HHTF Fam:
A great big thank you to everyone who saw The Actor's Rap! in New York City and Taking Over in Berkeley this past month. The Actor's Rap! was as hilarious as ever and there's still one weekend left!
Keep reading for details and don't forget we've got you hooked up with the HHTF Discount code. Meanwhile in the Bay, Taking Over,
written and performed by HHTF Founder Danny Hoch, was seen by over 17
THOUSAND folks on that straight Hip-Hop theater tip. Congratulations
Danny!
For your Google Calendar, Blackberry or iPhone . . . we've got the dates on lock for the Hip-Hop Theater Festival: Washington, DC. See below! And no, it isn't just your imagination . . . you are hearing poetry everywhere you turn. All across the country youth are slamming for a chance to bust at Brave New Voices, the International Youth Poetry Festival, this July in Washington, DC. Young Chicago Authors are doing it well in Chicago, Youth Speaks is mad busting in the Bay, Urban Word is tearing it up in New York City, and DC Writer's Corps are rockin the mic in Washington DC.
In other news, we're happy to announce the release of Autumn's Eyes on DVD, check out a screening of On the Outs, and find out about the "Agenda of Hip-Hop Theater" at NYU. Also, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company is announcing dance auditions for The Shipment, and Galeria de la Raza honors International Women's Day with La Ultima Palabra. We've also got news on our upcoming Get SPRUNG on HHTF Spring Benefit which you know you want to be part of, so stop being shy and email Elz at elz@hhtf.org.
And if nothing else, be our friend already at www.myspace.com/hiphoptheaterfestival. We've been waiting for you.
To celebrate Black History Month, Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster Pensylvania is examining the role of Hip-Hop in American Culture. HHTF On-Tour brings olive Dance Theatre at Roschel Performing Arts Center February 29 at 8 PM, and a series of four solo performers: Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Teo Castellanos, Rudi Goblen and Queen Godis on March 1 at 8 PM.
HHTF On-Tour at Franklin and Marshall
Tickets available at: http://tdf.fandm.edu:16080/boxoffice
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Our 2006 Critical Breaks Artist-in-Residence J. Kyle Manzay returns with the hilarious comedy The Actor's Rap! at Baruch Performing Arts Center for one more weekend!
The Actor's Rap! is an outrageous comedy about a group of actors frustrated by the all the "rappers turned actors" who shamelessly steal their roles. Taking matters into their own hands, the actors kidnap today's hottest rapper in order to secure a coveted role in an upcoming film. Don't miss this wickedly funny exploration of the contradictions of Hip-Hop, Hollywood and actors keeping it real. Starring Vanessa Simmons from MTV's Run's House and Power 105.1's Deja Vu. Get your HHTF Insider Discount by using code: ARHIPHOP
The Actor's Rap!
TONIGHT and TOMORROW ONLY!
8 PM Fri :: 3 PM & 8 PM Sat
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue :: New York, NY 10010
$45 & $25 Students w/ID
15% off with HHTF Insider Discount code: ARHIPHOP
For Tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/25051
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The First Annual "Get Sprung on HHTF" Benefit is coming! Mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 28 for an evening of Hip-Hop theater, music, friends, and a chance to give to your favorite non-profit theater company! (Us!) If you'd like to be on the inaugural host committee or volunteer at the event, email Elz at elz@hhtf.org.
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No matter where you are, poetry is there. All over the country, poets 13 - 19 years old are slamming for a chance to bust at Brave New Voices, the International Youth Poetry Slam. If you've got a team coming from your city, don't miss it. These young poets are the voice of truth and need to be heard. Here's just a glimpse of what's happening this month:
New York City:
10th Annual Urban Word NYC Grand Slam Final
March 1, 2008 :: 7 PM
Washington Irving High School :: 40 Irving Place, NYC
For tickets: www.urbanwordnyc.org
Chicago:
Louder than a Bomb Finals
March 9, 2008 :: 6 PM
The Vic :: 3145 N. Sheffield Avenue :: Chicago
For tickets: www.youngchicagoauthors.org
San Francisco Bay Area:
12th Annual Youth Poetry Grand Slam Finals
March 22, 2008 :: 7 PM
War Memorial Opera House :: 301 Van Ness Avenue :: San Francisco
For tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com
www.youthspeaks.org
Washington, D.C:
Coming in May! Details to come!
Brave New Voices: the International Youth Poetry Festival is presented by Youth Speaks and co-presented by Hip-Hop Theater Festival. The festival, July 13 - 19 will feature workshops, the International Youth Poetry Slam and an evening of Hip-Hop theater. Most importantly, BNV is all about 400+ kids in Washington D.C telling the President and Legislature what's really going on. Stay tuned for details.
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Since at least the 1990s, artists have been making work that combines
their
love for Hip-Hop culture and performance with the conventions of many
forms of
theater. In this roundtable and community dialogue, key artists and
producers
in the Hip-Hop theater movement will discuss how they have come to
create work
that is called Hip-Hop theater, their experiences programming and
producing Hip-Hop theater at arts institutions, their vision for the future of the
movement,
and their thoughts for the current generation of Hip-Hop theater
artists and
artists wanting to create their own revolutionary brand of work.
On March
28, HHTF will screen On The Outs, a film co-produced by
the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. On the Outs tells the story of three
inner-city girls whose lives intersect in a juvenile detention facility.
There will be a post-show discussion with the producers and actors.
The screening is at 10 AM. For more information on the film, check
out: www.ontheouts.com
On the Outs
Friday,
March 28, 2008 :: 10 AM
for University Life ::
For
more information and to register visit: www.osa.nyu.edu
Mark your calendars now for Hip-Hop Theater Festival: Washington D.C, Monday, July 7 - Saturday, July 12. Keep your eyes open for full details and schedule COMING SOON!
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In partnership with the U. S. Department of State and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival hosted six arts-presenters, participating in the Global Cultural Initiative. The participating presenters were from South Africa, Malaysia, and Morocco.
The goal of this program is to energize the work of emerging international artists in their own country by bringing them to the United States and providing them with informative experiences in their arts discipline, exposure to the creation of art, and opportunities to develop relationships with U.S. arts professionals.
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AUTUMN'S EYES is a compelling documentary about a 3-year-old girl who tries to navigate through the harsh reality of severe poverty, her teenage mother's incarceration and looming foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of childhood and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, incarceration and poverty. Autumn's Eyes captures this impressionable time in this child's life, and ask the greater question: is there truly hope for a child growing up in these circumstances? Through the perspective of a little girl, Autumn's Eyes explores this perilous state of hope.
"Mendoza and Noble's fine personal documentary looks at three generations of women in poverty from the perspective of Autumn Collier, a clever and observant 3-year-old girl in Jersey City. It is at heart a kind and sensitively filmed story of a little girl longing to reunite with her mother, and vice versa."
– Marrit Ingman, Austin Chronicle
"A painfully candid look at urban poverty"
- efilmcritic.com
PURCHASE HERE: www.indiepixfilms.com/autumnseyes
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STREB S.L.A.M. SHOW XI
EXTREME ACTION AT STREB'S WILLIAMSBURG ACTION FACTORY
S.L.A.M. (51 NORTH 1ST STREET)
MARCH 28TH TO MAY 18TH
Fridays at 7 PM
Saturdays at 3 & 7 PM
Sundays at 3 PM
$20 adults
$10 for kids 12 and under
"These dancers are pioneers and heroes; even as they thrill the watching audience with spectacle and theatricality, they're testing what human beings can accomplish." Deborah Jowitt,Village Voice
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La Ultima Palabra: If yours was the last word . . . what would it say?
Join Galeria de la Raza for a night of poetry in honor of International Women's Day. Curated by Mamacoatl. Mujeres despiertas, come and share this guiso and bring your ULTIMA PALABRA! Featuring: Mamacoatl, Leticia Hernández, Avotja, Kriya Taber, and Susana Aragón.
La Ultima Palabra
Saturday, March 8 :: 8 PM
Galeria de la Raza :: 2857 24th Street :: San Francisco
Tickets: $8
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Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
THE SHIPMENT
written and directed by Young Jean Lee
choreography by Dean Moss
Award-winning, internationally-touring theater company seeks virtuosic, professional, African-American dancers who are great at what they do and who work well with others as a team player in an ensemble. They are interested in all forms of Hip-Hop and African dance. This is a paid gig involving rehearsals for two workshop performances at Brooklyn Arts Exchange on April 18-19. THE SHIPMENT will have another workshop performance at The Kitchen in NYC on June 7, and then open at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio in October 2008 and at The Kitchen in January 2009. However, dancers will not be required to commit further than the April 18-19 performances.
Auditions @ Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
421 5th Avenue, Park Slope
[ R/F Trains to 4th Avenue ]
March 1: 12 – 2pm
March 2: 12 – 5pm
To schedule an appointment, contact:
Leah Winkler: leahnana@gmail.com
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Hip-Hop Theater Festival is made possible through generous support from The Union Square Arts Awards, The Ford Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Time Warner, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Curtis McGraw Foundation, The New World Foundation and individual supporters like you.
HHTF is a participant i the New Generations Program, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Trust/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for American Theatre. HHTF is also supported in part by Artography: Arts in a Changing America, a grant program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.
FOR GENERAL FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
email: info@hhtf.org
phone: 718.497.4282
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