QUEER HIP HOP COMES TO CLAREMONT...TOMORROW!!!!

TOMORROW, Tuesday, November 28th

QUEER HIP HOP COMES TO CLAREMONT

'Pick Up the Mic' Screening with Q&A AND Homohop artists at Table Manners

'Pick Up the Mic' -- Documentary about Queer Hip-Hop, or Homohop: 7:30 PM

'Queer Hip-Hop: it's a lot more than a stylish oxymoron in this surprising, fast-paced documentary on the world of queer rappers. Featuring searing public performances and raw, revealing interviews with the community's most significant players, the film captures an unapologetic underground music movement just as it explodes into the mainstream - defying the music industry's most homophobic genre in the process.

PICK UP THE MIC features more than a dozen contemporary hip-hop artists, representing a striking range of sexual and ethnic diversity. Shot over a three-year period, the film traces their intertwining relationships from San Francisco's underground music scene of the early '90s through performances as recent as 2005.

PICK UP THE MIC is not only a captivating record of a burgeoning culture, but is ultimately - and perhaps more importantly - an inspiring exploration of the universal desire to voice the passion and pain of one's individual existence.'

SCREENING @ 7:30 PM, Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center
Q&A with Director Alex Hinton and performers following screening

and after the screening...

TABLE MANNERS: HOMOHOP EDITION

9:30 PM - 12:30 AM

9:30 - 11 : DJ Nik

11 - 12:30 : Live Performances by queer rappers DEADLEE, KATASTROPHE, and JENRO

As always, REFRESHMENTS will be served...

Brought to you by the QRC, CCLA, Pitzer Women's Center, QQAMP, Women's Studies, Media Studies, the Students of Color Alliance, Straight But Not Narrow, and the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies

fmi: andrew.extein@pomona.edu,
anh-thu.nguyen@pomona.edu