With less than 3 weeks to go until Fierce Festival 2024, tickets are flying out – we’ve already completely sold out of three shows. But even without spending a penny, there are loads of brilliant performances, workshops and gatherings that you can enjoy at this year’s edition of the festival – completely free and open to everyone!
- Join Edward George for the second of three live journeys into the mesmerising and troubling sound world of D’Angelo’s Voodoo. Released in 2000, this album marked the apex and perhaps limit of his musical career, and by extension, the apex of RnB, Soul, and Funk’s impact on American society since the 1960s. Note: this event is FREE but ticketed, book yours here.
- A bite-sized dance performance that packs a real punch, Entephul is heavily influenced by Alina Arshi’s recent return trip to India with references to the mudrās, symbolic hand gestures present in Indian dance. Note: this event is FREE but ticketed, book yours here.
- As part of our ongoing partnership with B:Music, this Free Jazz Friday performance will feature an amazingly uplifting, high-energy performance from local jazz, disco, funk and soul band, Disco Manifest. Note: this event is FREE but ticketed, book yours here.
- Look out for our Artists-in-Residence – husbands – who will engage in a series of micro-performances and interventions throughout the Festival.
- If you’re a producer passionate about driving change in communities through the arts and sustaining international relationships, come join us for an exciting Midlands Social! – presented by Producer Gathering in collaboration with China Plate and Fierce Festival.
- Inspired by Twine, this open discussion and Q&A will explore the future of care, family and love – with Selina Thompson Ltd, Dr Claire McGettrick born Lorraine Hughes (Co-founder of Adoption Rights Alliance& Justice for Magdalenes Research), Sarah O Brien (Oral Historian and Lecturer at MCI) and artist Marley Starskey Butler.
- Join performingborders for an open, public gathering and breakfast at the Festival Hub, where we invite audiences, peers and artists to join us in discussing the programme and the potential of a project developing critical experimental writing and performance.
- In collaboration with Centrala, this panel brings together CEEUs Network, artist-in-residence Nela Milic, and Olga Drygas (Nowy Theatre, Warsaw) for a dynamic discussion on artistic expression across borders. Note: this event is FREE but ticketed, book yours here.
And don’t forget the Fierce Festival Hub at Birmingham Black Box Theatre is open all week for everyone to drop in, hang out, meet with old friends and make some new ones.
We can’t wait to see you soon babs!