We Are Eastside brochure « We Are Eastside | Birmingham “For your viewing pleasure, a guide to Eastside” Young People and Arts Boards Training Programme – Audiences Central “Arts organisations across the city have said that they would like young people aged 18–25 to become members of their management boards”. If you are a young … [Read more…]
Happening upon the 31st day of March in the year 2010. Holly Grange and Kate Pennington-Wilson are on curation duty: For one night only the catacombs of The Vaults will be flooded with sonic reverberations inspired by the lives, past and present, of this renovated Victorian building. The mute histories contained within the walls will … [Read more…]
Another one! The Pavilions Pop-Up Arts Shop will be open from Friday 1 April to to Wednesday 7 April (excluding Easter Sunday). Here’s some info about what they’ll have in there: Organiser Jamie, a contemporary feltmaker from Selly Park specialising in fashion and home accessories, will be offering his own range of items for sale, … [Read more…]
For your consideration: Project Brutal: Initial Meeting: 20th April 6:30-7:30pm. CiB Shop. Project Brutal is a plan to bring together people and networks interested in creatively celebrating and capturing Birmingham’s Brutal library before it’s too late. We’re looking to formulate a series of events and projects under the Brutal banner over an extended period of … [Read more…]
Which stands for Tits Brains, Balls, a new thing from Ben Rackstraw, Charlie Levine, Emma Vickers and Edward Green Fingers. Read it here.
Birmingham Big City Culture – City of Culture Bid 2013 There’s an official website for the bid. I’m always the last to know about this kind of thing £1.285million National Heritage Memorial Fund grant saves the Staffordshire Hoard “The grant, awarded to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (PMAG) … [Read more…]
I spotted this in Forward, the lightly reprehensible propaganda rag that Birmingham City Council foists upon unsuspecting folk every once in a while. The general gist is that graffiti is great in the right place; bad in the wrong place. I paraphrase, so before taking issue with that you’d best read the original here (PDF). Anyway, there’s … [Read more…]
‘Re-building the TV Drama industry in the West Midlands’ – Public meeting “With TV drama series like Hustle and Survivors now filming here, we look at how we can rebuild our TV drama industry in the region” Avatars-Live! and other stories : Adventures in interactive art and drama at The Public “Could you write a … [Read more…]