Documentary Screening & Q&A: Hip Hop Revolución

Alborada presents a screening of the documentary Hip Hop Revolución // Hip Hop Revolucion (Documentary) (Director: Pablo Navarrete, Alborada Films, 60 mins, 2015) British activist Jody McIntyre travels to Venezuela with UK-Iraqi rapper Lowkey to spend time with ‘Hip Hop Revolución’, a dynamic collective of musical revolutionaries. They witness their inspiring grassroots work and share music and ideas, exploring the cultural and political changes taking place in the country. At its heart, this film is about the power of music, community and the spirit of rebellion. :: Watch a teaser for the film here: https://www.facebook.com/alboradafilms/videos/1164935533545211/ Time: 6pm-8.30pm The film will begin at 6.30pm and will be followed by the Q&A with the director Pablo Navarrete, Stephanie Kennedy (journalist/former teleSUR English correspondent), Darren Chetty (HipHopEd https://www.facebook.com/hiphoped/) + others TBC. Chaired by Jack Young. **See below for more info on the panelists** Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Free entry More information about the film here: http://www.alborada.net/hhr.film ***For the latest events in London hosted, supported or recommended by Alborada, join our page Alborada London. You can sign up to the Alborada London enewsletter here: https://madmimi.com/signups/86410/join**** ::: PANELIST INFO: Darren Chetty is an educator, education researcher and prominent member of HipHopEd: a platform that embraces the intersection of hip hop and education in the UK and internationally. He has won the Award for Excellence in Philosophy for Children (ICPIC) for his article "The Elephant in the Room: Picturebooks, Philosophy got Children and Racism" and is a contributor to the recently published anthology "The Good Immigrant" (ed. Nikesh Shukla). Stephanie Kennedy lived and worked as a journalist for 7 years in Latin America, investigating issues of colonialism and gender in the indigenous communities of the Amazon. In Venezuela, she worked with communitarian media groups in low-income neighbourhoods (barrios) in Caracas, whose mission was to explore media as a tool of emancipation. She reported from Palestine for Venezuela's national radio station, RNV, before eventually becoming a news producer and correspondent for the Latin American news platform, Telesur. Now based in London, Stephanie is a freelance writer and Assistant Director at the Spanish school and Latin American cultural centre, Battersea Spanish. Pablo Navarrete is a journalist and documentary filmmaker specialising on Latin America http://www.alborada.net/pablonavarrete