Street festival celebrates hip-hop culture
Inside the studio, Chip Lo, Anjlika Guglani and Rob Aspinall GAREMA Place in Civic is set to break out this Saturday (January 23) with a show of “peace, love, unity and having fun” — the “four principles” of hip-hop — as the inaugural Canberra Street Dance Festival swings into gear. Targeted at youth and families, and supported by the ACT City Renewal Authority and City Services, it’s the brainchild of Chip Lo, who owns and directs the dance studio, Project Beats. He’s keen to stress the more benign aspects of hip-hop culture (as opposed to the confrontational image of gansta ...