Reality Estate is coming up on the 28th October. Taking place in and around the Five Ways Estate, Shopping Centre and roundabout “internationally renowned artists and the people of Ladywood, together they will ‘sing Birmingham’s truths’, accompanied by some of Birmingham’s best known choirs, to a backdrop of spectacular projections and lighting.” One part of … [Read more…]
Ooh, this looks rather smart. The closing party for the Ikon Gallery‘s Eastside residency sees, amongst much else, Broadcast playing. Broadcast in a warehouse! That pleases me for some reason. Facebook event page. via Prime Objective who I’d link to all the time if he had permalinks.
The Stirrer reports on the announced BBC cuts and how they’ll affect the West Midlands. Apparently we’re not doing too badly and might pick up some of the factual programming from London. On the flip side (and not strictly West Mids related) the merging of online, radio and TV news is probably not a great … [Read more…]
Wanting to quickly get the Plus Festival experience quickly surmised I wandered around with my camcorder for 10 minutes. Hopefully you can get an idea of what it’s like, allowing for my amateurish skills in this medium. Gotta start somewhere though. I understand more video content should be coming online soon.
I’ve been sent a load of photos from the Binary Oppositions Launch and, since I’ve always wanted to run some kind of Hello-style Society page, I figured they might as well go on the blog. Post People watch out! I’m not going to try and do witty captions though. There’s a lot of them so … [Read more…]
The Custard Factory is offering five university students free stalls at their Sunday Flea market for six months, worth around £500. University students with creative and unique talents with a desire to earn extra money and improve their business savvy should submit a proposal of one thousand words or less. The chosen candidate with the … [Read more…]
Holding the Edge is an Artists Placement scheme run by MADE in association with the council. Four emerging Birmingham based artists have been working with MADE in Eastside during 2007 as part of an Artists Placement funded by Birmingham City Council’s Equal II: The Last Mile programme and Arts & Business. The outcomes of their … [Read more…]