Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen 3 Finale!!
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen 3 was a super success. We once again packed out the auditorium at Hostos Community College with more than 1,000 people in attendance. The show was off the hook. From the elder community leaders who dressed up in outfits from the times of the beginnings of the Womens Rights movement, to 12 yr.old Ne-Ne Ali, the spoken word MC, to the hip hop violin of Misnomers, to Bless Roxwell, Kalae All Day, Rokafella came out with her crew and showed us that true NY BGirl flava! Here check out the footage of the grand finale with RDAC BX members Lah Tere and Patty Dukes bringing down the house. What a wonderful way to commemorate International Women's Day and 100 years of that struggle.
RDAC Under Construction!
Yes ma'am! We are under construction again to better serve the community... With help from our good friends at the electricians union and Tito, Jose, and Nelson from Facing Reality Car Club, we are expanding our performance area once again, as well as renovating our bathrooms (yes, they needed it badly!). We will be open only for previously scheduled private events at RDAC, and will resume with regular programming on Monday April 10, for our Youth Open House. More info to come!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen 3: Sat. March 6th @ Hostos Center for Arts and Culture
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen Volume 3, Back to Our Roots, will be honoring International Women’s Month by shedding light and creating awareness on Environmental Injustices and Educational Inequalities and their impact on women of color.
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen will bring together women of color educators, students, environmentalists, djs, emcees, b-girls, poets, visual artists, dancers, healers, pastors, organizers and activists. We will come together through a hip hop showcase to express our solidarity with women’s rights!
This event will take place in the South Bronx, the birthplace of Hip Hop, and the poorest congressional district in the nation, also called “The Forgotten Borough.” In reality, the borough of the Bronx is not forgotten because one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city, Riverdale, lies just northwest and has every amenity a human can ask for.
Hostos Community College will be hosting Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen event for the second year in a row. Hostos Community College was created in 1968 in response to demands from the Latino community who were urging for the establishment of a college to serve the people of the South Bronx. Hostos was the first bilingual higher education institution in the United States.
The South Bronx is a community that has been in constant resistance, seeking justice in education and the environment. It is a community resisting pollution, asthma, toxic wasteland, and budget cuts for art, music, and gym programs. It is a community that lacks access to healthy fruits and vegetables, adequate health care and after school programs. The South Bronx’s need for reproductive and sexual health education is highly reflected in its high levels of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.
In place of access to healthy alternatives, the South Bronx has an over abundance of jails and prisons.
However, the South Bronx is not lost. It has experienced a period of healing through leadership guided by community organizations and collectives. This leadership has lead to the creation of new parks, food co-ops, recycling programs, and successful cultural community centers. We have won many amazing victories as a community!
Join us as we fuse our energy, our politics, our ancestry, our traditions, art, song and dance into a brew for Environmental Justice and Education Equality.
Turn Up the Heat and Let the Soul Simmer, as We Stir this Soup for the Hip Hop Soul!
When: Saturday, March 6th, 2010
@ the Hostos Center for Arts and Culture
450 Grand Concourse (at 149th St.) Bronx, NY
(Main Theater)
Time: 2-5pm
This event is FREE and open to all ages.
for more information about the event, please
visit our website @ http://www.mhhk.org
or email hiphopkitchen@gmail.com
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
NEW PEARLS OF WISDOM: BBW EDITION
Peace and love to all of the BBW's and our supporters out there!
Who?
My name is Lah Tere and I will be hosting Pearls of Wisdom BBW: Big, Beautiful Womyn reppin ' in the BX on Friday, Jan. 22nd. I am a proud BBW! I was born and raised in Chicago to Puerto Rican parents, and am an AFRO-BORICUA. I am 30 years old and a size 22. I shop at Lane Bryant and the Avenue, and when I can afford it, I purchase Baby Phat. I have been a BIG GIRL all of my life and have experienced the ups and downs of being thicker than the average.
How this event came about?
Well, I have tried to loose weight, I have been on every single diet you can think of… yeah YO-YO dieting. None of it has worked and if anything, has made me way bigger. I have had to deal with people telling me that I have a “pretty face” and that I should consider loosing the weight and then I would make it in the music industry. And if not, why don't I consider doing BBW Porn. WOW! BBW PORN!???? BBW PORN is not my choice or cup of tea. I know that I can live out my purpose and mission in this lifetime without baring my assets. Attention: THIS IS NOT A JUDGEMENT ON THOSE SISTERS WHO CHOOSE THAT LIFESTYLE. It's just not me!
(Please GOOGLE BBW and you will see what I am talking about regarding the pornography! )
So I was triggered and decided to put an event together of sisters like me, sisters that were PLUS SIZED or BIG BONED or had MORE TO LOVE and were positive!
My intentions are to bring womyn together that believe this:
Here I am! This is me! I am big! I am talented! I am bold! I am not afraid! I am beautiful and whoever doesn’t like it, can beat it! I don’t want to be your closet freak, or the woman who keeps you warm in the winter, the same one you ignore during the summer. I will not be that! I am in love with myself, and at the end of the day God loves me no matter how many cheeseburgers I eat. FYI- just cuz I'm big don't mean I eat 15 cheeseburgers! My comfort food is MY ART!!!!
Where?
I believe that 2010 is a new decade with millions of possibilities. I am excited about using RDAC (The Rebel Diaz Arts Collective) as a space for us BBW’s to express ourselves and be free. The Rebel Diaz Arts Collective (RDAC) is a South Bronx-based performance and multimedia space that aims to utilize culture as a means for education and self-empowerment in our community. We aim to provide an alternative to the profit-driven mass media that imposes values destructive to our community. By promoting a sense of community ownership, agency, and responsibility through the arts, we can begin to more effectively address the larger issues of gender, racial, and economic inequality in the South Bronx and beyond.
Please join us in this BIG, BOLD and BEAUTIFUL event. We will have Big, Bold and Beautiful Womyn poets, emcees, singers, dancers and visual artists sharing their art with a community that loves them for who they are!
Featuring: Storm, Mo Baby, Elsie E., Sally H., Chango Bi, Lah Tere, Fuerzagoddess, Euda, Lindsey Renee and more!
*Friday, Jan. 22nd
*RDAC
478 Austin Place 2nd floor
Bronx, NY
*$10 donation to keep RDAC open (no one refused at the door)
*9pm til midnight
*6 train or BX19 bus to 149th Stop
walk east towards Bruckner, right on Austin Place , walk mid block,location on left side, door has heart!
FOR MORE INFO:
CALL 312-489-0505
EMAIL LAHTERE@GMAIL.COM
PAZ
THE Age of Aquarius! DJ CHELA on the 1s and 2s
COME OUT AND CELEBRATE REPHSTAR AND LA BRUJAS BDAY PARTY! DJ CHELA WILL BE ON THE DECKS ALL NIGHT! you should not miss this party!!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Support Victor Toro!
MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010
Lets Pack the Courtroom!
Location: 26 Federal Plaza (Case #088-187-516)
Time: 9am -12pm
Support Rally
Location: Corner of Lafayette and Worth
Time: 12pm-1pm
Victor Toro is facing deportation and accusations of terrorist activity for his leadership in the MIR, an organization which resisted the murderous, CIA-sponsored dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s. Join us in demanding legalization NOW! No human being is illegal.
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