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Please go and vote for our promo video that's now on current TV website.
If we get enough votes it'll get on telly for real and that means more people will know about the problems we and the rest of the UK arts are going through. Who knows maybe some wealthy and benevolent person will come forward and save us at the last minute.


Go to current website now and vote!

Of the events hanging in the balance at this years Brighton Hip Hop Festival are the Fresh Styles film screenings.

July 6th - Graffiti Night Special £7(£5 concessions)

A night of graffiti films with a Q&A with Tracy 168 and Duro CIA.

July 7th - Electro Rock & Bombin' £7(£5 concessions)

A rare screening of films form the first wave of British Hip Hop culture in the 1980's.

July 11th - South Coast £5(no concessions)

4 Years in the making 'South Coast' charts the history of Hip Hop in Brighton through to today's burgeoning scene.

If you want to ensure these screenings happen, you need to show your support by buying some tickets in advance.

They're available now from the Brighton Dome Box Office,

+44(0)1273 709709

29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG

Open Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

www.brightondome.org
www.freshstyles.org

On Saturday 30th of June at 7.30pm
The Hip Hop Collective present...

The Hip Hop Adventures of Peter Peril.
A story of a boy who thinks he can dance! This is part of a UK tour and not to be missed.

Venue: Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN1 0JY.

Tickets available from Brighton Dome Box Office, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UG.
Open Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm.
+44(0)1273 709709

Or online from http://www.brightonticketshop.com

Price: £10/£12 plus booking fee.

If you want stuff like this to happen this year then you need to do something about it.
Time is running out!!!!

It's been a week now since discovering our funding has been cut.
Since receiving this news we have desperately been trying every angle we can think of to find new ways of raising the money we need to make your festival happen.
A few local businesses have come forward offering support in kind and Pure Mint Recordings have helped support our educational programme. To them we are very grateful, but generally the response has been dissapointing thus far.

We still need to raise £42,000 if our festival is to deliver to you The Live Day, Frieze Box, Graffiti Legends Showcase, Raw (spoken word event), Fresh Styles film screenings, Dark Daze Collectable Photographic Prints, and our Industry Event.Out of these events only Fresh Styles will be charging a fee for entry. This ticket money will be used to cover the cost of putting these screenings on. As with all our events nobody on the BHHF team will be getting paid.
We develop this festival to develop and promote local and national Hip Hop talent. We have artists from all over the world ready and willing to take part in the events we've programmed.
If we don't raise the necessary funds those artists will not be able to attend.

If we cannot bring you the festival this year, it'll make it doubly difficult to revive it for future years. We've spent 5 years building the momentum which has seen the festival to mature into what last year attracted over 20,000 people and 700 artists over the 2 weeks it took place.

We urgently need some help in finding this money.
If anybody out there can assist us in raising funds or publicising our plight then please come forward. Time is running out!

Thank You

The BHHF Team