BYRON HURT 

 More than a filmmaker, Byron Hurt is an anti-sexist activist who provides cutting-edge male leadership, expert analysis, keynote addresses, and workshop facilitation in the field of sexual and gender violence prevention and education.

 Bryon burst onto the scene with searing documentaries, most notably HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES, a riveting documentary that examines representations of gender roles in hip-hop and rap music. Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist, conceived this documentary as a “loving critique” from a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head.” Hurt examines issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in today’s hip-hop culture. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” had its television premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard.



Byron Hurt is currently exploring the health advantages and disadvantages of soul food, a quintessential American cuisine in the documentary SOUL FOOD JUNKIES.

Buy a copy of HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES today!!

SUPPORT "SOUL FOOD JUNKIES" at Kickstarter! No amount is too small!  ADINKRA HOUSE is proud to be hosting a viewing of this important film in 2012! STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO!

NATIONAL BLACK WRITERS CONFERENCE

Have you signed up for the 11th Annual National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn NY? Thursday March 29th through Sunday April 1st. Don't miss this phenomenal event!

NTJAM ROSIE  

2009 was a successful year for Ntjam Rosie. She won the Music Matters Award in Rotterdam & on the same day she also won the ‘MCN World Up! Award’ for most promising talent during the first edition of the Dutch World Music Day. The jury stated: “Her powerful voice and distinctive style creates an astonishing set full of soul and energy.”

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Pick up her latest album “ELLE”, released 2010, and her first record “ATOUBA”. She found inspiration in artists like George Duke, Stevie Wonder, Patrice Rushen, Syreeta and Miriam Makeba. The new album breathes a late seventies sound with catchy hooks and fine sing along choruses.

Learn more about Ntjam at www.ntjamrosie.com/

MUV Dance Company

Movement for the Urban Village (MUV) is a Brooklyn, NY based Contemporary Dance Company founded in 2004 by Shalewa Mackall. Joining the techniques, traditions and rhythms of dances from all corners and all eras of the African Diaspora with the immediacy of contemporary performance, MUV is Ancient Modern Dance.

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 CAMILLE A BROWN

Known for high theatricality, gutsy moves and virtuosic musicality, Camille A. Brown & Dancers soar through history like a whirlwind. The company's work explores typical, real life situations ranging from literal relationships to more complex themes with an eye on the past and present. Making a personal claim on history, through the lens of a modern female perspective, Camille A. Brown leads her dancers through dazzling excavations of ancestral stories, both timeless and traditional, as well as immediate contemporary issues. The work is strongly character based, expressing whatever the topic is by building from little moments, modeling a filmic sensibility. Theater, poetry, visual art and music of all genres merge to inject each performance with energy and urgency._

CAMILLE A. BROWN (Artistic Director/Choreographer), originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, is interested in that space between dance and theater where interdisciplinary work defies category and takes flight. Informed by her music background as a clarinetist, she creates choreography that utilizes musical composition as storytelling- investigating the silent space within the measure. She builds dance vocabulary from a very personal place. Characters are facets of her life, her experience as a lens into the past and the present.

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TWIN SPIRIT

With vocals so deeply hypnotic, they penetrate to the core of the soul of the listener. Twin Spirit's live performances are so honest and real that many have called it "a spiritual experience".

Her eclectic flavor is a tasty blend of soul & jazz, Sprinkled with a hint of funk. Her sound is organic and the pictures it paints are filled with sincerity & strength as well as vulnerabilities and human-ness. Its been coined "Hypnotic Soul" which charismatically describes her artistic expression and vocal abilities.

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