Rap, Hip Hop, Young People Speak Out
flg | 15.03.2004 12:01 | Culture | Sheffield
Nine young Americans and local Sheffield youth from Burngreave are performing rap and hip hop at Sadacca on Wednesday evening March 24th - the theme: "Young People Speak Out through rap and hip hop".
These young people use rap to put out positive messages about staying on in education, keeping from the drug scene, giving back to your community, avoiding teenage pregnancy and so on.
The American aspect of it is the work of African American professor Shuaib Meacham from Delaware University who is bringing 9 young school age rappers to Sheffield with him. The Sheffield College, the LEA, Sheffield Arts, Creative Burngreave, The Furnival Centre at Verdon Street, Sadacca and the university are all involved in this project and a team that represent all of these groups have come together to ensure that the young people of Sheffield also have a voice.
Sheffield and American youth are performing at the Crucible Studio Monday 22nd at 1.30 and The Memorial Hall on Tuesday 23rd at 1.30. These free events are ticket only and are for young people accompanied by a teacher, a lecturer, youthworker etc. The Monday afternoon is fully booked however.
Also the young Americans will be visiting the Creative Burngreave 'Open Mic' at the Furnival Centre on Verdon Street on Monday evening at 6.30. However this is a small venue so should not be seen as a performance but an opportunity for young Sheffield people to socialise and share music with young Americans.
The performance at Sadacca is mainly for families, in particular the students supported by Sheffield College's EMSAG (Ethnic Minority Student Achievement Grant) school pupils from the north of the city and their families and friends. This event is at 7.00pm onwards and tickets can be obtained by telephone to The Sheffield College (2602600). Ask for Adella Grant of EMSAG who has the tickets.
The American aspect of it is the work of African American professor Shuaib Meacham from Delaware University who is bringing 9 young school age rappers to Sheffield with him. The Sheffield College, the LEA, Sheffield Arts, Creative Burngreave, The Furnival Centre at Verdon Street, Sadacca and the university are all involved in this project and a team that represent all of these groups have come together to ensure that the young people of Sheffield also have a voice.
Sheffield and American youth are performing at the Crucible Studio Monday 22nd at 1.30 and The Memorial Hall on Tuesday 23rd at 1.30. These free events are ticket only and are for young people accompanied by a teacher, a lecturer, youthworker etc. The Monday afternoon is fully booked however.
Also the young Americans will be visiting the Creative Burngreave 'Open Mic' at the Furnival Centre on Verdon Street on Monday evening at 6.30. However this is a small venue so should not be seen as a performance but an opportunity for young Sheffield people to socialise and share music with young Americans.
The performance at Sadacca is mainly for families, in particular the students supported by Sheffield College's EMSAG (Ethnic Minority Student Achievement Grant) school pupils from the north of the city and their families and friends. This event is at 7.00pm onwards and tickets can be obtained by telephone to The Sheffield College (2602600). Ask for Adella Grant of EMSAG who has the tickets.
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anti USA
15.03.2004 16:13
anti USA
talking cRAP
15.03.2004 17:12
the idea that something, person or initiative could be crap because of the nmationality/birth country they are coming from it simple idiocy or maybe just racism. what do you think it gains to condemn any and everything from the US? would you rather pretend they are all evil and nuke'm?
OK don't answer that I'm not interested in your views really now I've read this. just wanted to register that your point of view NOT SHARED.
yes I hate Bush junta and the human and evironmental consequecnces of the US military industrial/banking complex. I just also hate blair and the british banks, in fact idiots and wankers wherever they come from deserve insults and more. but USAns, like anyone, can be cute and humane and deserve any help and support they can get when faced with the kind of shit there is in this world.
now, nuff time wasted on an idiot.
anti-idiots
All USA wrong
15.03.2004 17:55
Hail the Revolution, freedom to the workers, class war NOW !!!
anti USA
troll
15.03.2004 19:14
so ammerican anarkists are included in that.
Nosfou
Anti-americans are assholes
15.03.2004 23:23
I'm against the insidious power of capital and the authoritarianism of the bourgeoisie, wherever the sytem and the ruling class may be found.
A true anti-capitalist knows that ''nations' and ''governemnts' are simply concepts invented to keep the proletariat under the thumb of the ruling elite.
All capitalism is global slavery, living standards may be higher in average in ''developed'' nations, but there is sttill mass poverty, especially in the US.
so think about it before uttering such ludicrous natioanlsit statements
Red Emma eats nationalists for breakfast
e-mail:
jdabel@essex.ac.uk
anti yank missile
16.03.2004 12:14
..back to the music, Hoodz Underground are sheff B&B an they're trying to have an intelligent impact on this area. Even so, the NME recently said: "it's good to hear that drive bys are happenin up in Sheffield" !!!
Wankers are wankers - whether they're american, british or anywhere else.
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