Here are a few things to find out more about this Friday afternoon: Birmingham Literature Festival This week Birmingham Literature Festival have released their full programme, running from 2-11 October 2014. For updates and news follow them here. Fierce Festival The Fierce Festival programme is also now live, running from 2-12 October 2014. They recommend … [Read more…]
After years of hard work, late nights and pushing their creativity to the limits it is time for this years graduates to present the 2014 BA Degree Shows. Over the next few days some of the West Midlands finest universities will be exhibiting a wide range of work from fashion and textiles, fine art, photography … [Read more…]
Looks to be that wonderful time of year when many third year university students are embarking on their final major projects. Here’s a flyer sent to us by Choy Ting Law, a third year Visual Communication student at BIAD. Choy has created an interactive craft event with the theme of ‘upcycling’. The event ‘Up Yours‘ is … [Read more…]
To mark the centenary year of the Rest House on Bournville Green, Bournville Village Trust are looking for local residents to enter their craft competition to help celebrate the building’s history. The iconic building in Bournville was originally a gift to George and Elizabeth Cadbury by employees from Cadbury factories around the world to celebrate … [Read more…]
Kirsty M is a papercraft artist/illustrator from the Black Country – she’s very recently relocated and is now based in Cornwall. Last year Kirsty was asked to be part of Handmade Boutique, the pop-up shop shop in the Great Western Arcade. In response to this she created a beautiful, intricate piece of artwork of some recognisable … [Read more…]
Festival of Imagination begins Wednesday 5th February at Selfridges Birmingham. There is a programme of events containing further information including the times/dates of the various events that will be hosted at Selfridges over the next few weeks. If you’d like to attend any of the talks or events then you need to email FOIBirmingham@selfridges.co.uk to book a place. … [Read more…]
A whole host of arts organisations across Birmingham are involved in Get into Creative Employment Birmingham 2014. If you’re aged 16-24, interested in getting a job in the arts then pop along to their fair on Saturday 25th January. The drop-in event is being held at the Birmingham REP, and is on 10am-1pm. There … [Read more…]
There’s a new exhibition on at Moseley Exchange – Bethan Lloyd ‘Attention Seeker’ – excerpt from PR here: Bethan Lloyd is a Conceptual Textiles Artist and recent BCU Graduate with First Class BA (hons) Fine Art. Bethan’s work utilises people’s personal accounts of their experiences with mental illnesses to create emotionally charged Textile Installations. In her most recent work, text is embroidered onto a … [Read more…]