B-COMING FESTIVAL + SYMPOSIUM: ROOTS, LINEAGE, AND THE ONGOING EVOLUTION OF HIP HOP AND STREET DANCE CULTURES

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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago's annual symposium and its B-Series Festival of Hip Hop and Street Dance Cultures unite for the first time in 2027. B-COMING Festival + Symposium focuses on globalization and cultural exchange, through exploring the powerful, in-between spaces where different traditions meet—and sometimes collide—at the crossroads of community and identity.

"Rather than settling for superficial blending, we want to dig into the deep conversations, tensions, and boundaries that arise when street and club forms, sacred practices, and diverse cultural lineages navigate shared space," say co-curators Daniel "BRAVEMONK" Haywood and Kelsa "K-Soul" Rieger-Haywood. "For four days in February, B-COMING welcomes artists, scholars and community members to gather, share, dance, and dig into how complex ancestral histories live inside contemporary bodies as we develop new ways of creating together."

Practitioners, scholars, activists, educators, students, culture bearers, and enthusiasts are invited to submit session proposals for classes, workshops, creative practice, freestyle cyphers, jams, panels, paper presentations, films, and more.

Tickets: Festival + Symposium Pass ($40); Showcase Ticket ($15); Symposium Session Ticket ($10); Festival Battle & Jam (free with reservation); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.

Day of Symposium Sessions
Thursday, February 25, 2027 – 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Festival Showcase
Friday, February 26, 2027 – 7:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.

Workshops + Battle & Jam – Headliners and Judges TBA
Saturday, February 27, 2027 – 11 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

More Info Link: https://dance.colum.edu/events/2027/2/25/b-series-spring-2027

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