In its 3rd year already, CASRAM has created wonderful exposure for some of the nation's brightest stars and provided a platform for independent female artists. This year Washington, D.C. promises to be a smash with some of the most talked about names in hip-hop, soul and beyond!
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The Can A Sista Rock A Mic? Music Festival Returns to Washington, D.C. This August Third Annual All-Female Music Festival Promises to Be Bigger and Better Washington, D.C. –– This August is gonna be on fire with the recent announcement of the 3rd Annual Can A Sista Rock A Mic? Music Festival (CASRAM) scheduled to return to Washington, D.C. from August 7-12, 2007. This unique music festival will highlight positive images of women and showcase some extraordinary local and national female talent. This year’s festival boasts an exciting array of established and rising stars in hip-hop, neo-soul, spoken word, and R&B. CASRAM opens in grand fashion at The Rock and Roll Hotel where the mic will be set ablaze by female hip-hop phenoms Bahamadia and Emoni Fela. Subsequent nights will include live performances from neo-soul sensations Carol Riddick (Musiq Soulchild), YahZarah is Purple Saint James (Erykah Badu, Foreign Exchange), Sy Smith (American Idol, Ally McBeal), and Afi [pronounced ah-FEE], a Washington D.C. native in rotation on VH1 Soul and BETJ. More performers and surprise guests will be added in the coming weeks. The festival also includes spoken word, live art, and a female panel discussion. CASRAM clearly has something for everyone during its series of performances and events at numerous venues in Washington, D.C. While highlighting the exceptional talent in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond, the founders also plan to give back to the community by donating the festival’s proceeds to the DCTV Kids Video Festival.
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What is B-Girl Manifesto?B-Girl Manifesto is an all female monthly showcase series,"celebrating the female energies in hip hop and beyond" by showcasing unsigned female artists of all genres of music. The showcase was created in Washington, DC to give on-the-verge female artists a platform to speak their minds, free their souls, be seen, and be heard. B-Girl Manifesto is now taking advantage of the mainstream new interest in underground music, but we will never sell our souls to conform to the mainstream music that we are forced to hear day in and day out.
For more information, contact info@bgirlmanifesto.com Can A Sista Rock A Mic?Can a Sista Rock a Mic? Festival is a live music and visual arts exhibition from local, National and International women performers. The week of themed events celebrates the convergence of women trendsetters in music, dance, spoken word, media arts and community activism in Washington D.C. Can a Sista Rock a Mic? is a positive event to counterbalance current images of women in music and media. The event features live music, cultural entertainment, and visual art by various women performers and exhibitors from various cities at uniquely themed, selected venues in Washington, D.C. Proceeds from Can a Sista Rock a Mic? will benefit the DCTV Youth Video Festival this year.
DCTV provides fair and equitable opportunities for community residents and organizations to create noncommercial television programs and telecast them on cable channels, free of censorship or editorial control. DCTV engages the entire community in a dialogue that is broadly representative of its varied perspectives and cultures, and ensures the presence of diverse cultural groups and ideas traditionally unheard or underrepresented in the media. The Kids Camp program is geared toward children ages 8-14. Participants spend an entire week brainstorming media ideas for a project and then learn the skills required to produce their project in an environment that emphasizes fun. The DCTV Youth Video Festival was begun in 2005 with the goal of showcasing the work of young producers in the District. The adult producers were honored each year at our Viewer’s Choice Awards, and as more and more young people attended youth training programs DCTV felt that they deserved equal recognition. Exposing young people to television, media and new technology has been a major focus for DCTV since 2005. Washington, DC is one of the most important media markets in the world and many of the jobs are filled by people from outside the District. DCTV believes that our home grown talent deserves the training and opportunity to compete for those well-paying media jobs. This year, the Youth Video Festival will be screened in the largest theatre at Landmark’s E Street Cinema and the winner of Best In Show will receive a DC Shorts Film Festival Award for best Youth Program. DCTV is going to emphasize the importance of this honor by giving kids the full Red Carpet treatment, with Red Carpet interviews, paparazzi and free refreshments. |
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