On the 27th July 2013 it’s the Warwick Bar Summer Fete. “a moveable feast of art, culture and food. Experience Digbeth’s canalside afresh with street food, guided walks, visual art & performance, aerial theatre, music, family friendly workshops, and a pedal powered cinema.” There are a lot of great groups of people involved in this including: Vivid … [Read more…]
4 Squares Weekender will celebrate opening of Library of Birmingham, 6-8 September 2013 Birmingham’s leading arts organisations are joining forces to stage a major outdoor celebration for the opening of the Library of Birmingham. A range of innovative arts events and live music performances will take place across four squares in the city centre from 6 … [Read more…]
The Balsall Heath Biennale is conceived and co-ordinated by artists and Balsall Heath residents Elizabeth Rowe & Chris Poolman. The project is entering it’s ‘live’ period between July and September 2013. Information on the project is available here: www.balsallheathbiennale.com The project has many different elements: a newspaper delivered to all 6000 houses in the local area (that includes listings … [Read more…]
Sam from KINO 10 has two tickets to giveaway for his next event, Things That Go Bump in the Night. As part of The Electric Cinema’s Shock and Gore Festival, KINO 10 will be taking over St Columba Church in Moseley for a night of scary and/or hilarious short films. From 8:30pm, irregular speakeasy psynema perpetrators OUTER SIGHT … [Read more…]
Across the UK, July is becoming known as independent retailers month, an annual push for shopping local. Last week was Shopping in Birmingham‘s ‘Celebration of Independents’ in Birmingham City Centre – they did a few things in celebration of this, including producing a guide to independent retailers in the city centre which is available here. Handmade … [Read more…]
BE Festival 2013, 2nd-6th July. Starting tomorrow: a week long theatre/dance/circus/live art festival at AE Harris Factory in the Jewellery Quarter. BE FESTIVAL is Birmingham’s international theatre festival, bringing together the most daring and unforgettable new performances from across Europe. Audiences are offered the opportunity to see four 30 minute-long shows each night and to eat … [Read more…]
This week it was announced (on the internet*) that the Central Library will be closing on Saturday 29th June at 5pm on Saturday. You can read their press release to find out where you can go in the two months that the city centre will be without its library… Capsule have been appointed to curate and … [Read more…]
A new gallery for contemporary art opens in Digbeth, Birmingham on 28th June 2013 A3 Works brings together the work of over 50 artists who each approach the dimensions of the A3 paper scale as a limitless possibility. The curators of A3 Project Space invited artists they have previously collaborated with along with those they are developing new relationships … [Read more…]