Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival

     For this blog post I used the history section on the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival page. The article explains that the purpose of the festival is to use hip-hop as a means of encouraging coexistence, non-violence, celebrating hip-hop as a community, and educating the youth on the differences between the hip-hop you hear on the radio vs. what the promoters at Trinity College consider hip-hop to be. Throughout the festival, on lookers are exposed to artists from all over the world who rap/preach their political beliefs, the cultures of their home countries, and the history and current affairs of their respective countries to not only encourage that the youth know what is going on in the world around them but also become diversified in the cultures of the world. I felt comfortable using this website as a source for my project because the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival is an internationally acclaimed event. Therefore, I felt that they would only produce information that was credible. 

     This article was a good source for the documentary project because this can be directly connected to the Student Hip-Hop Organization in that it strives to not only allow fans of hip-hop or music in general  to be connected together but also to use hip-hop as a means of educating the youth of the world and supplementing young peoples education. Like the Student Hip-Hop Organization, the Trinity international Hip-Hop festival is set up solely for the benefit of the students and youth that attend the events. If my team can educate the students of UK on the benefits of the Student Hip-Hop Organization perhaps one day the Student Hip-Hop Organization could have the impact that the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival has on students and young people domestically but also internationally. 

     After reading the article, the main question I was left with was whether or not the creators of this festival came up with this thought or if this was mimicked from another festival. Knowing this would allow me to gauge whether or not the Student Hip-Hop organization could mimick this festival.