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TONIGHT: HIP HOP GRIOTS / Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival (Friday, April 3)

 

Sacred Circle Cafe': The Hip-Hop Griots

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

Curated by Rob Hylton & Purple Haze

 8:00pm - 10:30pm • The Chase Room

Spoken word • Urban theater

Part of the Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival

This evening of hip hop theater and spoken word artistry will feature performances by Abiodun Oyewole (from The Last Poets), Baba Israel, D-Black, D-Cross, Rahfeal Gordon, Queen Godis, and Uninvited.

ALL SEATS $16

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

Curated by Rob Hylton & Purple Haze

 8:00pm - 10:30pm • The Chase Room

Spoken word • Urban theater

Part of the Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival

This evening of hip hop theater and spoken word artistry will feature performances by Abiodun Oyewole (from The Last Poets), Baba Israel, D-Black, D-Cross, Rahfeal Gordon, Queen Godis, and Uninvited.

ALL SEATS $16

Hip-Hop Women's History Month: Queen Godis @ Hip-Hop Griots April 3rd

QUEEN GODIS UNIVERSITY NEWS
Dance Theater Workshop Studio Series presents:

Project Power U!: part III

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 
Queen GodIs is an esteemed artist whose work is a dynamic fusion of Poetry, Hip Hop, Theater, and Soul Music. Her features have included the Trans Atlantic Music Festival (France), BAM Opera House, Nokia Theater, Apollo Theater Sound Stage, Kennedy Center, NJPAC, artistic residency (India) and The Royal Shakespeare Company (UK).
 
Her celebrated debut album, POWER U! also highlights GodIs as producer, engineer and MC. Her poetry has been featured live at HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Robert Townsend's Spoken and most recently published in two major releases by Afro-European singing duo Les Nubians. Queen has also had spotlight segments on prestigious radio programs such as BBC, MTV radio, NPR, and WBAI.
 
Queen originally debuted her musical theater piece "BIRTH of POWER U!" (part I) directed by Tamilla Woodard off-Broadway in 2007, followed by an international tour of her work. The tour was jump-started with a stint as artistic director of a week-long master class in Hip Hop and Spoken Word Poetry at the renowned Contact Theater in Manchester, UK. She presented "Untitled # 69" (part II of her choreo-poem series) directed by Una Osato with the Hip Hop Theater Festival on Tour in 2008.
 
Other credits include: performance art therapy, education consultant, guest lecturer and youth mentor. She coached the 2008 and 2007 Urban Word NYC Teen Poetry Slam Teams which went on to rank top 2 and 3 in the nation respectively. The process will be featured in a special documentary series produced by HBO films and Simmons/ Lathan Media Group in the Spring of 2009. Series slated to air on HBO on April 5th, 2009 at 11pm EST.
 
The Studio Series brings new artistic voices to Dance Theater Workshop and opens our studios for public showings. Eight artists each year receive a 100-hour creative residency in our studios. This residency gives each artist the opportunity to research and develop work in a raw, process-oriented space. The outcomes are shared through two informal presentations by each artist, inviting the audience to see work at different stages of development. Studio Series artists are curated internally by the Artistic Director in conjunction with Programming staff and guest curators from Urban Word NYC and Dance Theater Workshop's season artists.
 
Queen GodIs is participating in the New Word Artist in Residence Series.  This series is a partnership between Dance Theater Workshop and Urban Word NYC that offers rare development opportunities to rising/mid-career performance poets in NYC through the Dance Theater Workshop Studio Series Residency and Performance Program.

One of America's preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide. A center for the development and presentation of contemporary dance and performance Dance Theater Workshop offers services and presentation opportunities that support the process of artists as they make and show their work.  Dance Theater Workshop stimulates dialogue and pioneers new contexts for contemporary dance while also providing administrative, promotional, and technical support for independent artists and companies through a spectrum of programs, classes, workshops, and forums. dancetheaterworkshop.org
 
Project Power U!: part III  is produced by Dance Theater Workshop's  Creative Residency Program with support from The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
 

What it look like? Sacred Circle Cafe:HipHop Griots

Peace People!
 
We wanna know what you think? What's the likelihood of this show being sold out. Check out the line up and their links then let us know what you think. Sacred Circle Cafe:HipHop Griots Friday, April 3rd, 8pm Sold out type of event? Buy tickets in advance or a chance tickets will be available the night off?

Sacred Circle Cafe: HipHop Griots

D-Cross the Artist
www.myspace.com/dcrossmusic

D-Black
www.myspace.com/dblk504

Uninvited

www.myspace.com/uninvitedmaine

Rahfeal Gordon
www.myspace.com/rahgor

Queen GodIs
www.myspace.com/queengodisbiz

Baba Israel
www.myspace.com/babaisraelandyako440

Abiodun Oyewole
www.myspace.com/abiodunoyewole

We thought of you when we got with them!

Sacred Circle Cafe: Hip Hop Griots
Friday, April 3rd, 8pm
Curated & Hosted by Purple Haze & Rob Hylton

What "SHE" brings! Queen GodIs Sacred Circle Cafe:HipHop Griots

The U.S.Hip Hop Ambassador and previous NJPAC Hip Hop festival performing artist Toni Blackman recently posed the question, "What do female MC's offer Hip Hop?"

Check out the female Hip Hop Griot Queen GodIs's response...

"What do I bring to the table as an emcee who is female? In many cases, I bring the dag on table! - not only quality music and content, but detail, thoughtfulness, creativity and a long-term vision upon which to lay these goods so that others can have a wholesome feast.

Hip Hop is a potluck of sorts. Everyone brings something...no matter how rich or trifling, talented or bland. Some people always bring drinks. Others always bring desserts. Then there are those who not only bring the main course, but the necessary cups, utensils, napkins, foil and even the table upon which we eat.  

I find that most women tend to bring things to the 'party' that many others just forget. Besides, It is a luxury to forget things when there is an auntie, mama or sista-friend  who - by nature - remembers to pack the stuff that others neglect or simply just hate to carry. 

The truth is, talent, skill and appeal are neither wholly male nor female. Most amazing artists have properties of both masculine and feminine principles that I think enhance their craft. The strongest, most well-rounded male artists on the scene  (in my opinion) seem to have a connection with their feminine instinct that makes what they are serving both desirable, long-lasting and complete..."

Queen GodIs debut album "Power U" available @ cdbaby.com/cd/queengodis
www.myspace.com/queengodisbiz


For video & other interviews check out

Women In Hip Hop Blog/ Interview Feat. Queen GodIs & More!:
"WHAT DO FEMALE MC'S OFFER HIP HOP"
http://mycypher.com/shecanflow/2008/10/.