Arts and Crafts and Stuff is a Facebook group “from the West Midlands to promote local stuff, explore ideas and discover crafty blogs or etsy sites”. Well worth joining if you’re of that ilk, I reckon. The number of fairs and markets along these lines in the region implies there’s definitely a community out there. … [Read more…]
People, the independent fashion / design shop in Kings Heath, have updated their website with their Autumn / Winter collection. The photos are by Emily Quinton.
The relevance to the creative industries is tenuous if there at all but this has been amusing me greatly over the last week and I have to share. What do you get when you combine the phenomena of the lolcat, where humourous captions are applied to photos of cats, with the phenomena of local councilors … [Read more…]
Digital Central has an interview with “band manager, label owner, promoter and magazine producer” Scott Roe of Solar Creations as part of their series of chats with music industry folks about what’s good and bad and needed in Birmingham. His summary is worth swiping I feel: Strengths * The region is extremely diverse in terms … [Read more…]
Rich Batsford talks about Experimental Naratives in relation to the work that goes into structuring Project X Presents. I submitted two narratives: “Welcome, Engagement, Focus, Development, Agitation, Challenge, Excitation, Ecstacy†and “Entry, Acclimatisation, Cohesion, Inspiration, Altercation, Realisation, Transcendenceâ€. It’ll be interesting to see where it all leads.
Artstalking Ana reports on the current exhibition at Bearwood’s Crowd 6, a joint show between WebsterGotts and Mandy Rees. Birmingham is lucky to have new artist-led spaces putting on light and engaging show like this, it’s what really puts us on the map, so lets hope they get the support they deserve, whatever their future … [Read more…]
The Vaults is a new bar and restaurant in the Jewellery Quarter co-owned by Russell of Clusta, but of interest to us is this sentence: The Vaults also exhibits art works from contemporary artists and photographers from across the country. via the Blink blog
Will Buckingham, the dude behind the Birmingham Words blog, is moving on but isn’t letting the site die. It’s to be taken over by the National Academy of Writing at BCU and will be run by students studying there. Running Birmingham Words over these five years or so has been a huge amount of fun. … [Read more…]