BEAT Birthday Bash Honoree

BEAT Birthday Bash Honoree

With just a few weeks away from our BEAT Birthday Bash we are super excited to announce that legendary Hip-Hop photographer, activist, documentarian and Hip-Hop personality Joe Conzo will be one of the honorees at our upcoming BEAT Birthday Bash.

Joe Conzo is known, according to The New York Times "as the man that took Hip-Hop's baby pictures" he was part of a generation that refused to be silenced by the choke of flame-engulfed South Bronx tenements and a disparaging educational system. The defiant voices of the youth gave rise to a cultural movement known as Hip Hop. At its early stage, Joe passionately embraced the role of photographer within the phenomenon. Most of those images from the 70’s and 80’s caught on b/w film by Joe, have traveled in one form or another to parts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas. They are regarded by genre experts and academians as an important visual record of key pioneers to the modern Hip Hop movement, and integral to any serious discourse on the subject. His first book “Born In The Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop” (2007), a collaborative effort with noted New York musicologist and curator Johan Kugelberg, has received world-wide acclaim.

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Thank you!

We are humbled to share that we just passed the $1,000 mark so let's keep this momentum going. With 40 more tickets purchased you can bring $5,000 worth of BEAT programming to our community! BEAT Global is turning 10 years old!!! Our BEAT Birthday Bash will be on Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 at Mission NYC from 6:30pm-9:30pm and we want to celebrate with you! Please visit our Classy page to purchase a ticket to our event. All ticket purchases are donations towards empowering our youth through music and arts education. Click our campaign below to get tickets.

Event Sponsor

We are proud to announce an exclusive look at our first of many auction items available during our BEAT Birthday Bash! Our LIC neighbor, The Cliffs Climbing + Fitness in Long Island City, have generously provided two 90-minute Intro to Climbing classes. Participants will learn all the skills they need in order to use the rope systems and climb the 45-foot walls. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity and purchase your tickets today. We'll be revealing another exclusive item in our next newsletter, stay tuned! For more info about The Cliffs click below.