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If you are not going to be at Hidmo tonight between 5-7pm then be at Faire Gallery & Cafe (1351 East Olive Way) for Jazz Happy Hour. Hidmo family JusMoni (She Lives) will be performing with a live band featuring NW favorites Ouwour Arungar, Mark Sampson and Royce Shorter.
Why are we pumping up a show that is not at Hidmo?
Because we love JusMoni: At sixteen local artist and (s)hero JusMoni truly is the future of not only music but activism in Seattle. Her music is deeply rooted in Hip Hop and Soul blended with her life experiences growing up in Seattle’s Central District, Beacon Hill, South End, and other areas where she also does a ton of activism. As JusMoni gives audiences a dose of reality about her life and the lives of many others that have grown up in similar conditions, from being a survivor of rape in marginalized communities (both Black and Cambodian communities) to having her friends and peers die from gang violence, her words are healing and soothing. JusMoni gives voice and provides space for those that have not found theirs yet as youth and adults through community organizing, education, and faith that she and others can create families and communities that are safe, healing, educated, empowered, and more.
JusMoni is active in organizations such as Seattle Young People’s Project (SYPP), Seattle Youth Hip Hop Council, Youth Speak Seattle, The Service Board (TSB), Hidmo Community Empowerment Project and Communities Agains Rape and Abuse (CARA).
Reclaim the Media and the Youth Media Institute invite you to join us at Hidmo on Friday,
March 27, for a mostly-informal discussion about social justice organizing and media activism in the Seattle area.
Our guest for the evening is Malkia Cyril (Oakland, CA), the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice – a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change. Malkia also coordinates the national Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net).
As a queer, working class African-Am/Caribbean born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Malkia’s belief in media change as a core strategy for social justice is based in h/er experience as the daughter of a Black Panther mom. “I watched how media bias helped destroy a movement, and I believe in the power of strategic stories to help raise it again.”
We’ll provide dinner – it’ll be a chance for each of our organizations to describe our own challenges involving the media, and to discuss potential collaborations.
Community Stories: Hidmo Means Home
3/20/2009: Rahwa and Asmeret Habtes Central District restaurant Hidmo is more than just an Eritrean restaurant. Despite initial resistance from the changing neighborhood, the restaurant has grown into a space that serves as a venue for a diverse group of musicians, writers, artists and patrons who agree that Hidmo Restaurant and Lounge is a home where community flourishes.
Link to video: http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3170904
Watch and let us know what you think!
Hidmo on the TeeVee
Everyone at Hidmo is eagerly anticipating the debut of a short documentary to air this Monday (March 23rd) on the Seattle Channel (ch21) at 7pm called “Hidmo Means Home” as part of an ongoing series called Community Stories. The 15 min doc is being produced (as we speak) by Jill Irene Freidberg of Corrugated Films, an amazing activist and filmmaker that we are proud to call fam and whose bio should make all other activist/filmmakers wanna step their game up. If you don’t have cable – tweet or facebook us to find out where you can watch it OR wait for it to be posted online. Either way check it out and let us know what you think.
The long awaited Hidmo blog http://hidmolove.wordpress.com is finally up and running. Thank you all for your patience and feedback, everything that Hidmo is comes from your love and support every step of the way. Keep the comments coming and let us know what you think!
Rahwa
