2Weeks 2Make It is a music video competition pairing randomly drawn teams of filmmakers and musical artists who then have exactly 2 weeks to shoot and edit a music video from scratch! The West Mids version of 2Weeks 2Make It is back again. There were some great entries to the last one. If you want to … [Read more…]
This is on tomorrow night at the MAC. Fatima Al Matar, Jodi Ann Bickley and Matt Windle all presenting new work. More info via Apples and Snakes.
Over the past few months a group of people have been taking part in MOB: MOB is a project inspired by the current craze of ‘flash mobbing’ where seemingly unplanned ‘happenings’ take place involving hundreds of children, young people and adults. MOB is about creating new ‘disturbances’ that help share the values of the Olympics … [Read more…]
Thriller In The City “a mass thriller Flash mob will be descending on a secret city centre location on 1pm on Saturday 16th April” Vudu Club New club from the folks behind Subculture and Subside. Opening soon Time For Change: On Birmingham’s Buses – The Official Blog for the Campaign to get change on Birmingham’s … [Read more…]
On Saturday 16 April, Speech Fewapy Records are putting some bands on in record shops as part of National Record Store Day. Swordfish Records, Temple Street, Birmingham – 1pm (Click here for map) Ali Forbes (Malpas)/The Traps/Tom Peel/Victories At Sea Polar Bear Records, York Road, Kings Heath – 3pm (Click here for map) The Traps/Vinny and The Curse/John Presley/Black … [Read more…]
In the past couple of days the two festivals have posted retrospectives. Flatpack have posted a slideshow of photos (with more on their Flickr account) . While Fierce have rounded up their 2011 festival with a nice, photo-heavy blog post and some links to things others have written about them. They sign off the post … [Read more…]
I only managed to turn up for a few hours of last year’s BE Festival but, for the atmosphere as much as the work presented, I thought it was great (my write up’s here). so it’s good to see that it’ll be back this year from Tuesday 5 to Sunday 10 July. This time, as well as … [Read more…]
There’s been a little flurry of blog posts from BCU’s Interactive Cultures team announcing a few events and such, including: Animation Explosion 2011 Creative Enterprise Conference The Online Mainline There’s also a set of Creative Metropoles Case Studies which looks interesting (if you like that sort of thing) and features a range of European projects, … [Read more…]