Bolt Partners with Hip Hop Theater Festival
Source: mediakit.bolt.com
Topic: Hip Hop
Sort Desciption: Media today announced that it has partnered with the Hip Hop Theater Festival to ... showcasing hip hop performance art. Our partnership with Bolt ...
Content Inside: Contact: Sarah Hofstetter Kayak Communications for Bolt Media 646-432-4899 sarah@kayakcorp.com Bolt Partners with Hip Hop Theater Festival Companies inspire creativity with Voice on Blast Online Competition NEW YORK – May 4, 2006 – Keeping with its goal of motivating people to create, Bolt Media today announced that it has partnered with the Hip Hop Theater Festival to provide a platform to make hip hop culture more accessible to the masses. Bolt will create a Hip Hop Theater Festival profile on bolt.com (www.bolt.com/HipHopTF) for all festival-related information, links to purchase tickets for the events and an opportunity to enter the Voice on Blast Competition. The Voice on Blast Competition allows people to submit their own hip hop content – anything from monologues, rants, poems, music or video. The winner of the Voice on Blast Competition (to be announced on June 5) will be a featured performer in the New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival, including an exclusive audition with the producers of Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. Bolt members will have the opportunity to select the Top 10 finalist. The Hip Hop Theater Festival, kicking off today in Chicago, is fully dedicated to introducing new artistic creations by artists who stretch, invent and combine a variety of theatrical forms, including theater, dance, spoken word and live music sampling from a diversity of cultures and points of view to the public. Dates for all the festivals in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City and Washington DC can be found on the Hip Hop Theater Festival site. “We share the same DNA as the Hip Hop Theater Festival – we’re both encouraging people to create their own content and bring it to an audience,” said Aaron Cohen, CEO of Bolt Media. “The partnership reinforces Bolt as a creative networking site.” “The Hip Hop Theater festival has grown into one of the most influential outlets for showcasing hip hop performance art. Our partnership with B ...
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