BASS Festival Mural
‘the future’

 

Welcome to a celebration of Birmingham’s Future

 Meet the future

 

Meet the future

BASS Festival curators Aliyah Hasinah and RTKal have taken this years festival to another level by curating the largest permanent mural in Birmingham, celebrating Future Black icons and influencers of music and culture. As young artistic entrepreneurs both Aliyah and RTKal wanted to look forward and reimagine the city with a personal twist. The question was, could they create a list of future black icons in UK’s youngest diverse city whilst keeping it very personal to themselves.

“We wanted to look forward and have a sharp focus on the creative but not just famous artists, people who we feel are really pushing the boundaries. We have some obvious choices in there but also some new faces as the list was hugely complex. We could only submit 20 but we actually had 50 in our first shortlist”
- ALIYAH HASINAH

“I’m proud of this city and the talent it creates and knowing that we’re only able to highlight a few of our future stars has been tough. We’ve both thought extremely hard to make sure we cover everything from art form, gender, impact in the community, and so many other things. I hope we have done the city proud with this one.”
- RTKAL