Civil Disobedience

Congratulations to everyone who participated!

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Hip Hop lives at Civil Disobedience on Friday, 9/30 from 6-10pm! 

This free event will feature an MC exhibition battle, DJ Pete Salaz, Automatic Response, the Human Project, and an open cipher.  Come learn to write graf with BREEZE, learn to scratch on industry-standard DJ equipment, text your rhymes on the walls of the ASU Art Museum, and make some noise for the Civil Disobedience Sample Archive! 

Join hosts Chris Couplin an Saza at this free event.  Sponsors include the ASU School of Music, School of Dance, and School of Theater and Film. Here’s a map of the event site (look for the SUN), with parking highlighted:

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This was an amazing event.  Thanks to nightfuse dot com for the fantastic pics.  Click on the thumbnails for a full view.  Come see our next event in April!

The ASU School of Music, School of Dance, and School of Theater and Film are hosting park jams in the Fine Arts Plaza on Saturday, March 26 from 3-6pm and Friday, April 22 from 6-10pm!  Here’s a map with parking:

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Join hosts Chris Couplin and Saza, DJs Senbad and Pete Salaz, and a wide range of other urban dancers, graf writers, MCs, spoken word poets, and DJs for some Saturday fun!  Free, open to the public, and family friendly - so bring the kids and introduce them to real hip hop culture. Learn to write graffiti at our open graf clinic, learn to scratch at the scratch clinic, and don’t forget those dancing shoes.

Click here to watch the trailer from an upcoming documentary by Jorge “Fabel” Pabon and Johnny “Zip” Rodriguez.

On Friday, October 2 come see pieces by DOSE, SEST, EVOL, PUSH, REYEZ, SERP, ALOY, and Hector Ruiz.  This free event runs from 7-11pm, and is sponsored by the ASU School of Music.

The Chocolate Factory
1105 Grand Ave.

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The ASU School of Music will host an interactive conference on October 2 and 3 that will feature discussions, performances, and debates with GZA, Phonte, West Coast Kam, Fabel, Felicia Miyakawa, and others.  The conference will include performances, papers, discussion panels, and more.  Come engage with these scholars in Katzin Auditorium at the ASU School of Music!  This event is free and open to the public.

Katzin Auditorium
October 2: 2-5pm
October 3: Noon-3pm

This year’s events will climax with a concert in Gammage Auditorium presented by the ASU School of Music and MPR Entertainment on Saturday, October 3 featuring Gza ”The Genius” of the Wu-Tang Clan, Phonte from Little Brother, Cut Throat Logic, Grime, Brother Kam, and others.  Tickets are $11.50, and will be available at the Gammage box office and at Ticketmaster.com.  Doors open at 8:00 pm and the show begins at 8:30.

The Civil Disobedience Graffiti Alley Project has been awarded the 2009 President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness.  This medal recognizes ASU departmental, interdepartmental or multidisciplinary teams that have demonstrated excellence in fostering mutually supportive partnerships with Arizona communities to address community needs and implement successful solutions.  For more information, go to this page.