Baker Artist Portfolios

Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and was nurtured, inspired and trained in is his  craft by the Baltimore Arts Community.  He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music,  Baltimore Rhythm Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest, Black Panther Party Film festival, HipHop Theatre Festival, Creative Alliance, Arena Players, The Ottobar, Mind on Fire, Rhizome DC, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Shomburg Center.  However, his work is often community based. In  2007 he began facilitating a prison theatre program, Direct Responses Alleviate Misdirected Aggression (D.R.A.M.A.) at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, MD. In 2012 he was awarded an Open Society Institute fellowship to expand D.R.A.M.A.  In early 2018 Bashi co-founded Konjur Collective, a multidisciplinary group using music, video, and spoken word to create radical, experimental, and  spiritual Black art.