The line-up for this year’s Fierce! Festival, the international performing arts festival, has been announced and can be seen on the events page of their newly updated website. You may recall that a significant number of acts were chosen via a public vote and these have now been programmed into the wider festival too. The … [Read more…]
Computer games and individual bands are outside the traditional remit of CiB but this is a bit too cool to not warrant a mention. According to their bio on the SXSW website, local band Deluka have somehow managed to get their song ‘Sleep Is Impossible’ featured on the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto … [Read more…]
7 Inch Cinema’s next event is on Sunday 27 April from 7 to 11pm at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath. Entry is yours for £4. I’m going to try and drag some friends along to this. Birmingham Printmakers look interesting and they run courses on silk screen printing, photo etching and the like. … [Read more…]
Sunday 27 April is the closing day of the Behind Closed Doors exhibition being held at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Over the past two years the organisers of this show have visited in excess of one hundred private art collections within the Birmingham postal district. Now, almost 40 paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints … [Read more…]
You’ll have to excuse some slightly hectic posting this week and next while I get my head round 300ish new RSS feeds and an inbox stuffed with interesting (and hopefully not yet out of date) emails. I’ll also introduce myself properly later but for now, here’s a round-up: “aCtiVe arts is a steering group, made … [Read more…]
Animation Forum West Midlands are running an after-work (6.30pm to 8.30pm) event at The Rainbow in Digbeth on Monday 28 April 2008. It’s called Shorts on Walls and in their own words: Whether or not you actually make short films, Shorts on Walls is a great chance for animators to meet and network after work … [Read more…]