Guerilla art exhibition: artists wanted
Harry Starling tweeted this earlier: Birmingham artists wanted for guerilla art exhibition. Genuinely guerilla, more than you would imagine! DM me… Intriguing.
Author: Chris Unitt
Links for 15 July 2011
Flip Festival – Call For Submissions – We’re back!! “This years festival will be held, on Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 October (2011 of course) and we’re already looking for animators to submit films of up to 15 minutes in length.” Musical scores for silent firms unearthed in Birmingham “About 500 scores – including a … [Read more…]
Amanda Fitzhenry
Amanda’s blog, Snowflake Blueprints, is a world of plushies (she takes commissions), poetry and hirsute lovers. She’s studying illustration at BIAD. This is Sunny:
Simmer Down and Jamaica Live
There’s a couple of reggae-infused festivals coming up over the next couple of weekends. First up is Simmer Down on 16 July in Handsworth Park. Featuring Ken Boothe! I like him, especially his covers of Is It Because I’m Black and You Keep Me Hanging On. Then on 23 July as part of the Open … [Read more…]
Photos from Birmingham Zine Festival
Good to see last weekend’s Birmingham Zine Festival looking busy. This is a slideshow from Antonio Roberts.
Boat Magazine and Luke Tonge
I subscribe to STACK because it’s brilliant. At the start of the month a package lands on your doormat containing an interesting magazine of some sort. This month we got Boat Magazine, produced by a London design studio. In their words: We pulled together the most talented people we know; writers, photographers, illustrators, musicians… gave … [Read more…]
ESP Members Activity
Extra Special People is Eastside Projects’ Associates Programme. All these people are members. They have a blog for posting information about what their members are doing. That’s good.
Kingsfest 2011
I’m posting this not least because Kingstanding hardly ever gets a mention on CiB. The folks at Frilly have a bit more info and a bigger version of the flyer.