B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival is back for its ninth year showcasing the very best Hip-Hop talent from across the pillars of Hip-Hop including Breakin’, Graffiti, DJing and MCing.

The four-day festival will take place across Birmingham Hippodrome, Southside and Bullring & Grand Central.

The festival kicks off on Thursday 6 June with a Young Community Takeover event, which focuses on unlocking young people’s creativity through Hip-Hop workshops, as well as a showing of Gerel Falconer’s production, TONES which also takes place on Friday 7 June, alongside an advanced & intermediate level dance workshop programme.

On Saturday 8 June the festival explodes onto the streets of Southside and inside Birmingham Hippodrome with dance competition qualifiers, a music block party, Graffiti Jam, Afroflux marketplace, workshops, talks and much more. Break Mission Worldwide and Queer-Side Dance Championships culminate on the Sunday with the Finals taking place in the Bullring, featuring some of the very best contemporary Hip-Hop talents from across the UK and internationally.

The full B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival 2024 programme will be announced in May.

B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival is produced by Birmingham Hippodrome with Break Mission, Queer-Side, Afroflux & High Vis Festival. The festival is in partnership with Bullring & Grand Central and supported by Red Bull, Southside District and The Arcadian.

For more information about Birmingham Hippodrome, visit: birminghamhippodrome.com