These are images from Roof Top parties in New York City organized by The Mic Goes Global.  The Mic Goes Global(Bridging the Cultural Gap Through Music) is the brainchild of Ethiopian-born Sirak Getachew (D.J. Sirak) & his freind Bintou of Staka Productions . 

art exhibition

Above: Mothers March, Oil on Canvas. Photo courtesy of Tafa Studios.

Taller Boricua Gallery

1680 Lexington Ave. 105th & 106th St

opening reception: Friday, March 9 (6-9pm)

March 9- March 30, 2007

Above: Red Projects Riot, 12 x 48. Photo courtesy of Tafa Studios.

curated by Fernando Salicrup and Taina Traverso

for info: 212 831-4333, 917 518 9970

directions  ( 6 train to 103 st,  bus M101, M102, M103, M1, M2, M3, M4 to 106 St)

A Celebration of the Life and Works of the Late Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

Photo Courtesy of Menemsha Films, Inc.

Above: Lovers, Shlomo (Sirak Sabahat) and Sarah (Roni Hadar) walking arm-in-arm on the beach.

The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s parting request that he “go, live, and become.” Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own.

The movie will screen at the 15th Annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 11 @ 6:35pm and Monday, Feb 12 @ 8:35pm.

Click here to watch the trailer.

Special Pre-Valentine’s Day Party

Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007
11:00 PM – Till

Queen of Sheba: 650 10th Ave New York, NY 10036

Phone: 212. 397-0610

Tirunesh Dibaba wins the 3000-Meter Run of the 100th Millrose Games on Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, at Madison Square Garden in New York.  Held annually since 1908, the Millrose Games is the nation’s longest running invitational track meet and Madison Square Garden’s longest running sporting event. Just a week earlier in Boston, Dibaba had shattered the world record in the women’s 5,000 meters.  According to Jere Longman of the New York Times, “She wore diamond earrings and strode so elegantly and lightly in pursuit of a world record that her feet could not be heard on the banked track at the Reggie Lewis Center.” Dibaba put on a solo effort in the 5,000 that was nothing short of awesome. Known in some circles as “the baby-faced destroyer,” Dibaba destroyed her own world and Ethiopian record, running 14:27.42 to crush her own record of 14:32.93 set in 2005.

Photos courtesy of D.J. Sirak 

Rasselas in San Francisco Presents Tewodros Tadesse

Valentine’s Day Weekend Party @ Rasselas

Feb. 17,2007

1534 Fillmore St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
(nearest cross street is Geary)

For more information or direction call: 415.346..8696 or  visit: Rasselas Jazz Club.com

The Mic Goes Global (Bridging the Cultural Gap Through Music) is the brainchild of Ethiopian-born Sirak Getachew (D.J. Sirak) & his freind Bintou of Staka Productions . 

Arriving from Addis Ababa to the graffiti-filled streets of Da Bronx, he was introduced to the hip-hop phenomenon at an early age.

“I remember arriving at New York’s JFK airport at the age of nine and settling in a Bronx neighborhood. Being the only Ethiopian on the block and at school, it was hard to keep my own culture alive”, he says. “As time went on, however, hip-hop became my means of bridging the cultural gap between myself and my new community.”

In the short time since the program began, it has gained recoginition from various media organizations including, MTV, The Source, The Village Voice, Tadias Magazine and local TV stations. 

The Mic Goes Global team is  currently working on releasing a DVD/CD compilation of artists featured in its events.

“Hip-hop has helped me fuse my past and my heritage with my present in an artistic and socially meaningful way. Its time to get global!” – D.J. Sirak 

Photos courtesy of D.J. Sirak.

SELECTED WORKS

Osi Audu. Bright Bimpong. Diako. Sokey Edorh. Fathi Hassan. Khalid Kodi. Ahmed Nosseir. Pefura. Etiye Dimma Poulsen. Jorge Luis Alvarez Pupo. Duhirwe Rushemeza. Juliana Zevallos

February 6th – March 10th, 2007 –More @ Skoto Gallery.