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Festival Lassiry Hip Hop in Conakry
A week-long Conakry urban-culture festival mixing hip-hop, roller dance, contemporary dance and mask performance, with editions built around themes such as technology and youth creativity across Guinean urban culture, drawing a distinctly younger city crowd to each edition of the programme. Local dance crews and DJs often use it as a platform to debut new work in front of a receptive urban audience.
Festival Lassiry Hip Hop typically runs across roughly a week each autumn in Conakry, with editions built around themes such as technology at the heart of urban creativity, according to Guinean press coverage of one recent programme.