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Heal The Hood To Generate Jobs & An Income In The Western Cape |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 03 February 2004 |
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Emile of Black Noise and Falco of TVA Spraycan Art Crew, tour Sweden to teach about the African origins f Hip Hop culture. This is the start of the 2004 HEAL THE HOOD PROJECT. Emile will be teaching about the African connection to hip hop through b-boying (breakdancing)and MC'ing (rapping), while Falco will show the origins of Writing (graffiti) and DJ'ing. Falco and Emile will tour Goteborg and surrounding areas in preparation for Black Noise "Put Something Back" tour of Europe 10th April - 10 July 2004. The event in Sweden is called "Ship Hop", where artists travel by boat from harbour to harbour and teach the elements of hip hop culture and end with a huge concert. Read More.
On their return to South Africa, Heal the Hood from northern Sweden will travel to Cape Town and visit schools throughout the Peninsula to have workshops and perform. Heal the Hood aims to have exchanges happen between South Africa and various countries regularly. It aims:-
- to bring youth from around the world together to discuss various issues
- to combat racism, crime, AIDS, violence, etc,
- to learn from each others cultures to break the xenophobia globally
- to visit each others cities to see how people elsewhere really live
- to create jobs in various artistic circles
- to supply a larger distribution globally for unsigned artists
- to encourage the importance of supporting what is from your community and thus encouraging maoney going back to the community and not greedy multi-nationals that PUT NOTHING BACK
- to generate pride in self and ancestry to internalize it
- to discourage war between countries through creating global friendships and "family"
- to expand the limited perspective that TV and other media gives about certain peoples, countries and cultures.
This pilot project in Cape Town will be expanded to the rest of South Africa after Black Noise return from Europe , when they tour South Africa to:
(1) Establish Heal the Hood in Oudsthoorn, Mossel Bay, P.E., Durban, Gauteng, Bloem & Kimberley
(2) Host the National African Hip Hop Indaba to select hip hoppers to come to the finals in Cape Town from the 27th August - 29th August 2004
The Heal the Hood group, South Africa are sending out packages of information about what its intentions are for the next 3 years and how you can become a member of the project. To host such a group at your school and generate an income for that group or the school or matric farewells or
yourself. If you are also interested in having the Swedish Heal the Hood group visit your school while they are here from the 1st March 2004 to the 21st March 2004.
Please Contact Emile at 082 395 8125 or Tanswell at 082 4744750 or the Heal the Hood Hotline 021 7059167. For more information about the concept of Heal the Hood, go to www.healthehood.com
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