STREETFEST 2011 IN PICTURES
The memories are a little hazy but the good time vibes prevail from last week’s Bonafide sponsored StreetFest, the ‘biggest and best’ event yet we’re told. Check out the photos below. …Read More.
The memories are a little hazy but the good time vibes prevail from last week’s Bonafide sponsored StreetFest, the ‘biggest and best’ event yet we’re told. Check out the photos below. …Read More.
With Wretch 32 recently added to the line-up StreetFest 2011 is shaping up to be one helluva day out, but let me tell you what could make it even better: Two free tickets, adidas kicks, a sold out OG Gorilla sweatshirt and Snapback cap by cult streetwear brand 360 Clothing to wear and two cases of Kopparberg cider to guzzle (‘Check out the Kopparberg stage on 29 May, featuring performances from the likes of Remedy and bSupreme’). In the words of a wise old sage, “yeeeahh boyeee!” …Read More.
Dust off your shell toes, iron your three stripe tracky and recharge the batteries on your ghettoblaster boombox… The UK Hip-Hop Dance Championships are back in full effect – think kids doing crazy moves, breaks galore and lots of posturing. This year the event is running at Thorpe Park 04-05 June.
Red Bull Reporter launched in March 2009 and gives young writers, photographers, film-makers and presenters the opportunity to go on assignments. That’s live, real time reporting not this remote blogging business. Those lucky enough to be selected get to cover sport, music and cultural events and have their work published.
On the back of last year’s success, a new raft of assignments are coming up and a call out for entries is currently being put out. For urban culture vultures who like to use their ink for writing rather than graffing, there is the opportunity to visit Berlin and report on the Red Bull Flying Bach. Taking place on April 23rd, the Red Bull Flying Bach is a B-Boy show with a difference; B-Boy group the Flying Steps perform to classical music in the stunning surroundings of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie concert hall.
If this opportunity appeals and you want to get involved, upload the examples of your work to the Red Bull site and be judged by site users and the Red Bull Editorial Team.
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The Breakin’ Convention; The Seventh Annual International Festival of Hip-Hop Dance Theatre takes place at Sadler’s Wells, 1st May (until 3rd May).
Curated by Jonzi D,the line up for this kinetic event features global talent, including Japanese duo Hilty & Bosch, mad popper Mr Steen; Phax, whose ’animation skills’ have seen him labelled the slowest man on earth, France’s Pro-Phenomenon and Phase T, who reached the semi-finals of Battle of the Year in 2009, and more local b-boy moves from the likes of the Bad Taste Cru, performing Council of the Ordinary, that focuses on a homeless person’s daily experiences of the street and was first performed at the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest in December 2009.
Time to reach for the shell toes and stretch those joints.
The days of Red Bull only being recognized as manufacturer of saccharine energy drinks is as distant a memory as paid for music and newspapers. Their current business portfolio includes four football teams, two Formula One racing teams and a hockey side amongst others, although this may echo of a certain cartoon mouse’s aspirations their musical collaborations have always been interesting. Including the Red Bull music academy and its endeavour to see fledging producers gain first hand (and uncontrived) support from the professionals in a series of workshops across the globe.
And a recent initiative is the Red Bull reporter, which focuses on our own fair island in an effort to unearth writers, photographers, filmmakers and presenters to cover key cultural assignments which includes next weeks B-Boys Championships in New York. Click here for more details.