The Trinity Hip-Hop Festival took place this past weekend. Looking forward to more fan videos. Popmaster Fabel kills it in this one. Part two after the jump.

The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival announces the schedule for its third annual event taking place at Trinity College April 4th, 5th and 6th, 2008. This event is free and open to the public.

Friday, April 4th, 20008

1:00 pm – 7:00 pm Registration (Gallows Hill Lounge)

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Class: Hip Hop History featuring Melissa Noel Green (Hartford High School)

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Hip Hop Theater featuring Baba Israel (Washington Room)

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Opening Remarks: Trinity College President James F. Jones, Jr. and Dr. Xiangming Chen, Trinity College’s Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies (Washington Room)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Bakari Kitwana “Can Hip Hop Make the Transition from Cultural Movement to Political Power?” (Washington Room)

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dinner (Mather Hall)

8:00 pm – 2:00 am Performances: Baba Israel (Australia/USA), Eternia (Canada), Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana), La Bruja (Puerto Rico), Shokanti, Chachi, Tem Blessed, & DjeDje (Cape Verde), Abyssinian Creole (Seattle), Self-Suffice & Trinity Alumni Crew (Hartford), Koba (Phillipines), African Super Crew featuring Baye Musa and Azbac (Senegal) plus Krukid (Tanzania), music by DJ Boo of the Juggaknots (Vernon Social Center)

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

11:00 am – all day Workshop: Graffiti Mural Painting featuring Trust Your Struggle (The Cave patio)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Workshop: Beatmaking featuring Kemistree and Zaquan (Gallows Hill Lounge)

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Born in The Bronx: A discussion on the Origins of Hip Hop featuring Grandmaster Caz, DJ Tony Tone, Grand Wizard Theodore and DJ Disco Wiz (Gallows Hill Lounge)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 2-on-2 B-Boy Battle preliminaries hosted by PopMaster Fabel, music by DJ Disco Wiz (Gallows Hill Lounge)

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner (Mather Hall)

7:30 pm – 8:00 pm 2-on-2 B-Boy Battle Finals (Vernon Social Center)

8:00 pm – 2:00 am Performances: Old School Pioneers featuring Grandmaster Caz, DJ Tony Tone and Grand Wizard Theodore (USA), Zimbabwe Legit (Zimbabwe/USA), Sam the Kid (Portugal), Jewish emcee Y-Love (presented by Trinity College’s Hillel House), Rebel Diaz (Chile/Peurto Rico), Pri the Honey Dark and Invincible of the Anomolies (USA), Queen Herowin of the Juggaknots (USA), spoken word collective iLL-Literacy, music by DJ Boo (Vernon Social Center)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Film: Remixed in Japan presented by the Hip Hop Association (McCook Auditorium)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Panel Discussion: Asians In Hip Hop featuring iLL-Literacy, Koba, DJ Boo (McCook Auditorium)

2:30pm – 3:30 pm Workshop: The Art Of Rhyme featuring Melissa Noel Green (Gallows Hill Lounge)

Trailer for this year’s Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival features footage from 2007 with artists’ commentaries.

They appear to still be in the planning stages so if you want to get down, now might be a good time.

Visit them at TrinityHipHop.org

Greetings from Trinity College!

We would like to announce that, back by popular demand the Third Annual Trinity International Hip Hop Festival will be held on April 4th-6th 2008. The Trinity Festival is the first and largest International Hip Hop Festival hosted by a college campus in the country. In the past two year’s we have brought well renowned Hip Hoppers such as Jeff Chang (author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop), Byron Hurt (director of Hip Hop Beyond Beats & Rhymes), Charlie Ahern (director of Wild style) along with Pioneers like Tony Tone of The Cold Crush Brothers, Dj Disco Wiz, Pop Master Fable of the famous Rock Steady Crew and Fab 5 Freddy. Not to mention artists like The African Underground All-stars, La Bruja (Puerto Rico), Baba Israel (Australia), French R&B super group Les Nubians, Bocafloja (Mexico) Eternia (Canada), Narcy (Iraq). Las Mujeres (Cuba), Rebel Diaz (Chile/Puerto Rico), Eli Efi (Brazil). KG & The Band (Kenya), Gabriel Teodros (Ethiopia), Foundation Movement (Liberia/Puerto Rico) who represent the global impact of Hip Hop culture.

This year we intend to take the event to bigger heights by bringing more artists from their country of origin and by including more profound and intellectually stimulating lecture panels, films and workshops. There will be a B-boy battle with a cash prize of $500, graffiti murals by Trinity Festival alumnus Trust Your Struggle and other special guests.

To all of our fellow Activists, Artists, Organizers, Entrepreneurs and Hip Hoppers around the world, if you are interested in being involved in this year’s event please contact Zee Santiago (Chief Executive Organizer) and/or Jason Azevedo (Chief Executive Organizer & Founder) for more information.

Zee Santiago
(Chief Organizer)
Zee.Santiago@gmail.com
Jason Azevedo
(Chief Organizer & Founder)
Jason.Azevedo@gmail.com

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