Leroy Moore, Krip-Hop Nation, in Seattle Feb 10-11

We are EXTREMELY excited to promote upcoming events
FEB 10th + 11th
for LEROY MOORE
self-titled 'black, disabled poet' & founder of Krip Hop
- a movement of people with disabilities in hip hop


SAT FEB 11th AFTERNOON 1-3PM
At Chaco Canyon Cafe - 4757 12th Ave NE (@ 50th & 12th in the U-District)
The DJC is hosting a 'meet and greet' with Leroy Moore

please arrive * scent free *

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FRIDAY FEB 10TH EVENING 5-7PM
U of WA Campus, OUGL (Odegaard Undergraduate Library), Room 220
--------- The ASUW Student Disability Commission is presenting...

Leroy Moore and Krip-Hop Nation:
Broken Bodies, PBP: Police Brutality Profiling

This workshop will talk about POOR Magazine and its connection to the issue of police brutality in the disability community featuring Leroy Moore. Police brutality in the disabled community will be discussed as well as how Hip-Hop artists use their talents in cases of police brutality. Leroy will also discuss the origins of Krip Hop Nation and talk about current projects and activism opportunities. There will be audio and visual cases by Hip Hop artists with disabilities and participants will have the option to do an exercise based on these cases.

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SAT FEB 11th, EVENING 5-9PM
U of WA, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room

Under 1 Nation: Zulu & Krip-Hop

This a multimedia presentation featuring Hip-Hop performances by artists with disabilities including Leroy Moore and King Khazm. Using Hip-Hop as a cultural platform, police brutality and profiling within the disability community will be discussed as well as the justice system's relationship to the Black and disability community. This presentation will feature music, audio, and film presentations as well as a panel discussion on Hip-Hop and activism.


This event strives to be Accessible and Scent/Fragrance-Free. For more information on how to be scent-free, check out:
http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html  .

For other access requirements, please contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or email dso@u.washington.edu


Co-sponsors: ASUW Black Student Commission, ASUW Queer Student Commission, AccessSTEM

Supporters: Disability Advocacy Student Alliance (DASA), Rainy Dawg Radio, ASUW Arts & Entertainment, and Seattle Disability Justice Collective


BIOS:

LEROY MOORE, Jr. is a Co-Founder and Community Relations Director of Sins Invalid--a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. As a Black writer, poet, hip-hop/music lover, community activist, feminist and consultant on race and disability with a physical disability, he has been sharing his perspectives on identity, race, and disability for the last 13 years. His work began in London, England where he discovered a Black disabled movement which led to the creation of his lecture series, "On the
Outskirts: Race & Disability". He is also producer and columnist of Illin-N-Chillin at Poor Magazine and creator of Krip-Hop Mixtape Project.
He is one of the leading voices around police brutality and wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities and has studied, worked, and lectured in the field of race and disability concerning blues, hip-hop, and social justice issues in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands.


King Khazm, an artist, activist, educator, promoter and community leader, has played an important Seattle Hip Hop scene for years. He co-founded MAD Krew in 1995, a Hip Hop crew that quickly evolved into an influential multimedia production company. MAD Krew’s release of the Hip Hop documentary video, ‘Enter the Madness’ in 1998, helped exposed Pacific Northwest Hip Hop on a national level. Khazm produced and co-founded Hip Hop 101, a live weekly television show that exposed local and national Hip Hop artists which broadcasted on regional cable and on online. Khazm also co-hosts Zulu Radio, a weekly broadcast on KBCS 91.3 fm, dedicated to diversifying the Seattle airwaves with new school, old school, independent, and local Hip Hop.

"POOR Magazine the publication arts and education project was started in
1996 by an indigenous, landless mother and daughter who struggled with extreme poverty, incarceration and criminalization in the US. POOR Magazine, the organization, is a poor people led/indigenous people led non-profit, grassroots, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, arts, education and solutions from youth, adults and elders in poverty across Pachamama."
http://www.poormagazine.org/
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NEED MORE INFO OR INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING? Volunteer interpreters, greeters, etc needed! Email Lee at lestead@uw.edu  for more info!

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WHAT IS SEATTLE DISABILITY JUSTICE COLLECTIVE?
We are a grassroots group in the Seattle area that formed in 2011 with the goal of hosting events that are political, cultural, artistic and educational regarding disability justice. Disability justice to us means building more liberated communities and movements by centering the experiences of those often marginalized in disability communities and by making connections between disability, race, gender, class and sexuality.

CONTACT US AT seattledisabilityjustice@gmail.com



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Some other Leroy Moore links:


http://www.kqed.org/arts/performance/article.jsp?essid=43903

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2011/02/jamoeblog/amoeblog-black-history-month-series-salutes-leroy-moore-the-krip-hop-nation-pt-i.html