Hip-Hop Diaspora:
ARCHIVING & CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE CULTURE
From Toronto to Havana, to London and Stockholm, we will consider the relationships between hip-hop street culture practices, archiving and preservation.
TIMELINE
9 November
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Registration and Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30
Courtney Chartier (Columbia University) and Q&A (hybrid)
10:45 – 11:15
Introduction: Mark Campbell, Afrosonic Innovations Lab, UT Scarborough
Place: JHB100, Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St George St 1st floor, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Talk: Everybody Wins: Using the Power of the Institution to Advocate for Hip-Hop Communities
Abstract: Institutions (including archives, libraries, museums, and Universities) hold a great deal of knowledge and power. But the expression of that power often damages communities rather than supporting them. Institutions must learn from their pasts and understand their power to be effective and reciprocal community partners in preserving and celebrating Hip Hop’s legacies.
Call & Response: What do we mean by winning? Roundtable (Hybrid)
11:15 – 11:45
Participants: Francesca D’Amico, Courtney Chartier, Logix, Pablo D. Herrera Veitia.
Place: JHB100, Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St George St 1st floor, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Lunch Break / Networking
11:45
Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production Book launch and signing (hybrid)
13:00 – 13:45
Participants: M. Campbell, M. Forman and M. Diaz
Place: JHB100, Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St George St 1st floor, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Panel 1. Institutional Alignments: Pros and Cons
14:30 – 15:15
In-person: M. Diaz
Virtually: Jaqueline Lima Santos, Jon Green, N. Onwusa
Place: JHB100, Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St George St 1st floor, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Opening Reception. Roland Samplers: Past, Present, and Future Sound Archives, Hip-Hop, and Digital Humanities (in-person)
18:30 – 21:30
Participants: Astro Mega, Cosmo, M. Campbell, P. D. Herrera Veitia, Matthew Lefaive, Dustin Good.
Place: William Doo Auditorium (in-person)
45 Willcocks St Toronto, ON M5S 1C7
10 November
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Registration and Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30
Jonzi D, Breaking Convention, UK (hybrid)
10:45 – 11:15
Introduction: Mary Fogarty, York University
Place: MW 130, University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4
Talk & Q&A: How does hip-hop vocabulary define contemporary theatre and dance archives?
Abstract: The artistic and technical development of breaking, popping, krump, rap, etc., has spread across the globe like a life-affirming virus. Giving hope to disenfranchised communities, decolonizing both pedestrian and institutional spaces while also establishing a new lexicon in theatre and the work of archiving dance practices.
Lunch Break / Networking
11:45
Panel 3 – Doing the Knowledge: The politics of archiving hip-hop histories in Canada, the US and Russia
13:00 – 14:00
In-person: K. Anwer Shaikh, M. Fogarty, K. El-Hakim
Place: MW 130, University of Toronto Scarborough (hybrid)
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4
Panel 4 – Challenging Archival Forms: Hip-hop oral histories, bottom-up historiographies and non-institutional archivist efforts: US, Philippines, Sweden and the UK
14:15 – 15:15
In-person: S. Robertson-Palmer
Virtually: J. Gabrillo, P. Foster, G. Pipitone, J. Kimvall
Place: MW 130, University of Toronto Scarborough (hybrid)
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4
Panel 5 – Beyond the Nation: Practitioners’ cultural labour to produce archival work beyond the constrictions of the Nation in Yugoslavia, Germany and Cuba
15:30 – 16:30
In-person: P. Herrera Veitia
Virtually: O. Kohl, L. Schmieding
Place: MW 130, University of Toronto Scarborough (hybrid)
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4
DJ AfroQbano (Cuba/US) – End of day DJ show
20:00 – 22:00
Place: 1265 Bistro Stage, UTSC
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
11 November
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Fab Five Freddy Talks Archiving Hip-Hop
14:45 – 15:30
Introduction: Martha Diaz, Hip-Hop Education Center
Place: Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M5T 1G4 (in-person)
Talk and Q&A: Fred Brathwaite: The Archive of the Future.
Abstract: Brathwaite discusses the acquisition of his hip-hop archive by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center. The archive spans eras and mediums and includes audio, photos, fliers, VHS tapes, vinyl, and defunct merchandise, ranging from Yo! MTV Raps tees to rare footage of Basquiat, a New Jack City screenplay draft, and a tape reel recording from the night Malcolm X was assassinated.
Film screening – Inventos – Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Fist Up! TV
16:00
Place: Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M5T 1G4
