Animation Forum WM and my chums at Flip Animation Festival have teamed up to launch The Great Animation Challenge! Here’s how it works: Some brilliant experimental musicians have provided tracks which animators can download for free. The animators need to use the tracks as a starting point to create music videos which can be submitted … [Read more…]
This week Wendy Cope, one of the favourites to become the new poet laureate said that you can’t write poetry to order. Channel 4 set a challenge to prove her wrong: Write a poem ‘to lift the spirits of the nation’ in the format of a 140 character Twitter tweet. Katie Parry aka @supercoolkp, a … [Read more…]
I have two reasons for posting this: It amused me that the site talks up ‘free entry to the splendid Birmingham Artsfest’ when entry is free anyway It’s good to see Birmingham being talked about as a destination for an arty getaway There’s a few other items bundled into the package that might make it … [Read more…]
Birmingham Future (the city’s ‘voice of the young professionals’Â are having a medieval banquet-themed ball in Feb 09 and are looking for a budding designer to design their tickets and invitations. The winner won’t be paid for their hard work but they will get a bottle of champagne, a couple of tickets for the ball … [Read more…]
The Flip Animation Festival (6-8 November at Light House, Wolverhampton) has been assembling a rather tasty line-up over the past little while, as documented on their nicely informative blog. Highlights include: A retrospective of work from Osbert Parker, best know for his cut out animation style mixed with live action; BAFTA & Screen WM Presents: … [Read more…]
The second resonance events soiree will happen at the Town Hall on Friday 3 October featuring a host of local talent as well as the very excellent Heritage Orchestra performing the songs of Amon Tobin. Musically, we’re talking jazz and hip hop but soul, leftfield, classical and any number of other styles will feature. Here’s … [Read more…]
It’s competition time again! Well, if a first-come-first-served grab can count as a competition. Camille O’Sullivan is currently at the Edinburgh Festival and her show, La Fille Du Cirque, is collecting 5 star reviews like they’re going out of fashion. She sings songs by Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Jacques Brel and Kirsty MacColl and generally … [Read more…]
I went to the full dress rehearsal of Birmingham Opera Company’s King Idomeneo on Sunday night and loved it. What’s not to like about an abandoned factory stuffed with shipping containers, opera singers, dirt and orange trees? Anyway, I have two tickets for tonight’s proper opening show to give away to the first person who … [Read more…]