IT’S time to get your hip hop on. As part of their three-year residency at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Comedy Festival stars Aamer Rahman, above, and Nazeem Hussain are serving up the Hip Hop Academy – a program offering young people aged between eight and 25 from the West an opportunity to work with some of Australia’s most dynamic hip hop artists. Through a series of free weekend workshops, the Hip Hop Academy explores all aspects of hip hop and its culture – including MCing, beat making, breaking, graffiti, rap and DJing, hip hop fashion, film and documentaries – and also looks at unde lying issues of social discrimination and race relations. Workshop instructors include the legendary B-Boy Lamaroc, DJ Pataphysics, and Melbourne graf artist Monkey. Workshops will run over the next 10 Saturdays from 1pm to 4pm at the Warehouse Basement, Footscray Community Arts Centre. 70139 Picture: NICOLE SULTANA
Academy gets ready to hip hop
IT’S time to get your hip hop on. As part of their three-year residency at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Comedy Festival stars Aamer Rahman, above, and Nazeem Hussain are serving up the Hip Hop Academy – a program offering young people aged between eight and 25 from the West an opportunity to work with some of Australia’s most dynamic hip hop artists. Through a series of free weekend workshops, the Hip Hop Academy explores all aspects of hip hop and its culture – including MCing, beat making, breaking, graffiti, rap and DJing, hip hop fashion, film and documentaries – and also looks at unde lying issues of social discrimination and race relations. Workshop instructors include the legendary B-Boy Lamaroc, DJ Pataphysics, and Melbourne graf artist Monkey. Workshops will run over the next 10 Saturdays from 1pm to 4pm at the Warehouse Basement, Footscray Community Arts Centre. 70139 Picture: NICOLE SULTANA
