World Up!

Its that time of year again! We are anxiously gearing up for the 2007 Trinity International Hip Hop Festival. Last year’s event was a huge success and this year looks to be shaping up to be even better. Sponsored by World Up, Trinity College, Nomadic Wax, and Sol Productions, this years festival consists of 2 nights of performances and 3 days of Hip Hop academics. Including films (sponsored by H2O), lecture panels and workshops (such as the TYH Crew) from prominent people in the International Hip Hop community. It will take place the weekend of Friday March 30th-Sunday April 1st. All of the weekend’s festivities are geared towards educating and celebrating Hip -Hop as an international culture and as a unifying factor across diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The city of Hartford will be welcoming artists from Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia and the Caribbean. This is an event not to be missed!!!

Within the festival World Up will be sponsoring a Women in Hip Hop Panel on Sunday, April 1st from 1-3pm.
The discussion will revolve around: How is hip hop helping or hurting international roles of women? Different cultures see and define different roles, how has the new strength and popularity of hip hop changed or held those roles back? International artists, activists, and educators, (including Oliva of Las Krudas and Monifa Bandele of Change The Game & Black August Hip-Hop Project) will weigh in for some very interesting dialogue. Stay posted for those details.

We are still booking for our World Up spring tour! Get your school on the list. Read more HERE

Thurs., Dec. 7, 7:00 p.m.
$15 series, single admission $8.
Theresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

As one of a three-part series on “Humanity and Torture,” sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, this panel discusses the power of the media to shape our ideas about acceptability of torture. A short composite film of excerpts from Hollywood movies, TV dramas, documentaries, and news footage precedes the discussion.

Moderator, Martin Fisher, cultural critic. Panelists: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; Eugene Jarecki, filmmaker, Why We Fight and The Trials of Henry Kissinger; Martha Diaz, Hip Hop Association; Scott Horton, partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School; David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Scott Horton, president, International League for Human Rights, and partner with the law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP New York, who has worked with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch. This series continues on January 24, 2007.