On Friday December 16, 2005 AFRICA HI-FI is having a Tribute celebration for JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT’s DAY OF BIRTH (born dec.20 1960-Aug.12 1988).

Our Friend from L.A., Tyg (Tyler Gibney) (Heavyweights/hvw8.com) is our Special Guest Artist. Tyler will be doing his live art installation dedicated to Jean-Michel. The Heavyweights are also celebrating their release of Music is my Art release on Ubiquity.

TYLER GIBNEY was born Calgary, Canada. In high school he formed the band “High Rollers" with childhood friend/artist Geoff Mcfetridge. After brief success, the band broke up in 1994 and Tyler moved to Montreal and attended Concordia University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, Major in Design. After University he started working freelance with his own high rollers/headache company and started working with the the Voice of Montreal which would soon become Vice Magazine. After leaving Vice magazine he founded Heavyweight Production House with Gene "Starship' Pendon and dan 'DSTRBO' Buller. As part of the Heavyweight Art Installation he toured worldwide and held exhibitions at galleries like the Parco gallery in Tokyo, 2001, and at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MOCCA) in Toronto. In 2002, he relocated to Los Angeles and opened Heavyweight Production House, Inc, which now includes a clothing line, music projects, and fine arts projects.


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AFRICA HI-FI’S RESIDENT MASTER DEEJAY, RON TRENT will be providing the Musical Treats for the evening …while your Host, SONIA H. continues to make sure everything is order and everyone's smiling!



$10 before 11pm/$15 after

Doors open 9pm-2am






In his short life (1960-1988), JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT came to personify the art scene of the 80s, with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction. And then there was the work, which the public image tended to overshadow: paintings and drawings that conjured up marginal urban black culture and black history, as well as the artist's own conflicted sense of identity.

He was, all at once it seemed, the ultimate party animal, a wannabe street-kid and grafittist hiding his black Brooklyn middle class roots, an advocate and interpreter of the marginal and dispossessed at the court of the mainstream, an angry black aspirant to the all-white art canon, a precocious talent, a creature of cynical marketing and a fraud, a proto-muIti-culturalist, an American original.



"Every line means something." - Jean-Michel Basquiat



Pertinent links to visit:

Hvw8.com

Basquiat.com

Prescrtiptionworld.org

Amnesty.org

Nextaid.org

Paisanitos.org








(((PEACE.LOVE.RESPECT)))
Sonia H.


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