I was chatting to Fay Goodman of Goodmedia the other night and she’s a nice person. Whether that counts for anything is up to you but I think niceness is an underrated thing these days. Goodmedia, based in Yardly, are a TV/Film and music production company who’ve put out work about, amongst other things, John … [Read more…]
Art Auction 2007 is a three day celebration of contemporary art in Birmingham, raising funds for the region’s new, world class Leukaemia Centre at University Hospital Birmingham. The art can be viewed in the gallery from the 15th April, the Art Auction will take place on the 17th. The auction takes place at St Paul’s … [Read more…]
The X Press are looking to publish an anthology of new writing from the West Midlands’ African-Caribbean, Asian and Chinese communities in association with Birmingham Libraries. The book will be edited by will be edited by Birmingham based author, playwright and former BBC Writer in Residence, Ava Ming (pictured) about whom there’s a pretty comprehensive … [Read more…]
Beat 13 are a collective of artists and musicians based in Birmingham who’ve been doing stuff since around 1999. Founded by Matt Watkins and Lucy Mclauchlan the emphasis appears to be on Lucy’s work which you’ve probably seen about the place at some point or other. While they were very active in 2006 the website … [Read more…]
A quick update on the Co-working Spaces idea that Antonio Gould was pondering earlier in the month. He’s set up an informal meeting at The Kitchen in the Custard Factory next Thursday 5th April at 6pm for anyone who’s interested in setting up or joining this kind of working environment in Birmingham. More details on … [Read more…]
PLOT put on a number of interesting talks and events at the the Light House in Wolverhampton related to the development of the creative industries. The problem with these, and the many other information dissemination sessions that go on in the region, is if you miss them then you miss them. The knowledge isn’t saved … [Read more…]
This summer Stripsearch, the project that seeks out and nurtures comic and graphic illustration talent in the West Midlands, is running a bunch of free professional illustration courses under the banner Com-Motion. Budding cartoonists aged 13 to 19 can create their own comic or animation with professionals including John McCrea, Hunt Emerson and The Brothers … [Read more…]
Chris Keenan, trading as Prime Objective is a photographer who models himself after a WWII surveillance pigeon, taking photos and making short films around the world with a wide variety of tools, from polariods and lomography to super-8. In fact I’m not sure “photographer” is the right term for him – seems a bit restrictive. … [Read more…]