Washington City Paper’s Spoken Word Video Contest

Submit your video for a chance to win:

• An original painting from Trust Your Struggle Collective
• A handmade bag from Mad Imports
• A one-year subscription to Fader Magazine

In celebration of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, we’re launching our own Spoken Word Video Contest.

Here’s how to enter your video! It’s simple.

1. Upload your video on YouTube

2. Tag your video “Washington City Paper Spoken Word Contest”

3. The first round will be judged by us! A panel of City Paper judges will select 10 finalist videos that will appear on the City Paper Website.

4. The second round will be judged by you! City Paper readers will vote for the most creative and innovative spoken words video

Be sure to tell your friends to vote!

Contest Rules:

• Videos must be submitted by July 25, 2008
• Voting will be held July 28 - August 18th (Winner Selected on August 19th)
• There is no fee to enter the video contest; however, you are responsible for any costs you may incur for creating and submitting your video. By submitting your video, you grant Washington City Paper the right to air and use it for any purpose and with appropriate attribution as to its creator and/or source.
• There is a limit of one entry per eligible participant.
• As conditions of entry into a Contest, and by uploading an Entry, each Entrant warrants and represents that uploaded Entry (a) is your original work, (b) has not been previously published, (c) does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; (d) that you have obtained permission from a person who's name, likeness or voice is used in the Video or Music and (e) and that publication of the Video or Music via various media including Web posting, will not infringe on the rights of any third party rights. Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless Washington City Paper from any claims to the contrary.

Hip-Hop Theater Festival running July 8 - July 12, 2008

Since 2000, HHTF has presented Hip-Hop theater to devoted audiences in our four festival cities: NYC, Washington DC, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. Bringing live, professionally executed theater written by and about the Hip-Hop generation, HHTF has consistently told urgent stories seldom represented on stage, and through language that embraces Hip-Hop's vitality. Always imbued with an undercurrent of activism, Hip-Hop Theater ignites dialogue and social change through exciting, provocative and celebratory performance.