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Screening: "Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop" and "Resistencia: Hip Hop in Colombia"

Saturday January 15th; 5 pm and 7 pm
Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A); F to 2nd Ave; 6 to Bleecker
$9 Adults / $6.50 Pioneer Members
Advance tix available at: www.thirdi.org/~ny
"Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop" gives a voice to South Asian MCs, beatboxers, spoken word artists and producers. With hip-hop as its lens, this documentary is a colorful portrait of the rainbow of political ideals, social messages and experiences that is in part young South Asian Americans today, revealing an emerging layer of this second generation community. Through their music and their lives these artists speak on everything from racial profiling post 9/11 to identity in second-generation immigrant communities, forcing us to question traditional' South Asian existence in America in fresh new ways.

*Screening with
RESISTENCIA: HIP HOP IN COLOMBIA
(Tom Feiling, 51 min., 2002, video)
This video offers an unusual look at the current political and economic crisis in Colombia'¹including a decades-long civil war, a rampant drug trade, kidnapping for ransom, and financial scandal at the highest levels of the government'¹through the eyes of young Colombians, in particular the country's finest rap musicians, DJs and breakdancers. These young artist-activists turn out to be surprisingly articulate in their analysis of the nation's deteriorating situation and its role within a global economic system dominated by the U.S. They also provide rare insights into life in the poor barrios of this volatile country and how traditional Latin music has been surpassed in popularity by rap music. Resistencia is thus not only youthful and entertaining, it is also angry and enlightening.