Interesting thing in the current Capsule newsletter which I’ll reprint here. Budding music critics – please get in touch. We’ve been talking to Plan B Magazine and we’d like to encourage more coverage of West Midlands activity, if you’d like us to put you forward please get in touch and we’ll send your details on … [Read more…]
Meet The Authors is a nice looking local lit event tomorrow at the MAC with Brummie of the Year contender Catherine O’Flynn and Nicola Monaghan talking about their work. Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents’ sweet shop before embarking on a career of curious … [Read more…]
Creative Wolverhampton have posted the press release from Screen West Midlands about their securing “£4 million of additional production funds to invest in film and digital media production over the next four years.” The new Media Production Fund is open to film and digital media projects from across the UK and productions will be green-lit … [Read more…]
I was sure I’d blogged about this before but it seems not. So have a look at Birmingham Rocks a MySpace presence set up by photographer Steven Gerrard to “bring together bands, artists, promoters, venues, music photographers, magazines, recording studios and other people involved in the music scene in Birmingham and the surrounding areas. Use … [Read more…]
Further developments in the noise battle between developers Crosby and the Nightingale nightclub (which, lest we forget, is more than a mere nightclub) are reported by The Stirrer. It seems Crosby have won their appeal and can now build 162 flats on Bromsgrove St, on condition that they install tripple glazing to keep the noise … [Read more…]
You know that Big City Plan that Stef’s been blogging about? Well, part of that is a short film put together by Sarah Bagner of Squint Opera consisting of interviews with people from Birmingham. So far she’s talked to planners and architects and wants to widen the net a lot. After a brief chat at … [Read more…]
An interesting development in the plans for a new gallery of contemporary art for Birmingham reported here way back in January. A consortium composed of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery and Walsall’s New Art Gallery have won £1 million “to spend jointly on contemporary international art over the next five years” reports … [Read more…]
The photographer Simon Winnall came to my attention because he’s set up an iPhone specific version of his web gallery which I’m rather conflicted about (for nerdy reasons of cross-platform compatibility and the like – nothing for you normals to worry about) but saved himself from pretty much anything by having some serious concrete action … [Read more…]