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Memoirs of a Hip Hop Nomad with Morganics
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Morganics charts a new path through the global underground with hip hop as his passport. From shooting a video clip in a Maasai village in Tanzania to avoiding gun spray in Brooklyn, from dancing corroboree in the central desert to performing a rap in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Featuring excerpts from his forthcoming book, Memoirs of a Hip Hop Nomad, he will perform stories, raps, poetry and freestyle, including a rap in 15 languages.

Morganics is an award-winning Sydney-based hip hop artist, performer, director and community worker.

For all ages.

Author Talk  |  Children & Young Adults, Poetry & Spoken Word, Music,
Participants
Morganics

When
Sunday, May 24 2009
10:00 - 11:00

Where
Bangarra Theatre
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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MORGANICS (LOCAL)Morganics by Mark Ullyseas

MORGANICS is an award-winning hip hop artist, spoken-word performer, director and passionate community worker. Parallel to his career as an MC and producer, Morganics is Australia’s foremost hip hop theatre practitioner. He has performed from New York to Tanzania, the Sydney Opera House to Prague. His work with Indigenous communities throughout Australia includes The Wilcannia Mob’s Down River, which he remixed for MIA’s latest album and was subsequently ripped off by US super producer Timbaland. He produced an album for ex-street kids, Wayahudi Family in Tanzania, and has released a CD/DVD Hip Hop Is My Passport. Morganics is currently working on his forthcoming book, Memoirs of a Hip Hop Nomad.


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