On the last Wednesday of each month, VIVID hosts The Neighbourhood Watch, an open submission film night devised and developed by The Neighbourhood Which makes the next one Weds 29 June. With thanks to the 7 Inch Cinema mailing list (which you should definitely sign up to – in the sidebar on the left-hand side of their site) … [Read more…]
Pecha Kucha is an evening of people giving presentations. Stick with me though: Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat”, it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving … [Read more…]
Media Circus 2 (the sequel to last year’s Media Circus) Media Circus 2 – promo from Karl Binder on Vimeo. For 2 days this June (Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th) we will be exhibiting the very latest in digital screen technology in Fazeley Studios. The 2 day event is to demonstrate the display technology available … [Read more…]
We Grow Cherries is: a talent pool of graduates from the BA (Hons) Visual Communication course at BIAD, BCU. Our Visual Communication graduates span Graphic Communication, Illustration, Photography and Moving Image Over at CMYKern James has been picking out his highlights.
Roxana Silbert Appointed As The REP’s New Artistic Director “The REP has today announced the appointment of Roxana Silbert as the company’s new Artistic Director” Summer visual arts exhibitions in the Midlands, 2011 « D’log A lovely round-up. Pics and everything Birmingham’s thriving independent film-making scene Profiles of The Casebook of Eddie Brewer, Tortoise in … [Read more…]
Today, every so often, I’m going to grab a smattering of tweets and pull them into the timeline below. If you refresh this page every so often you’ll see what’s been added. Or you can see it on the Storify site. [View the story “Birmingham arts & culture tweets, 2 June 2011” on Storify] There’s … [Read more…]
Apparently that’s our own fair Bullring in the picture above, albeit with a fair amount of retouching done. And a horde of bloodthirsty zombies running amok. [insert predictable joke here] In case you don’t already know of it, Dead Rising is a computer game. Fluid did the branding for the advertising, POS, packaging and so on.
Our creative and cultural industries – media, arts, online, music – are collectively bigger than construction in this city (that’s a great fact we used in the bid team and final pitch). Incredibly, there is no-one to speak for us on the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) – almost as incredible as the lack of female … [Read more…]