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Be-Side
The Home of Hakm's B-Side e-alter ego...his auxiliary brain or external hard drive...
You won’t want to miss this year’s Albuquerque Cultural Conference. See the wrap-up of last year’s event here featuring Jessica Helen Lopez, Sasha Pimentel Chacon, Jennifer Rae Vernon, S. GL. Lim, Mary Oishi, Demetria Martinez and Margaret Randall. Find out this year’s line-up at http://bit.ly/mPN9lA
Some “Do the Knowledge”. We “Do the Economics”. Here at The Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute 2011 in Northampton, MA (Smith College). This summer’s theme is “Media, Democracy and the Economy.”
Hakim Be to speak at TEDxABQ on September 10th @ The National Hispanic Cultural Center
“Poetry giveth and giveth again: Teaching and learning from poetry”
Tickets go on sale July 15th at www.tedxabq.com
Find out more about the TED movement at www.ted.com
“Ideas Worth Spreading”
Hip-Hop Alliance is an All Ages Dance event focused around the upcoming youth. This will be the 3rd Annual event, and it keeps growing stronger each year. We will assemble as one community to represent and inspire in the name of Hip-Hop. Don’t miss out
Saturday July 2, 2011. 4-9pm
@ Warehouse 508 (Downtown Albuquerque)
4-9pm
$11 @ the door or $10 w/ canned food
1 on 1 bboy/bgirl youth battle (12 and under only) $200.00 prize
1 on 1 poppin battle $100.00
2 on 2 bboy battle $200.00 prize
Performances by:
Capoeira Gingarte
UHF Krew
Hakim Bellamy
Skull Control Records
Dahm Life
DJs:
Mr. Marvel (XFRX/PFR)
Randy Boogie (XFRX/FOF)
Breakin Judges:
DATA (SMK)
Shuga Shane (UHF)
BAMM (MZK)
Poppin Judges:
Boogie (AEC)
Rawk 1 (FBC)
Kanyman (PFR/XFRX)
Workshops at Duke City Dance Stars
4900 Jefferson St NE # F
Albuquerque, NM 87109
“Lets Get it Poppin” w/ Rawk 1 (FBC)
1:30pm-3:00pm
“Step into the Circle” w/Shuga Shane (UHF)
$20/each or $30 for both classes
12:00pm-1:30pm
Also, picking the top 8 bboys/bgirls to represent and battle against the top 8 Arizona Bboys/Bgirls!!!
(Source: facebook.com)
A week later, Urban Verbs still thanks you, Albuquerque. (READ ME!: Live Creation from Friday June 17th Show @ Filling Station)
Letter to Hip Hop I (June 17th, 2011, Live Creation for Urban Verbs Show, Barelas USA)
-Hakim Be
Dear Hip Hop
Open your speakers
So you can speak
“Us”
Hear us
Mirrors
We are what you look like
In the morning
Good morning
From the kids you never slept on
Chased Boogie Monsters out of our imagination
Through headphones
The ones I snuck
Under sheet music
When mom banished the TV from my bedroom
From the generation that considered silence
Violence
You lullabied us
Pops worked two jobs so I could buy you
And I knew
When I grew up
I wanted to be just like you
The bastard Love Child of Gospel and Rock
You are what Blues turned into
Just to get hitchhikers to pick her up
A wax museum of classic sculptures
That never so much as flinched
When they called you a vulture
You’re the swan song of ugly ducklings
With your puberty of percussion
You turned awkward into popular
For many an acne’d b-girl
And four-eyed beat boxer
For all the kids
Who couldn’t play
Football, basketball or soccer
The same kids who
Stayed up all night
Playing Halo
And make believe movies of mobsters
But your competition’s a little more honest
Two heartless sleeves in a steel cage match
Soul, saliva and spit
Sprawled across the celebrity death rap
We fight the way you taught us
In the absence of battered mothers
And abusive fathers
We became dead beat authors
Break beat martyrs
The music of YOUR generation
Resurrected in HI-DEFinition audio
Dear Hip-Hop
We bomb these letters
Upside the womb of your Manhattan Projects
We are your Trinity products
However, nonviolent
The kids who are still feeling you
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(C) Hakim Bellamy, June 17th 2011 during Urban Verbs Friday Night Performance
I get to bring the lunch time “P”-note address.
This one-day forum features:
•Keynote Presentation featuring a return engagement by Lee Mun Wah, a nationally acclaimed lecturer, Master Diversity & Communications Trainer, therapist, documentary filmmaker, Special Education educator, performing poet, Asian folk teller and author.
•AM Entertainment with breakfast
•Your choice of motivational workshops offered in two concurrent sessions
•Noon entertainment/speaker with lunch (That’s Me!)
•Afternoon Plenary sessionLee Mun Wah
