Frontiers Series
The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£8 (£6)
Wheelchair users are entitled to concessionary priced tickets with a complimentary companion seat.
Guide dogs are welcome at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire venues. If you wish to bring a Guide Dog or wheelchair, please let the Events Office know by calling 0121 331 5909.
Free tickets for staff and students*
Staff and students are eligible for a limited number of free tickets for events at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire events.
- Tickets are subject to availability, must be booked in advance and are offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Once the free ticket allocation per event is reached, staff and students are eligible for discounted tickets.
- Excludes events programmed by external organisations or visiting artists.
- One ticket per student/member of staff.
- *Entry only granted with a valid BCU ID.
Photo © Yiannis Katsaris
HAM-HANDED: Video, words and music for players apart
Concept, Music and Video Steve Potter
Director Ilenia Cipollari
Producer Mette Slot Johnsen
Costumes Manrutt Wongkaew
Steve Potter spoken word
Huw Hallam keyboard
Dom Cooper chorus
Potter HAM-HANDED: video, words and music for players apart (world premiere)
Steve Potter (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) presents a performance about relationality and race from the perspective of a white American musician raised on recordings of funk and trained in Western classical music. With the help of guests, he examines his own position and his musical Afro-centrism, paying tribute to Cecil Taylor, Hazel Scott, Jesse Jackson, Rihanna, Lester Bowie, Rakim and Eric B., and Kendrick Lamar. Throughout the performance he toys with his impulse to see the very attempt to performatively address race from his position as doomed to social clumsiness and faux-pas.
Forthcoming events in Frontiers Series
Forthcoming dates will be announced soon.