And the winners are: Digital Native Academy Ltd – The Regional Outstanding Business Development Award Electric Cinema (vid via Pete Ashton) – The Birmingham Outstanding Business Development Award LHM Media – Innovation Award Fierce Earth Ltd (vid via Pete Ashton) – Outstanding Market Development Award (with a Special Commendation Award in the same category presented … [Read more…]
Some bad news – according to The Guardian “BBC Resources’ Birmingham and Bristol bases will be closed”. Mark Thomas, the BBC Resources chief executive, has apparently emailed staff to explain that jobs will be lost across the corporation’s commercial post-production and studios arm and that the Birmingham premises are no longer commercially viable. As the … [Read more…]
7 Inch Cinema are coming to the end of their current season and will be back in the new year (and with the Flatpack Festival in March). Here’s their most recent newsletter with info about their final event of the year and suggestions of other things to do in the meantime. You can sign up … [Read more…]
The Custard Factory has a few new bloggers and Jonathan, who books the Gallery and Theatre and is, appropriately, covering event news, has taken to it with gusto. Here’s a few of the upcoming theatrical events: 3Bugs Bring What the Butler Saw to CF The Pillowman, at the CF Theatre Encore ready to rumble at … [Read more…]
When the finalists for the Creative City Awards 2008 came out the other week I was left scratching my head a little. A few people raised issues or left questions in the comments too, so I rounded them up and sent them off for answering. Thanks to Mohammed Zahir at Birmingham City Council (Q1-5) and … [Read more…]
Links for November 23rd | daveharte.com Dave Harte has a few good links – Self Portrait Birmingham, an RSS feed for the Media Talent Bank blog and the BrumMusicArchive’s YouTube channel Film Forum West Midlands − MECHANICAL EYE- Community film project The Film Forum WM pick up on Mechanical Eye, a project “to encourage young … [Read more…]
Plenty good news for Tom Horton this week. Not only has one of his pictures been featured by MySpace (see screengrab below) but he’s been picked to be MySpace’s featured photographer for Birmingham. This will involve me picking out 3 of the most exciting hip and happening gigs / club events a week to go … [Read more…]
Charlotte Hughes-Martin was dubbed the ‘Milk Bottle Banksy’ by the Daily Mail after leaving engraved milk bottles at random addresses around the Stourbridge area. The Artifex Gallery in Sutton Coldfield are now exhibiting her work. She explains: The aim of this project was firstly to have a bit of fun. To release art into “ … [Read more…]