Flip 07 announced

The 2007 Flip Animation Festival has been announced for November 1st – 3rd at Light House and other venues in Wolverhampton. Flip is an eclectic mix of all things animation. Based in the heart of the Midlands the festival provides a wide range of experiences from educational workshops for young people to experimental animation for … [Read more…]

BASS Festival

The Bass Festival (British Art and Street Sounds) is a rather exciting sounding collection of black music events put together by Birmingham-based promoters (amongst other things) Punch. Running throughout the month of June there are 30 events taking place in venues across the West Midlands with a mission to take this music overground on it’s … [Read more…]

Ten 4 Six

Issue 6 of Ten 4, the magazine of emerging creative talent published by Channel 4 and produced here in Birmingham, is now out. The theme of this issue is “Issues” and as usual a number of the article are online. You can buy Ten 4 in Virgin and Borders stores or pick it up for … [Read more…]

Roundup

Birmingham Words have upgraded their forum. Is British Asian music in crisis? Or is it just going through the normal processes of the music industry? Birminghamusic.com points to a couple of interesting articles on Asians In Media about young British Asian artists and producers being dropped by their labels. Pianist and general good egg on … [Read more…]

Fierce: Franko B

The Fierce Festival kicks off this weekend with a somewhat dazzling array of events, the highlight for me being the return of Franko B with his new performance piece Don’t Leave Me This Way. Don’t Leave Me This Way marks a challenge in Franko B’s performance practice, formalizing his recent departure from blood-based work. In … [Read more…]

Music: Augustine

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