{"id":30490,"date":"2019-10-24T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30490"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:44:08","slug":"permanent-mural-celebrating-future-icons-in-the-black-community-gets-unveiled-in-digbeth-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/permanent-mural-celebrating-future-icons-in-the-black-community-gets-unveiled-in-digbeth-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent mural celebrating future icons in the Black community gets unveiled in Digbeth, Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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\u2019s youngest diverse city whilst keeping it very personal to themselves.<\/p>\n

Aliyah Hasinah said \u201c 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 boat out. We have some obvious choices in there but also some new faces and shortlisting the list was hugely complex. We could only submit 20 but we actually had 50 in our first shortlist\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rtkal said \u201c It really was hard. Im proud of this city and the talent it creates and knowing that we\u2019re only able to highlight a few of our future stars has been tough. We\u2019ve both thought extremely hard to make sure we cover everything from art form, gender, impact in the community, personal connect and so many other things. I hope we have done the city proud with this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Creatives on the mural<\/p>\n

\u25cf Alexandria Chantiluke – Fashion Designer<\/p>\n

\u25cf Amahra Spence – Artist and Producer<\/p>\n

\u25cf Cherrelle Skeete – Actress<\/p>\n

\u25cf Daniel Alexander – Director & filmmaker<\/p>\n

\u25cf Dapz On The Map – Musical artist<\/p>\n

\u25cf Darren Harriet – Comedian & presenter<\/p>\n

\u25cf Despa – Music manager<\/p>\n

\u25cf Jacob Banks – Singer \/ Songwriter<\/p>\n

\u25cf Jorja Smith – Singer \/ Songwriter<\/p>\n

\u25cf Knox Brown – Producer<\/p>\n

\u25cf Lady Sanity – Rapper<\/p>\n

\u25cf Leon Edwards – MMA<\/p>\n

\u25cf Liz Pemberton – Nursery Manager<\/p>\n

\u25cf Mellow – Catering Entrepreneur<\/p>\n

\u25cf Muna Ruumi – Music Manager<\/p>\n

\u25cf Mystry – Producer and DJ<\/p>\n

\u25cf Romderful – Music Producer<\/p>\n

\u25cf Suriya Aisha – ACTIVIST<\/p>\n

\u25cf Swifta Beater – Producer<\/p>\n

\u25cf T-roadz – MC<\/p>\n

\u25cf TrueMendous – Rapper<\/p>\n

\u25cf Xhosa Cole – Saxophonist<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This mural was commissioned by Bass Festival – a city wide festival supporting diverse artists in unusual spaces. You can view this permanent public mural in Birmingham\u2019s creative quarter, Digbeth outside Suki10 – an independent venue leading the way with a sharp focus on recycling and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[1582,264,2332,2330,2331],"class_list":["post-30490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-bass-festival","tag-birmingham","tag-birminghams-creative-quarter","tag-digbeth","tag-mural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}