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Summary
of B-Girl Be Festival
It's almost 4 months ago that we went to the B-Girl Be in Minneapolis
and I wanted to report much earlier. Sorry it took so long! All I have
to say about B-Girl Be: Fabulous!!! It was definitely worth the trip!
Seeing all these girls do their thing was wonderful. There was an amazing
vibe and good energy. There were so many girls painting the walls, so
many b-girls rocking the floors and amazing DJs and MCs, too. Music, Spoken
Word, dance, films, discussions, workshops, parties - the days were full
of excitements. The organizers of B-Girl Be did an amazing job! Big up
to you girls! They organized a fantastic event for the third year in a
row with limited funding. They definitely need and deserve more financial
support next year!!! So if any of you have any sponsorship ideas for B-Girl
Be, let us know! Please check out their website.
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PLEASE SUPPORT! Research
on dance injuries - important for your health!
At the B-Girl Be we met a couple of girls who are working on a great project
for you. They are doing research on how dancers get injured and help them
to prevent injuries and to get cured afterwards. They had great success
in modern and classic dance and now they are doing research on Hip Hop
dance. THEY NEED YOUR HELP! They have an online survey that you can fill
out. The more dancers that fill this out, the more knowledge they gain.
They want to hear from girls and guys, Breakers, Poppers, Lockers, House,
Street Jazz, Krumpers, teachers, choreographers, all types of Hip Hop
dancers. You will also receive a link to information on free and low cost
healthcare. The survey can be accessed here: www.hiphophealth.co.nr
There's more info about the
study at www.myspace.com/shawpt
Your participation in this survey helps you and all of the Hip Hop Dance
community. This will assist healthcare workers to understand more about
the injury patterns in Hip Hop Dance. Thanks for your participation and
help!
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August
10 - Start of "Where My Ladies At?"
Where my Ladies At? is an interactive
documentary that’ll go online
on August 10. It’s
a documentary about the crossover of porn and Hip Hop, about the exploitation
of women in rap videos. They will have a forum where we will be able to
discuss the issue and they are planning on having a timeline for women
in Hip Hop.
Go check out their site and let’s talk! See you there!
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We B*Girlz - Festival
for Women in Hip Hop - August 2008
Hi everybody! As most of you
know already, we will have a festival for women in Hip Hop next year in
Berlin. We wanted to give you a short run-through on what we are planning
to do. We will have a festival over several weeks, with beginners’
workshops for girls in the different fields of Hip Hop as well as in multimedia,
like photo, video, website and so on, so they can learn to document their
own culture and change the image of women in Hip Hop. We will also have
skateboard and BMX workshops.
We are planning to have master classes within the last week with women
from all over the world and then we want to finish with a big 2-day event
with battles, performances, panels and more. During the festival, we are
planning to have a film festival with films about women in Hip Hop and
exhibitions at different locations in Berlin. We will have a magazine
with information about the festival and about women in Hip Hop and extreme
sports. These are just the basics and more information will follow.
One of the most important points that I want to talk to you about is:
How will we get as many girls there as possible?
Since we don’t have unlimited funding and therefore can’t
bring all of you, we want to advice you to network and form collectives!
There are many possibilities to get funding for artists to travel to events.
We all need to learn how to get funding and therefore that is one of the
panels we are planning to have at the festival. If everything works out,
there will be female event organizers from different countries discussing
these things. So girls-start the planning early so we can all come together
next year! Peace!
www.myspace.com/webgirlz
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Search for Films!
During the festival next year,
we will have a film festival with films fitting into the concept. The
films will be shown in the Eiszeit cinema in Berlin Kreuzberg which is
the only cinema in Berlin in the hands of a female owner, Suzan. We now
had the idea to not only organize a film festival for women in Hip Hop
next year, but also organize a women’s film night every month, starting
as soon as possible, showing films of female filmmakers about topics interesting
for women in general. If you are a female filmmaker or made a film about
women in Hip Hop or female Skateboarders etc. please let us know and email
some information about your film. Thanx for your support girls!
www.eiszeit-kino.de
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ANATTITUDE MAGAZINE
- THE PARISIAN EDITION - OUT NOW!
The second edition presents
Parisian Hip Hop featuring PRINCESS ANIÈS, the princess of French
rap. Also appearing: Hip Hop dancer DHHAM DE COEUR, old school writer
and tagger queens LENIE & KENSA, filmmaker KEIRA MAAMERI, Europe's
only Hip Hop goldsmith BÉA ANJUNA, B-Girls ZOU and JESKILZ. AM's
special guests: KIN, the MCs from overseas. And as an extra goodie, a
new chapter of AM's unique female old school Hip Hop history: FRENCH RAPHISTORY!
Watch out for Anattitude Magazine Edition 2 - the Parisian Edition- french/english
- 8 Euro -More information:
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Winners
of R-16 or: I LOVE KOREA!!!
Marty and I were invited to the R 16 in Seoul, which was a massive international
B-Boy crew battle. Let me tell you about this event. They invited 16 crews
to Seoul and had them battle at the Olympic Stadium for 2 days, the judges
were Swift Rock from Germany, Poe from LA, and Ken Swift from New York.
The first day was for the show contest. Mortal Combat from Japan won,
followed by Drifters from Korea and Tsunami Allstars from Brazil. The
second day was battle day, it was a great event! The audiance was jumping
up and down and the crews were giving their all. 1st place was won by
Rivers Crew (Korea), 2nd place by Flowmo (Finland), 3rd place Massive
Monkeys (USA), 4th place Tsunami Allstars (Brazil), Fresh Award by Style
Crax (Germany).
I wanna give a big shout-out to the organizers and the sponsors of this
event. This event definitely raised the bar. It was very well organized,
all participants were taken great care of and the standard was very high.
But not only did I really enjoy the event, but Korea as a travel destination.
The people are extraordinarily friendly, the country is beautiful, the
capital Seoul offers so much exitment next to great sightseeing and the
food is just fantastic. I gotta admit - I fell in love with Korea!
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Winners
of We B*Girlz Battle at BOTY France
The We B*Girlz battle in Montpellier was da bomb again! As was the whole
Boty France. The Japanese girls Narumi and Shie-Chan won the battle again,
followed by the French b-girls Valentine & Nadine, who will therefore
be representing France at the We B*Girlz Battle at BOTY International.
There will be a qualifier at BOTY Japan, too, but we are still looking
for a sponsor to fly out the winners to the international We B*Girlz battle
in October.
Japanese B*Girlz are dope and should join in - any ideas girls?
Photo by Trix who seems to
be spacing out a little here...
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Opening
of Hip Hop Headquarters in Berlin - Big success!!
Last weekend the Hip Hop Headquarters Berlin, housing the record labels
MZEE Records and Berlin Massive (www.berlin-massive.de) opened their doors
after months of construction work. The event in cooperation with the opening
of the whole complex of the Marienburg in Prenzlauer Berg with several
entrepeneurs such as GRACO (Graffiti Company Berlin - www.graco-berlin.de)
attracted thousands of visitors and was great fun for everybody, with
life music, German rap talents and breaking competitions.
Great times ahead for the Hip Hop community in Berlin!
www.hiphopagency.de
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Proudly
presenting the winners of SHE GOT GAME in Australia ·
1st Place - Burn Masters - Beta + Vendetta
· 2nd Place - Domestic
Apes - A-B-Girl + Yaya
· 3rd Place - Vivid
Vixens - JessFX + Kasi
Congratulations to the winners!!!
Big up to the organizers!
www.freestylefour.com
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We
B*Girlz Battle at BOTY France - May 18
Don't miss the annual We B*Girlz
Battle in Montpellier! It's on the day before BOTY France. They always
have a great international line-up and the atmosphere is great! Hope to
see you there!
photo © Martha Cooper
www.botyfrance.com
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Street
Play New Book by Martha Cooper You
gotta check it out! Great pictures of kids playing in the Streets of New
York City when Hip Hop was born.
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