EMERGENCE

Toshi Reagon's GOOD FOLK presents Women in Hip-Hop Showcase: Makibaka Huwag, Matakot

Dedicated to the speedy recovery and healing journey of DJ Kuttin Kandi

Featuring

Invincible
Pri the Honeydark
Reina Williams
DJ Reborn

With special guests

Helixx C
Big Tara

Wednesday, May 16th
9:30pm | All Ages
$15 | Tickets

Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 

If you can't attend the show, please support Kuttin Kandi directly, here. 

CopperWire is a music and transmedia storytelling collaboration by three American artists of Ethiopian descent: hip hop artists Gabriel Teodros (Seattle), Burntface (Oakland), and singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero (San Francisco). 

Their debut album - a hip hop space opera Earthbound co-produced by the trio with Chris Coniglio - comes out on April 17, 2012.

Featuring

Invincible
Mike-E

Special opening performance by Detroit Flyhouse at 6pm.

Sunday, April 29th 2012
6:00pm - 12:00am | RSVP

Tangent Gallery / Hastings Street Ballroom
715 E. Milwaukee St.
Detroit, MI 48202

This event will close out the three day festival at the Tangent Gallery/Hastings Street Ballroom to celebrate their new piece of paper which allows them to legally sell alcohol without getting raided by the DPD! 

Thank you to The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for including the Allied Media Projects as part of their 2012 grantees. The Fund will underwrite 41 new projects in the disciplines of dance, theater and music, all works that in some way explore the boundaries of contemporary performance practices.

More about what the grant will support: 

Complex Movements is an interactive hip-hop performance that will use video projection, sculptural art, and creative technologies to explore the relationship between complex sciences and social-justice movements. Complex Movements is led by Invincible, an acclaimed hip-hop artist, features music production by Waajeed, and includes a sculptural-multimedia installation designed and created by Wesley Taylor.

At the core of complex science is the idea that change occurs through critical connections rather than critical mass. Hip-hop is a creative medium well suited to tell the story of complex science: it evolves non-linearly through small-scale relationships—through the interplay of lyrical meaning and sound within songs, the process of reconstructing rhythmic patterns through sampling, and the transmission of resilience strategies between marginalized communities around the globe.

Invincible and Waajeed's music will communicate these concepts through dense, mind-bending lyricism and futuristic hip-hop musical arrangements. Wesley Taylor’s installation work will set the stage for the performance, representing each song through sculptural and video elements that interact with performers and the audience, creating feedback loops of participation.

Detroit artist Wesley Taylor in collaboration with hip hop activist Invincible is one of nine winners in ArtServe’s Michigan’s new Community Supported Arts program supporting local talent. Winners will receive a $1,000 stipend to produce 50 pieces of art to be sold in shares this spring. 

Taylor is a graphic designer, fine artist, musician and curator. He has spent many years “scene building” in the Detroit hip hop community by participating as both an emcee and graphic designer. He is co-founder of Emergence Media with Invincible. 

For the Community Supported Art Program, Wesley is contributing ornate, battery-powered music boxes featuring a series of LED generated rotating light and shadow scenes relating to the lyrics of original song, “Apple Orchards,” written and performed by Invincible.

Read more about ArtServe Michigan award recepients (Michigan Citizen).