| June
2–5, 2005 BUY PASSES
& TICKETS HERE!
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Ticket information:
BUY A PASS FOR THE WHOLE EVENT - $30
OR
PAY PER DAY / EVENT:
THURSDAY, JUNE
2:
FREE Opening Celebration
FRIDAY, JUNE 3:
12-5 pm: $5 entrance fee
7pm show: $7 / $4 youth & members
SATURDAY, JUNE 4:
12-5 pm: $5 entrance fee
7pm show: $7 advance / $10 door / $5 youth & members
10pm - 2am: 21+ Afterparty @ First Ave: $6 door
SUNDAY, JUNE 5:
FREE
TO ENTER, $5/plate
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Ticket information
B-Girl Be Summit Pass Available Now!
This "all access" pass allows you entrance into
all B-Girl Be sponsored events June 2-5, 2005 (*BONUS - Summit Pass includes 21+ Afterparty at First Ave).
In addition you will receive one food ticket to the B-Girl BBQ on Sunday,
June 5 at noon, discounts on B-Girl Be merchandise and eligibility for
giveaways.
Because of high demand and limited space for panels, films
and performances, pass holders must make a reservation for all events
they plan to attend and show up at least 15 minutes prior to the start
of the event.
To purchase the pass, click on “buy tickets”
to your left or click here.
______________ All
events are at Intermedia Arts unless otherwise noted. We are still adding
artists, panelists, films and events, so check this page for any schedule
changes.
This is a featured event for Minneapolis
MOSAIC.
Free Event
Shorty, Who You Rollin Wit?: Of B-Girls and
A Hip-Hop Feminist Agenda
Featuring Gwendolyn
D. Pough, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
Writing, and Rhetoric at Syracuse University.
Features DJ Jennifer, G5, Kendyl Joi, and poets from
R.Y.O.T., the Minnesota
Spoken Word Association (MNSWA)'s youth entity.
8:00 to 8:30 PM
Features fashion and performances by Cipher,
Desdamona,
Amphavahn Inthisone,
Isis, Felipe Cuauhtli, Toki Wright, member of St. Paul Central High School's
Central Touring Theater.
8:30 to 9:30 PM
An all-female open mic hosted by RYOT,
the youth entity of MNSWA.
12-
5 pm: $5 entrance fee from
7- 10pm: $7 w/youth & member discounts
For the first time ever in the Midwest, the Intermedia
Arts building will be painted by an all-female crew. ZORI4
(Puerto Rico) will lead this collaboration of five female graffiti artists
from across the United States. Guest artists ASIA
ONE (Los Angeles), LADY
PINK (New York), PHEM9
(Kansas City), SILOETTE
(Phoenix), LADYKFEVER
(New York City), TOO
FLY (New York City) will paint with local women throughout the
three days of the summit.
Featuring Joyce
Bell (Sociology, University of Minnesota), Aisha
Durham (Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),
Kim Euell (MacArthur Fellow, University
of Minnesota and Dramaturge at Penumbra Theatre), K.E.
Maori Holmes (Temple University and University of Pennsylvania), Dr.
Gwendolyn Pough (Syracuse University), and Melisa
Riviere (Anthropology/Global Studies, University of Minnesota).
This panel will engage questions of hip hop in the academy. The panelists are women who teach using hip-hop, teach about hip-hop, have taken hip hop coursework at the college level, and women who have a stake in how hip-hop is being taught, researched and written into the academy.
Hosted by Gumbo TV (Milwaukee)
Featuring Anjali
McGuire (B96 On-Air Personality),
Asia One
(Dancer/choreographer of music videos and feature films), Miranda
Jane (former editor of The Source magazine), Kuttin
Kandi (DJ, Activist / Hip Hip Lives), Miss
Shannan (B96 On-Air Personality), and Kandis
Knight (columnist for The Pulse).
This panel will engage discussions with women working in media outlets - magazines, radio, television, film, online and beyond. The women on this panel are esteemed within hip-hop and working in the industry. They will share their experiences as women working in these outlets, and engage current topics like representations of hip-hop in the media, representations of women in hip-hop in the media, and hopefully inspire and offer tools to other women looking to pursue careers in media.
NOTE: Some adult content, language; 16+ suggested
Moving images on the big screen fuse with spoken word performances onstage
in this interdisciplinary program. Words! Camera! Action! is presented
in partnership with SASE
The Write Place.
Nobody
Knows My Name By Rachel Raimist
distributed by
Women Make Movies
Nobody Knows My Name tells the story of women who are connected by their
love of hip-hop. Performances by local spoken word artist Desdamona,
dancer-choreographer Leah
Nelson, and students from The St. Paul Central High School Theater
Group will respond to the film.
12- 5 pm: $5 entrance fee
7- 10pm: $7 advance/$10 door w/youth & member discounts 10pm - 2am:
21+ Afterparty @ First Ave: $6
1:00PM to 2:00 PM
B-GIRL: Asia
One (Los Angeles)
2:00PM to 3:00 PM
DJ: DJ
Kuttin Kandi (New York City)
1:00PM
to 2:00 PM
Jessica Lyman Lopez Aimee B, RYOT and Akira Johnson
3:00PM to 4:30 PM
D’Lo, Maria Isa, and Heat
4:30PM to 5:00 PM
Open Mic
Producer/Director: Dante
Kaba
Editor: Mario T. Lathan
Since the inception of hip-hop, female DJs have been vital to the development
of the international music scene. Mistress X documents this untold story.
Features
DJ Kuttin Kandi, Cocoa Chanel, DJ Shorty, DJ Jazzy Joyce, and many
more.
Producer/Director: Maori
Holmes
Scene Not Heard features interviews with some of the originators and foremothers
of Philly hip-hop such as Lady B and Ursula Rucker, and presents current
talents such as the Jazzyphatnastees and Miss Jade, and emerging talents
such as Lady Alma, Walidah Imarishah and the dancers of Montäzh,
as well as scholars, critics and local promoters.
Performances by B-Girl Asia
One, B-Girl Shorty, B-Girl Beta, DJ Kuttin
Kandi, MC Psalm
One, DJ Kuttin Kandi (The Anomolies/ 5th Platoon), Psalm One w/ DJ
Spontaneous (Rhymesayers), Black Pearl, Desdamona
& PaviElle w/Carnage, Sarah
White, Indigo,
Dessa Darling, and Niyahbinge
Hosted by Ashley
Gold, Karma and Amphavanh
Inthisone.
First
Ave (Enter through VIP Room Door)
701 1st Avenue North, Downtown Minneapolis
DJ Lady Luca, Open Mic and guest performers
$6 door
Food, music, open mic, conversation and relaxation.
Rain or shine at Intermedia Arts.
Production: Jeannette
Petri
"rock it" is a short movie about bgirlism, girls breakin`and
breathin`! Featuring bgirls from the crews: Outbreak (UK), Dismissed (Switzerland),
Da women touch (France), Female Artistics (Austria), Dirty Mamas (Germany)
and Floor Visions (Spain).
Director: Emily
Dell
Angel (Jules Urich) is a b-girl struggling in the six-step, a fundamental
move. Her coach, Carlos (Ogie Banks III) and her all-male crew doubt her
skill and with a huge competition coming up, Angel has to prove her place
among them. www.bgirlmovie.com
Q&A WITH DIRECTOR FOLLOWS THIS SCREENING
Director/Editor/Producer: Nuala
Cabral
Through honest and at times humorous dialogue as well as personal testimony,
young people challenge each other and speak critically about something
they love: Hip Hop. In particular, they explore the controversial relationship
between women of color and hip hop music, and try to justify or refute
causes, effects and solutions while still embracing the culture they admire.
Director/Producer: Joslyn
Rose Lyons
This award-winning documentary explores the relationship between the creative
process and spirituality in hip-hop culture. It features powerful performances
and in-depth interviews with KRS-1, Andre 3000 of Outkast, Common, Cee-Lo,
Talib Kweli, Mystic, Medusa, Dilated Peoples, Zion I, Aceyalone, DJ Q-bert,
Living Legends, Saul Williams, Michael Franti and more. www.soundzofspirit.com
Where
do we go from here?
Build, decompress and plan for the future with the women of B-Girl Be. |
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Artwork
by Siloette
Brick
Lady by Lady Pink
Keynote
Speaker and Women in Hip-Hop Scholarship Panelist, Gwen Pough
Still
from "Nobody Knows My Name"
LadyKFever
paints 
Photo
credit : V. Paul Virtucio
Still
from Scene Not Heard 
Asia
One & the No Easy Props b-Girls
still
from Reflections on Women of Color: A Student Documentary
FREE,
$5/BBQ plate