Vancouver International Hip Hop Festival For Peace

6 YEARS AND STILL GROWING

6th ANNUAL HIP HOP
FESTIVAL FOR PEACE

FEATURING PIONEERS
OF CUBAN HIP HOP:
OBSESIÓN!
DIRECT FROM CUBA


September 24-26, 2010
3 Day Festival
Free & All Ages
With Shows in New Westminster,
Downtown Vancouver & Surrey

From the 5 Burroughs of New York in the mid-seventies to across
the entire planet today, Hip Hop continues to be a culture immersed
in the struggle for a better world. If Peace is the message, then Hip
Hop is the voice…

On September 24th to 26th the Greater Vancouver area will host for
the 6th consecutive year the Annual Vancouver International Hip Hop
Festival – HIP HOP FOR PEACE! The Festival will be three days of
performances by local and international talent including MC’s,
Breakdancers, DJ’s and Graffiti artists.

There will be workshops and tutorials teaching participants how
to rap,breakdance and give insight into the history of Graffiti
culture and it’s significance today. It will be a base camp for
community forums discussing youth activism, women’s rights,
Indigenous struggle, Hip Hop’s rise to an international stage and
it’s growth alongside the movement for peace, equality and social
justice. It will be showcase of some of the freshest artists in Hip
Hop culture today, and most importantly it will once again be free
and all ages!

Over the last 6 years the Festival has grown into one of the most
significant events of it’s kind. What makes this even more amazing
is that it is completely built, organized, sponsored, and supported
by communities of youth, families and regular working people from
Downtown Vancouver, Canada to Havana, Cuba! This festival
has been committed from it’s very onset to being as accessible,
diverse, creative and idealistic as the human imagination and will
can envision.

Hip Hop for Peace is the culmination of the skills of hundreds of
artists from across the world, the generous support and endorsement
of hundreds of sponsors from retail stores to municipalities, broad
media coverage from local to global carriers and the dedication to
reaching out with art dedicated to bringing about peace!

Join us again, this September 2010!