2019 Hip Hop Gatherings

Conversation for Hip-Hop Teaching Artists (Vancouver) with B-girl Rokafella (Bronx, NY).

SATURDAY MAY 11. 11:00am-12:30pm

LOCATION: KW Studios Atrium space in the Woodwards Building (#10 – 111 Hastings St W)

Rokafella will be joining us via Skype to talk about Hip-Hop in The Bronx, brainstorm with any questions you might have, and to also learn from you about Hip-Hop in Vancouver and BC

Ana “Rokafella” Garcia (co-Artistic Director and Producer, Full Circle Souljahs) Hip-Hop dancer/choreographer Ana “Rokafella” Garcia began street performing with crews: The Transformers, The Breeze Team, and the New York City Float Committee, and in 1994 she was a part of GhettOriginal - a Hip-Hop dance company. As a b-girl, she’s been featured in Fabolous’ “Holla back Youngin” and KRS One’s “Step into a World” rap and the Fox films “Brown Sugar.” She and her husband Kwikstep founded Full Circle Productions- a Hip-Hop collective. They presented “Soular Power’d,” their Hip-Hop theater directorial debut, on Broadway’s New Victory Theater and received rave reviewa. Rokafella has taught workshops at NYU, MIT, UMASS and Howard University as well as at neighborhood high schools and community centers. Rokafella wrote the introduction to Martha Cooper’s We B*Girls photo book and has been hired by the US Sate Department as a Cultural Envoy Artist. She has judged breakin’ contests in Europe and South America and is the producer of a documentary film about b girls titled: All the Ladies Say. She believes Hip-hop was born to help urban youth get through the ups and downs of life with something to hold on to. http://www.fullcirclesouljahs.com



DOCU FILM SHOWING

Friday September 6, 2019 6:00pm-8:00pm 

ROOM 001, 268 Keefer Street (basement)

2 documentary films (30 min each) about dance and artists making work in the South Bronx, New York : "Women in Hip-Hop Rep the Bronx" and "Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx: A choreographic collaboration across Diaspora."    

Featuring artists:  Rokafella, Sita Frederick, Marion Ramirez, Caridad De La Luz, Nene Ali, Jennifer "Beasty" Acosta, Nejma Nefertiti, Janice Tomlinson.