No Sleep ???til Brklyn: A powerHouse Hip Hop Rrto...

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powerHouse Books, VH1, Brooklyn Bodega and Montana are pleased to announceNo Sleep ???til Brooklyn: A powerHouse Hip Hop RetrospectiveThe Inaugural Exhibition and Event Series at The powerHouse Arena to celebrate VH1 Hip Hop Honors Week 2006 Exhibition Launch Date: October 12, 2006Event Time: 7:00 p.m-10:00 p.mExhibition Dates: October 13-November 19, 2006Event Type: ExhibitionEvent Cost: Tickets are $25. To purchase please contact 212-604-9074 X100A portion of the ticket sales will benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation???s work to restore instrumental music programs in NYC public schools.Event Description: No Sleep ???til Brooklyn is a 30 year retrospective of hip hop culture documenting its humble beginnings in the South Bronx through its glorious rise to global domination. The group exhibition represents every element of hip hop???from the Breakers, graffiti writers, emcees, dj???s, photographers, writers, personalities and fans who have made hip hop the greatest single force in pop culture. No Sleep ???til Brooklyn is dedicated to the people and to the streets, paying tribute to the founders, the innovators, and the next generation. Featuring Power 105.1???s Kool DJ Red Alert On the 1???s and 2???s Additional Music by DJ Just Blaze.The show will feature works by artists including Bob Adelman, Charlie Ahearn, Patti Astor, Janette Beckman, Peter Beste, Le Bijoutier, BLADE, Boogie, Martha Camarillo, Henry Chalfant, Vincent Cianni, Claw Money, Joe Conzo, Martha Cooper, CYCLE, DAZE, Martin Dixon, DR.REVOLT, ??ELLIS G., Delphine Fawundu-Buford, Carol Friedman, William ???NIC ONE??? Green, Hamburger Eyes,JAMES TOP , Lisa Kahane, Brenda Kenneally, Brian Kenny, Seth Kushner, LADY PINK, Maripol, Slava Mogutin, NATO, Charles Peterson, Mark Peterson, Ricky Powell, QUIK, Lee Quinones, Carlos ???MARE 139??? Rodriguez, Randy ???KEL 1ST??? Rodriguez, Thomas Roma, RUEDIONE, Q. Sakamaki, Jamel Shabazz, STAY HIGH 149, Peter Sutherland, TEAM, TOOFLY, Craig Wetherby, Dondi White, David Wong, and David Yellen.Event: Hip Hop By All Means Necessary Hosted By Mass AppealMusic by DJ Synapse (Beautiful/Decay., Good Peoples)Drinks courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery and FIJI WaterEvent Date: Friday, October 13, 2006Event Time: 6:00-10:00pmEvent Type: Film Screening and Panel DiscussionEvent Cost: FreeEvent Description: New York premier screening of the first documentary film by acclaimed photojournalist Brenda Kenneally. Featuring the members of the MMO clique based in Brooklyn, including Big Trigg, Sha, Skinny Minnie, and Foogie, the film travels around the city and across the country to explore how young black youth are hustling hop hop as a way to make something of their lives. But this is by no means a sugar-coated story; the film opens with a young man killed by the police; it takes you on stage with Ol??? Dirty Bastard at one of his final performances; it shows life in the projects as they are lived. Hip Hop: By All Means Necessary includes appearances by Brooklyn???s own MMO clique; Bushwick Bill (Geto Boys), Kurupt (Tha Row), Ol??? Dirty Bastard (Wu Tang Clan), LA Confidential, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Funkmaser Flex, and Kanye West, among many others.Panel discussion featuring MMO clique members Big Trigg, Foogie, Sha, Skinny Minnie, and others to follow. Event: The Fun???s Not Over Yet! Hosted by vmagazine.comMusic by DJ Synapse (Beautiful/Decay, Good Peoples)Drinks courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery and FIJI Water Event Date: Saturday, October 14, 2006Event Time: 6:00-10:00pmEvent Type: Film Screening and Panel DiscussionEvent Cost: FreeEvent Description: Film Screening: Trailer for the upcoming documentary film Patti Astor???s FUN Gallery (Robert David Films)The world famous FUN Gallery was the epicenter of the early-80s East Village cultural explosion. The first gallery in that then-tenement neighborhood was founded in 1981 by underground film star Patti Astor and Bill Stelling. It showcased the works of artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Lee Quinones, Keith Haring, Dondi White, ZEPHYR, Kenny Sharf, FUTURA 2000, A ONE, FAB 5 Freddy, and DR.REVOLT. The gallery provided many artists with their first solo shows and introduced countless others to the established art world for the first time. In 1983 then???Citibank art advisor Jeffery Deitch stated in People magazine that the Fun Gallery was ???one of the hottest galleries in the city.???FUN! The True Story of Patti Astor, her first book to be published, relates her escapades at that pioneering storefront space along with the unique FUN Gallery crew of graffiti artists, rock, rap, and movie stars, uptown collectors, scheming SoHo dealers, and neighborhood kids and hipsters. The FUN Gallery panel will be moderated by Patti Astor and features some of the influential and original members of the FUN Crew:??? FAB 5 Freddy on the landmark coming together of uptown and downtown for which he was the chief ambassador. ??? Diego Cortez, who curated the first "outlaw" art shows, Batman, Grutzi Elvis, and the groundbreaking New York New Wave on bringing this art to a larger audience.Patti Astor will introduce each panelist by reading short excerpt from her book. The panel will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.Film Screening: Wild StyleDescription: For those craving the true roots of rap, Wild Style captured the hardcore South Bronx scene at its birth. The stars of Wild Style form the pantheon of hip hop???s pioneers: DJ???s Grand Master Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore, D.St.; rappers Grand Master Caz and The Cold Crush Bros, The Chief Rocker Busy Bee, Double Trouble, Fantastic Freaks and Rammelzee, and b-boy champions The Rock Steady Crew. Beat Music by legendary Blondie guitarist Chris Stein and Fred Brathwaite. Wild Style stars the legendary subway artist LEE Quinones and the queen of the graffiti scene, Sandra PINK Fabara. Graffiti Masters DONDI, ZEPHYR, and DAZE also bombed for the movie. Patti Astor stars as Virgiina, the downtown reporter who comes uptown to dig the scene. Fab 5 Freddy, who along with writer/producer/director Charlie Ahearn, helped create Wild Style, shines as the smooth hip hop impressario Phade. Wild Style follows the outlaw artists through the train yards to the rap/breakin??? clubs. The movie culminates at a massive outdoor jam, definitely the most famous hip hop party in history!Event: An Afternoon with James Shabazz and Joe ConzoHosted by Wax PoeticsMusic by Jamel Shabazz and Joe ConzoDrinks courtesy of FIJI WaterEvent Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006, 4:00-8:00Event Type: Slide Show and LectureEvent Cost: FreeEvent Description: Since the 2001 publication of his first monograph Back in the Days, hip hop culture???s premier street photographer and documentarian Jamel Shabazz has inspired a new generation to learn their history and celebrate their heritage. Possessing a vibrant record of thirty years of urban culture, Shabazz is devoted to teaching documentary photography to the youth in various communities both here and abroad. Complementing his work is that of photographer Joe Conzo, who intimately captured the birth of hip-hop as it came up on the streets of the South Bronx. Conzo became the The Cold Crush Brother???s exclusive photographer, and also shot legendary groups including Treacherous 3, Fearless 4, and Fantastic 5 in famed venues such as The T-Connection, Harlem World, Ecstasy Garage and The Roxy. Committed to preserving the community and uplifting the people, Shabazz and Conzo will host an afternoon talk featuring a selection of the music that inspired their work, a slide show and lecture exploring their vast archives, host a Q&A session, and s
creen a trailer from the forthcoming documentary film 1 Love, on Shabazz, Conzo, and photographer Ernie Pannicoli.Film Screening: From Mambo To Hip HopDescription: From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Story, a work-in-progress projected to be released in the fall of 2005, will be an hour long documentary produced by City Lore, Inc. and directed by Henry Chalfant. The film presents a panoramic view of the music that blossomed in the latin community of the South Bronx from the late 1940???s when mambo burst onto the New York cultural scene through the birth of hip hop in the 1970s. The film chronicles two generations who grew up literally on the same streets, and both used rhythm as their forms of rebellion???for the older generation it was the pulsating rhythms of Cuba; for their children it was the rhythms of rap. The film, designed for public television and possibly theatrical release, aims to bring attention to the Bronx neighborhoods and communities who, with few resources, transformed the world???s pop culture. From Mambo to Hip Hop features: Ray Barretto, Benny Bonilla, Orlando Marin, Manny Oquendo, Willie Colon, Africa Bambaata, Charlie Chase, Fabel, Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme), Kid Freeze, Track II, Trace, Bom 5, Sandra Maria Esteves, Bobby Sanabria and more.Event: Women In Hip HopHeld in conjunction with Black Girls RockHosted by Brooklyn BodegaMusic by DJ Synpase (Beautiful/Decay, Good Peoples)Drinks courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery and FIJI WaterEvent Date: Monday, October 16, 2006, 4:00-7:00pmEvent Type: Panel Discussion, Film Screening, and Live PerformanceEvent Cost: FreeEvent Description: All too often, women are overlooked, marginalized, or just flat out insulted in hip hop culture. This event is designed to give women their due while creating a forum for critical discussion and pro-active and positive approached to problem solving. Featuring a panel discussion with acclaimed female artists and writers, Women in Hip Hop will discuss the challenges they have faced as women setting out to make their mark in a traditionally male-dominated culture, providing both inspiration to young women and girls, as well as offering insight of their struggles with the men and boys with whom they work, love, and live. The event will also feature a performance from local Brooklyn songstress Maya Azucena, who most recently performed at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, as well as a PSA from Black Girls Rock, and a multi-media presentation for We B*Girlz, the first book of female breakers around the world today by Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer.The Women in Hip Hop Panel discussion will be moderated by powerHouse Book Publicity Director and No Sleep ???til Brooklyn curator Miss Rosen and will feature a broad range of women whose work has influenced hip hop for the past three decades including:??? Patti Astor, co-founder of FUN Gallery??? Janette Beckman, photographer of some of the most iconic album covers of the 80s??? Beverly Bond, Founder and President of Black Girls Rock??? Martha Cooper, legendary hip hop documentarian??? Delphine Fawundu-Buford, street photographer and portraitist??? LADY PINK, legendary graffiti writer and artist??? Joan Morgan, author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost??? TOOFLY, hot young urban muralist??? Violet, old-school b-girl and founder of KR3TsShort Film Screening: Redder than RedCelebrated photographer Martha Cooper and writer Nika Kramer make their directorial debut with the story of Hanifa ???Queen??? Hudson, aka Bubbles, the pioneering female breakdancer who rose to fame in the early 80s with breakdance crew The B-Boys, via appearances on TV and in early hip hop films Electro Rock and Bombin. Widely acknowledged as the first female breaker to compete with men in the almost exclusively male, emerging hip hop culture, Bubbles remains an inspiration to b-girls all over the world. Bubbles became famous through a line in Electro Rock when the host says: ???Check out the one in red???it???s a girl!??? Combining vintage and recent footage, the film explores the life history of a talented, now-37-year-old, Jamaican-British girl who got caught up in the excitement of hip hop in the early 80s, attained a measure of fame, was virtually forgotten, but has recently re-entered the scene. In the intervening years, Bubbles married, had a son, divorced, and converted to Islam, changing her name to Hanifa. The film captures the excitement of the early days of hip hop as it arrived fresh from the Bronx to England in the 80s. The film???s highlight is a reunion of Bubbles??? crew, the B-Boys, in the local community center, where they dance together for the first time in nearly 20 years.Events Location:The powerHouse Arena37 Main Street, BrooklynNew York, 11201Telephone: 212.604.9074x105 10:00 a.m-7:00 p.m Monday-Friday 11:00a.m-7:00p.m Saturday-SundayDirections: F subway to York, A/C to High Street or 2/3 to Clark Street.For More Information, please contact Sara Rosen, Publicity DirectorpowerHouse Books, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201Tel: 212.604.9074, Fax: 212.366.5247, email: [email]sara@powerhousebooks.com[/email]
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