Urban Culture Week (Day 1 to 3)

-Urban Culture Week- (Day 1 to 3)

Day 1 of the Urban Culture Week kicked off last Thursday with Red Bull BC One all-star and one of the Judges for the Bahrain Cypher, Bboy Pelezinho, who Started off the week with Day 1 of the 3 day Bboy clinic. About 20 local Bboys took part in this event, they were really pumped and energetic, showing their great athleticism. They started off with a quick warm-up session with Pelezinho and then he showed/taught them some cool moves and gave them tips about how to look confident and determined while in battle. That pretty much wrapped up Day 1 of the Urban Culture Week

A bboy showing what he's got (Day 1)

Bboy Pelezinho (Day 1)

Day 2 was a busy day with four workshops that took place, starting off with Dubai-based graffiti artists Sya One & Steffi Bow, who gave lectures about their works and the basic types of graffiti artists and graffiti arts. With them were two local based graffiti artists Huvil & LeonD, they gave lectures on how to be a local graffiti artist, where the hot spots are on the island for graffiti. After the lectures all those taking part and the Lecturers moved on to the roof where there were canvases set up for the Graffiti artists and the workshop participants. Sya One and Steffi Bow included their own works of art in their given spaces, at the end of the day the walls were filled with graffiti done by the artists and people taking part.

Sya One alongside one of his pieces. (Day2)

A graffiti workshop participant trying
his hand at graffiti. (Day 2)

Then at 4PM, Bboy Pelezinho took over with Day 2/3 of the Bboy clinic, on that day he focused more on windmills, teaching the Bboys taking part the basics of windmills and stepping up their game.

A bboy attempting the
'windmill'. (Day2)

At the same time (4PM) DJ OutlaW’s workshop kicked off where he briefed the participants the basics of DJing, He showed them the basic working of the DJ equipments, he even let them have a go at mixing tracks and ‘dropping the bass’.

Dj OutlaW lecturing on DJing. (Day2)

Later on (7PM) there was another lecture by Tony Atalla, his workshop was titled ‘Elements of the Beat’ He lectured about the basic use of studio equipment.

Tony Atalla getting ready for his workshop. (Day2)

Day 3: Sadly I was busy for the third day, so I didn’t get a chance to go to the Urban Culture Week..

But there were Graffiti with Sya One & Steffi Bow, Intro to Lyrics Writing & Performance by Malikah, Bboy clinic with Pelezinho, DJing for Beginners with DJ OutlaW and there was supposed to be a Girls only ‘inspiring girls’ talk with May Alqasim, but that was moved to Wednesday at 5PM.

That’s all from the first three days of the Urban Culture Week, I’ll be back with another post on Saturday, covering the last three days of the Urban Culture Week and the BC One Bahrain Cypher.

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