Following the success of the city’s first, annual Hip-Hop Festival in 2016, Birmingham Hippodrome is thrilled to announce that B-SIDE Hip Hop Festival will be returning in 2017.

Produced in partnership with local hip hop artists Break Mission, Juice Aleem, Mickeal ‘Marso’ Riviere, and Graffiti Artist.com, B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival will, once again, see the streets of Southside filled with the sights and sounds of contemporary hip-hop culture in a three-day event featuring some of the biggest names in local and international Hip-Hop talent

The festival will take place across the weekend of the 19-21 May and will feature a range of exhilarating outdoor performances, pop-up dance events, rap-battles, interactive talks and live graffiti art alongside an explosive programme of high-energy workshops.

Last year’s B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival attracted over 5000 visitors to Southside, bringing together over 70 performers, wordsmiths and artists from across the city plus an additional 150 local street dance competitors from across the UK.

Highlights from last 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 regional 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 championships and a specially-commissioned contemporary Hip-Hop dance piece by Birmingham-based theatre company Frantic Assembly created by ‘Ignition’ in partnership with the Old Rep, the company’s UK wide training programme for young men aged 16-20.

Full details of this year’s B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival programme will be announced shortly. For further information and updates, visit the B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival What’s On Page.