Air 2 A Bird – Let’s Ride (Official Music Video)
Air 2 A Bird “Let’s Ride” Crow Hill A film by Andria Millie and Lucien Pelligren Debut music video from Air 2 A Bird, a collaborative project by Gabriel Teodros and Amos Miller. The album “Crow Hill” was recorded in 14 days using only a piano, garage band, and recordings of actual birds. It was produced just after Gabriel Teodros was denied access to the UK, their tour was cancelled and they unexpectedly found themselves in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Album available at iTunes and other digital outlets. More info at http://www.air2abird.com
Season of change on Zulu Radio
2011 brings a new season of change as Zulu Radio co-founder DJ WD4D retires his monthly schedule on KBCS 91.3 FM. WD4D has filled the airwaves with countless mixes, blends and cuts in the greater Seattle-area for 5 years now, since it’s inception in 2005. No stranger to the local music scene, you can catch WD spinning at Stop Biting on Tuesdays at the Lo-Fi Performance Gallery or many of your favorite shows in town. Special thanks and appreciation goes to WD for years of service and spreading that true school Hip Hop!
In with the new- A warm welcome to DJ Cues who will be taking the reins! Some of you may have heard Cues cutting hard at Seattle’s DJ/turntablist hot-spot Skratch Lounge at the Baltic Room every 1st Thursday of the month, if not, you will be hearing this name a lot in 2011 as DJ Cues takes on the airwaves.
Another warm welcome to emcee, dancer, educator BeLoved 1 who will be in the mix with Zulu Radio. You can check her debut show this Saturday 22nd on KBCS 91.3 FM and online at www.kbcs.fm!
Zulu Radio, every Saturday on 91.3 KBCS FM and online at www.KBCS.fm from 10pm to midnight!
Dia de los Muertos 2010
Dia de los Muertos 2010
Month of November
Come Celebrate With Us!
Enjoy the Ofrenda Exhibit
November 2nd-19th
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10am-6pm
Wednesday 12-8pm
Featuring Ofrendas by:
ALAS * Beacon Hill International School * Big Brothers Big Sisters * iComadres! * El Centro de la Raza After School Program * Entre Hermanos * The Finney Neighborhood Center * Friends of the Orphans * Hope For Youth * Los Poetas del Monton * Mothers Against Drunk Driving * Office of Multicultural Affairs Seattle University * Palestine Solidarity Committee * WHEEL/Women in Black * 206 ZULU * and many more!
Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn Proclaims November as Hip Hop History Month
Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn Proclaims November as Hip Hop History Month
206 Zulu Helps Promote Awareness for Hip Hop Issues and Culture
SEATTLE, Wash., November 1, 2010 – 206 Zulu announced today that Seattle Mayor, Michael McGinn, issued an official proclamation recognizing November as Hip Hop History Month, honoring both the birth month of Hip Hop culture and the important contributions made by Seattle Hip Hop artists in the areas of Deejaying, Emceeing, B-Boying/Girling, Graffiti Art and Knowledge. 206 Zulu petitioned the Mayor in early October for the acknowledgement.
“206 Zulu is excited that Mayor McGinn recognizes the many contributions made by hip hop artists in the Seattle community”, said King Khazm, chair of 206 Zulu. “Being able to celebrate Hip Hop History Month in Seattle is a celebration of all of the hard work, sacrifice, innovation and dedication of local artists whether famous or nameless. Moving forward, this annual occasion will facilitate additional education programs to celebrate the culture in a positive manner.”
Hip Hop Culture began in the neglected and poverty ravaged New York City Burroughs, the South Bronx, in November of 1974. Hip Hop has since become a global culture and has made a profound impact on Seattle’s arts and music community. Hip Hop in Seattle was pioneered in the early-to-mid 1980’s and has grown across all its artistic mediums, known as the “Five Elements” gaining local, national and international recognition.
The official birthday of Hip Hop is November 12th, 1974. Within the past 35 years, Hip-Hop culture has greatly influenced the entertainment world with its creative contributions in music, dance, art, poetry, and fashion.
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Hip Hop History Month Home Page
Can Food Drive
November 1-30, 2010
Seattle Zulus
1st Annual
Can Food Drive
Drop Off Locations
Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine
2000 S. Jackson St., Seattle 98144
(20th & Jackson)
The Station (Beacon Hill)
606 Maynard Ave S., Seattle 98104
Wapifasa (Chinatown)
2533 16th Ave S., Seattle 98144
Celebration of TalkSick
Thursday, October 14th
It’s been one year since our dear friend James “TalkSick” Sullivan has passed. We would like to invite all family, friends, and community members to come together in Celebration of TalkSick’s life as he would’ve wanted it- Hip Hop style! Calling all DJs, MCs, B-Boys & Writers to Cypher! Also potluck! Info: tkskmusic@gmail.com
Hidmo – 2000 So. Jackson St. – 6pm
Roberto Maestas Passes
Roberto Felipe Maestas, long-time executive director and a founder of Seattle’s El Centro de la Raza, passed away at approximately 6 a.m., Wednesday, September 22, 2010. He died of complications due to cancer.
Roberto was born July 9, 1938, on a subsistence plot in San Augustine del Valle de Nuestra Senora de Lourdes, New Mexico. His birthplace was a small village in a box canyon that has since been abandoned, located nine miles southeast of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and about 70 miles east of Santa Fe.
When Roberto was six months old his mother, Lina, died of tuberculosis. At about the same time his father, Francisco, disappeared. Roberto was raised by his maternal grandparents, Don Isidoro and Dona Emilia Vigil, with 16 other children.
Early in life Roberto’s passion for activism was instilled in him. He sensed the manifest unfairness of being forced into the migrant stream at age 14. His memory was vivid, his family having lost their land in New Mexico. “We were pushed off our land and then we became essentially slaves in the fields”, he would recall. “Putting all that together, it was clear to me that I needed to learn as much as I could about this system, its history, and its functioning.”
Roberto arrived in Seattle, leaving migrant farm work in the Yakima Valley behind him, but the experience he gained as a farm-worker organizer he would later use, and use effectively. He dropped out of Cleveland High School for economic reasons and began working. His first job in Seattle was on an assembly-line, graveyard shift at Boeing, the Seattle area’s dominant employer. He also worked as a gas-station attendant and at other odd jobs.
Later, Roberto enrolled at Edison Tech, now Seattle Central Community College, and completed a high-school degree. He then taught at Franklin High School while studying at the University of Washington.
In 1956, Roberto married Janet Tassin of Seattle. They had three children, Tina Maria, Angela, and Roberto Jr.
Eventually Roberto became one of the first Chicano graduates of the University of Washington. He earned Bachelor’s degrees (1966) in Spanish and Journalism, and a Master’s degree (1971) in Romance Languages and Literature. Recently Roberto was included in a University of Washington Alumni Association magazine as one of the University’s Wondrous One Hundred.
At the University, Maestas became an activists with fellow Chicano students. They saw the value of a broader coalition and they integrated with other Black, Native American and Asian/Pacific Islander activist, including some who became his closest, lifelong friends, including (now) King County Councilman Larry Gossett, and Bob Santos, a well-known activist in the Asian/Pacific Islander community. Later they would team with the late Bernie Whitebear, a founder of the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, and they became known affectionately in Seattle as The Four Amigos.
Having completed his Master’s degree, Roberto played a major role in starting a program at South Seattle Community College to provide adult basic education and English as a Second Language (ESL). When funding for the program was eliminated in 1972, Roberto, joined by other teachers and students, summoned a cross-cultural band of supporters to an extended camp-in (occupation) at the abandoned Beacon Hill Elementary School. It is here where they negotiated (demanded) the creation of El Centro de la Raza.
Two months into the occupation of the old school, on December 10, 1972, Maestas, now divorced, married Estela Ortega, 22, of Houston, Texas, whom he met at a conference in El Paso, Texas. They exchanged vows in what is now El Centro’s nationally recognized Jose Marti Child Development Center. In 1972, their altar was a musty, cellar-like room without heat or electricity, and a make-shift stage. The ceremony was conducted by a Native American Chumash elder, Semu Huaute.
Together, Roberto and Estela began their life’s journey rebuilding an old school on Beacon Hill that developers wanted for a shopping mall. It looms large today as an icon known as El Centro de la Raza (the people’s center).
Their commitment to El Centro, la comunidad (community), la lucha (struggle), notwithstanding, Roberto’s and Estela’s greatest priority and devotion was raising their two daughters, Amalia Cubana Maestas and Adriana Emilia Maestas. Both are attorneys.
On October 14, 2009, United States Congressman Jim McDermott (D-7th District), commended Roberto in The Congressional Record: Mr. Maestas has been intimately involved in the ongoing struggle for civil rights and social justice, not only for Latinos, but for all disadvantaged people. He is among Seattle’s most respected figures, esteemed for his effectiveness, his political savvy, and his legendary persuasive powers.
On November 12, 2009, at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, the Gang of Four (aka The Four Amigos) became The Fantastic Four. They were introduced by Captain America, “Fighting for truth, justice, and ˜The Seattle Way.” With proclamations from the city’s mayor and the state’s governor recognizing Four Amigos Day, kudos rolled. Roughly 40 years had passed since The Four Amigos led civil disobedience that earned them official condemnation.
One of Roberto’s favorite verses was from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: This is what you should do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or any man or number of men Re- examine all you have been told at school or in church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Roberto stepped down as executive director of El Centro in 2009, and became an historical advisor. At the time of his passing, he was co-authoring a history of the organization with lifelong friend and companion, Bruce E. Johansen, professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, with whom he wrote two other books.
Off The Wall
Sunday, August 29th, dozens of aerosol artists from throughout the Northwest gathered at Seattle’s “Sodo Legal Wall”, the unofficial name of the backside wall of F.C. Bloxom Company. This colorful space designated for legal graffiti art stands vivid in contrast to the repetitious-monotone buildings that surround the industrial area, running parallel to freight trains and warehouses.
The occasion- an all-day, family-friendly aerosol art competition entitled “Off The Wall” hosted by Seattle Art Together & 206 Zulu. About 300 attendees gathered to witness the timed competition and festival which also included DJs, performances and artist booths.
Eight crews of four people advanced the online submission process to compete in the day’s festivity and were given a 15′ x 18′ wall, ladder and six hours to complete their mural. These eight included KT, MOS, The Media Crisis, Seattle Painters Union, UBK, Man Needs Knowledge, The Rat Pack and Letter Heads.
The esteemed judges; Sire One, Ziplok and Bruno had the arduous task of eliminating the works down to one mural, based on originality, theme, color and composition, can control and technique, and unity. After long debate the winning crew to receive the champion title and $500 cash prize was The Rat Pack.
Seattle Art Together and 206 Zulu would like to thank the following: F.C. Bloxom Company, Solar Richard, Graf Cards, Onestaa.com, Art Primo, Painting In Peace, Upperplayground, Silver Nozzle, Silver Platters, DJs Cues, Seabefore, Dev-J, E-Fade and all the volunteers who contributed to make this event a success.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Seattle Art Together & 206 Zulu presents:
OFF THE WALL
An Aerosol Art Production Battle
4-on-4 Crew Battles
$500 1st Place & Prizes
DJs Cues, Gumbeaux & Seabefore
Sodo Wall
2250 Occidental Ave S
Seattle, WA 98134
12-7pm – Free – All Ages
SOTA – “ExtraHellaDope” (Official Music Video)
ARTIST: State of the Artist feat. Helladope and Jarv Dee
SONG: “Extrahelladope”
ALBUM: SeattleCaliFragilisticExtraHellaDopeness
LABEL: Members Only Entertainment Group
Directed by Stephan Gray
DP – Billy Summers
AC – Joel Phillips
1st AD – Zak Downing
Gaffer – Coty James
Production Engineer – Phil Gray
Edit – Stephan Gray