We Are Fierce – Open Invite to Flatpack & Fierce Festival Launch, Tues 22nd March Don’t forget to RSVP YouTube – Motionhouse Machine Dance ‘The highlights’ A dancing digger. Cool Culture – Funding opportunities 2010 | EACEA Apparently something on this page says that Birmingham Rep have been given some European cash for ‘Four Cities, Four … [Read more…]
Commercially Inviable Records » Here Come The Light Nights A free sampler of upcoming releases on the label Wanted: Critical friends “BiNS is looking for contributors, willing to go out, and then come back, and write good criticism about what they found”. Splendid. Why couldn’t I quote Charlotte’s Web on stage? Lucy Caldwell on copyright … [Read more…]
From time to time a disgruntled promoter will write something accusing the people of Birmingham of being an apathetic bunch who’d rather stay at home than go out and have a good time. See this post from a year ago for an example. James Cook has joined this cohort with a post titled ‘Why the … [Read more…]
A few weeks back we put a call out for guest posts. The response was really very decent, so we’ve decided that, other than some link and job round-ups, over the next few weeks we’re pretty much going to hand the site over to our esteemed guests with a post (roughly) every other day. Please … [Read more…]
The new site and programme is up for this year’s Flatpack Festival (23-27 March). Hoorah! I’ve had a brief skim through and, as with previous years, would recommend ignoring the titles (which tend to leave me going ‘Eh? Never heard of it’) and read through the descriptions (which tend to leave me going ‘nice, I … [Read more…]
I’ve just been noseying around the Red Bull-sponsored Street Art View. It’s a little like the Google Art Project thing that launched a few weeks back, only it takes a collaborative approach to building a map of street art that can be seen on Google’s Street View. There’s not a lot in Birmingham (yet?), but … [Read more…]
Where does everyone go for classes and craft-based socialising? …asks Kate from the Birmingham Bead Shop Paul Hamlyn Award for Capsule « We Are Eastside | Birmingham Capsule have had £60k from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. “The award will be used toward capacity and organisational development in particular the successful delivery of forthcoming projects Home … [Read more…]
Tomorrow, I’ll be at The Public for the showcase event of the DCD Programme. In case you’d not heard of it: Arts Council England West Midlands’ Digital Content Development (DCD) Programme is a three year programme of investment which aims to catalyse the creation and creative use of digital content platforms for arts organisations across … [Read more…]