Author: Pete Ashton

Eastside Arts Academy roundup

The big drama school thing in Eastside has been officially announced. Here’s some coverage: Government News Network BBC News Education Guardian The Stirrer The Post will presumably have something later next week, as is their way.

New Visit Birmingham site up for tender

Well, no sooner had I said goodbye to all that than I get a phone call from Marketing Birmingham at the airport. Suffice to say the phone is now off but this one’s worth posting immediately. (That and I’m stuck in Osaka airport with free wifi for the next five hours…) The Visit Birmingham website, … [Read more…]

I’m off

Right, we’re about to enter a month of down-time on Created in Birmingham as I’m off on my holidays for a month. I’ll still be checking in every few days and monitoring the RSS feeds, posting stuff that’s quick and easy to post, but services will be reduced quite substantially. Suffice to say this policy … [Read more…]

Art for Chocolate

The Cadbury factory in Bournville is looking for some Art for its new building: The West Midlands’ best emerging artists are being given the chance to create works of art that will take permanent residence at Cadbury’s £30 million new office development in Bournville. Three new pieces of art, including a sculpture, photographic set and … [Read more…]

Northampton Arts

From the Foreign News desk: “Northampton Arts Collective (NAC) is looking for business partners within the creative sector to assist them in the refurbishment of their Arts Centre situated at the Fishmarket, Northampton. The refurbishment project is subject to a successful bid for funding, the outcome of which will be known by January 08.” More … [Read more…]

From the Woom

Let’s follow some links from the Woom website as part of their “Booby Hatch- Sexual and Disturbed” show and see what we find, shall we? Well, there’s Sarah Bereza from Michigan, USA… local boy Matt Burden… and New Yorker Alison Brady… Lovely! More on Woom in the new year. They’re quite an intriguing establishment…