The Surface Unsigned Festival is a rather massive live music competition running in Birmingham over the next few months. The first heat starts on Monday with a series of 29 gigs at the Actress and Bishop running until the end of April. Each will have around six bands playing, making roughly 170 bands in this … [Read more…]
Stef Lewandowski of local creative agency 3form is atending the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin TX and is blogging what he sees.
A regular selection of photos from the Birmingham Flickr community. by tanyalupton by hartlandmartin by Paul Regan by ikkio_too All copyright as applies. To suggest photos for inclusion in this feature add them to this thread or leave a link in the comments.
Test Bed is an art exhibition based around Five Ways. Test Bed involves eight artists making new work specific to people and place. The location and community of Five Ways Shopping Centre, Birmingham, will inform the creation of the work. Harry Palmer, George Saxon, Darryl Georgiou, Pauline Bailey, Julie M ONeill, Sandra Hall, Nelson Douglas … [Read more…]
Rhubarb Farm, the online retail wing of Rhubarb Rhubarb, are joining the New Art Birmingham event with a series of For Sale signs distributed around Hockley and Eastside. Fine art photographers go out onto the streets for a month in Birmingham, from 14 March, in a unique exhibition which is made in the form of … [Read more…]
Roadshow West Midlands: Ecosystem is an interesting looking event run by the Networking Artists Network to be held at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 24 March from 12.30 – 6pm. Topics under discussion include: How do artists relate to the art market? Why is there no significant commercial system in Birmingham or the West … [Read more…]
Creative Birmingham, not to be confused with this blog, is a new site masterminded by Stef Lewandowski of 3form that’s now ready for public consumption. The basic concept is to act as a one page snapshot of all the activity going on in Birmingham’s creative community, combining feeds from sites like this one, events listings, … [Read more…]