Do you like to push your writing to the extreme? Well next Saturday at Grand Union you will have the chance to push your pen wielding fingers to their very extreme with a 12 hour, all night writing extravaganza. ‘Part 12-hour exam, part club night, part endurance writing event’, the organisers BAZ and Hooky Street Press … [Read more…]
At the moment, painter Michael Clulee is looking to drum up support for a Birmingham Art Jam. What is that you ask, well in Michael’s words: “Essentially an Artjam is an event where artists come together to produce work based on a theme within a 48 hour time slot. The work has to be completed … [Read more…]
Today at Edible Eastside, Karen McLean in conversation. “TROVE & mac birmingham’s ALLOTMENT Project and Edible Eastside present: Post Colonial-Now Karen Mc Lean Talk: Sat 18th August 2012 1 – 4pm with Charlie Levine, Cathy Wade & Karen Mc Lean. Lunch served at 1pm, talk begins at 2pm.” Edible Eastside,122 Fazeley Street, Digebth, Birmingham, B5 … [Read more…]
After our earlier post about volunteering we’ve learnt of two more opportunities; Espirito Brum and Irish in Birmingham are celebrating Brazilian and Irish culture respectively. After successfully taking The Flyover Show to South Africa earlier this year Soweto Kinch brings it back to it’s Hockley roots. Also tomorrow Six Summer Saturdays continues with NoFit State … [Read more…]
mac birmingham is looking for a group of 20 young people, aged 16 to 24, to be part of mac’s cannon hill collective. The only requirement is that you are based in the West Midlands but you can be from any creative discipline. As part of the cannon hill collective, you will come up with … [Read more…]
Eye Candy, a Festival of Visual Pop Culture, will be taking place in Birmingham on 11-14th October this year. Fused has several new public art commissions available to illustrators, artists and designers, and typographers for prominent locations in Southside. The deadline is Friday 17th August. Also part of Eye Candy is a commission for artists … [Read more…]
Sara Preisler Gallery presents Lauren van Helmond – How much is that doggy in the window? “For this exhibition she has created a series of playful dogs made from discarded paint and biscuit tins. Each dog is unique and is fabricated by cutting the sheet tin, forming the shapes, soldering the seams, and then painting with … [Read more…]
Crisis Skylight Birmingham Crisis Skylight is the education scheme of the homelessness charity Crisis. Working in hostels & community spaces it engages with the homeless using arts classes & creative courses. The results of some of this work is currently being exhibited at St. Martin’s Church. Running from the 4th to the 30th August the … [Read more…]