Concert
Music
Part of the exhibition opening for Global Fascisms and the heimaten Festival for Plural Democracy
BSMG is a collaboration between the Black hip hop artists Megaloh, Ghanaian Stallion, Musa, and Amewu—a collective that uses its music to educate listeners on Afropean issues, address postcolonial themes, level systemic critiques, and initiate weighty conversations on contemporary relationships between Germany and its diasporic cultures. The acronym BSMG can be broken down to mean different things: Black Superman Group; Brüder und Schwestern Mehr Gemeinschaft (Brothers and Sisters, More Community); Brothers and Sisters Move Globally. Uniting these different meanings is the theme of self-empowerment for Germany’s Black community.
As part of the exhibition opening for Global Fascisms at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the heimaten Festival for Plural Democracy, BSMG presents the second part of their event series Know the Past, Interpret the Present, Shape the Future. Its central question is: how to address today’s global rightward shift? As part of a grand concert evening, Megaloh, Ghanaian Stallion, Musa, and Amewu together with guests Ace Tee, Benji Asare and Samy Deluxe take over the stage of the Miriam Makeba Auditorium—an act of defense and resistance through music.