Two Snowhill is the latest addition to Birmingham’s skyline and from the 12th April to 21st April it will play home to ‘Of All The People In All The World’. This award-winning show from Birmingham based theatre company Stan’s Cafe has been viewed in 50 different cities around the world and is returning home for its … [Read more…]
Iain Grant, writer and editor of Pigeon Park Press, is calling for expression of interest from writers for their new project Ten to One and you have until March 31st to get in touch with a sample of your work and a brief writing bio. So, what is Ten to One? Ten To One is … [Read more…]
Thursday 14th March saw the long awaited launch night of Thrift Radiates Happiness at the Municipal Bank in Birmingham. We first talked about this back in January but now it is here I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what’s going on inside in the hope that you pay a visit and ‘invest’. It’s … [Read more…]
The Creative Open Workshops (C.O.W) is an artist-run project based in Birmingham city centre. They have been running craft workshops, fairs and social crafting nights since 2008. The sessions run in afternoons and evenings throughout the week and are priced at around £25 per person (price is dependent on materials involved). They cover a range … [Read more…]
A Scented Evening of Poems Inspired by Perfumes and Perfumes Inspired by Poems Penning Perfumes mixes poets and perfumers to see what they can create. The poets are given anonymous perfumes and asked to write a new poem in response to the scent and the perfumers are given poems and asked to compost a fragrance … [Read more…]
This Thursday 10th January, you are invited to join HIVE for Tea, Cake and Conversation at The Solihull Gallery between 6pm – 7.30pm. There will be an informative round the table discussion about the pieces in the collection and the collaborative practice. So who are Hive? Hive are a group of Birmingham based artists who … [Read more…]
Trove’s newest exhibition for 2013, Band / Ties, sees two Birmingham based artists, Elly Clarke and Caitlin Griffiths, and two Stockholm based artists, Bjorn Karlsson and Hanna Ljungh, come together for an exhibition that focuses on relationships. It looks at the relationships with people, places, families and communities. The artists involved explore where it is … [Read more…]
Proxy is an exhibition heading to Trove in Birmingham this December. The exhibition is a showcase by Bristol based MadeScapes^, who are made up of Jack Addis, Alex Cotterell, Tom Johnson, Will Kendrick, Trevor Smith and Lewk Wilmshirst, of brightly illuminated collaborative installations. They combine traditional materials with the inspiration they take from growing up … [Read more…]