What is a Session?
A Session is a trusted meeting ground for culture expression. It provides a safe haven where diversity can participate, practice, promote, and progress by connecting in that which the people have in common.

What makes Sessions different than traditional venues?
Sessions are focused on facilitating local community based participation and progression (there is less division of performer and audience). A venue for the people by the people  and not dependent on outside agenda or program. Traditional venues are usually driven by concerts (who's on the ticket), a set program (not flexible), and can be more about generating income. These are not really "bad" things, they might even help Sessions, but it's not what a Session is built on and driven by. Because of that, Sessions can consistently exist with or without putting on a "big show." This creates also creates a place of trust with individuals as a part of a whole (like a family), thus it is not about the venue but a body of people that grows together and eventually better than before. Sessions are also a place of civility within diversity, where many different people can connect under a new identity that is defined amongst the meeting of people on something in common. Many other kind of venues are more cliquish and exclusive while Sessions and Hip-hop culture is largely inclusive because of its adaptable nature and flexibility.

Why Hip-hop?
Hip-hop is inclusive by design. It started with the condition of having "nothing" (or having lots of soul instead of material wealth) so it became a mix match of everything. For example, DJs took records from many genres and made it into something new and artists didn't have a canvas or traditional training so they wrote in books and walls, teaching each other. In New York where the culture began - graffiti, breaking, emceeing were separate phenomenons occurring simultaneously within a certain generation until the introduction of the DJ that brought people together at block parties to finally identify under one name - Hip-hop. These block parties were the first Hip-hop Sessions. As long as they occurred, the culture further defined itself and spread across people groups. Although Hip-hop largely speaks on inner city social ills, many forget it was first about wanting to make things better, escape, or strive for something higher and better.

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