The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
The Youth Media Workshop invited independent filmmaker, Byron Hurt, to show his film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," and discuss the ideas in it at a public forum, March 13, 2007 at the Spurlock Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois. A standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium to watch the film and join in a panel discussion featuring Mr. Hurt, Aisha Durham, hip-hop feminist; Brian Mitchell, Youth Media Workshop participant; Gabby Ceasar, Youth Media Workshop participant; Sara Clark Kaplan, assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois and Twick G, Champaign hip-hop artist. The panel was moderated by William Patterson, assoc. director of the African American Cultural Center and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop.
In March, 2007, the Youth Media Workshop brought filmmaker Byron Hurt to Urbana, Illinois, for a screening and discussion of his film, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. The film takes an in-depth look at manhood in rap music and hip-hop culture -- where creative genius, poetic beauty and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence and homophobia. A Local Response features 30 minutes of a critical discussion about the film and hip-hop culture with a love audience and a diverse group of panelists. The screening/discussion tool place at the Spurlock Musuem on the campus of the University of Illinois.
