View Highlights from Birmingham's First Annual Hip-Hop Festival
The streets of Southside were alive with the sights and sounds of Hip Hop earlier this week as performance artists from across the city came together for the launch of Birmingham’s first, annual B-Side Hip-Hop Festival.
The three day, city wide festival saw performance artists from across Birmingham join forces with the best in international Hip Hop talent for an exciting weekend of talks, pop-up city centre performances, workshops, battles and art installations taking place across the Southside district from Fri 23 – Sun 25 Sept.
The event was dope and I had so much fun just getting down with the people and enjoying the festival. The vibe was fresh!
Victor (MF KIDZ/Squadron) Florida
I don’t think Birmingham was ready for an event like this but now they know what Hip Hop is about and they loved it, nothing but positive vibes and Brum Hippodrome was amazing!
Silence, performer at B-SIDE Hip Hop Festival
Produced by Birmingham Hippodrome in partnership with The Old Rep and curated by the city’s many hip-hop talents including Break Mission, Dance Nuvo, Juice Aleem and Mickeal ‘Marso’ Riviere, B-Side Hip-Hop Festival is the first, annual festival of its kind to take place in Birmingham. Following in the success of Summer in Southside 2016, this three-day festival – covering all aspects of contemporary Hip Hop from graffiti to breakin, street dance to spoken word – brought together over 70 performers, wordsmiths and artists from across city plus an additional 150 local street dance competitors from across the country. The event attracted an estimated 5000 visitors to Southside over the three day period.
It made me proud to be a Brummie!!!!
NeNe (MDK/TBB UK) Birmingham
Highlights of this year’s festival included The Hip Hop Conversation, a city-wide symposium hosted by local MC and rap artists Juice Aleem and DJ Silence exploring Birmingham’s independent and vibrant contribution to global Hip Hop culture, the Break Mission x Just Jam International semis and finals which saw b-boys and b-girls from across Birmingham compete in 1 vs 1 ‘poppin’ and ‘breakin’ battles for the chance to win a place in the national finals and a specially-commissioned performance of Remote by Birmingham-based theatre company Frantic Assembly, an exhilarating piece of physical theatre created by ‘Ignition’ in partnership with the Old Rep, the company’s UK wide training programme for young men aged 16-20.
At @NetworkRailBHM today for #BSIDE Hip Hop Festival with @TheOldRep, @brumhippodrome & @SSProducers https://t.co/0LSIagE7zw
— Emma ✌️ (@_EisforEmma) September 24, 2016
Amazing young dancers at @NetworkRailBHM @allbarone for @brumhippodrome #bside festival right now! #Birmingham pic.twitter.com/zQAxVWpyuT
— Emma ✌️ (@_EisforEmma) September 24, 2016
Incredible display of talent on the New Street Square stage right now – WEL JEL everybody! #NewStreetTakeover #BSIDE pic.twitter.com/VwVIb6SW3B
— Southside Producers (@SSProducers) September 24, 2016
Pop-up street dance happening right now outside @brumhippodrome #BSIDE pic.twitter.com/wpIXfNdIhP
— BirminghamHippodrome (@brumhippodrome) September 24, 2016
Grafitti artists takeover @EnjoySouthside as part of #BSIDE Hip-Hop festival – come on down and get involved! pic.twitter.com/fEtguOyxNF
— BirminghamHippodrome (@brumhippodrome) September 24, 2016
Birmingham b-boys battling it out in The Patrick Centre! #HipHop #Breakin #Dance #BSIDE pic.twitter.com/iyGJUb5N4s
— BirminghamHippodrome (@brumhippodrome) September 24, 2016
Stunning soulful vocals right now at @NetworkRailBHM for @brumhippodrome @TheOldRep #BSIDE hip hop festival! #Birmingham pic.twitter.com/IdEYJmmxU2
— Emma ✌️ (@_EisforEmma) September 24, 2016
OUTSTANDING Peformance with @namiwajazz and her bandmates @maddiethespider @Ro_chae Jordanne and Joe #BSIDE You guys attracted 280 people!!? pic.twitter.com/PttVegdAlo
— Southside Producers (@SSProducers) September 24, 2016
Awesome graff work at B-SIDE today pic.twitter.com/ImPlJA7Sct
— BirminghamHippodrome (@brumhippodrome) September 24, 2016
Seriously spoilt for choice around @brumhippodrome today from #AlvinAiley to #BDSIDE Hip Hop Festival pic.twitter.com/8tMt7pbOQp
— Laura (@BrumKindOf) September 24, 2016
Never seen so many dancers in the Patrick Centre @brumhippodrome. pic.twitter.com/tpwZHuKJ4d
— F i o n a (@Fiona_Allan) September 24, 2016
B-boys and B-girls battle it out to be named champion @Break_Mission Just Jam Intl 2016! #BSIDE pic.twitter.com/6BTUANnzEq
— BirminghamHippodrome (@brumhippodrome) September 24, 2016
huge crowds gathering for Frantic Ignition, catch them again at 15:45! #NewStreetTakeover #BSIDE pic.twitter.com/EfpMx33dEH
— Southside Producers (@SSProducers) September 24, 2016
A huge thanks to everyone who came along and supported the event. You can view a selection of highlights from this year’s festival by clicking on the image gallery above.
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