This week marks the beginning of the B-Girl Be Summit in Minnesota. Damn I wish I lived nearby, because this shit seems awesome.

B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop 2006 aims to develop from what was created last year as the first summit of its kind. We offered a unique gathering where the execution of hip hop met up with its conceptualization through praxis as well as theory. Audiences of over 3000 people came together amongst over one hundred local, national and international hip hop artists to learn and practice the individual elements of break dancing, aerosol art, rapping, and turntablism. Keeping with our desire to challenge the norm B-Girl Be went beyond the four-element hip hop model to offer new gendered dimensions to essential exponents of these such as audio and visual production, exhibition, fashion, entrepreneurship, and scholarship.

Check out the schedule for the summit here. And if anyone is planning on going, please let me know how it is!