I got this invite on Facebook and the event looks dope!! B-boy teams reppin various nationalities battle it out for national pride and to promote unity amongst the various cultures and ethnicities that share this hip hop element. Proceeds go to Project Pinoy Bboy Mission. Worth checking out this long weekend Sunday….

For one night only, bboys from all different multicultural b-boy crews, will split up to join and represent their ethnicities team and battle it out for national pride, honor and glory!

Sunday September 6th 2009 1pm-6pm
@ Van’s Passion (Dixie & 401) Mississauga

Doors open @ 1pm
Guys $10 b4 2pm, $15 after
Girls $5 b4 2pm, $10 after
All Ages event
Licensed Bar with ID
Shakes and Bubble Tea without ID
Thai and Vietnamese Food will also be served
Venue Capacity 650 people!

This special event is a tribute to our nations multicultural pride and our respect for each others differences while living together as one. B-boying and hip-hop crosses boundaries and traditions where skill and creativity is the common language, and the way to settle differences is to battle…

Ethnic Pride Bboy Battles:
Teams Registered:
Team Chinese pride
Team Jamaican pride
Team Philippine pride
Team Vietnamese pride
…more teams TBA

The Hero B-boy Award
Is to be presented to the Bboy or Bgirl with the most heart, the one who steals the shine and represents his/her country most honorably in battle!

NOTE: Teams can have from as low as two members, to as many willing to join to compete for their ethnic honor! All skill levels are welcome. Come battle along side your favorite b-boys, or put your beef’s aside and battle along side your greatest rivals for the sake your motherlands pride and glory!

The Allstar Ethnic-Pride DJ Battle:
“The Hero DJ Award,” will be presented to the DJ who has the heart, mind, and musicology, making him the Bboys and Bgirls number one choice!

DJ’s to be announced!

Exhibition Beat-Boxing Battle:
Team Korea
Team Phillipines
Team Jamaica

Event Objective:

This event is a special fundraiser. All proceeds will go to the “ Project Pinoy B-boy Mission”

-A heart of a Hero mission to reach out and spread love and knowledge to the Bboys in the Philippines. For many, every day is a challenge for survival for those who have almost nothing but their love for breakin’.

The Mission:

Not many peoples are aware of the humble beginnings of hip hop back in the late 60’s and early 70’s in the Bronx and Brooklyn. At that time, the community was divided within itself and segregated from the rest of society. They were the forgotten, left to policing themselves which brought about a place of gangs, drugs, and ruins. There was a feeling of hopelessness in the people who had nothing to live for and nothing to do, until the famous blocks parties (i.e DJ Kool Herc) began… first starting with two turntables playing ‘the break’ as they called it, which would create an atmosphere where all peoples in the community could come together, and freely express themselves; of which included the old, the young, even the gangsters. Hip hop has in many ways been misused as a a commodity fetish to profit from negative connotations and associations of gangster appeals. However the true beginnings of hip hop were humble and freeing and uplifting, while being able to combat others with skills which eventually evolved into the four main elements (turntablism, Mcin’, Graff, and ofcourse Bboyin’ which is still persistant. and growing internationally even today.

The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the “Project Pinoy Bboy Mission”. Where volunteering world established bboys and volunteers will be able to go to the socio-economically abject parts of Philippines; to teach, train and coach the not so fortunate Bboys (whom already exist) the ways of the warrior bboy, and ways in which to live off of the dance. The goal after teaching the various bboys and crews is to hold a final event that will in hopes to promote a spark in for the different communities to come together as one and provide an oppurtunity for the bboys to earn money through battling. In the Phillipines breakin’ is a form of release, yet has not been maintained, nor organized where it can be used to benefit the dancers. In igniting this spark, we hope the sharing of bboying history, knowledge, and culture of the dance will help to build a strong sense of growth and objective. In this light we hope to ignite a greater sense of support between segregated communities, and an appreciation to this liberating art form. Perhaps Bboys in the Phillipines can rely on this dance to give back to their families, and communities, and form and maintain an alliance.

www.theheroesoftheworld.com
“Every country has a hero. Where are you from”?

www.backtotheunderground.com/forum

Directions to event:

By TTC:
-Go to Islington Subway station.
-Exit Subway station to go to Missiauga Tranist Bus stops.
-Take BLOOR west bus #3b for about 15 minutes
-Get off at Dixie Rd and transfer onto the northbound Dixie bus #5 for 10 minutes.
-When you pass highway 401 and get off at the Sunoco Gas station and Best Western Hotel.
-#5835 Dixie Rd, Pho Vans Passion

By Car:
-From the 401 or 427, go westbound on the 401.
-Exit Dixie Rd going northbound.
-Turn right into the Best Western Hotel or the Sunoco Gas Station
-5835 Dixie Rd. Pho Vans Passion