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I am continually grateful to this community for allowing me to be the vehicle for which “artistic creation” and “dreams” have been given a prominent presence in the media. Now, (the business part) if you are a foundation, philanthropist, angel investor in social entrepreneurship or a venture capitalist…PLEASE contact me. I peddle in dreams and I specialize in making them come true…preferably for others…and if I am lucky, for myself. Thank you Adrian Gomez and Pat Vasquez-Cunningham of the Albuquerque Journal. You can click through the picture to the story at ABQJournal.com or you can read the article text below. - hb VIVID DREAMS by Adrian Gomez Hyper-creative. Dreamer. Passionate. These words are what Hakim Bellamy uses to describe himself. “I’m an idea factory,” he quips during a recent interview. “I have the visions, but it takes an entire group of people help me fulfill these visions. Other people have venture capitalists. I’m a dream capitalist.” Bellamy, a New Jersey native but an Albuquerque resident since 2005, was on April 14 named Albuquerque’s poet laureate, the city’s first. With the announcement the Duke City joins the ranks of Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Santa Fe as cities with poet laureates. There are also 42 states, New Mexico being one, that have state-level poet laureates. “It’s a big deal and I take the honor very seriously,” he says. “There’s an opportunity for me to set the standard with this position. I have the honor for two years and I have to just get going.” With the addition of poet laureate, Bellamy has to balance a few other titles with it — community leader, visionary, writer and dad. “I feel like I’m always going, but that’s a good feeling to have,” he says. “There’s always time for my poetry at 3 a.m. when the entire world is quiet.” Bellamy’s first task at hand is bringing poetry into the public schools. “My goal is to make poetry matter to people and places it doesn’t matter,” he says. “We have to get children involved with poetry at a young age just so they experience it.” One of Bellamy’s goals is to have poetry included in more city activities. “I want more people to be comfortable with consuming poetry,” he says. “I want to get local businesses involved in putting poetry out there. Maybe go to your favorite eatery and see a poem posted at the front.” Bellamy also wants to instill that fact that everybody’s life is interesting. “I talk with kids and they think that there is nothing to say about their life,” he explains. “But each life is unique and interesting. That’s what makes this world great. You can grow up in the same town or household, yet have a different view to life.” While Bellamy is proud of the honor of poet laureate, he admits there was a point when he wasn’t going to apply. He was asked to be part of the committee that chooses the winner but declined. “There was a point when I felt because I wasn’t a native New Mexican, I didn’t deserve to apply,” he says. “I talked to my friend Carlos Contreras about it and then I started getting calls from other poets encouraging me to apply.” Bellamy says the process was rigorous and detailed. “There were so many parts that I wanted to get it all done correctly,” he says. Don McIver, a member of the organizing committee for the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program, says after the rigourous application process, there were six complete applications. The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program celebrates poetry by offering a resident poet who makes meaningful connections, honors and serves our diverse community, elevates the importance of the art form, and shares poetry with Albuquerque residents. “Hakim is a great choice for poet laureate,” McIver says. “Not only is a he a good poet, a good performer, but he understands the public role a poet laureate must play in service to the larger poetry community and Albuquerque.” Bellamy is certainly no stranger to the poetry scene in Albuquerque, and it all started after he followed his then-girlfriend to the Duke City. He is a national and regional Poetry Slam Champion and holds three consecutive collegiate poetry slam titles at the University of New Mexico. He has been published in various anthologies in Albuquerque and is the co-creator of the multimedia hip-hop theater production “Urban Verbs: Hip-Hop Conservatory & Theater.” “When I moved here, I wanted to immerse myself in everything,” he says. “Seven years later, I’m still immersed in all of it and I’m still enjoying myself. I miss the ocean at times but now I’ve got mountains.” Bellamy says he got interested in poetry at a young age and credits his parents with the influence. “They were reading Gil Scott-Heron and listening to Sly and the Family Stone when I was growing up,” he says. “But then as I was growing up, I started listening to more hip-hop and rap and loved the words of A Tribe Called Quest and bands like those. They were rapping and giving me a glimpse into their life without the profanity. I was instantly hooked.” As Bellamy moves forward with his new position, he hopes to positively represent the city. “It’s going to be a lot of work, and raising money for functions is the biggest challenge,” he says. “The truth is that it takes a lot of people to help me balance everything that I do and I am grateful to have them in my life.” In addition to Bellamy taking on this new responsibility, he also will keep his day job as the strategic communications director for the Media Literacy Project at Albuquerque Academy. “The job helps keep the academic side of me intact,” he says. “I get to delve into creating curriculum for future students, and that’s an amazing feeling.”

I am continually grateful to this community for allowing me to be the vehicle for which “artistic creation” and “dreams” have been given a prominent presence in the media. Now, (the business part) if you are a foundation, philanthropist, angel investor in social entrepreneurship or a venture capitalist…PLEASE contact me. I peddle in dreams and I specialize in making them come true…preferably for others…and if I am lucky, for myself.

Thank you Adrian Gomez and Pat Vasquez-Cunningham of the Albuquerque Journal.

You can click through the picture to the story at ABQJournal.com or you can read the article text below. - hb

VIVID DREAMS

by Adrian Gomez

Hyper-creative. Dreamer. Passionate. These words are what Hakim Bellamy uses to describe himself.

“I’m an idea factory,” he quips during a recent interview. “I have the visions, but it takes an entire group of people help me fulfill these visions. Other people have venture capitalists. I’m a dream capitalist.”

Bellamy, a New Jersey native but an Albuquerque resident since 2005, was on April 14 named Albuquerque’s poet laureate, the city’s first.

With the announcement the Duke City joins the ranks of Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Santa Fe as cities with poet laureates. There are also 42 states, New Mexico being one, that have state-level poet laureates.

“It’s a big deal and I take the honor very seriously,” he says. “There’s an opportunity for me to set the standard with this position. I have the honor for two years and I have to just get going.”

With the addition of poet laureate, Bellamy has to balance a few other titles with it — community leader, visionary, writer and dad.

“I feel like I’m always going, but that’s a good feeling to have,” he says. “There’s always time for my poetry at 3 a.m. when the entire world is quiet.”

Bellamy’s first task at hand is bringing poetry into the public schools.

“My goal is to make poetry matter to people and places it doesn’t matter,” he says. “We have to get children involved with poetry at a young age just so they experience it.”

One of Bellamy’s goals is to have poetry included in more city activities.

“I want more people to be comfortable with consuming poetry,” he says. “I want to get local businesses involved in putting poetry out there. Maybe go to your favorite eatery and see a poem posted at the front.”

Bellamy also wants to instill that fact that everybody’s life is interesting.

“I talk with kids and they think that there is nothing to say about their life,” he explains. “But each life is unique and interesting. That’s what makes this world great. You can grow up in the same town or household, yet have a different view to life.”

While Bellamy is proud of the honor of poet laureate, he admits there was a point when he wasn’t going to apply. He was asked to be part of the committee that chooses the winner but declined.

“There was a point when I felt because I wasn’t a native New Mexican, I didn’t deserve to apply,” he says. “I talked to my friend Carlos Contreras about it and then I started getting calls from other poets encouraging me to apply.”

Bellamy says the process was rigorous and detailed.

“There were so many parts that I wanted to get it all done correctly,” he says.

Don McIver, a member of the organizing committee for the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program, says after the rigourous application process, there were six complete applications. The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program celebrates poetry by offering a resident poet who makes meaningful connections, honors and serves our diverse community, elevates the importance of the art form, and shares poetry with Albuquerque residents.

“Hakim is a great choice for poet laureate,” McIver says. “Not only is a he a good poet, a good performer, but he understands the public role a poet laureate must play in service to the larger poetry community and Albuquerque.”

Bellamy is certainly no stranger to the poetry scene in Albuquerque, and it all started after he followed his then-girlfriend to the Duke City.

He is a national and regional Poetry Slam Champion and holds three consecutive collegiate poetry slam titles at the University of New Mexico.

He has been published in various anthologies in Albuquerque and is the co-creator of the multimedia hip-hop theater production “Urban Verbs: Hip-Hop Conservatory & Theater.”

“When I moved here, I wanted to immerse myself in everything,” he says. “Seven years later, I’m still immersed in all of it and I’m still enjoying myself. I miss the ocean at times but now I’ve got mountains.”

Bellamy says he got interested in poetry at a young age and credits his parents with the influence.

“They were reading Gil Scott-Heron and listening to Sly and the Family Stone when I was growing up,” he says. “But then as I was growing up, I started listening to more hip-hop and rap and loved the words of A Tribe Called Quest and bands like those. They were rapping and giving me a glimpse into their life without the profanity. I was instantly hooked.”

As Bellamy moves forward with his new position, he hopes to positively represent the city.

“It’s going to be a lot of work, and raising money for functions is the biggest challenge,” he says. “The truth is that it takes a lot of people to help me balance everything that I do and I am grateful to have them in my life.”

In addition to Bellamy taking on this new responsibility, he also will keep his day job as the strategic communications director for the Media Literacy Project at Albuquerque Academy.

“The job helps keep the academic side of me intact,” he says. “I get to delve into creating curriculum for future students, and that’s an amazing feeling.”

3 weeks ago
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Photo by Wes Naman/Naman Photography Click the pic to link through to the article at www.local-iq.com Be boys?
 B-Girls be present. 
Past and future
. Dance up a revolution of record proportions. 
Wrecking rotations. — Hakim Bellamy, “Forty-Fives”   By Mike English Poet laureates. Old white men. Robert Frost in a snowy field. Starched suits and ties. Women wordsmiths in tailored dresses, clutching podiums. Albuquerque’s new poet laureate breaks that mold — shatters it, really, then dances on the pieces. Hakim Bellamy, 33, Philadelphia native and New Mexico resident since 2005, was recently selected to represent the Duke City as its first-ever official poet laureate. Bellamy’s two-year tenure started April 14. It’s a development that lands Albuquerque in league with cities like Boston, San Francisco and even Santa Fe — all municipalities that recognize the cultural significance of poetry by naming a poet laureate. And it’s a title Bellamy accepts with humility, as well as the determination to serve his colleagues and community by doing all he can to raise the profile of poetry in the city over the next two years.   “I’m a poet in the service of Albuquerque now,” Bellamy said in a recent interview with Local iQ.   Most would say he’s been that ever since he arrived in town. Bellamy, who works a day job as the strategic communications director for the Media Literacy Project at Albuquerque Academy, is a two-time national champion in the poetry slam scene, and helped lead the Albuquerque Slam team to a national title in 2005. He regularly works with children and adults by conducting poetry workshops and presentations at schools and community organizations.   You’re just as likely to see Bellamy in front of a group of South Valley fourth graders, or promoting the work of a community-focused nonprofit via social media, as you are to see him on stage performing his own poetry. It’s an impressive combination: a dynamic, engaging performer and wordsmith who cares deeply for his adopted hometown and works for the well-being of others who live here.   “I love Hakim,” said Don McIver, longtime Albuquerque poet and member of the organizing committee for the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program, the organization that chose Bellamy as poet laureate. “I find Hakim engaging, warm, willing to speak with conviction, yet diplomatic.”   What’s more, McIver said, Bellamy is a talented spinner of verses. “As a poet, he’s keenly in tune with rhythm and how the flow of the poem can help/hinder an audience’s interpretation of it,” McIver said. “As a performer, he’s got a great stage presence, is at ease and open.”   Bellamy said he got his literary, artistic and performance skills from an upbringing of “artistic militancy” provided by his parents Edward and Carlease, who pushed him to attend everything from tap and flute lessons to performances of The Nutcracker. The family’s collection of records (Gil Scott Heron, Sly and the Family Stone) and books opened a world of rhymes, sounds and ideas.   His first forays into word-craft were rhymes over beat tapes that he and friends shared back and forth. “That gave us a love for writing, a passion for language and voice,” he said. Then he saw Def Poetry Jam on HBO, and there were “these cats making it big time doing exactly what I do.” Bellamy’s path began to take shape.   When a girlfriend pushed him on stage one night to read his poetry at a Philadelphia event, the response from the audience was immediately positive. While he resisted the compliments, “At that point, I was like, maybe I could be a poet,” Bellamy said.   The girlfriend moved to Albuquerque, and he followed. Bellamy showed up at an Albuquerque Slam event at the Golden West Saloon one night in 2005, competed and won. Soon he was a key member of an Albuquerque Slam team that would win a national title. His path was set.   Now when Bellamy shows up at events around town, what he often hears is, “You’re the poet dude.” It’s a label he embraces, but as poet laureate, he wants to stimulate a discussion and raise the profile of poetry in Albuquerque. That’s his primary goal.   “I want to challenge notions about what poetry is and what a poet is,” Bellamy said. “Being the populist I am, I want more people in the game.” Hakim Bellamy Albuquerque Poet Laureate hakimbe.com • abqpoetlaureate.org


Photo by Wes Naman/Naman Photography

Click the pic to link through to the article at www.local-iq.com

Be boys?
 B-Girls be present. 
Past and future
. Dance up a revolution of record proportions. 
Wrecking rotations.

— Hakim Bellamy, “Forty-Fives”
 
By Mike English
Poet laureates. Old white men. Robert Frost in a snowy field. Starched suits and ties. Women wordsmiths in tailored dresses, clutching podiums. Albuquerque’s new poet laureate breaks that mold — shatters it, really, then dances on the pieces.

Hakim Bellamy, 33, Philadelphia native and New Mexico resident since 2005, was recently selected to represent the Duke City as its first-ever official poet laureate. Bellamy’s two-year tenure started April 14.

It’s a development that lands Albuquerque in league with cities like Boston, San Francisco and even Santa Fe — all municipalities that recognize the cultural significance of poetry by naming a poet laureate. And it’s a title Bellamy accepts with humility, as well as the determination to serve his colleagues and community by doing all he can to raise the profile of poetry in the city over the next two years.
 
“I’m a poet in the service of Albuquerque now,” Bellamy said in a recent interview with Local iQ.
 
Most would say he’s been that ever since he arrived in town. Bellamy, who works a day job as the strategic communications director for the Media Literacy Project at Albuquerque Academy, is a two-time national champion in the poetry slam scene, and helped lead the Albuquerque Slam team to a national title in 2005. He regularly works with children and adults by conducting poetry workshops and presentations at schools and community organizations.
 
You’re just as likely to see Bellamy in front of a group of South Valley fourth graders, or promoting the work of a community-focused nonprofit via social media, as you are to see him on stage performing his own poetry. It’s an impressive combination: a dynamic, engaging performer and wordsmith who cares deeply for his adopted hometown and works for the well-being of others who live here.
 
“I love Hakim,” said Don McIver, longtime Albuquerque poet and member of the organizing committee for the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program, the organization that chose Bellamy as poet laureate. “I find Hakim engaging, warm, willing to speak with conviction, yet diplomatic.”
 
What’s more, McIver said, Bellamy is a talented spinner of verses. “As a poet, he’s keenly in tune with rhythm and how the flow of the poem can help/hinder an audience’s interpretation of it,” McIver said. “As a performer, he’s got a great stage presence, is at ease and open.”
 
Bellamy said he got his literary, artistic and performance skills from an upbringing of “artistic militancy” provided by his parents Edward and Carlease, who pushed him to attend everything from tap and flute lessons to performances of The Nutcracker. The family’s collection of records (Gil Scott Heron, Sly and the Family Stone) and books opened a world of rhymes, sounds and ideas.
 
His first forays into word-craft were rhymes over beat tapes that he and friends shared back and forth. “That gave us a love for writing, a passion for language and voice,” he said. Then he saw Def Poetry Jam on HBO, and there were “these cats making it big time doing exactly what I do.” Bellamy’s path began to take shape.
 
When a girlfriend pushed him on stage one night to read his poetry at a Philadelphia event, the response from the audience was immediately positive. While he resisted the compliments, “At that point, I was like, maybe I could be a poet,” Bellamy said.
 
The girlfriend moved to Albuquerque, and he followed. Bellamy showed up at an Albuquerque Slam event at the Golden West Saloon one night in 2005, competed and won. Soon he was a key member of an Albuquerque Slam team that would win a national title. His path was set.
 
Now when Bellamy shows up at events around town, what he often hears is, “You’re the poet dude.” It’s a label he embraces, but as poet laureate, he wants to stimulate a discussion and raise the profile of poetry in Albuquerque. That’s his primary goal.
 
“I want to challenge notions about what poetry is and what a poet is,” Bellamy said. “Being the populist I am, I want more people in the game.”

Hakim Bellamy
Albuquerque Poet Laureate
hakimbe.com • abqpoetlaureate.org
1 month ago
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March is Women Makin’ History Month a Jazzbah!

Jazzbars w/ Hakim Be & Friends will be “front-woman’d” by Donne “The Wychdokta” Lewis

A bar is a measure of music…Whether it be the bars on the sheet music of a jazz musician or the hot 16 of an MC, every generation measures itself in song. Every month at Jazzbah, a few musicians and a poet or two will give you another moment to remember…We don’t bridge the gap between Hip-Hop and Jazz, we eliminate it.

On the first Tuesday of every month at Downtown Albuquerque’s newest jazz club, hip hop’s genetic precursor and future are on display. Jazzbah Presents: JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends is a throwback to the era of jazz poetry from which hip hop emerged. Flirted with by the likes of T.S. Eliot and E.E. Cummings; conceived by Black poets in the 20s; and maintained by Beat generation poets in the 50s, jazz poetry has been said to be reborn in hip hop music and at poetry slams.

Tapping under the tutelage of Diane Walker, Buster Brown and Savion Glover; Donne “The Wychdokta” Lewis will be co-hosting Jazzbars this month with Hakim Be. Using foot, voice and verb, Lewis is joining the March line up for Jazzbars to make sure Women’s History Month does not go un-“funkdafied.” A former member and contributing choreographer to DC Tapestry (a Washington D.C. based dance company); Lewis has performed at the 930 Club, The Smithsonian Museum and at Capitol Hill on stage with the late Ray Charles.

Joining “The Wychdokta” is her long-time collaborative partner Stuart “Fish Out O Water” Smith. Percussionist, guitarist, accompanist and dancer, Smith practices many styles “creative martial arts.” “I’ve played for and with international phenomena in the world of dance and music,” says Smith. “Flamencas from all over Spain and Central and South America, Hoofers (tap) from NY, DC, to Chi-town through KC to LA. Swing on djembe, hip-hop on the floor, Bularias on concert toms, Mozart on djun and goncoqui.” Smith has been accompanying university level modern dance classes for over a decade, as a result Jazzbah will remove a few tables to accommodate Smith’s open invite to the dance students at UNM!

The final “& Friends” request from Hakim Be was extended to bassist Eric Owens. Since the age of 14, Eric Owens has been playing in local clubs and bars. No stranger to the road, Owens toured with Quincy Street Records underground alternative band New London for four years. Then he joined southern rockers Six Gun Overload and opened for acts like Foghat, Nazareth and Molly Hatchet. Adding to the dance floor theme of March Jazzbars, Owens says, “Life in the pocket is where it’s at. If I don’t see butts moving and heads bouncing I’m not doing my job!”

JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends: Women Makin’ History Month will take place at the Jazzbah on March 6th for two shows (7:30pm/9:30pm). Chef Pacheco will be on fine dining and Master Mixologist Denial Gonzales on “sizzurp” duty. As always, tickets are $12 for both shows. FREE w/ valid student I.D. Baseball hats are a no-go, this is cultura with white tablecloths.  -hb


Make sure you let us know if you are joining us Tuesday March 6th for 7:30pm and/or 9:30pm shows at our Facebook Event Page!

2 months ago

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JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends is coming up this Tuesday (February 7th) at Jazzbah. This month’s features “friends” will be Eph’sharpe and BlesInfinite of The 2bers! In advance of this month’s show (& Etta James Tribute), you can get a FREE DOWNLOAD of a collaborative track by Hakim Be and BlesInfinite. CLICK ON THE PHOTO ABOVE to get the track at Facebook. Share with your friends and then come see it performed live at the Jazzbah on Tuesday, February 7th! Can’t wait to see you there. Also checkout the upcoming Jazzbars press release at www.immastar.com

JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends is coming up this Tuesday (February 7th) at Jazzbah. This month’s features “friends” will be Eph’sharpe and BlesInfinite of The 2bers! In advance of this month’s show (& Etta James Tribute), you can get a FREE DOWNLOAD of a collaborative track by Hakim Be and BlesInfinite. CLICK ON THE PHOTO ABOVE to get the track at Facebook. Share with your friends and then come see it performed live at the Jazzbah on Tuesday, February 7th! Can’t wait to see you there.

Also checkout the upcoming Jazzbars press release at www.immastar.com

3 months ago
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First Tuesday’s in Albquuerque…

Performance poetry + live jazz = a pre-hip hop flavor in an upscale setting
Award-winning M.C. and award-winning mixology at Albuquerque’s newest jazz club

JAZZBAHABQ.COM - Downtown Albuquerque has not seen a jazz club since the 50s. That’s when Albuquerque High School alum Chester and his wife, Pert, owned Chet and Pert’s Flamingo Lounge. Downtown has changed since then. Jazz, the only pure blooded American, musical offspring of this mutt country has changed too. In fact, it had a child and her name is Hip Hop.

On the first Tuesday of every month at Downtown Albuquerque’s newest jazz club, hip hop’s genetic precursor and future is on display. Jazzbah Presents: JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends is a throwback to the era of jazz poetry from which hip hop emerged. Flirted with by the likes of T.S. Eliot and E.E. Cummings; conceived by Black poets in the 20s; and maintained by Beat generation poets in the 50s, jazz poetry has been said to be reborn in hip hop music and at poetry slams.

Hakim Bellamy (AKA Hakim Be) is a two-time national champion in the poetry slam community and acts as the musical curator of the monthly series. A published poet and hip hop emcee, Bellamy also sees the future of hip hop in its jazzy origins. “Groups like The Roots, The Coup and J. Davis Trio apply improvisation to live instrumentation and lyricism,” says Bellamy. “As a result you get the ‘once in a lifetime’ jam band feeling that would come from a Grateful Dead or a Bob Marley show, but with the poetics and danceability of hip hop.”

According to the JazzBars Facebook event page, “A bar is a measure of music…Whether the it be the bars on the sheet music of a jazz musician or the hot 16 of an MC, every generation measures itself in song. Every month at Jazzbah, a few musicians and a poet or two will give you another moment to remember…We don’t bridge the gap between Hip-Hop and Jazz, we eliminate it.”

Along with Jazzbah’s standard fare of white tablecloth cuisine, black tie service, wine menu by wine steward (and owner) Don Putz and mixology by internationally renowned drink chemist Daniel Gonzales; JazzBars puts a younger, hipper, hopper face on the establishment. Students 18 and up get into the 7pm and 9pm JazzBar shows free with student ID. The general public can see both or either show for a $12 cover.

This month, Hakim Be has invited vocal percussionist and  break beat looping magician Zack Freeman to join him along with “keys junkie” Romeo Alonzo on piano. Rumor has it that Romeo will also bring his horn, so if you are a brass fan, come see a gumbo of electronic and acoustic music with some lyrical roux. “It’s like having dinner while hanging out in the studio with us,” says Bellamy. “While Executive Chef Robert Pacheco  whips up culinary chemistry in the back, we experiment with beautiful music out front. Welcome to our laboratory.”

Jazzbah Presents: JazzBars with Hakim Be & Friends
@ Jazzbah 119 Gold Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Tuesday December 6th 7pm & 9pm sets
$12/2 shows
www.jazzbahabq.com

Jazzbah: Designed to evoke the taste, touch, and feel of the urban jazz club vibe, Jazzbah is the southwest’s premier destination for lovers of fine wine and dining, and true bar mixology.

6 months ago

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So you missed Urban Verbs: Remixed and Reimagined. Here it is… (Click through the photo of the new Jazz Venue in Burque that LiveStreams it’s favorite acts…here for your viewing pleasure. Check Me out there every 1st Tuesday with Jazzbars feat. Hakim Be & Friends). 

So you missed Urban Verbs: Remixed and Reimagined. Here it is… (Click through the photo of the new Jazz Venue in Burque that LiveStreams it’s favorite acts…here for your viewing pleasure. Check Me out there every 1st Tuesday with Jazzbars feat. Hakim Be & Friends). 

6 months ago
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Story Sutra

That has a very nice ring to it ;) Thank you again TEDxABQ! So many people have seen me afterwards and said nice things about my TED Talk. I am humbled by your praise and encouragement. Beautiful people deserve beautiful words, I’m doing my best to meet you half way. (See some of the awesome photos from TEDxABQ here.)-hb

8 months ago

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“What is poetry which does not save/ Nations or people?” ~ Czeslaw Milosz from Lorna Dee Cervantes blog. See her Cherríe Moraga & Burque Bards at To Have or Have Not—A Poetry Opening for the ABQ Cultural Conferencethis Friday 7pm @ Outpost Performance Space!

“What is poetry which does not save/ Nations or people?” ~ Czeslaw Milosz from Lorna Dee Cervantes blog. See her Cherríe Moraga & Burque Bards at To Have or Have Not—A Poetry Opening for the ABQ Cultural Conferencethis Friday 7pm @ Outpost Performance Space!

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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)

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Urban Verbs this weekend. Tickets going fast…reserve yours at Brown Paper Tickets!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A WEEKEND OF URBAN VERBS!!!
JUNE 17th-19th @ The Filling Station in Barelas

We made a commercial/promo for you to see (and hopefully get excited about
coming to the show!)

Check it out here:
http://youtu.be/wiBRRbmmhiM

The press has shown us love:

Urban Verbs Hip Hop Conservatory & Theatre to kick off this weekend (KOB)
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2155843.shtml?cat=504

Show uses hip-hop to construct bridges (ABQ Journal)
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/06/12/living/arts/show-uses-hip-hop-to-construct-bridges.html


The Sunday Poem: Hakim Bellamy & Carlos Contreras…Welcome to the Mineshaft
(Duke City Fix)
http://www.dukecityfix.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1233957%3ABlogPost%3A614403&commentId=1233957%3AComment%3A614797&xg_source=activity


Urban Verbs is Coming - (and tix giveaway starting tonight) (Local Poets Guild)
http://localpoetsguild.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/urban-verbs-is-coming-and-tix-giveaway-soon/


Urban Verbs: An Autobiographical Intersection of Hip Hop in 5 Acts (Alibi)
http://alibi.com/blog/37583/Urban-Verbs.html

Now we need YOU to  show us love by either purchasing a seat to come hang out OR
forwarding  info about the show to everyone you know (don’t be afraid to do 
both…or EVEN buy a ticket for EVERYONE YOU KNOW!…just a thought ;)

DETAILS:



Urban Verbs Hip Hop Conservatory and Theatre

View the EPK/Video at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdsegKIXpQk 

Urban Verbs is a video, audio, visceral performance piece that is  dialogued
entirely in poetic verse. We are a collaborative of  individual artists across
many disciplines including literature, music,  audio/sound engineering, film,
visual art and theater. We are dedicated  educators in varying capacities as
well as bloggers, journalists, social  scientist, media makers and community
organizers. Urban Verbs is  an alternative interpretation to the brainless,
heartless, materialist,  violent, sexist, homophobic, self-involved popular
perception of  Hip-Hop.  Our Mission is to create a progressive narrative around
Hip  Hop culture and facilitate the practice of EVERYONE telling their story 
through Hip Hop as a form of love, a form of intelligence and a way of  better
living. To increase the respect and acceptance of Hip Hop as a  legitimate and
visionary art form and worthy of academic inquiry, to be  an example of how one
can feed their family and live their dream through  Hip -Hop that builds rather
than Hip-Hop that destroys - To fashion Hip  Hop into the tools that bring
people together, stops wars, makes babies  and raises them!

All Shows at The Filling Station in the Barelas Neighborhood of Albuquerque
(1024 4th St. SW)

June 17th 7pm Show Urban Verbs + Live Art Creation/Auction & DJ Curtis Pink

June 18th 8pm Show Urban Verbs + Live Keg by Tractor Brewing & Musical Guests
BrokenBreadWinner

June 19th 1pm Show Urban Verbs (Curbside Classroom Version feat. Q &
A)               

*At soothxsayer@yahoo.com we’re accepting $10/seat sponsorships for  groups of
high school & middle school students. Educators,  philanthropists & community
orgs inquire within.

Spear headed by a three part performance troop – Urban Verbs is trying  to
eradicate the exclusivity of some factions within Hip-Hop culture,  and instead
shed light on a side of Hip-Hop that is ALL INCLUSIVE.  We  are a team of
misfits, from all shades of the pallet; Urban Verbs is a  living breathing
testament to the fact that EVERYTHING can be Hip-Hop – we are all Hip-Hop; when
one realizes that each life in this world has a  soundtrack we can stop singing
to the sound of differences between one  another – and dance together!

Urban Verbs is: 

Hakim Bellamy – two time national champion slam poet, father, rapper,  political
journalist, community advocate and organizer. www.hakimbe.com

Diles – Professionally certified, passionately motivated sound engineer, 
producer, beat junkie, rapper, and all around chemist of sound. 
www.visceralview.com

Carlos Contreras – Two time national champion slam poet, educator,  artist,
community organizer and activist, host of the NHCC’s Voces  program.
www.immastar.com

For Fri. Tix

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176789

For Sat. Tix
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/176788

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