Hip Hop 50 Boombox, by Bayeté Ross Smith

Sunday, September 22, 2024
11:00 AM 5:00 PM

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Contribute your favorite songs on freedom and liberation alongside your perspective on climate change to Bayeté Ross Smith’s mix tapes on the climate change crisis, part of a life-size sculpture made out of sugarcane and cotton boombox replicas. Bayeté will collect recordings all day and mingle your favorite songs and voices in with pre-recorded perspectives from the participating artists, climate experts, and MJN.

Hip Hop 50 Boombox’s sculptures are made out of sustainable packaging material, in collaboration with Pulp Works. The sculpture and mixtapes celebrate 50 years of HipHop culture and HipHop’s role as a global freedom movement for African Descendant people, as well as other marginalized people around the globe.

Visit HipHop50Boombox and scan QR codes for mixtapes and other #GotThePowerBoomboxes.

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