Beefed up hip hop festival to return
An international hip hop festival which was scaled down last year due to a lack of funds has received a £25,000 cash boost.
The organisers of Brighton Hip Hop Festival had to cancel an all-day finale after the Arts Council turned down their grant application three weeks before the event was due to take place in 2007.
But this year their application has been successful, and the festival will return again from July 5 to July 13 under the new name Rising Styles.
A spokeswoman for the Arts Council said: "This year's application from Rising Styles was much stronger in a number of ways which meant it stood up better in the competitive grants for the arts application process."
She said there was clear evidence the festival has raised its profile, thereby meeting the Arts Council's objective of funding art which reaches a wide audience.
Indy Hunjan, the director of Kala Phool, an arts development organisation which manages the not-for-profit festival as part of a team of volunteers, said she was delighted to have won the grant.
6:54pm Friday 11th April 2008
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CommentPosted by: S on 7:21pm Fri 11 Apr 08
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street'
How is this worthy of a 'grant' ???
Waste of money.
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street'
How is this worthy of a 'grant' ???
Waste of money.
Posted by: Andyl, Brighton on 8:12pm Fri 11 Apr 08
[quote][bold]S[/bold] wrote:
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street'
How is this worthy of a 'grant' ???
Waste of money.[/quote] I suppose its only people like you that deserve arts council grants. If you put a stronger application in yourself for something worthwhile you would of been granted the money and not them, but you did nothing so the better bid won.
S wrote:
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street'
How is this worthy of a 'grant' ???
Waste of money.
I suppose its only people like you that deserve arts council grants. If you put a stronger application in yourself for something worthwhile you would of been granted the money and not them, but you did nothing so the better bid won.
Posted by: Stevo, Brighton on 8:16pm Fri 11 Apr 08
[quote][bold]S[/bold] wrote:
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street' How is this worthy of a 'grant' ??? Waste of money.[/quote] You sound like a real misery, I suppose only "proper" art: drawing, paintings and opera deserve funding... Not an art form which a large number of people not the select elite, might enjoy.
What a kill joy you are, I say bring it on.
p.s. Not my sort of music before you whine a reply, but it doesn't bother me if people have a life, unlike some on here, that'll be you.
S wrote:
Great. A load of Slim-Shady wannabees walking around with their baggy pants halfway down their knees, kissing their lips and talking 'street' How is this worthy of a 'grant' ??? Waste of money.
You sound like a real misery, I suppose only "proper" art: drawing, paintings and opera deserve funding... Not an art form which a large number of people not the select elite, might enjoy.
What a kill joy you are, I say bring it on.
p.s. Not my sort of music before you whine a reply, but it doesn't bother me if people have a life, unlike some on here, that'll be you.
Posted by: Bill Reichblum, US on 9:33pm Fri 11 Apr 08
More to hip-hop than some of your readers realize. Check out KadmusArts.com (http://kadmusarts.c
om) and see all the different kinds of hip-hop festivals, as well as podcast interviews with some of the artistic leaders.
More to hip-hop than some of your readers realize. Check out KadmusArts.com (http://kadmusarts.c
om) and see all the different kinds of hip-hop festivals, as well as podcast interviews with some of the artistic leaders.
Posted by: steve, doin my ting on 4:25am Sat 12 Apr 08
yer man it dont mean a thing if you ant got that swing no wot i mean blood cloat dig up man nutty dred locks hip hop battey men.
yer man it dont mean a thing if you ant got that swing no wot i mean blood cloat dig up man nutty dred locks hip hop battey men.
Posted by: jay, china on 5:38am Sat 12 Apr 08
It should never have been cancelled last year. The amount of work that was put in last year through people with true love for hip hop. Hip hop deserves funding.This way it might be educational to members like s who obviously does not understand the culture and has a stereotype picture of hip hop.
It should never have been cancelled last year. The amount of work that was put in last year through people with true love for hip hop. Hip hop deserves funding.This way it might be educational to members like s who obviously does not understand the culture and has a stereotype picture of hip hop.
Posted by: Pharty Phlapps, Brighton Yo on 10:35am Sat 12 Apr 08
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.
Posted by: steve, BRIGHTON on 2:32pm Sat 12 Apr 08
[quote][bold]Pharty Phlapps[/bold] wrote:
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.[/quote] i bet you have never been to whiehawk gay boy hideing behind your pc you coward .
Pharty Phlapps wrote:
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.
i bet you have never been to whiehawk gay boy hideing behind your pc you coward .
Posted by: Pharty Phlapps, Brighton on 8:38pm Sun 13 Apr 08
[quote]i bet you have never been to whiehawk gay boy hideing behind your pc you coward .[/quote]
hmm. homophobic, illiterate and violent. i guess you HAVE been to whitehawk, steve.
i bet you have never been to whiehawk gay boy hideing behind your pc you coward .
hmm. homophobic, illiterate and violent. i guess you HAVE been to whitehawk, steve.
Posted by: Grespie, Brighton on 11:12am Mon 14 Apr 08
[quote][bold]Pharty Phlapps[/bold] wrote:
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.[/quote] I say! The poor people are a bunch of thieves and drug addicts, what, what!
Pharty Phlapps wrote:
Yo I like the phlip phlop phestival give the whitehawkers summat to do besides thieving and hittin da pipe.
I say! The poor people are a bunch of thieves and drug addicts, what, what!
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