Reality Estate videos

A couple of videos have been released from the Reality Estate project that took place at Five Ways earlier in the month. The first is a musical walk though the show (if you can call it a “show”): The second is a slideshow of the feedback tickets left in the Five Ways roundabout: My for-what-it’s-worth … [Read more…]

Units Squared at Periscope

The next, and by all accounts final, show at the Periscope artists project space is Emma Bowen’s Units Squared. From the forthcoming events page: Units squared is a site specific installation by artist Emma Bowen, a response to the home of the periscope project space that is the Lee Bank Business Centre, and the culmination … [Read more…]

Bang Flashmob

The next flash mob organised by Brumob is a “BANG” on December 5th at 2pm. Here are the instructions: 1) Gather at the location (to be revealed closer to the time) just before 2pm in a loose crowd. 2) At 2pm two members of the Brumob team will walk into the centre of the location … [Read more…]

Brumcast 78

We present for your listening pleasure, Brumcast 78 [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2019_hifi.mp3]

Gilded Shadows

Mary Rochford writes to inform of her new book, Gilded Shadows, which comes out later this month. Set in the West of Ireland, Birmingham, Dublin and Nice, five of these stories explore our need to come to terms with the past. Three sisters: Aefe, Fionuala and Sorcha, struggle towards a recollection and resolution of the … [Read more…]

Artsearch

Artsearch is a web directory of Arts websites which is very old school but still, searching for Birmingham (no permalink to searches unfortunately) did bring up a number of sites I wasn’t aware of. You can submit your site and they’ll put it up once they’ve reviewed it. via Audiences Central

Kate Beatty

Substrakt announce the launch of photographer Kate Beatty’s new portfolio website. She’s a freelance based in Birmingham and her work looks like this: (Taken from screen-grabs and resized so quality isn’t the best.)

What’s On In Brum relaunches

The events listings site What’s On In Brum has had an overhaul so I had a quick look. The listings are pretty normal, allowing you to search by day and type and to see what’s happening right now across a range of areas. The Venue Guide is pretty slick, giving you an aggregation based on … [Read more…]