Our Future Leaders series is back. The series went quiet for a spell while we rebuilt the magazine around a sharper editorial brief, but the reason we started it in the first place has not gone anywhere. There are still people out there doing the work, quietly, stubbornly, without waiting for permission from the usual gatekeepers. People building rooms, communities and moments that do not look like anything else on the calendar. This is where we go and find them.
The premise is straightforward. We are not interested in the artists who are simply next in the queue, or the promoters running the same night in the same city with a…
