Detroit Exhibits Closing Party: Post-Industrial Soundtrack & Detroit Deluxxe (Musical Presentation and Concert)
Sunday, January 15, 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 2012
**NEW**
Damon Rich meets Detroit Summer LAMP youth
11am-12pm
Plug Into the LAMPost-
Youth Led Multimedia Based Community Organizing:
12pm-3pm
Detroit Summer LAMP youth leaders will facilitate an interactive presentation about Detroit Summer’s Live Arts Media Project (LAMP), a popular education based youth led organizing and participatory research process that integrates media and creative expression. Detroit Summer youth leaders will showcase this “12 steps to Illumination” process, which they used to create the artwork in the “Another Detroit is Happening” exhibit, currently on display the Queens Museum. Read more about the exhibit and Detroit Summer here.
Post-Industrial Soundtrack: Exploring the Global Impact of Detroit’s Musical Landscape
Presenters: Waajeed and DJ Rimarkable
3PM-5PM
Beyond the automobile, one of Detroit’s greatest contribution to global culture is musical innovation. The unique and challenging social and political context of Detroit has produced artists with a high degree of integrity, musical perfectionism, and groundbreaking technique. Waajeed and DJ Rimarkable will explore how Detroit’s music innovations have evolved side-by-side with and advanced the city’s movements for social transformation. They will also present about Detroit DJs and their role in amplifying and preserving the city’s musical legacy, from Motown, to Rock, Funk, Techno, Hip-Hop and beyond.
Detroit Deluxxe
6PM-9PM
Exhibit closing party and performance featuring Detroit artists DJ Rimarkable, Invincible, and Waajeed.
Invincible
It is truly rare to find an artist like Invincible. Her spitfire wordplay has gotten her acclaim from Hip Hop fans all across the world, while her active involvement in progressive social change has taken her music beyond entertainment, and towards actualizing the change she wishes to see. The Detroit based Hip-Hop artist and activist began penning lyrics at the age of nine, shortly after learning English by memorizing her favorite songs. She founded her own label and media company EMERGENCE, through which she released her critically acclaimed debut album ShapeShifters in 2008. Invincible has also produced several award winning videos, and directed The Revival short documentary series about women in hip-hop. She teamed up with longtime producer Waajeed in 2010 to release a limited edition 7″ single “Detroit Summer/Emergence”. Invincible + Waajeed’s upcoming collaborative project will illuminate the connections between complex science, social movements, and Hip-Hop. Invincible is a fellow of Kresge Arts in Detroit, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for Women and Gender in the Arts and Media. You can learn more about Invincible here: www.EMERGENCEmedia.org
Waajeed
Waajeed (born Robert O’Bryant) is a Detroit-born music producer, and one half of the hip hop and R&B group Platinum Pied Pipers. He formed the Bling47 record label in 2002,which has released his work and projects by J Dilla and the vocalist Tiombe Lockhart. Before producing records, Waajeed was studying art and DJing in and around the Detroit music circuit. He designed the cover for Slum Village’s Fantastic, Vol. 2. As a producer, Waajeed began comparatively late (2000), but before long had landed a handful of tracks on the group’s Trinity (Past, Present and Future) album. Waajeed’s productions have led to him working with some of the industry’s most respected artists such as Roy Ayers and Radiohead. He is currently working on forthcoming albums by Bling47 artists, Tiombe Lockhart, and Invincible. In 2007 he released a compilation called The War LP. In 2010, he released preview of his remix of DEDE (American Band)’s “Phantom” on Soundcloud. He is currently working on the second Platinum Pied Pipers album, as well as a collaborative album with Detroit MC Invincible. You can follow Waajeed on twitter.com/Jeedo47
DJ Rimarkable
Redefining the word “remix”, Mariaelena “RiRi” Garcia, aka DJ Rimarkable is a renaissance woman indeed. A writer, vocalist, instructor, drummer, producer and DJ, her multiple talents have taken her to many stages. Truly mastering the DJ technique of “Reading the Crowd”, she has earned the moniker, “Rimarkable” after rocking international dance floors for more than a decade. She has shared the bill with such music icons as Meshell Ndegeocello, Les Nubians and Toshi Reagon to name a few. She is a member of the all female-DJ squad Ubiquita NYC and a producer/recording artist on legendary DJ/Scholar, Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love’s record label, Alala Recordings. You can hear music samples, mixes, and view RiRi’s full bio on her podcast page: djrimarkable.podOmatic.com