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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

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

 

 

9:40am – 10:40am

1st Concurrent Sessions

Room 230

Greening your Life

Room 239

Before Rap: Spoken Word Poetry-Writing Workshop

Room 231

Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against Displacement

10-minute break

 

 

10:50am – 11:50am

2nd Concurrent Sessions

Room 230

Greening your Life

Room 239

Before Rap: Spoken Word Poetry-Performance Workshop

Room 231

Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against Displacement

10-minute break

 

 

12pm – 1:50pm

 

 

 

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

 

 

1:55pm – 2:40pm

3rd Concurrent Sessions

Theater

Affrilachian Poetry Reading

Room 233

Exchanging Ideas with Majora Carter

**Students may continue writing on the Graffiti Solution Wall

5-minute break

 

 

2:45pm – 3:25pm

Theater

The Speak Out
Student-led discussion-Sustainability in the Community

5-minute break

 

 

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Theater

Closing Remarks
Akil Houston, Remarks

Performance
Invincible, Hiphop Artist



 
 
 
             
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