Legends Press Live presents the #SOTIM Series.
#SOTIM or Son of the Iron Mic is a post-apocalyptic graphic novel exploring the meanings and cultural artifacts of hip-hop in a future where the music and its accompanying cultural practices are all but banned. Our live event, The #SOTIM Series includes mini episodes told in partnership with NeoSoulVille.com through the Tales of the Iron Mic and music releases, as well as community events on issues pertinent to the Hip Hop scene in the present. We hope to facilitate culture, encourage creative expression and engage the Hip Hop community in forward thinking and the growth of hip hop as a means of social expression and as a part of everyday life.
#SOTIM or Son of the Iron Mic is a post-apocalyptic graphic novel exploring the meanings and cultural artifacts of hip-hop in a future where the music and its accompanying cultural practices are all but banned. Our live event, The #SOTIM Series includes mini episodes told in partnership with NeoSoulVille.com through the Tales of the Iron Mic and music releases, as well as community events on issues pertinent to the Hip Hop scene in the present. We hope to facilitate culture, encourage creative expression and engage the Hip Hop community in forward thinking and the growth of hip hop as a means of social expression and as a part of everyday life.
Legends Press LIVE...join us for the Hip Hop Panel Discussion
The #SOTIM Series, Part II:
Hip Hop, Politics and Economics:
Activism and Social Justice
in the New Millennium
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Hip Hop Panel Discussion: The #SOTIM Series Part II
Hip Hop, Politics and Economics : Activism and Social Change in the New Millennium
Leadership Memphis Gallery 365 South Main Street, Memphis TN
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 / 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Amid recent social unrest plaguing the country, the continued acts of violence by law enforcement committed against African Americans nationwide, and the release of ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ a film highlighting the rise and fall of the hip hop group NWA, made notorious by their politically charged song ‘F*** the Police,’ the hip hop community has been both mobilized and monetized in ways previously unimaginable.
While Hip Hop culture was and is often vilified, developments of late have pointed to the accuracy of Hip Hop as not only a genre of music, but a culture, with its own political standpoint and economic system. On August 18, 2015, a panel discussion among Hip Hop artists, scholars and activists will discuss and examine the collective power of the Hip Hop community to advocate for itself through various avenues of civic and institutional avenues. This discussion is timely in that Memphis faces a previously unprecedented diversity in its various political races for office, it’s location as a point of yet another murder of an unarmed teen by police, and a new economic resurgence in the arts and science communities .
This event co sponsored by NeoSoulVille will also feature live performances, a voter registration drive, and an interactive question and answer session. The purpose of the event is to engage new voters or non voters into local issues and activist opportunities, explore the economic empowerment or opportunities within the Hip Hop community and examine the future of the city of Memphis as a site of Hip Hop production and creation.
Attendees will leave with an issues guide highlighting the upcoming election in Memphis, takeaway packets that will contain booklists and essays for continued research and discourse, and links to various community organizations where the ideas discussed in the panel discussion may be put into practice.
Hip Hop, Politics and Economics : Activism and Social Change in the New Millennium
Leadership Memphis Gallery 365 South Main Street, Memphis TN
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 / 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Amid recent social unrest plaguing the country, the continued acts of violence by law enforcement committed against African Americans nationwide, and the release of ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ a film highlighting the rise and fall of the hip hop group NWA, made notorious by their politically charged song ‘F*** the Police,’ the hip hop community has been both mobilized and monetized in ways previously unimaginable.
While Hip Hop culture was and is often vilified, developments of late have pointed to the accuracy of Hip Hop as not only a genre of music, but a culture, with its own political standpoint and economic system. On August 18, 2015, a panel discussion among Hip Hop artists, scholars and activists will discuss and examine the collective power of the Hip Hop community to advocate for itself through various avenues of civic and institutional avenues. This discussion is timely in that Memphis faces a previously unprecedented diversity in its various political races for office, it’s location as a point of yet another murder of an unarmed teen by police, and a new economic resurgence in the arts and science communities .
This event co sponsored by NeoSoulVille will also feature live performances, a voter registration drive, and an interactive question and answer session. The purpose of the event is to engage new voters or non voters into local issues and activist opportunities, explore the economic empowerment or opportunities within the Hip Hop community and examine the future of the city of Memphis as a site of Hip Hop production and creation.
Attendees will leave with an issues guide highlighting the upcoming election in Memphis, takeaway packets that will contain booklists and essays for continued research and discourse, and links to various community organizations where the ideas discussed in the panel discussion may be put into practice.
Hip Hop Panel Discussion The #SOTIM Series :
Exploring Hip Hop Culture:
Pedagogy, Community Action and Identity
Exploring Hip Hop Culture:
Pedagogy, Community Action and Identity
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Panel Discussion – Exploring Hip Hop Culture: Pedagogy, Community Action, and Identity
The Hattiloo Theater – 37 South Cooper, Memphis TN 38104
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 / 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
In light of the recent social unrest plaguing the country, as well as the recent acts of violence committed by teenagers here in Memphis and the connection between youth violence and Hip Hop culture, we are organizing a panel discussion where the influences of Hip Hop culture will be discussed and examined for its relevance and transformative powers within the community, the classroom, and the overall social consciousness of the city and its inhabitants.
This discussion will feature a panel comprised of college professors, community leaders, and progressive arts organizers. This event will also feature live performances and an interactive question and answer session. The purpose of the event is to expose the aspects of Hip Hop culture, and the manners in which Hip Hop can be used to speak to the youth of our city in order to enrich and embolden their lives. We will also examine how Hip Hop works cross-generationally, at various socioeconomic levels and geographically to unite communities and individuals. Finally, we will examine the community action aspects of Hip Hop as undertaken by artists, creators and fans of the genre.
Participants in this event will leave with practical methods that can be used to apply Hip Hop culture in their everyday lives. They will also receive takeaway packets that will contain book lists and essays for continued research and discourse, lesson plans for Hip Hop based classroom activities, and links to various community organizations where the ideas discussed in the panel discussion may be put into practice.
Media Coverage:
Tri State Defender
Storify
Take Away Packet
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