She So Fresh

This coming Friday we will be screening ATLS.. please RSVP if you are in the NYC area.  Thank you to Bless Roxwell for making this opportunity to expose people to our B girl world possible.

Look for Rokafella’s Top Rock workshop during the Ladies of Hip-hop festival NYC at Peridance in July.

February 26th please tune into PBS in your town for MAKERS- a film made about women who have made contributions to American society and to the business landscape. http://www.makers.com/documentary/

It will get you ready for women’s history month in a real intense way!!

All The Ladies Say back  in Chicago!!!

All The Ladies Say!!!

If you will be in the Chicago area during the weekend of March 15th-16th please pass by Columbia College for a screening with Q And A and dance workshops led by Lady Champ and Rokafella. Lady Champ is hosting a 7 to Smoke battle on the 16th.

Flyer soon to follow with details on location and times.

Thank you to Sage Hubbard for her organizing efforts and to Kelsa and Lady Gemstar! info SHubbard@columb.edu

Catch Full Circle’s Soulsistahs at Momma’s Hip-hop Kitchen concert at Hostos Community College on March 2nd 2pm-5pm! www.mhhk.org

Stay tuned for May screening in NYC late May.

Lifetime achievement awards were given to Aiko and Baby Love at the 2012 Pro Am during where the ATLS film was screened. Who said Hip-hop is dead or that it doesn’t know how to treat the ladies?!! Thank you to Speedy Legs for organizing a Hip-hop cultural event in Miami for so many years.

We hope you can join Aiko as she hosts this screening in Miami with Candy from Floor Angels Crew and The Original NYC B girl from Beatstreet Baby Love joining her for a discussion about street dance back then and now! Tell a friend..

http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Battle-Examined-at-CCNY-Hip-Hop-Conference.cfm

Join us on March 3rd when the soul sistahs of Full Circle perform to Lisa Lisa’s” Can you Feel the Beat” to mark the 5th annual concert that raises awareness about the health issues affecting our communities and bring light to female Hip-hop artists taking place at Hostos Community College near the 149th street station of the 2 and the 5 train in the Bronx.  This year we are joined by B girls Tomomi and Tiffany who return to Full Circle since 2006.  New B girls Toko and Hayley will contribute a duet and their solos to the dance performance.  G I Jane and J  La Rok returns to make this their 4th year of supporting the women’s history concert.

On March 11th, All The Ladies Say will participate in Man Up’s photo Exhibition “Through our lens” at CPW Gallery on 62nd Street  and Central Park West at 1:30pm. www.manupcampaign.org

Thank you for your continued support and we hope to screen in your school or neighborhood, soon!!

Beasty, GI Jane, Rok

Looking back on 2011 brings a feeling of satisfaction and renewed diligence to stay on the path of sharing ATLS with any and all. Last year we brought the message of Women in Hip-hop dance to Lincoln Center’s 39th Dance on Camera Film Festival,  NJPAC’s Alternate Routes 10 year celebration in Newark,  Passages Correctional facility in the Bronx, Oakland’s B girl Jam Barbecue, Chicago’s Northeastern University, the East Harlem International Film Festival and at the Maysles Cinema for the Man Up film festival. Wow!

We are still raising funds to work on the sound mix of the full version of the film and have made some connections with people who take care of that aspect for us. Thanks to Bam Bam for always providing leather wrist cuffs to help with merchandise sales and to Kwikstep for creating T shirt designs and to Melissa Ulto for the website and technical support. Thank you to Jennifer Armas for her help with website correspondence.

At this point we are looking to screen this film at the end of February at Manhattan’s City College and at UC San Diego in March with help from DJ Kuttin Kandi.

The ladies of Full Circle are scheduled to perform at Momma’s Hip-hop Kitchen at Hostos Community College for the fourth year in a row for International Womens Day on March 3rd! Once again, they will donate their performance fee to help with film project expenses. Check out www.mhhk.org  for more info on the FREE women’s concert.

More details to follow soon as we get things locked in.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Special thanks to Catherine Coulson, Marcy Garriot, Deirdre Towers, Amy Haayer, Melissa Aguilar and Edwin Torres for your donations to Full Circle. You are in our hearts and prayers.

If you want to support us with your administrative, marketing, technical services or financial contributions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Traci Bartlow and Rok pictured below at Behind the Groove Party.

Rok, Macca, Lady Beast, Mona Lisa, G I Jane and Lady Champ

Thank you to everyone who attended Birth of the Boom concert to raise funds for NYC Hospitals! Lady Champ, Macca and Lady Beast who all came in from their respective home towns of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston to join us in he B girl segment/tribute held it down proudly! Footage from the ATLS was projected onto two huge LED screens during our perormance! Rokafella rocked her version of Just Begun! Susan Jacobs and Jeff Oppenhim thank you for inviting us to participate in the Birth of the Boom concert at the Paradise Theater in the Bx!!! 

Special thanks to Kwikstep for envisioning our participation in this line up and going to bat for it..live musicians and all! check the video link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AvDJjn2Gw0&feature=share&noredirect=1

Thank you to Claudio Leon who invited Rok to screen the film and teach a dance class at Passages Juvenile Correctional facility in October. The discussion afterwards was deep and motivating as well as the dance class with the ladies! Hip-hop is a positive force and the testimonies of this film are impacting so many people to keep believing that they can make the changes happen if they truly feel like it is necessary to survive. Work on your skills, take the chance and create your destiny!

Catch a performance fusing Breaking, Kabuki, House and Voguing in the BATTLE OF YESTERMORE with B girls of Full Circle on Nov 17 & 18th at Skylight 500 west 36th street, hit us here if you want ticket info.

Rokafella will teach a one time only “Floor Moves” Intermediate level dance class at Broadway Dance Center on November 26th–Saturday after Thanksgiving– at 1pm. Hope to see you there!

As part of the effort to stop violence against women the Man Up campaign is holding a film festival at Maysles Cinema 343 Lenox (127th street) on December 3rd and has invited ATLS to be screened with post screening discussion so please mark your calendars for 4pm and spread the word. We will be collecting donations at this screening as well to help with the film’s legal and sound mix production expenses E Flyer soon to follow! 212 582 6050. Back in ’09, we screened the 20 minute version of the film (thank you to Jessica Green) at Maysles to help generate funds so we can continue editing so this feels very full circle-ish!

If you would like to donate your services or funds to Full Circle Prod Inc for this project or the dance company please send us an email, check out the dance company website www.fullcirclesoul.com and let us know your thoughts.

See you soon,  Enjoy your holiday season.. !

In January we will be screening at the Job Corp in Amherst Massachusetts.

Aiko Rok Mystify Eryn Boogie

The women’s concert was followed by an afterparty at Hollywood with Dj Ron Ron spinning beats that also made it perfect for any freestyling MC’s to get on the mic and share their voice with those gathered. We want to give a shout to Gary Soriano who also helped by giving a donation to the film project saying his organization T.R.I.B.E understands the challenge of keeping a visionary cause afloat. Thank you to him and his peeps!

in Los Angeles

Aiko and Rokafella will travel to Chicago on October 21st to join Lady Champ at North Eastern Illinios University for the U.N.I.T.Y  Culture Hip-hop conference. All The Ladies Say will be screened two times and dance classes will be offered as well as a closing concert with local female MC’s and DJ’s!!

For more info click on this link: http://unity-culture.eventbrite.com/

Champ andMona Lisa

Roka, Amel(Fr), Melanie (Austr)

 East Harlem International Festival invited us to screen our B Girl film project and we were in the house!! Thanks to Peaches Rodrigues and Alexandra Garcia for helping us to make the connection and for being the wonderful allies that they are year round!

Melissa Ulto and BlacK Robb

Melissa Ulto who designed this website and is available for media services(multostars@gmail.com) and did the bulk of the editing for the film was present and articulate during the discussion following the screening about the process of film making in a male dominated field. Thank you to our donors and Corinne Manabat for her services in times of urgent deadlines!! Violet and Bongo Roc both shared their experiences and ideas about life as a woman and mother in Hip-hop. Thank you to the Museum of the City of New York.

Rok and Victor Cruz founder of EHIFF

NJPAC Summer Arts Intensive

We also wanted to thank New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Hip-hop Dance Conservatory for their continuous support of our film project during their summer programs.

The film has been screened in its entirety at The Rosedale Girls Achievement Center located in the Bronx in July followed by four dance classes with Rokafella.

Rosedale Center

Thank you to Berverly Bond for her efforts to keep Black Girls Rock Inc summer program going!!

Black Girls Rock Inc Summer Program

  We will  screen ATLS  at Northerastern University in Chicago at the end of September –Lady Champ landia!! Aiko will be in the house as well..!!

Casita Maria will also schedule a screening in their center in the Hunstpoint area of the Bronx.
Stay tuned for more info.

If you would like to donate your services or funds towards the furthering of this film project please contact us here. We are still in need of a professional sound mix for the full length of the film and will  hold a fund raiser in the FALL.
Check our All The Ladies Say Facebook group page for updates and developments.