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Building Education through the Arts and Transforming Society (B.E.A.T.S)
1st Annual Hiphop Expo 2009
Saturday, April 11, 8am-4:30pm: Baker University Center
Bridging the Rural and Urban Experience
through Sustainability
Schedule
Time
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Location |
Activities |
8am – 8:45am |
Theater Lounge |
Registration |
9am – 9:30am |
Theater |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Akil Houston, Assistant Professor
African American Studies Department
Announcements & Concurrent Sessions
Deanda Johnson, Coordinator
African American Research and Service Institute
African American Studies Department |
10-minute break |
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9:40am – 10:40am |
1st Concurrent Sessions |
Room 230
| Greening your Life |
Room 239
| Before Rap: Spoken Word Poetry-Writing Workshop
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Room 231 |
Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against Displacement |
10-minute break |
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10:50am – 11:50am |
2nd Concurrent Sessions |
Room 230
| Greening your Life |
Room 239
| Before Rap: Spoken Word Poetry-Performance Workshop
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Room 231 |
Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against Displacement |
10-minute break |
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12pm – 1:50pm
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Room 240/242 |
Zero-Waste Lunch and Keynote Address
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Ayanna Jordan, Director
Upward Bound, College of Education
Keynote Address
Majora Carter, President, Majora Carter Group and Founder, Sustainable South Bronx |
5-minute break |
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1:55pm – 2:40pm |
3rd Concurrent Sessions |
Theater
| Affrilachian Poetry Reading
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Room 233 |
Exchanging Ideas with Majora Carter |
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**Students may continue writing on the Graffiti Solution Wall
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5-minute break |
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2:45pm – 3:25pm |
Theater |
The Speak Out
Student-led discussion-Sustainability in the Community |
5-minute break |
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3:30pm – 4:30pm |
Theater |
Closing Remarks
Akil Houston, Remarks
Performance
Invincible, Hiphop Artist |
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