Festival: The Hip Hop Revolution

June 25th: The Hip Hop Revolution

Part of Punch Record's Bass Festival, The Hip Hop Revolution is a day long event packed full of a series of fun dance workshops and performances centred around the five elements of Hip Hop.

Hip Hop Revolution will feature special performances from some of the hottest Hip Hop talent around and will culminate with a mass dance led by celebrity dancer, Turbo from Sky1’s ‘Got to Dance’ where visitors will be encouraged to learn the moves and join in.

Highlights inlude:

Turbo from Sky’s Got to Dance
Eastpak Throwdown, London’s biggest underground Hip Hop dance event
Street Wear Designer Daniel Isles of SoapBox World Limited Edition give-aways
StayFresh DJ and MC Showcase
Rare screening of the Hip Hop classic film Wild Style

Everyone welcome. All events and workshops are free of charge, no pre-booking required with the exception of Wild Style, where tickets can be reserved in advance.

Tickets for Throwdown are £5
Book call the Box Office on 0121 533 7161

PROGRAMME

Wild Style
4pm
Free, tickets can be reserved in advance
Certificate 15, 82 mins

A special screening of Wild Style, hailed as the most inspirational hip-hop of movie of all time, capturing the birth of an underground hip-hop scene.Full of great subway shots, breakdancing, freestyle MCing and rare footage of one of the godfathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash, Wild Style is a must-see for fans of hip-hop music and culture.

Hip Hop Revolution
1.30pm
Free

Kashmir Leese, Artistic Director of The Smash Bro’z Hip Hop Collective, has been working with dance students and crews from around Sandwell to create this unique, one-off site-specific performance at The Public, focusing on the eight elements of Hip Hop dance.

Turbo leads the Hip Hop Revolution Mass Dance
3pm
Free

Learn a Hip Hop dance choreographed by Turbo of Sky’s Got to Dance fame, and then take part in a mass performance on West Bromwich High Street led by the man himself. West Bromwich town centre will have never experienced anything like it.

StayFresh Showcase
3.30pm
Free

Pioneering music label StayFresh present a showcase of MC and DJ talent.

Eastpak Throwdown
8pm
Tickets £5 - call 0121 533 7161 to book

For the first time outside London, known as the UK’s best underground Hip Hop dance event, Throwdown presents a Crews from around the West Midlands will be battling it out accompanied by a live DJ set.

Battles Will Be

1vs1 Hip Hop
Track From The Hat (Freestyle)

WORKSHOPS
10am-6.15pm

Hip Hop Revolution presents a series of free art, dance and music workshops celebrating hip hop culture at The Public. All workshops are free, no need to pre-book.

Hip-Hop Art & Animation Workshop
10am-1pm
11-18 year olds

Led by Daniel Isles, Creative Designer of Soap Box World, create your own 3D Hip Hop figure, and then get it breaking and popping in your very own stop-frame animation, which can be uploaded to your mobile.

Graffiti Workshop
11am – 4pm
All ages

Graffiti your own tyre with (child safe) spray cans and add it to a Hip Hop sculpture, led by Graffiti4Hire.

Street Dance Workshop
5.15-6.15pm
All ages

Sample a taste of the dynamic choreography of street dance led by Toffee, Dance Director of Tru Street Dance.

Hip Hop DJ Workshop: 11am-1pm
MC Hosting Workshop: 4-6pm
All ages

Try out your DJing skills and open mic for aspiring MCs under the guidance of DJ Miss C Brown. Turntablism & DJ Showcase by DJ Psykhomantus & DJ Roc 1 from A Few Good Men.

Hip Hop Zumba Workshop
4.15-5.15pm
All ages

Combining the unique style of Zumba with the Hip Hop hits of today, led by Triple M Dance Academy.

Hip Hop illustrations
All day

Photograph yourself in your own Hip Hop scene using illustrations by Soap Box World.

Hip Hop Revolution is part of Dancing for the Games, a series of events run by Punch Records, which plan to engage the local community in dance as participants, leaders and audiences.

Punch Records will be running five events over the next year in support of the Olympic Games with each event representing the five rings of the Olympics. Hip Hop Revolution is the first of these events and will also mark the last day of BASS Festival 2011 (British Arts and Street Sounds), the UK’s only month-long celebration of Black music and art, which Punch Records also organises.

For more information about Dancing for the Games, BASS Festival and line-up announcements, visit Punch Records www.punch-records.co.uk