Ulfah Arts is based at the Highgate Craft Centre and, as the about page says, it’s: a pioneering arts organisation, which acts as an umbrella to a number of initiatives specialising in faith and the arts. This includes projects around Muslim women in the arts and interfaith work using arts to name just a couple. … [Read more…]
No, nothing to do with the Digbeth music venue, Sanctuary Newspapers claim to be “the UK’s leading student newspaper network”. Monthly editions are produced by students in 12 different cities with the content tailored to their areas. A new Birmingham edition has just been launched with a website that looks thusly: I’ve not found an … [Read more…]
David Louis, based in the Jewellery Quarter, designs contemporary tableware items and sells them via David-Louis.com and Gifts of Distinction. One of his items is this spaghetti measurer which I happened to see in the window of Sarah Preisler‘s shop in the Custard Factory the other day and had no idea what it was. Mystery … [Read more…]
Back in April Pete did a round-up of Birmingham creatives on Twitter. There have been many additions since then, including accounts registered in the names of various local companies, festivals, etc who are using the (free!) service in all sorts of ways. Not all of them are being used all year round or even updated … [Read more…]
Architectiv – Steve Brockerton’s new architectural stock photo library (Birmingham gallery) “Birmingham architecture gallery. Creative contemporary achitectural stock image library featuring commercial, corporate, retail, leisure, residential and industrial buildings and structures in the uk” Buy One Get One Free Book Offer “The Birmingham Book Festival takes place from 1st to 24th October and the Festival … [Read more…]
Frankie Ward interviews Mary Wakelam of Birmingham Jazz and they discuss winning her BBC bursary, her new band Maylight, Rush Hour Blues, bringing jazz into Birmingham’s music venues, Gigbeth and resonance events: Tomorrow I’ll be offering some tickets for the next resonance events shindig at the Town Hall. There might be a question from the … [Read more…]
Festibull 2008: Battle of the Unsigned Bands “Compete against other unsigned bands for the chance to support ‘Cage The Elephant’ at the gig of a lifetime”. That’s right, you can stop dreaming of Wembley and start thinking bigger – the mighty Bullring awaits Stereographic – The New Art Gallery Walsall Stereographic have been working on … [Read more…]
Lots of goodness at the next 7 Inch Cinema event: Launch of Pram‘s DVD ‘Shadow Shows of the Phantascope’ Airings of some of Pram’s inspirations Brian Duffy and Grandmaster Gareth playing choons and in a more tradtional 7 Inch vein earlier in the evening there’ll be plenty of shorts including: Rachael (Rill) Marchant – ‘Untitled … [Read more…]