Month: August 2007

Out of Hours, September

The next Out of Hours at Light House is on Monday 3rd September, 5.30-7.30pm and is all about funding. While it takes place in Wolverhampton a lot of these organisations are West Mids-wide so this is pretty relevant to Birmingham folks. (And Light House is a lovely place to visit.) Guests at this informal chatting … [Read more…]

Artsfest Top Ten

On the Artsfest front page is their listing of the top ten attractions over the weekend of 14th -16th September. Bearing in mind this is just the big tent events and doesn’t include all the smaller but just as interesting things, but it gives something of a taste of what the festival is trying to … [Read more…]

Getting help from the City Council

This email did the rounds a while back and I thought it might be useful to repost it here as it helped clear up a few things for me: The following two services are managed by the Creative Development Team at Birmingham City Council and are open to creative businesses in West Midlands Objective Two … [Read more…]

Roundup

Artstalking is a blog run by Ana Milgram who goes to arts events and writes about them. As you can imagine seeing this makes me very happy indeed! She also sticks photos on Flickr. Simon Peplow interviewed on the blog ELvis IN hawaii. Julian Cope was at Supersonic and writes a lovely review in his … [Read more…]

Contemporary Art Mentoring Scheme

A course for contemporary artists is “a 12 week, 60 hours practice led mentoring programme for fine artists” run by Lara Ratnaraja and Nicola Shipley at Creative Alliance with guest mentoring from Helen Legg and Melissa Nisbett (from the Ikon gallery), Dom Murphy (from TAK!) and Matt Price (possibly from BIAD?). Previous artists have developed … [Read more…]

Folking Stewards

The Moseley Folk Festival is next weekend and tickets are still available but if you can’t afford them or just fancy being involved in the workings of what’s emerging as an important event on Birmingham’s music calendar, you can work as a steward in return for free entry for that day. You need to do … [Read more…]