Yo, this is Dre – once again, bringing you the latest on what’s happenin’!
As some of you may or may not already know (or probably gathered from the title of this Blog post) is that – yes, the BASS festival is back again once more, bringing you some of the best of what the UK has to offer – creatively.
So what is the BASS Festival, exactly?
“BASS Festival (British Arts and Street Sounds) is the UK’s only month long celebration of Black Music and Art. Every June, the UK comes alive with a phenomenal line up of events, new commissions, gigs, exhibitions, master classes, showcases, club nights, theatre, conferences and film.
Produced by Punch the key aims of the festival are to:
- Forge communicative and appropriate artistic partnerships between venues, artists and promoters
- Challenge programming and audience development practices in an attempt to expand, diversify and improve the image and accessibility of urban arts.
- Build concrete foundations to establish the festival as a long-term feature of the region’s and the UK’s annual cultural programme.
Now in its 5th year BASS has established itself as a driving force on the UK’s festival scene and has huge outreach to a fantastically diverse audience base.
Events are held mainly in the Midlands region (Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby) with satellite events in cities such as London, Manchester and Bristol. They are delivered in a range of contrasting venues from universities, museums, galleries, bars to public spaces. This approach ensures that a huge cross section of the region’s communities have unrivalled exposure and easy access to the festival.
BASS creates platforms for artist based commissions that initiate and develop new networks for dialogue.
The theme for BASS 2010 is DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) forms the building blocks of life and controls the development and functioning of all known living organisms. But what does DNA mean to us individually in the 21st century? Identity, test tubes, control, heritage, science, ID cards, family, databases, samples, genomes, protest? The fifth BASS festival will explore how DNA varies and develops, whether caused by external forces, or by personal development, enabling us to rethink our evolving identities.
Every year the BASS festival follows a theme to help develop a united, innovative, challenging and progressive method to showcase urban arts”. (For more info, please see: http://www.bassfestival.co.uk/)
For those, who are wondering if i’m just advertising the BASS festival or if it has any relevance to myself or The Smash Bro’z – then the answer’s pretty simple… Both!
As well as promoting the BASS Festival, The Smash Bro’z will be performing a piece, made especially for this event, on Friday 25th June at the MAC (Midlands Arts Centre)! It’s definately not one to be missed!
(Time is to be confirmed).
This is Dre. Peace.
*Note that all quotes, images, etc on this post are orignally from: http://www.bassfestival.co.uk/ – All rights go to that particular website.
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