Date: July 9, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
The Nairobi Rap Research Group presents Slingshot Hip Hop! This local research group is organised by Wasanii Mtaani as part of their ujuzi labs. It is made up of enthusiasts, historians, creative technologists, cultural critics, linguists, teachers, MCs and academics, who meet to discuss various topics in rap e.g. quantifying art & metaphor, data visualisation, cultural analysis, gaming, curriculum design and more.
The film Slingshot Hip Hop (80 min) covers the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
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The screening is intended for the purpose of adopting learning lessons that can be applied to the Kenyan situation. Afterwards there will be a discussion on the topic Migratory Aesthetics – A Working Model for International Hip Hop, moderated by Kevin Ovita Teddy.
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