Now this is an impressive line-up of events: Saturday 24th – Tinariwen Sunday 25th – Resonance Events presents The Herbaliser and Chris Read while Mad Flow, DJ Maxwell and Chromatouch provide the local talent. Monday 26th – Capsule & Fierce present a Julian Cope lecture plus a screening of Haxan with live soundtrack. The Saturday … [Read more…]
Two things to report from Jibbering, Moseley’s creative dervishes. Firstly they recently launched an exhibition called The Paper Market which showcases limited edition prints by many of the finest contemporary urban artists, illustrators, designers & photographers from within and around Birmingham. and explores the blossoming movement of incredible art that reflects the vibrant and diverse … [Read more…]
Volume Magazine is a quarterly, London-based arts publication geared toward the promotion of new artists, writers and musicians and they’re doing a special issue for Birmingham. Which is good, is it not? The concept in brief is to create an exhibition space at the stadium in which to display a diverse range of work by … [Read more…]
As it’s copyright infringement day on Created in Birmingham it seems appropriate to mention The Chop Shop – Birmingham-based audio/visual cut-and-paste japesters who cutup loads of tv and film footage and make daft audio and video with the results and describe themselves as the Chuckle Brothers with samplers. Think adverts, political speeches, sitcoms and music … [Read more…]
As I was leaving the Electric yesterday having seen the excellent Planet B-Boy I was handed a brochure for this year’s BASS Festival, happening across the East Midlands over June. BASS stands for British Art and Street Sounds and the festival is a Punch Records production in partnership with 2Funky Arts, Hella Music and Baby … [Read more…]
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – Scripting the future “Following the success of our first meeting in March, the West Midlands branch of the Writers’ Guild will be officially launched, and celebrated with a glass of wine”. At The Rep on 18 June, 7.30pm Need to RSVP quick for this one. Sandwell Library Graphic Novel … [Read more…]
I’ve just discovered that my local independent book shop, Bonds Books in Harborne, has a website and a pretty good line-up of events coming up over the next few months. 28 May – Martin Bell will speak about his new book ‘The Truth That Sticks’ 12 June – Prof Robert Knecht, esteemed historian, will introduce … [Read more…]
Likemind: Birmingham A monthly coffee morning that's open to all and has no agenda other than simply to get people talking. Organised by James from Supercool and Lucie from Saint Caffe. The next one is tomorrow 8.30am to 10am at Saint Caffe, St Pauls Sq. Another Byte Of Banality Midge works at Urban Village and … [Read more…]