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BASS Festival: breaking boundaries and backing birmingham’s bid
10th June 2010. Posted by Ruth Pipkin. Trackback
We’re hitting the half-way point of this year’s BASS Festival so I thought it was the perfect time to look at one of the city’s most successful events.
The brainchild of Punch Records, BASS (British Arts and Street Sounds) Festival is now in its fifth consecutive year. Having worked on BASS ‘09, which was listed in The Sunday Times Top 100 Festivals, I was really excited about the start of this year’s festival.
BASS 2010 is all about DNA, looking at what makes you as a person; from identity and history to culture and surroundings. This year’s festival line-up includes a host of music and arts events happening throughout June, across some of the city’s best venues. Through the festival Punch creates opportunities for artists (of all genres and backgrounds) to develop; giving a platform to new commissions and existing projects. Working on the festival has meant I have been able to work with a host of artists, promoters and venues that have a real passion for the arts; a lot of whom I would probably not have worked with otherwise.
This year’s festival has had an amazing response from press already, particularly the controversial propaganda exhibition ‘Fight The Power’, which has featured in the Guardian Guide’s Pics of the Week (29 May) and as a full-page feature on the back of Design Week (27 May). There have also been online galleries on the Independent and Guardian websites.
The festival as a whole has had some great coverage too; being picked as a highlight event in the Guardian Culture’s ‘This Week’s New Events’ section and listed in Flavour Magazine and Creative Boom. Regional press have shown fantastic support too, including Birmingham Mail, Brum Notes and 24 Seven.
BASS Festival is one of many events that are helping to drive Birmingham’s bid for UK City of Culture. As a whole, the city has so many passionate individuals and organisations creating and maintaining an exciting and eclectic cultural programme. Having just worked on the International Dance Festival Birmingham, I again got to work with some of the city’s best organisations and dance companies to promote an event that was raising Birmingham’s profile on a national scale.
I’m really excited about the future of Birmingham and its cultural programme and have all fingers and toes crossed for our City of Culture bid. It makes me feel a little better to know that Ammo Talwar, Director of Punch Records, has been chosen as one of the few people to present the bid to the DCMS later this month… he’ll definitely do us proud!
