2007 Mayor’s Community Safety Award!

After a long tiring year of filming, editing and encoding for ever growing popular RPTV (Regent Park TV), produced by youths for youth, we finally did it! Not to say we didn't get noticed in the past when RPTV first launched. It sure got its share of attention back then with being blogged about by 100's and featured on the cover of the Toronto Star and FUSE Magazine. But today was the day for RPTV, we received the 2007 Mayor’s Community Safety Award!


The award was presented by David Miller the Mayor of Toronto, Deputy Chief Keith Forde, City Councilor Pam McConnell, City TV's Dwight Drummond and Bell Canada, at the Toronto Police Headquarters.

We've been honored for our work on RPTV and the Mayor believes we are helping make Toronto a safer city to live in.
Thank You Mayor!

OH yah! I almost forgot to mention... the Mayor also sat down for a screening of some the latest episodes of RPTV we've been working on!

MANIFESTO: Toronto

MANIFESTO! Hip Hop History has been made!

MANIFESTO:
A Toronto based event spanning 4 days, containing 8 events featuring over 85 Toronto Hip Hop Artists! This event was jam-packed with workshops, break-dancing, beat boxing and live hip-hop performances from all my favorite Toronto hip-hop artists!

History was made and i was proudly there to witness it. The Sunday night event had all my favorite Toronto Hip-Hop Artists preforming along side with each other for the first time ever in history; preforming a "Live Mixtape".

ARTISTS:
Maestro, Michie Mee, Saukrates, Dream Warriors, Choclair, Dan-e-o, Tara Chase, Brassmunk, Eternia, Daetona, Rochester and Kamau.

The concert was without a doubt the best hip-hop performance I've ever seen or attended and I hope they will bring it back again next year! Craziest part about this jam-packed event was that it was totally free! (Though I'd defiantly pay to see that again.)

I got the the opportunity to have a little talk with Saukrates. I asked him how long it took everyone to put this live mixtape together and he said they pretty much just winged it.

Shooting For Change

Shooting For Change

Its been a while since I've blogged about anything on here but I think today's event is defiantly worth noting. Today was the premiere of a documentary called "Shooting for Change" produced by INSYNC Videos. I went to see this documentary about me and my work, with my co-workers and my girlfriend, Rachelle. The film was absolutely fantastic! The way it was laid out and edited was great. I was worried originally that the film was going to portray me as just a former resident of Regent Park still considered "at risk"; but after watching the film I'm totally happy to be one of the main focuses in it!

The film was called "Shooting for Change" and is expected to be aired on OMNI TV during the Summer of 2007. Following its appearance on OMNI, a DVD of the film will be available for purchase. So if you miss out on seeing it on TV, you still have a chance to see it on DVD!