Next week in Birmingham a chaotic memorial to British manufacturing will be unveiled. It isn’t easy to know how to describe it. JW Evans’s old silverware factory can hardly be called a museum – there are no labels next to the objects, no demonstration models, no gift shop. It has neither been restored to how it … [Read more…]
On Saturday Electric Carnival is taking over half of Digbeth – the HMV Institute, Custard Factory, Air, Heath Mill Lane car park and the Rainbow venues – and they’ve got space for 9,000 people (1,500 more than last year). That’s kinda big. Via Digbeth is Good, who also have a map of road closures for … [Read more…]
The Guardian have been doing a series of summer city guides and they asked us to write about some of the stuff happening in Birmingham over the next few months. Ian and I duly obliged.
If things have been a little quieter here recently, it’s because I’ve just started working for Made Media after they bought my company. You know what it’s like when you start a new job. Anyway, there’s a blog post about that here and normal service is being resumed. Made Media are the folks that built … [Read more…]
VIVID exhibition: ECSTATIC (13 May-18 June) “a visual and sensory season of moving image works and intervention exploring heightened emotions and altered states”. What more could you ask for? First Light Seeks a Media Production Company “First Light would like to commission a production company to produce ten ‘How to’ short films” A New Generation … [Read more…]
BE Festival are crowdfunding the last bit of cash needed for the festival which is due to take place 4-10 July: We have secured an enormous amount of support-in-kind from the major Birmingham arts organisations but we are facing a £2000 cash shortfall to be able to fully realise the 2011 edition in its current … [Read more…]
A couple of things if you’re in the business of making things other people might like to read. Kindle Camp – A Kindle Publishing Workshop Digital Birmingham, The New Optimists and Birmingham City Council Web Services Team have joined together to put on a workshop to go through the process of publishing your text to the Kindle. This … [Read more…]
We Are Birmingham have announced that they’ll: cease trading as a retail operation and are now investigating ways to move the organisation towards a new model, offering valuable exhibition space and meeting rooms at it’s city centre location, whilst still working to support the local creative community So it’s not closing yet, it’s just not … [Read more…]