Community Folk Art Center

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this email I received looks awesome:






COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER'S ANNUAL CINEMATIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS
"Keepin' It Reel '08: Exploring Hip Hop"
February 14- 17, 2008

In honor of Black History Month, the Community Folk Art Center presents its annual Cinematic Festival. This year we will be exploring Hip Hop culture. Beginning Thursday, February 14 through Sunday, February 17 the festival will showcase independent works from emerging filmmakers. The festival explores such topics as misogyny in the rap world, Hip Hop in Africa, graffiti, as well as increasing popularity of Christian Hip Hop.

Our festival will begin with the screening of Byron Hurt's groundbreaking documentary, "Beyond Beats and Rhymes," which will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. That night will also be the debut of 16 year-old filmmaker Ziggy who will screen his short film "Hip Hop: My Revolution."

On Saturday, the festival will begin with a graffiti workshop for high school age students and the screening of the graffiti documentary "Rock Fresh." Following the workshop, filmmaker Dante Kaba will screen his film Mixtress X which details the experience of women deejays. The day will conclude with "The Hip Hop Project," a documentary about a group of New York City teens who utilize Hip Hop to transform their lives. We will conclude our festival on Sunday with the screening "Holy Hip Hop." This film provides an opportunity to learn more about Christian Hip Hop.

There is something for everyone! Come out and experience a festival that looks in depth at the worldwide phenomenon that is Hip Hop. The graffiti workshop is free but you must register and the cost per film is $5.00.

Keepin' It Reel 08: Exploring Hip Hop

Thursday, February 14, 2008 Beyond Beats and Rhymes 7pm
Friday, February 15, 2008 Hip Hop Colony 7pm
Saturday, February 16, 2008 Free Graffiti workshop 12 pm
Saturday, February 16, 2008 Rock Fresh 1pm
Saturday, February 16, 2008 Mixtress X 4pm
Saturday, February 16, 2008 The Hip Hop Project 7pm
Sunday, February 17, 2008 Holy Hip Hop 3pm

The Community Folk Art Center is a unit of the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University. For more information, please call (315) 442-2230 or e-mail Dr. Kheli Willetts at krwillet@syr.edu.

The Community Folk Art Center's website: http://www.communityfolkartcenter.org/

Go! I can't believe I've never been here and it's so close.

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Getting Published

Being a school with such a reputation in communications, I'm surprised that so many of the publications made by students fly so far under the radar. I also feel that a lot of school news stays just out of public reach- like remember how we have an Arts Journalism Graduate Program? I'm sort of curious about what they're up to now. Last fall, however, I noticed a new publication in the entry to Newhouse- The Mix, created and produced by students in this graduate program. It's probably too late to pick up a hard copy of the magazine now, but you can read the fall 2007 issue on the web:

http://artsjournalism.syr.edu/resources/theMix2007.pdf

It some of the same territory that The Daily Orange, 20 Watts and Jerk have trudged through, but I found some legitimately interesting stories. I don't think I knew what this Urban Video Project was all about, or that you could focus on "food & wine" in this program, until I picked up this magazine.

Bird Library Cafe

To say that I was excited about the prospect of Bird Library having a cafe in it, serving Freedom of Espresso coffee, would be an understatement. I began to become less excited, however, once it turned out that the "Opening Fall 2007" sign that hung near the construction site turned out to be a LIE! The cafe is officially open, and well, I am not impressed. The decor is just all wrong. Maybe it's because I attempted to pull an all-nighter in the first floor of the library this past semester, but wow do those bright lights bug me. The furniture is obnoxious in my opinion, and there isn't even that much seating space. Also there was a sign that asked patrons to keep their food in the cafe area? Maybe it was a joke, because I know that I've eaten much more intense food on the first floor before (oh hey Cosmo's delivery).

That brings me to the larger issue at hand- the coffee. As you may recall, I said that I was excited that Freedom of Expresso brand coffee would be served at this new place. I'm not sure why I'd be excited because all my FoE experiences have been less than stellar. That should have been a red flag right there.

Maybe I'm being a little hard on this new cafe, but the coffee was... rough at best. My latte tasted burnt, and the woman that prepared it asked Kalee what she had ordered at least five times.

Also! This new place doesn't even have a name! From a Daily Orange article:

DO: Is there a name for the cafe?

PM: We are going to have a contest, a naming contest. We are still waiting on exactly what the prize will be. We want to run it when everyone is going to be back on campus, and we will be announcing the contest in the next couple of weeks.

A naming contest! How exciting.

I'm positive that I'm going to give this as yet unnamed cafe another chance, but maybe I should just trust the first impression.


(above photo from the Daily Orange. Thanks.)

Hours for Quick Reference:

Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.

syracuse needs more hotdog dogs

i'm just saying...personally...i would really like to see more of them on the street. preferably dressed in hotdog suits or other costumes and on ackerman. let's make this happen.

thank you hotdogblog.com and gushmagazine for the photos.