The newly formed Hip Hop Club got together on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at the Downtown Milwaukee campus to discuss an agenda jam-packed with events that will promote artists getting together to showcase their creative abilities.
Club president Jonathan McKinney, an Audio Production program student, was equal parts welcoming and authoritative during the meeting, offering lunches to all attendees while maintaining the most executive of the voices heard regarding details of future events.  His goal in creating the club was to share his vision of MATC artists being able to make their art available to the world.
“I started the Hip Hop Club to open up avenues for people that are unable or unaware how to put their talent out there,” McKinney stated.
One of those avenues will be a Poetry Day, currently planned for Tuesday, Oct. 14. Club members voted unanimously to approve the event, which will feature both students and faculty sharing their prose with the MATC community.
Other planned events include a talent show, listening session, and a networking expo described as the club’s fall semester “grand finale.”
Wanda Nash, Business Management student and the club’s vice president, expressed her enthusiasm for the events after the club was only able to organize one event during the spring semester after it was formed in February.
“It’s time to put all our plans into action,” Nash beamed.
With a sizable amount of work to get done to pull off these events successfully, the club soon recognized during the meeting that more officers needed to be appointed to help shoulder the workload. Tina Harris, a Human Services program student, stepped up to answer the call.
“I want to contribute and I’m here because I want to be part of something other than the standard educational system,” Harris declared.
Harris was declared secretary soon after, a move that was met with raucous applause by all in attendance. It was a fitting welcome from a group with the goal of adding up to more than just than the sum of their parts.
A roundtable discussion about where hip hop came from and what it means today will be the club’s next event and is planned for Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 12 p.m. at the  Downtown Milwaukee campus, room M616.