- Hip Hop Arts Conference (HHAC) 2026
ATL….WE ARE ONE!
Join us in celebrating Hip Hop history with high-energy dance workshops led by legendary choreographers / dancers plus dance battles, art, AI app creation and more!
Whether you live for music, move through dance, create through art or dream in tech, come experience the energy!
Then join us for the Day of Respect Awards Gala honoring legendary artists and community changemakers, with tribute performances from some of Atlanta’s extraordinary artists!
2-for-1 workshop tickets through October 1 (bring a friend)!
Saturday, October 24
Emma Darnell Aviation Museum & Conference Center
One culture. Many passions. One UNFORGETTABLE experience. WE ARE ONE!
Get your tickets now at Eventbrite.
HHAC Facebook page
Registration and conference information can be found at the following link.
- Hip Hop Arts Conference (HHAC) 2024
HHAC Overview
2023
HHAC Earsketch Workshop
Connecting Computing, Culture, and Communitypresented in partnership with the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
https://mailchi.mp/cc/gt-computing-compiler-17nov23?e=0268d6839c
ViZion Dance, Inc.'s CEO, Sababu Chaka Barashango, "...shares his knowledge about how hip-hop culture and computing connect..." at the 1st Annual Hip Hop Arts Conference.
Sole II Soul
Panel
HHAC Mission: To unify communities and generations through positive, inspirational, interactive performing arts and culture.
Due to its positive, awe-inspiring, unifying nature, which has valued and transcended generational, individual, cultural and communal differences from past eras until present day, the original elements of Hip Hop culture (dance, music, rap and graffiti art) are utilized along with the integration of technology to create a STEAM based experience suitable for all ages (study of the humanities, language arts, dance, drama, music, visual arts, design, new media and more)
Get your tickets now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hip-hop-arts-conference-2024-rooted-in-love-tickets-1000226643817 before they run out.
HHAC Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Hip-Hop-Arts-Conference-Celebrating-LOVE-UNITY-Having-FUN/
FREE Admission! Registration and conference information can be found at the following link.
- A Day of Respect: Honoring "Unsung" Community Luminaries
A Day of Respect 2023
at the inaugural Hip Hop Arts Conference
Hip Hop Edition
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/adayofrespectA Day of Respect 2022
presented in partnership with the Dunham Institute and Hayti Heritage Center in Raleigh / Durham, NC
A Day of Dunham
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/sv9jB6vPGrwk2Udn/?mibextid=Na33Lf
A Day of Respect 2018
Tribute Performance
A Day of Respect 2016
Recap
SPARK 2026
INSPIRE. EMPOWER. IGNITE.
“SET THE STAGE ON FIRE!”
Ready to move your vision from the studio to the stage?
ViZion Dance, Inc. (in partnership with Rockwell Dance Academy) is selecting five professional choreographers and multidisciplinary performance artists to develop and premiere bold new works or take compelling works in progress to the next level!
Five artists will be selected
Performance: Sunday, October 18, 2026
Show: 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Submission deadline: September 6, 2026
Apply at SPARK 2026 Artist Application
SPARK (INSPIRE. EMPOWER. IGNITE.) Artist Empowerment Program
This artist empowerment series was created in an effort to provide more opportunity for extraordinary artists to obtain commissions and international collaborative opportunities for both choreography and performance, while providing a platform and supportive, creative space to develop their works. Upon the artist's acceptance to program participation, they utilize research through self-motivated experiences and our program opportunities (master classes, mentorship and community engagement with dance/ music pioneers and civil rights leaders as well as through the accumulation of historical data via various cultural experiences) to create their works for the culminating performance locally and possibly for several other cities and/ or states in the form of a collaborative production with their assigned artist development mentor(s).
SPARK artists in Las Vegas
with a behind the scenes and interactive experience with ILUMINATE production and in LA as a part of the Janet30 reunion masterclass with mentor / legendary choreographer, Tina Landon in 2023. SPARK artist also were a a part of the Break Thru experience artist development classes with Tina Landon and iconic Janet and Michael Jackson dancer, Jimmy Locust, in Atlanta.
The New Legacy USA
Educational Tour
Established in 2016, in collaboration with the Dunham Institute, the ongoing community initiative, "A Day of Respect" honors "unsung" luminaries in the field of Education, Law, Medicine, Entertainment and Arts & Culture in the local and national communities through workshops, panel discussions, and an awards gala which includes acknowledgement of awardee achievements by local community leaders and special performing arts tributes by community artists.
See our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/adayofrespect
