The 6th Annual Midwest Hip Hop Summit

Description: LISTEN, LEARN and DISCUSS Hip Hop and its role in the world.

Exciting and provocative discussions on the role Hip Hop plays in:

- Education
Can Hip Hop be used as a tool to teach the youth more than the latest dances?

- Sexuality
Why is there so much Homophobia in mainstream hip hop culture?

Key Events:

- Activism and Social Justice
Do Hip Hop artists owe anything to the community? Can hip hop really be the driving force that it so may have professed it to be? and HOW?

* LIVE Workshops on all four Hip Hop Elements *
- Break-dancing, Graffiti, MC and DJ

* The Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) *
- A youth-led education arts and media model in which ideas are developed for long-lasting creative solutions to problems in the school system, the city, and their lives. They then use art and media to express those ideas and incite dialogue and action throughout the city and beyond.

* M-1 Presents: From the Ghetto to Gaza *
- Dead Prez member and Hip Hop activist M-1 drops knowledge on his experience in the Palestinian territory of Gaza.