage.Interested in Applying? • See attached GUIDELINES AND APPLICATON for complete details• Attend the information session on Feb 11, 2008, 6:30 PM  Call 212-410-0030 xt 212 to RSVPDownload Program GuidelinesDownload Program Application  

Acentos brings you this historic reading. Please come out and support. This reading will be the biggest gathering of latino poets under one roof. This is your opportunity to meet legends.

Acentos Bronx Poetry ShowcaseFebruary, 1 2008 an ACENTOS SPECIAL EVENT:

A Gathering and Celebration of Latino and Latina Poets @

Hunter College 

129 E. 79th Street (Corner of 79th and Lexington)

New York, New York

Cost : FreeTime:6:00pmTo coincide with the AWP conference, Acentos and El Centro de EstudiosPuertorriqueños at Hunter College present a celebration and reading ofmore than twenty emerging and established poets of Latino/a descent.Scheduled readers include: Martín Espada, Rafael Campo, Sandra MariaEsteves, Aracelis Girmay, Willie Perdomo, Diana Marie Delgado, JohnMurillo, and many more! Hosted by Rich Villar.Directions: 6 Train to 77th Street. Walk two blocks north to 79thStreet and Lexington Avenue. The School of Social Work is located onthe northwest corner of 79th and Lexington.contactFish vargas917-209-4211–******************************************”If oppression has no boundaries, neither does resistance “Martin EspadaAcentos Bronx Poetry- October 2005

1st Hip Hop & The Art of Political Activism Seminar

Saturday January 26th, 200811-5 pm at UAA Student Union

Free. Free Food.

Ages 16-35

The Hip Hop Association Returns to Anchorage for this Blowout Event!

Featuring the 1st Hip Hop Artist Elected to Political Office & US Cultural Ambassador, George Martinez.

Spoken Word Poet & Entrepreneur Rolando Brown.

Live HIP HOP Theater with Hueman Prophets featuring DJ RBI

Check Them out: www.huemanprophets.com or on their Myspace

Why? Because Knowledge is Power!

Learn how to use hip hop to create political and social change

Get a real world education on how the political system works

Join Alaska Youth in a World Wide Movement of Youth Using Hip Hop To Change Their Communities

Workshops Offered-Click Here:

Be Heard.

OurTime 2008.

OurTime. Your Choice.

Make Your MARK.

Join us on: www.myspace.com/ourtime2008

Brought to you by:

Anchorage Urban League Young Professionalswww.nul-anchorage.org

In Partnership with the Hip Hop Associationwww.hiphopassociation.org

Sponsored in Part by:

Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Check out the Front Page Anchorage Daily News Article on the Anchorage Urban League Young Professionalshttp://www.adn.com/newcity/story/262444.html

 In conjunction with the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Bronx Museum is proud to present:

Joe Conzo: Born In The Bronx
A Book Signing Event with Hip Hop’s First Photographer

                                               Credit: James “Koe” Rodriguez

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6 - 7:30pm

Location: The Bronx Museum, North Wing - 2nd Floor

With special guests: Afrka Bambaata, Buddy Esquire, Carlos “Mare139″ Rodriguez,  DJ Disco Wiz, DJ Tony Tone, Fabel, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizard Theodore, JDL, Johan Kugelberg, and L.A. Sunshine

Segment of First Wednesday Bronx Culture Trolley

(pick-up @ Hostos – 5:30pm)

Through Born in the Bronx, Joe Conzo presents a unique cross-section of an explosive and experimental time in music history.  Born in the Bronx is a striking anthology of Hip Hop’s baby steps. Not only does it capture the emergence of a burgeoning culture but also the fashion and character of the surrounding community through rare photographs of MC’s and DJs to records, flyers, and other ephemera.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

1040 Grand Concourse

Bronx, New York 10456

tel/ 718.681.6000

fax/ 718.681.6181

JANUARY “FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT”

Peace and much love! The divinity in me salutes the divinity in you, Word!

The spiritual gift for the month of JANUARY is FAITH.

2007 was a challenging year for a lot of people, however, even with everything that happened, we survived and by God’s grace we made it through, so give thanks! 2008 is a year of new beginning so use it to your advantage by fully utilizing your spiritual gift of FAITH. As you begin this New Year, it’s very important that you think positive, stay focused on your good, keep it moving and most importantly, leave the past in the past!

Your spiritual gift of FAITH will be vital as you achieve your goals because it gives you the ability to see past the temporary illusions of earth and allows you to see into the infinite possibilities of the eternal, invisible realm of Spirit. As you begin your new adventures, use your spiritual gift of FAITH and allow yourself to, “dream the impossible dream”, about your life, your family, community and humanity!

Of course around this time of year, we make all kinds of “resolutions” that by next month, we usually forget about! However, it’s going to be different now because you are aware of your spiritual gift of FAITH! This year I want you to do something that may seem challenging at first, as much as possible, allow yourself to “walk by FAITH and not by sight”! That simply means you must be loving, fearless and not judge, (yourself or others) by appearances, give yourself and others the benefit of the doubt. Remember, everything you see is temporary and constantly changing, only God is eternal. Allow yourself and others the time to grow into their highest manifestation, all of us are a work in progress!

FAITH is the foundation that everything is built on, think about it, institutions, nations, relationships, jobs, all start with the belief that everything will manifest the way we desire. Each time you do something you’ve never done before, you use FAITH, hoping that it’s going to work out in your best interest especially if it’s uncharted territory. If you didn’t have FAITH you would never try anything new, you would just stay in your box. FAITH helps to remind you that what may seem impossible to you, really is possible with God!

Now is the perfect time to use your FAITH to, “go for it”, you have nothing to lose! This is going to be a remarkable year, I can’t really explain why, but can’t you feel it? It’s written that FAITH is, “the substance of things hoped for and the evidence things unseen”, so I’ll just leave you with that, have a GREAT New Year, Word!

Forever HIPHOP,

Minister Server – The HipHop Life Coach

Temple of Hiphop,

HIPHOP Ministries, Inc.

www.hiphopministries.org404-425-9629 Ofc.

50 CENT FORMS INDIE FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY

50 Cent’s entertainment empire continues to grow. During the Sundance
Film Festival this weekend, the rapper and sometimes actor announced
that he plans on producing independent films.

FULL STORY: http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/13497