Next week the elements of the Hip Hop scene (past, present and future) will collide in Ithaca New York to coincide with the exhibition of The Hip Hop Collection at Cornell University.
The three-day event will feature panel discussions, art exhibits and a concert series featuring Afrika Bambaata (see Dan Smalls Presents, Inc.). Of particular interest to SIF will be the talk by Hip Hop Photo-historian Joe Conzo (who also documented the Latin Music scene in the 70s and 80s).
For a complete schedule, click here. To brush up on your Hip Hop History, click here.
The Bread & Puppet Theater Co (based in Vermont) was in Syracuse this week as part of their tour for the firms 50th Anniversary. The company combines dance with political satire, street theater and puppetry. Here is a photo of their bus parked along the Connective Corridor.
Khalil Kain, actor and activist, spoke at the Landmark Theater downtown to say we need to teach empathy to stop gun violence. Khan is a stage actor and is best known for his role in the Hip Hop film noir classic Juice.
Kain, who was the keynote speaker on a stage full of city leaders, talked about how his life was affected by gun violence and the work he’s doing in New York City.
Digital data entrepreneur and strategist Chuck Hemann gave a talk yesterday about trends in analytics at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. He highlighted new research frontiers in social media listening and advised that social and digital data should not be limited to public relations and marketing.
For the content curators in the audience Hemann gave this pearl of wisdom: visual content trumps copy; For the journalists/publishers, he offered a new take on the five-W’s:
What are people saying about your brand?
Where are people talking about your brand?
When are people talking about your brand?
Who is talking about your brand?
Why are people talking about your brand?
Hemann can be found on twitter and he is co-author of the soon to be released book Digital Marketing Analytics: Making Sense of Consumer Data in a Digital Word.
