Over on Leon Trimble’s Chromatouch blog (which I didn’t know he was running until now – bad Leon) he’s posted a couple of videos related to the Written on the Body work he and Lisa Wetton did for the Thinktank’s Planetarium last year. First up is a documentary made by Julia Griffin: There’s also a … [Read more…]
Brumcast has moved to a new home and thus has a new RSS feed. At least three shows have been released since I last blogged: Brumcast 81 [audio:http://brumcast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-12-21T04_52_27-08_00.mp3] Brumcast 82 [audio:http://brumcast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-01-03T10_31_30-08_00.mp3] Brumcast 83 [audio:http://brumcast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-01-10T12_23_42-08_00.mp3]
There are plans afoot to bring a regular arts and craft market to Sutton Coldfield “behind and around the station pub or somewhere else in Sutton” according to this Facebook group. Go join if you have a vested interest in such a thing. ta A Newman
I always like it when I come across a group that’s doing an hell of a lot of work in the city that I’ve never heard of before. it says there’s more going on here than I could ever hope to know and that’s a good thing. An email from World Unlimited (MySpace) came through … [Read more…]
The final thing to come out of the Curio City Shop at Five Ways, due to close in March when the area undergoes regeneration, is Sleepin’ Deep at Birmingham Library Theatre on Saturday 26th January 08 at 7.30pm. This was the base for the Reality Estate performance last year. Sleepin’ Deep is the culmination of … [Read more…]
Kelly Large is currently artist in residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall where she’s examining “the construction and circulation of The New Art Gallery’s collection and archive as a base to create new art work.” There’s an “open studio event” on Friday 18th and Thursday 24th of January from 2pm entitled Me, Myself and … [Read more…]
Birmingham Words has an obituary for Roi Kwabena who died recently. “Roi was one of those people who defied all attempts at classification: cultural activist, poet, poet laureate of Birmingham in 2001-2002, anthropologist, historian, publisher, campaigner against racism and former senator in the parliament of Trindad and Tobago. As an artist, Roi was entirely unclassifable, … [Read more…]
While in this fractured media landscape such pronouncements are fraught with being bollocks, it does seem to me that Drowned in Sound is one of the better music sites, comparable to the NME back when it was good, so it’s notable that in their roundup of bands to watch in 2008 they’ve picked Beestung Lips … [Read more…]