Starts Tuesday 17th October | 7pm | £50-80 sliding scale & fully-funded options (more sign up info below)
BBG Basics: The Course is a 5-part workshop series designed to help you:
Feel confident using XDJs and controllers
Learn DJing fundamentals such as beat matching, tune selection, and mixing techniques
Begin to structure your own DJ sets
Get a grasp of the music theory needed for mixing skilfully
Teaching will be provided by the collective, as well as affiliated special guest DJ Priya. All our tutors are passionate about making the music industry more accessible and diverse, and you’ll learn from their experience about navigating the industry as gender minorities and women, including guidance on how to get booked, performing live, and keeping yourself and your peers safe in nightlife and industry spaces. At the end of the course, we will celebrate you by throwing a party in which you’re all invited to perform alongside the bbg crew.
“BBG basics broke everything down and demystified it, and made me realise just how kind of easy [DJing] is; it’s not this exclusive (boys’) club I won’t have the skill to access for years.”
BBG:
BBG is a brighton-based collective of djs platforming each other as gender minorities and women within the city’s electronic music scene. We are creatives with a range of abilities and experience, brought together with a shared love of fast, bassy, and breaksy electronic music. We’ve developed this course as a way to expand upon our standalone BBG Basics workshop (featured in DJ Mag!), offering a longer-form course to give participants the chance to really get to grips with DJing equipment. We hope to contribute towards a supportive community of gender minority + women DJs within Brighton by offering this course, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
WHEN:
The course will run throughout October - November, ending with a party on the 1st December where participants get the chance to play out alongside the BBG crew. The teaching dates are 7-9pm on 17th October, 24th October, 7th November, 21st November, and 28th November, and a graduation party on the 1st December. On the weeks without teaching (w/c 30th October and w/c 14th November) we are hoping to arrange practice sessions at a local Brighton studio - this is in process and we will confirm closer to the time. Please make sure you can attend these workshop dates before signing up, as spaces are very limited.
WHERE:
The course will take place at the Rose Hill, an independent venue, recording studio, label, creative hub and co-working space. Wheelchair users can enter the venue via a ramp at the front of the building. We're very sorry that at present there is not a disabled toilet in the venue - this will not be the case the next time we run this course.
WHO:
This course is for gender minorities and women with little-to-no experience of DJing. Spaces on this course are limited to ensure that there is a good ratio of participants to equipment.
HOW MUCH:
Half of the places on the course are fully funded, available to folks on low income who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial limitations. There is a link to an application form for funded places below. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people typically under-represented in the music industry including: people of colour; disabled people; people in the LGBTQIA+ community; people who have a mental health conditions; and people who are working class and/or from a working class background. The remaining spaces are available on a sliding scale, from £50 - 80 for the course + graduation party. Applications for funded places close on the 30th September, and we will let you know by the 7th October if you have been selected.
SIGN UP:
If you are applying for a funded place, please fill out the funded application form.
If you would like to sign up for a paid place, please fill out the donation form. These are available on a first-come-first-serve basis, but please note spaces are very limited. Once you have filled out the form, we’ll send you an email with our PayPal details for payment."