Women In Hip Hop Women’s History Month event at The Charles H Wright 2019

Purchase Tix: thewright.org/events

Culture as Capital:

How We use Hip Hop to ReClaim Representations of Women in Media:

A critical discussion of community cultural wealth.

Dr. Kellie Hay (Associate Professor in Critical Cultural Studies) & Rebekah Farrugia PhD (Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director in Media Studies).

The All Woman Band consists of
* Aisha Ellis: Drums
* Emily Rogers: Bass
* Sarah Rez: Guitar
* Ashley Nelson: Violin
* Pamela Wise: Keys, Kresge Award Winning Jazz Pianist.

In the GM Theater:

* 1:00pm: Doors

* 1:00pm-2:00pm: Music by DJ Haintso

* 2:00pm: Documentary Film

* 2:30pm: Discussion

* 3:00pm-5:00pm: Concert

* 4:45pm-5:00pm: Open Mic

* 5:00-6:00pm: Reception w DJ Sassi Blaque
Following the performance there will be a reception in the Rotunda where guests can interact with the Artists and purchase their merchandise.

CHARLES H WRIGHT MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
315 East Warren Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201

Media shown: Detroit Women In Hip Hop, a short documentary by Piper Carter. This candid film serves as a glimpse of an ongoing dialogue with women who identify as Hip Hop Artists who have been a part of building this movement. It provides an opportunity and platform for people to address, discuss, and challenge their feelings on Hip-Hop and the way they are receiving messages in culture.

The discussion will be with Hip Hop Scholars Professors Dr. Kellie Hay + Rebekah Farrugia PhD of Oakland University who will be releasing a book later in 2020 about their time spent following, researching and documenting Detroit Women in Hip Hop.

Hip Hop’s emergence in global cities through multiple, devastating wars (psychological, physical, and cultural) answers and questions global economic restructuring of our communities. This presentation brings together artists, activists and academics to stage new conversations about Women of color and women of color feminisms across Hip Hop’scultural forms.

Using Media to address the role, images, and treatment of women in Hip-Hop we critique and disrupt status quo narratives and present investigations about value systems and structures of violence and human value, the politics of aesthetics, and women of color feminism.  Participants walk away with a greater understanding of the value of women in Hip Hop as a culture across disciplines.: Art (Graffiti/StreetArt etc.), Dance (B-Girling), Technology (DJing/Music Production/Video), Words (Emceeing/FreeStyling/Writing/Rhyming/Poetry), and Culture (the Knowledge Element of reading, observing video and listening to audio media, discussion)

This event will offer a portrayal of women in media that is counter to the sexual harassment, gender and race discrimination that is often the norm. It will inform and empower Women and Girls through media clips, performance, and a discussion. It will also feature Live performances by our All-Woman Band lead by Musical Director Aisha Ellis, featuring Mahogany Jones and several of Detroit’s Incredible Artists.

This program presented by The Education Department of The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and is open to all ages, teens, adults, students, professors, faculty, and community are welcome. This session will be a general discussion around some of the popular/mainstream images of Women that we see or hear on a daily basis.