CRAIN report « D’log “A useful seven page report from the West Midlands Cultural Research & Intelligence Network conference (PDF link), held in Birmingham on 2nd June 2010” Audition Call « Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company Quick, bright female capable of playing between 18-30 wanted to perform with Stan’s Cafe in Beijing in November. Click the … [Read more…]
Bright Space are doing a project called Platform and they’re after youngsters: Platform will be a blog written by 16-19 year olds, featuring articles, reviews, events listings and much more. Written by young people for young people it will represent a unique perspective on arts activity in Birmingham. We are now looking to recruit 15 … [Read more…]
I just had an email about an upcoming thing called Art Heist at New Art Gallery Walsall, which looks really interesting – something between an exhibition, a game, theatre and… who knows what. Here’s some copy/pasted info: Artist collective Coney and artificial intelligence consultancy Winterwell are joining forces to create an adventure in The New Gallery … [Read more…]
Birmingham Future bills itself as: Birmingham’s leading membership organisation for young professionals working in the professional, financial and creative services sectors Chris Brown is involved with them and has a question or two: One of the things I’ve been tasked to look into is why there is a lack of creatives at these events. Is … [Read more…]
There’s been lots of examples of Birmingham artists banding together to do stuff and put on shows together recently – Not My Type, the Grand Union, stuff happening at the Lombard Method, the Freestyle/Untitled exhibitions at the Hare and Hounds and plenty more besides. The next one to add to that list is the Meeting … [Read more…]
Speakeasy is be a get-together for West Mids theatre folk hosted by The Drum and in association with The Rep. It’s on Monday 7 June. Alison Gagen from ACE West Mids and Tyrone Huggins who the chairs the Sustained Theatre West Midlands Hub (which I’d not come across before) will be there. The general format … [Read more…]
Digbeth is Good, We Are Eastside and Creative Boom have already mentioned the Fight The Power exhibition that opened the BASS Festival the other day. Here’s a link to the opening speech and here’s a video of Ammo Talwar walking round and explaining the exhibition: It’s at the Zellig Gallery (Custard Factory) until 26 June. … [Read more…]
Black International Film Festival Call for Entries – 2010 “The Birmingham Black International Film Festival (BIF FESTIVAL) is calling for all film submissions for this year’s festival, due to take place in Birmingham, UK, 25th Oct – 31st Oct 2010” Life in Flashback: TBB #2 is Here! “The latest issue of Birmingham’s premier collage-based magazine … [Read more…]