2014 is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. From the UoB website: Using innovative teaching and research methods and often adopting a politicised engagement with subjects, the Centre was one of the first academic bodies to take ‘mass’ culture – pop music, television programmes, fashions – seriously. By creating … [Read more…]
Take a walking tour of Rowland Emett’s Birmingham on Saturday June 21st: Frederick Rowland Emett (1906-1990) was a Punch cartoonist who, uniquely, turned his drawings into reality. He built a series of amazing machines in the post-war decades, the most famous of which appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Birmingham was Emett’s hometown so this walk – led … [Read more…]
“Associated Architects is offering the public a unique opportunity to visit the Grade I listed Curzon Street Station this month, as it opens its doors to play host to an exhibition of Birmingham’s Hidden Spaces. The free exhibition, organised by the Birmingham based practice in association with the Birmingham Post, will run from Saturday 21st to … [Read more…]
Tonight’s the second Digbeth First Friday, and there are loads of things happening: Alfie Bird’s Art Exhibition Screening of Repo Man at Edible Eastside Friction Arts’ Psycedelic Psinema at The Edge The Cobalt Blue Contemporary Arts ‘Interlude’ studio tour at Custard Factory Eastside Projects late night opening and chance to own free public art Provide shop late … [Read more…]
On Thursday 5th June, Custard Factory’s latest addition, brand new venue Alfie Bird’s, are hosting an art exhibition of final year graduates from Birmingham City University. Photographer Jack Snape has curated the event and he’s also exhibiting. The exhibition will showcase a range of artists/photographers’ work including: Melissa Hobbs, Gosia Zmudzinska, Adam Oliver, Sophie Kozlowski, Jack Snape, Romay Brow, Terence Wade, Jack Deacon, Agata Luczyna … [Read more…]
Following IDFB’s spectacular outdoor productions in each edition of the festival, 2014 sees pioneering performers from the world of street dance brought together in a show stopping new production, B-Town. Referencing the ancient and the futuristic, B-Town sees elemental forces of good and evil harness the energy of our city, battling across the continents in … [Read more…]
Are you a visual arts graduate from one of these West Midlands-based Universities? Birmingham City University Coventry University Staffordshire University University of Wolverhampton University of Worcester If you graduated with a visual arts BA, MA or PhD in 2012, 2013 or 2014 you are eligible to make an application for the selected exhibition New Art … [Read more…]
Raw Beauty: a new life for Brutalist buildings A day school exploring the future for British Brutalist buildings, in celebration of Birmingham Library, with expert historians and critics ( Barnabus Calder, Ross Brown, Alan Clawley and Andy Foster ); Preston Bus Station and Sheffield’s Park Hill estate case studies introduced by campaigners, Urban Splash, and architects Hawkins … [Read more…]