About
Now in its second year of activation Hart House Hip Hop Education continues its journey through the growth, development and change making power of Hip Hop. A look back at our inaugural year of the program can be found in the Hip Hop Impact Report, listed in the menu items above.
In our second year, we focus attention on the Canadian Hip Hop landscape both past and present with a suite of programs that situates Hip Hop locally, while always acknowledging its worldwide reach and future promise.
Focus
Challenge
Hip Hop has always existed as a means to deconstruct and challenge longstanding misunderstandings surrounding Black, Indigenous and other racialized people, to investigate systems of oppression and to give power and pride to those engaged in its community.
Collaboration
Working with our campus partners and community hip hop practitioners, our programs support values of representation, collaboration and social justice as we explore the key principles of hip hop and its importance in our everyday culture on all three campuses.
Unique expression
This is more than just rap. It’s a unique expression of culture steeped in self-knowledge, community building and personal empowerment, social activism and identity politics experienced through a matrix of music, dance, visual art, language, fashion.
Variety
Through a combination of drop in programs, workshops, informal discussion groups, performances and other multidisciplinary initiatives, hip hop continues to rewrite its own narrative and defy singular definition.
- Zoe Dille
Manager, Dialogue & Expression
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- Marco Adamovic
Program Coordinator
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Past Events
Wed, May 19, 2021Hart House (Virtual) Producers' Circle – Summer 2021
This drop-in, co-curricular initiative seeks to support Hart House's Hip Hop Education program by bringing together beatmakers producers and music creators.
- Thu, Mar 11, 2021
Hip Hop Cafe — On Bars: Reflections on Criminal Justice
Join us in a discussion cross-examining the intersections between Hip Hop, criminal justice, and the politics propelling them together.
- Wed, Jan 13, 2021
Hart House (Virtual) Producers' Circle – Winter 2021
This drop-in, co-curricular initiative seeks to support Hart House's Hip Hop Education program by bringing together beatmakers producers and music creators.
- Thu, Nov 12, 2020
Hip-Hop Café: Hip Hop, B-Ball, and Social Activism
Join us as we engage members of the sports media community, and our online audience, in this unique and timely dialogue.
- Wed, Nov 4, 2020
Humanz of Hip Hop: Virtual Conference
Bringing you two days of Hip Hop inspired story-telling, conversation, networking and knowledge exchange.
- Wed, Oct 7, 2020
Spark your Well-Being
In this curated conversation we bring together Hip Hop artists who will engage in an open conversation around mental health and wellness journeys.
- Wed, Sep 30, 2020
Hart House (Virtual) Producers' Circle – Fall
This drop-in, co-curricular initiative seeks to support Hart House's Hip Hop Education program by bringing together beatmakers producers and music creators.
