The result leave be broadcast live on CBC Radio 3 and will be taped for future broadcast as good as online streaming. Throughout March, tickets to the tape will be made available through contesting by several community partners and CBC Radio 2.
CBC is partying for the month in partnership with Manifesto Community Projects and Northside Hip Hop, with project mentor broadcaster/author Dalton Higgins and project advisor/MC Adhimu "Mindbender" Stewart adding to the vibe.
"Hip hop is such a vibrant piece of contemporary culture," said Mark Steinmetz, director of radio music for CBC. "We are incredibly excited to honour Canadian hip hop as both an art work and a movement with The Hip Hop Summit - a jubilation of this magnitude has never been experienced by Canadians before."
Highlights of The Hip Hop Summit include:
March 1 - April 1: cbc.ca will have an interactive timeline, podcasts, playlists and interviews exploring the cultural power of Canadian hip hop over the lowest 25 years.
On March 28, 2011, a week-long series of profiles, concerts and interviews begins on all three national radio networks (Radio One, Radio 2 and Radio 3).
On March 29, 2011, a live taping of the execution by the biggest names in Canadian hip hop will have office at the CBC Broadcasting Centre in Toronto and air live on CBC Radio 3.
Highlights from the operation will be featured on CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 as good as on cbc.ca.
On April 1, 2011, The Hop Hop culminates in a free, day-long public celebration in the Barbara Frum Atrium of the CBC Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Featuring breakdance and street dance, hip hop, live visual arts, beat box, turntablism, and The Freshest Goods fashion market and more, this case includes:
Panel discussions focus on the development of Canadian hip hop, issues of the past, the current landscape and a face to the future;
T-Dot Pioneers 2011: The Glenn Gould Remix, a visual exhibit documenting the story of hip hop in Canada that will be featured at Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto during the week of March 28 - April 2, 2011;
And the television broadcast premiere of The Hip Hop Summit performance featuring the biggest names in Canadian hip hop.
Manifesto Community Projects is Canada's leading urban music, arts and culture festival bringing together hundreds of artists and performers with thousands of attendees to unite, energize, support and celebrate Toronto's vibrant urban music and arts community.
Northsidehiphop.ca is an Internet archive that aims to get the many oral histories that best embody the marrow of hip hop's youthful exuberance in the eighties and 90s.
Dalton Higgins is one of Canada's foremost experts on hip hop culture. His books, including Hip Hop and Hip Hop World, are exploited in classrooms across Canada and the United States.
CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada's national public broadcaster.
