The next flash mob organised by Brumob is a “BANG” on December 5th at 2pm. Here are the instructions: 1) Gather at the location (to be revealed closer to the time) just before 2pm in a loose crowd. 2) At 2pm two members of the Brumob team will walk into the centre of the location … [Read more…]
We present for your listening pleasure, Brumcast 78 [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2019_hifi.mp3]
Mary Rochford writes to inform of her new book, Gilded Shadows, which comes out later this month. Set in the West of Ireland, Birmingham, Dublin and Nice, five of these stories explore our need to come to terms with the past. Three sisters: Aefe, Fionuala and Sorcha, struggle towards a recollection and resolution of the … [Read more…]
Artsearch is a web directory of Arts websites which is very old school but still, searching for Birmingham (no permalink to searches unfortunately) did bring up a number of sites I wasn’t aware of. You can submit your site and they’ll put it up once they’ve reviewed it. via Audiences Central
Substrakt announce the launch of photographer Kate Beatty’s new portfolio website. She’s a freelance based in Birmingham and her work looks like this: (Taken from screen-grabs and resized so quality isn’t the best.)
The events listings site What’s On In Brum has had an overhaul so I had a quick look. The listings are pretty normal, allowing you to search by day and type and to see what’s happening right now across a range of areas. The Venue Guide is pretty slick, giving you an aggregation based on … [Read more…]
Audiences Central have announced a new membership scheme starting in April. I’m not sure exactly what that means or entails but I figure it’s worth pointing to for those that do.
I’ve been putting off commenting on this whole vote for the Black Country Urban Park thing partly because I dislike the whole popularity TV vote way of deciding where money should be invested, especially at this sort of level, but also because as a cyclist I think the Sustrans bid is more worthy. But it’s … [Read more…]