Councilor Ray Hassall, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture, having decided to reprieve Artsfest for another year (quoted in The Stirrer): “The reorganisation has totally paid off, and it’s been very successful” Hassall explained. “Wherever I’ve been, it’s been packed. The question now is how do we look at adding to that? “The arts … [Read more…]
A press release was issued on Sunday evening by the City Council’s Marketing and PR Team. The 10th annual Artsfest is hailed a huge success as over 200,000 people attended events and basked in the unseasonal sunshine taking in the UK’s largest free festival of its kind. The highlight of the festival was the Classical … [Read more…]
by Nikki Pugh.
I’m in two minds about posting this as it’s not really representative of the event and, to be honest, not very good quality. Basically I left my iPod+mic on the ground recording Blast last night but it couldn’t deal with the volume. Where the audio drops out, thats when it gets really loud. Still, it’s … [Read more…]
Blast is quite possibly the best piece of performance art in any medium to have taken place in Birmingham in recent years. Certainly it was a great spectacle with heaps of pyrotechnics and bangs but it was also an incredibly considered and, in places, quietly meditative piece, simultaneously draining and inspiring. It was a performance … [Read more…]
Creative Wolverhampton rounds up the Wolvs contingent performing at Artsfest.
BiNS reports that the BBC Big Screen is to be removed from Chamberlain Square this month before being errected in Victoria Square sometime in November. Jon also has news that they’re looking into some kind of YouTube submission system to make it easier for locals to get their own content on the screen. Which would … [Read more…]
Nikki Pugh is experimenting with call and return after seeing two YouTube videos playing next to each other and being “struck by the effect of having two narratives running side by side”.