The good news: Screen WM’s 2010/11 Investment Fund opens on Tuesday 4 May 2010 The bad news: Screen WM is also announcing that the UK Film Council has now confirmed a significant reduction of Lottery funding to each of the nine regional screen agencies. They are also reallocating all skills and training funding previously distributed … [Read more…]
Tower of Song Birmingham’s foremost acoustic and roots music venue, it says here. In Cotteridge with lots of events going on First Person: Playwright Nicholas McInerny « Script Online The Chair of Script discussing a recent workshop of his new play STUDIO4 GALLERY: Chris setting up show “Just finished setting up Chris Bourkes Storm in … [Read more…]
I’m disappointed I missed a talk by Birmingham Opera Company‘s Graham Vick at the Barber Institute yesterday lunchtime. I need to keep a closer eye on what happens over there (and maybe, y’know, get round to visiting at some point). Anyway, Ian from 7 Inch Cinema went along and has blogged his notes. Lots of … [Read more…]
There’s a lot of illustrators getting all collaborative at the moment, what with the Not My Type project and this here news about the new thing from the Love to Print collective. Katie from Supercool has explained things better than I would: Patterns contains loads of exquisite illustrations from five fantastically talented screenprint artists, who … [Read more…]
The Flyover Show is happening on 29 May 2010. It has a website. It has a flyer: And it has some videos from last year: The Flyover Show 2009-10 Part 1 HD1280 Youtube from Mr Nat Higginbottom on Vimeo. The Flyover Show 2009-10 Part 2 HD1280 Youtube from Mr Nat Higginbottom on Vimeo.
Birmingham Book Festival are having an extra one-day festival on 29 May this year. The line-up of events (shamelessly nicked from their website) looks like this: National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading. Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal. Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The … [Read more…]
Some interesting comments from BIAD‘s Prof Chris O’Neil in the Post regarding how Birmingham’s creative industries could be best supported, including: it isn’t just about investing in the creative industries, it’s about creating a home where the creative industries want to be. I think it’s about the environment and the infrastructure, creative industry and entrepreneurship … [Read more…]
A Bluffers Guide to the Birmingham Metal Scene from ERADIKATOR « The Blue Whale Blog As described on the tin DAFTSTUFF “Fashion Designer making garments from recycled and vintage materials” Dudley Arts Council I’d not come across these before which, bearing in mind they are “one of, if not the oldest arts council in the … [Read more…]