One Step Beyond! « ACE dance and music “Find out all about ACE’s Director Gail Parmel” Brigid McLeer – Resident Artist at The Rea Garden | Behind Closed Doors “We are pleased to announce that the third artist residency is under way here at The Rea Garden. Artist Brigid Mc Leer has been working down at the … [Read more…]
From Shaanti’s website: 2010 sees the launch of ‘Shaanti 11, a UK music development organisation that shall continue with the philosophy of creating positive messages and community collision, through championing and celebrating innovative South Asian music, arts and visual communication. Our aim is to enhance and improve the creative economy and music practice across London, … [Read more…]
Writing West Midlands started last year: We are a new organisation designed to encourage, promote and actively facilitate literature development activity in the West Midlands. On this site you will find resources and links to Events, Opportunities for Writers, information about our Education programme, (Write On!), our annual Literature Festival (Birmingham Book Festival), Advice for Writers and more
Return is very recommended. Weds and Thurs this week at mac. I’ve just got myself a ticket. As a bonus, there’s an interview with Polarbear here.
There’s a Cure Leukaemia art auction being held at Wragge & Co’s offices (on Colmore Row) on Thurs 20 May. RSVP here. Here’s the bluffer’s guide: Fifth Art Auction set to raise £20,000 for Centre of Clinical Haematology at University Hospital Birmingham Over £75,000 raised to date at annual event Hosted by David Bintley, Director … [Read more…]
Here’s the next round of Wednesday evening talks at Ikon: 9 June – Ikon Youth Programme participants 16 June – Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters’ Club 23 June – Ruth Claxton, Birmingham-based artist 30 June – Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison, Joint Artistic Directors of Fierce Festival 7 July – James Langdon, designer 14 … [Read more…]
RoguePlay took over the theatre space in the Custard Factory at the end of last year but are on the move already. This from their blog: trying to run a theatre which aims to embrace and nurture young talent has been made almost impossible when clashing with raves and road closures. We appreciate the long … [Read more…]
Read down – there’s a competition for free tickets later on in this post. I’m conscious that I’ve not mentioned International Dance Festival Birmingham so much on here over the past month. Partly that’s because I’ve been busy working on it and going to just about every event that I could. There’s only a couple … [Read more…]