Character Totem
Character Totem – the launch event, exhibition and flyer all look ace.
Author: Chris Unitt
Birmingham in Contemporary Dance
Good to see showings from Dancexchange, International Dance Festival Birmingham and Birmingham Royal Ballet in Dance! The Most Incredible Thing about Contemporary Dance which was on BBC4 recently. It’s on the iPlayer for… well, the next couple of hours. Hmm. Chris Keenan had some of his footage used and has written about that. Incidentally, if … [Read more…]
Notes from June’s Open Space
You’ve got to hand it to those West Midlands theatrical types – they certainly know how to document a set of discussions. The notes from June’s Open Space get-together are now online. The ones that intrigued me: Theatre Pledge 2012 What could a non-building-based regional theatre look like? How can we help each other save … [Read more…]
Links for 8 July 2011
Birmingham Loves Photographers “The idea will be that each month the group will get together for tea/coffee and a chat at 6/8 Kafe in the City Centre, and pairs will be drawn. Each pair will then get together in their own time and take a photo of each other” Historic Dale End venue to reopen … [Read more…]
Pics from Mostly Jazz
I didn’t make it to CoCoMAD but I did get down to the Friday of Mostly Jazz. It was lovely – nice atmosphere if you can handle a concentrated dose of Moseleyness, some good music and an utterly charming setting. There’s a much better review by The Baron over on The Hearing Aid. There are … [Read more…]
anticurate
I’ve not really had a very good look at this yet but there are some good people involved and there’s an interesting open aspect to it. I’ll do a quote-y thing here and leave you to investigate the rest: anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor … [Read more…]
Cirque Eloize and me
iD is a show by Cirque Eloize, a contemporary circus outfit from Montreal that’s coming over to Birmingham Hippodrome from 2-5 November. I met the company back in May and have explained why here. The performers in the show are phenomenal (and nice folks too) so as well as doing interviews and things I tried … [Read more…]
Photos from CoCoMAD 2011
I didn’t head down to CoCoMAD in Cotteridge last weekend but I heard a fair amount about it. A good event, by many reports. TheBrumReaper has some photos from this years festival and from past ones too: