H I P H P
It started out in the park!
Hip Hop in the Park is a treaty 6 based, black and indigenous centered and led, community run organization based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB). We fully and whole heartedly believe our city to be a Hip Hop sacred ground of undisturbed Hip Hop Kultural evolution.
While HR's function is to maximize employee productivity whilst protecting company interests, HHitP has often found itself maximizing NPO productivity whilst protecting community interests.
Our mission is to continue the undisturbed development of Hip Hop Kulture within both the region and ourselves through nurturing the most vulnerable via natural leisure and creativity being expressed in youth.
Our mission is to use existing art and leisure activities within a given environment to build transferrable life management and non-hierarchtical governance toolsets in marginalized communities.
Hip-Hop in the Park is a music and culture festival in Edmonton, Alberta held during the third week of every May, which celebrates Hip-Hop Appreciation Week.
→Our goals and motivations for Cypher Shacks are to provide a similar and/or additional service to the Green Shack programs, with low cost, durable, and customizeable kits for different parks around the city that promote the use of Hip Hop elements with ethical and community building intention. HHitP would provide park leaders who would run programs throughout the summer at selected parks with scheduled cypher related activities.
→This summer Hip Hop in the Park would like to launch a series of programs that solidify our role within community as an entity specializing in transforming spaces Peace, Love, Unity, and Having Fun! Hard in the Paint will be an annual event that celebrates inner city communities through the common shared relationship between Hip Hop and basketball. The event will revolve around a community consulted mural that will be painted on a court.
→A community based effort to re-unite the Hip Hop community after a two year hiatus. Sports World Roller Rink is historically where most Hip Hop had it's roots in the 1980's. With the help of a Sports World original DJ, HHitP will host a series of rollerskate events and workshops over winter 2023.
→A creative based residency program that introduces environmental, therepeutic, and communal elements to the position. Hip Hop in the Park Foundation has provided artist placements to various community spaces in inner city Edmonton, AB for over 15 years.
→sharedistrict is an evolving online community platform designed with the intention of connecting frontline social callings such as nursing, teaching, coaching, community arts, community space management, youth work, and low income support in both the real world and online. Apply for membership today!
→Membership based program hosting a community of studios to marginalized groups with a focus on accessibility provided through transportation, food, and childcare.
→Initiatives that facilitate sustainable conservation financing to sustain Indigenous stewardship of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) through research, policy, and capacity building.
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←For just $10/month this entry level membership fee grants access to the membership line at events and volunteer opportunities.
Annually
←100% of this fund goes into HHitP events, music, and passive earnings. 25% of those profits will go back into these members' pockets.
Creativity Holds Value
→This package is designed to be an artist development program, meant to generate passive income for creatives. This fee is on a sliding scale.