I haven’t seen anything about this on The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival website or on the swift chancellor report but The Brooklyn Paper says that the Festival is losing its current park location. A production of Macbeth has been given that slot next year.
They include Wes Jackson’s view:
Festival organizers believe the move was racially motivated. "Hip hop brings a lot more brown people to this neighborhood, and people who live here are not comfortable with it," said Wes Jackson, whose Room Service Production founded the festival in 2005. "[People have told me that residents say], ‘The festival should be in Commodore Barry Park between the projects and the BQE, not next to my $2.5-million condo.’"
That’s a serious blow to a project that hip hop bloggers in the area rave about. Hip hop shows have enough problems without having venues stolen from an event like The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival that from all reports was well run and was also very cool.
i’m speechless.
this is a major problem.
I heard this is not accurate. There should be more details early next week….
we are hosting our 1st edition of hip-hop festival and also do have afro hip-hop artists to propose.
please get us informed on what to do
peace