Instagram is a social photo-sharing thing. I’ve been using searchinstagram.com to check out a few pics taken around Birmingham. Some of them are of the other Birmingham but it’s easy enough to spot the difference, by and large.
I just came across this and don’t think I’ve linked to it from here before: Funded by Arts Council England and jointly conceived by The New Art Gallery Walsall and mac Birmingham, British Summertime 2 is a career development programme for emerging and mid-career visual artists who come from diverse communities. More broadly, the programme … [Read more…]
Nicole Scribble (@nicolescribble) is an artist, photographer and DJ. She’s looking for a wall to paint. If anyone has a spare wall then give her a shout.
AngelShares is a new crowdfunding service for the arts. It was developed locally (founded by Sarah Gee of Indigo Ltd and built by Made Media) and launches with projects from Ikon Gallery, Craftspace, Light House Media Centre, Belgrade Theatre and Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. The interesting thing about this one being that eligible donations can attract Gift Aid, … [Read more…]
Autumn Glory reviews « Birmingham Royal Ballet’s tour blog This is good – an even-looking spread of reviews from BRB’s recent tour (from both big newspapers and individual tweets) with links through to the source Open Studio at Birmingham Printmakers “At Birmingham Printmakers we are holding an Open Studio on Saturday 26th November from 10am … [Read more…]
A couple of markets coming up in Bearwood. More info here.
Creative Times are doing a series of events around the country, with the first being a panel discussion at Fazeley Studios on Wednesday November 30 from 6.30-8pm. It’s titled ‘The Beauty of Digital: New technologies, old aesthetics and where the two meet‘. Tickets are FREE and available here. Here’s the info: A panel of four, … [Read more…]
For those that are into these kind of things, you can now add Created in Birmingham to your Circles on Google+. If you’ve no idea what Google+ is then I really wouldn’t worry about it if I were you. Incidentally, now’s probably a good time to remind you that if you want to follow the … [Read more…]