Footscray Community Arts Centre
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JONZI D – ACE, RAD, WICKIDSTICKS!
Last Saturday, over 16 very special members from the FCAC hip hop family spent an action packed day with UK hip hop legend, Jonzi D!
Jonzi is a proud East Londoner who combines his life experiences across varying hip hop practices, creating everything from emcee slams, to hip hopera, to Breakin Convention, an International Festival of Hip Hip Theatre presented by world famous theatre Sadlers Wells.
Check out some of our beautiful people in action…just look at that concentrated focus!
Juvarn Thebus Machehi Komba Carl Sevita
Lina Lonia Tong Bol Jack Hewitt
Fusen Mu Dismas Dbing Sutur
Ezeldin Deng Fenella Edwards Rob Tremblett
Danny Al Sabbagh AND JONZI D HIMSELF!!!
A big shout out to Lena and Mouna from ICE for so graciously sharing Jonzi with us whilst he’s in ‘Straya. We hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship Check em out folks
www.ice.org.au
Deepest thanks to our dearest friends Dan West at the Arts Centre, and Cat Sweeney and Grace Vanilau from Multicultural Arts Victoria for assisting us to connect with awesome hip hop artists from the wider culturally and linguistically diverse family.
Ups to Rachel Main, our awesome filmmaker who documented the workshop. Keep an eye out for Rachel’s new krump documentary, Burn City, coming to a hot screen new you!
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