If you’ve been about Digbeth today and yesterday, you may have noticed a few of these more interesting looking billboards. 48 Sheet is an experimental art installation is the latest project by EC-arts, which runs until 14 September, using advertising billboards as blank canvasses for the five participating artists. These alternatives to dominant advertising messages … [Read more…]
Here’s a pretty great opportunity for some free incubation space at the prestigious address of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. BXL are offering free desk space in a fully networked office, along with access to a vast database of schools and businesses in Birmingham and Solihull. What’s that? Nothing comes for free? Okay, in return for … [Read more…]
DanceXchange have announced their Autumn 2010 performance season, which starts from 30 September at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome. Thu 30 Sep: The Featherstonehaughs – Edits. This highly anticipated new work translates the convention of film, photography and painting into dance. Fri 1 Oct: The Featherstonehaughs – The Featherstonehaughs draw on the sketchbook of Egon … [Read more…]
Following the one-off live event back in January before part of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre was demolished, Soul City Arts in association with mac and The REP presents Mohammed Ali’s Writing On The Wall – The Documentary. Taking place 3 September, 4-7pm at the mac, the event will screen the documentary, plus live performances and … [Read more…]
Outside IN is a pioneering project which promotes the visual art work of leading disabled and deaf artists. The New Art Gallery Walsall has been chosen to launch this new venture on Thursday 16 September. DASH‘s Artistic Director Mike Layward introduces you to this ground-breaking concept, the galleries, the artists and their work. We then … [Read more…]
The Photography Collective and Birmingham Photospace have teamed up in association with Rhubarb Rhubarb, to bring us Contact. From 3-18 September the Rhubarb East Gallery will play host to a collection of seven emerging photographers working in the West Midlands. Curated by Kathryn Kliszat from Light House, exhibiting artists are gwbenson, Ian & Mark James … [Read more…]
Here’s something new, Tin Bath Theatre Company are developing a revolutionary new way to caption theatre as part of a Theatre Sandbox award. They’ll be performing a scene from their new comedy ‘You’re So Happy I Want to Die’ at mac, using a new application for pervasive media. Our captions are a mix of subtitles … [Read more…]
This is interesting. The New Optimists is a website and book, which records the answers given by over 80 scientists who were asked the question ‘What are you optimistic about?’ The idea for “The New Optimists” began in early 2009 with me (Kate Cooper) sitting in front of my laptop on the kitchen table, realising … [Read more…]