I popped in to Ltd Edition the other weekend and picked up flyers, leaflets and business cards for those that had them and seemed to be Birmingham-based. Here’s what I found: Designer Art Sue Rowe and Tamsin Mae sell paintings as well as creating backdrops and vinyl signage/window graphics. They’ve produced the latter for Three … [Read more…]
ACE dance & music are currently touring around with their last ever performances of the much-acclaimed Skin and will be at the Solihull Arts Complex on Tues 14 October. The show is split into two halves and it says here the artistic director has worked with: Akiko Kitamura from the Leni-Basso Dance Company of Japan … [Read more…]
Halloween might not be my bag but at least it’s an excuse to put some interesting events on. Aside from the Ikon Eastside closing party there are a fair number of Halloween-themed things going on. These are they (all happening on Friday 31 October, except the last two): The National Trust are putting on events … [Read more…]
stereographic – Scribble Diary Stereographic have posted up some new examples of their work on their blog (including their work for Birmingham Opera Company and New Art Gallery Walsall) but it’s things like Sam’s scribble diary here which I like seeing and gives more of an insight into what’s going on behind the scenes (monsters … [Read more…]
Wedding/rock photographer (as well as ex-international DJ, Birmingham Live! creator, etc…) Steve Gerrard has relaunched his website and, put together by Chris Garrett (who also did The Big Picture‘s website), very nice it is too. Steve’s blogging is sometimes used as an example of how a creative type can use use regular updates to showcase … [Read more…]
Way back when, I said that the London-based Volume Magazine was coming to Birmingham for it’s fourth issue and was looking for submissions. It’s out now (thanks to Chris Keenan for pointing that out) and is really rather good. It can be read online here. To help you in your browsing: the first few pages … [Read more…]
Hello World is: Birmingham’s international digital media conference, held at Millennium Point from October 23-24 as part of the Hello Digital festival Tickets at the talks are free but, given the calibre of some of the speakers (impressive bods from Flickr, Pixar, Channel 4 and so on), really will need to be booked online pretty … [Read more…]
Ah, the cockles of my heart – how they are warmed. Created in Birmingham doesn’t tend to cover comedy very much although, as people have pointed out, there’s no lack of creativity going on with it. The problem is that, although I come across plenty of listings, there’s been no-one (that I’ve found) writing passionately … [Read more…]