4th Annual
BRIDGING THE GAP CONFERENCE
"Did Hip Hop Make Me Do It?"


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Schedule

Friday, February 22, 2008
Heller Lounge 9am-4pm
gye nyame
9:00-9:30
Youth Videos, Breakfast, Registration & Press Coverage
sank1
9:30 am
Libation & Drumming & Video Honoring the Fallen
Drums of Thunder and Dawn Williams
sank2
9:45 am
Performance
Lil O, Cov Records, Silence the Violence Campaign
Youth Video (interlude)
funt
10:00 am
Keynote Speaker - Erinn Ransom
funt
10:20 am
Performance
Kontent
Youth Video (interlude)
funt
10:30 am
Interactive Intergenerational Panel
funt
11:30
Lunch & Entertainment
Traivon Soto aka Kontent (Master of Ceremonies)
Feature Film: Eli Jacobs - Fantauzzi
Youth Video (interlude)
funt
12:30 pm
Performance
funt
12:45 pm
Action Session Workshops
  • History of Hip Hop (Heller)
  • Media Literacy (Black Oak-4th)
  • African Diaspora & Identity (Chinquapin-4th)
  • Women in Hip Hop (East Pauley)
  • Conflict Mediation (West Madrone)
funt
1:45 pm
Performance

Useful URLs on Reparations

www.ncobra.com
www.nationalcenter.org/reparations.html
www.arm.arc.co.uk

Useful URLs on Hip Hop

www.allhiphop.com
www.daveyd.com
www.afrorootshop.com

Bridging the Gap Committee

Dawn Williams - T-shirts, outreach
SuKe - Outreach & Planning
Jon Brack - Registration
Funie Hsu - Conference Coordinator
Traivon Soto - Entertainment & Vision
Shanika Jermaine - Workshops
Hilary Hayes - Workshops & Logistics
Nat Turner, Fundraising & Food
Reggie Royston - Graphics, Myspace
Pierre Tchetgen - Web Design
G Reyes - Youth Video & Outreach

Co-Sponsoring Organizations Black Graduate Student Association
Chancellor's Student Opportunity Fund
Graduate Minority Outreach Recruitment and Retention
Hip Hop Working Group
Students for Hip Hop @ Cal
The Afromerican Project