An exhibition of ‘Daves’ drawn by 50 artists to support Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Following the death of the ‘Only Fools and Horses’ star Roger Lloyd Pack in 2014, Pancreatic Cancer UK launched a national fundraiser ‘Call Everyone Dave Day’ inspired by the character that Roger famously played.

As part of this fundraising initiative artist Dan Genders is raising money for the charity by inviting artists, illustrators and celebrities to draw a famous Dave that will be sold via a silent auction. Dan is working with curator, Trevor Pitt, to organise an exhibition of the Dave artwork at the Secret Cellar, which is part of AceFace Barbers on Bristol Street, Birmingham.

The public will be able to view the exhibition at AceFace from 10th to 14th May 2016. Following the exhibition all the artwork will be available to buy via an eBay auction with all the funds going directly the charity.

Opening is 6.30pm tonight info on facebook event / Twitter

Ingenious and Fearless Companions, BOM’s new exhibition exploring microscopic life at the edge of space, launches 1 April – 11 June 2016.

BOM (Birmingham Open Media) is delighted to announce the first ever exhibition by the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) science-art team.

Ingenious and Fearless Companions explores the adventure of curiosity-driven research through a quest to find microscopic life in space.

The title is taken from a letter from French poet Victor Hugo to chemist and aeronaut Gaston Tissandier (1869), on the future of ‘air navigation’ and our hybrid ways of working across science and art. It is also a reference to the bacteria that travel into space inside and on the bodies of astronauts and spacecraft, as well as the extremophile bacteria (bacteria capable of living in extreme environments) that the collective have been seeking in the upper atmosphere.

The HAB team includes Melissa Grant (BOM Fellow and biochemist at the University of Birmingham), lab robotics scientist Oliver de Peyer, mathematician Paul Shepherd and artists Anna Dumitriu, Kira O’Reilly and Alex May. Initiated in 2010, they have searched for microorganisms adapted to life in space in order to consider their uses in novel biotechnologies.

With a mixture of success and spectacular failure, the HAB team have developed remotely operated robotic devices to sample the air at high altitudes, investigating the effects of space travel on bacteria in collaboration with NASA and civilian space authority The Rocket Mavericks.

Ingenious and Fearless Companions presents the HAB team’s ‘blue-skies’ research, or ‘curiosity-driven science’ as it is sometimes called (where real-world applications are not immediately apparent). The exhibition is timely in light of a recent boom in citizen-led science, including crowd-sourced experiments and DIY biology.

The exhibition features photographs and cyanotype prints, sculpturally altered relics, environmental samples and video-mapped film footage of test flights in the Nevada desert. A live-autopsy performance will take place on the HAB’s crashed robot during a Space Bio-hack weekend 13 – 14 May. The exhibition tours to the V&A Museum, London as part of the Digital Design Weekend later in 2016.

More more information and associated events please visit BOM’s website.

Reclaim Photography West Midlands 2016

Reclaim is a photography project coming to Birmingham for the first time in 2016.

Reclaim Photography West Midlands will take place on Saturday 16 April 2016, taking over public spaces with displayed photography pieces.

Entries now open! Deadline 26th February 4pm. 

Reclaim Photography started in Sweden during 2011 and is now here in the West Midlands. This first international project aims to:

• offer complete inclusivity, free of competition, for all participants;

• show the very best of art photography from regional and international photographers;

• take photography back to our streets and public spaces at:

• Grand Central, Birmingham;
• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley;
• Light House Media Centre, Mander Centre and University of Wolverhampton Arts Faculty Library, Wolverhampton;

• raise funds for our regional charity Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer.

The events will co-incide with the University of Wolverhampton Arts Festival and the next major Reclaim Photography event in Sweden.

Prints from the events and additional gallery exhibition will be offered to the public in the form of a donation via lottery draw and theatre auction.

For more details on how to participate please view the Reclaim West Midlands web page, follow them on Twitter and join them on Facebook.

To find out more about the University of Wolverhampton 2016 Arts Festival follow them: @wlv_arts/WLV_Arts#wlvartsfestwlv.ac.uk/artsfest.

Birmingham Printmakers invite you to join them at their opening evening, Friday 20th November  7pm -9pm.

The exhibition shows a wide variety of original printmaking methods and themes from 11 members of Birmingham Printmakers.

In celebration of the imminent re-opening of the Stirchley Baths as a community centre – after two-decade dereliction – local resident and graphic designer Kerry, has brought together a number of Stirchley-based artists, designers and illustrators, to produce a piece of work to be part of a collection inspired by swimming and Stirchley Baths.

Artists include: Carla Smith, Mark Murphy, Roxanna Collins, Matt Cox, Mya Munnelly, Pete Ashton, Jonny Graney, Dale Hipkiss, Kat Kon, Shona McQuillan, Ruth Harvey, Joe Flory and Beth Harris, with Justin Wiggan previewing his new commission by Stirchley Baths.

The exhibition is at new poetry and arts cafe P Café Stirchley 27th October until 23rd December. Also as part of the exhibition there will be a number of associated events and workshops.

Further details available on www.stirchleyartistcollective.tumblr.com

The private view is Friday 30th October at 7pm, there will be music, visuals, and drinks (including speciality beers) via Stirchley Wines and Spirits. 

Join BOM for the opening of artist Antonio Roberts’ first ever solo exhibition.

Described as “the most exciting UK artist working digitally today”, Roberts has earned international acclaim through exhibitions and performances across the globe including Tate Britain, the Computer Art Congress in Brazil and the Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.

Roberts’ works explore ideas of ownership, copyright and free culture, inspiring numerous points of discussion in digital art and the open source community. The exhibition at BOM features specially commissioned new works developed in partnership with the University of Birmingham’s Research and Cultural Collections and is supported by Arts Council England.

The exhibition continues until 23 January 2016.

More about the exhibition on BOM’s website.

LPAP HERE AND NOW

3rd October, 11am – 4pm, St John’s Church, Longbridge

Join Longbridge Public Art Project (LPAP) on the 3rd October 2015 to celebrate the past, present and future of Longbridge. See historical research by artists and local residents as well as finding out about the art work being developed for Longbridge. On the day will be free events and activities for children and adults.

St John’s Church Hall, Longbridge Lane, B31 4JN

More information on LPAP’s website.

Bramall

Black History Month will start on 1^st October at 7.30pm with One Many People, a diverse and vibrant group of musicians in the Bramall Music Building and full information about the events and links to book tickets can be also downloaded here.

The Drum

Black History Month at The Drum –  The Drum’s Black History Month is a month long annual event to celebrate the achievements, contributions and struggles of African, Asian and Caribbean people within the context of their diversity and heritage. Featuring talks, exhibitions, performances, music, tours, discussions, spoken word, fashion and visits.

BASS Festival

This October, BASS15 returns to Birmingham, and this will be the biggest celebration in their ten year history. BASS15 will celebrate ten years of legends and icons of Black Music. For the first time, BASS15 will run alongside the UK’s Black History month in October. More on the BASS15 website.

After successfully launching Limelight, a series of events aimed at promoting the best of Birmingham’s musicians, artists and chefs, The Project Birmingham team presents Platform.

Platform Birmingham is a collective inspired by the vibrancy of the city’s creative community.

We will be exhibiting work from a range of artists from across the region, giving them the Platform to showcase their talent. The music will be provided by The Moodfix Resident DJs and Project Birmingham residents Futurepastzine.

Please come and join us, and be part of the growing cultural revolution that is taking place in our city. Food and drink will be served by our hosts Yumm Cafe.

There is more information and the line-up of artists involved over on their facebook page.

The event takes place 9pm-11pm, Saturday 26th September, Yumm Café at the Custard Factory, Free entry.

A LINE DRAWN FROM THE EYE TO THE SUMMIT

“An exhibition bringing to a close the 2015 academic year for artists on the Arts-based Masters. The exhibition will take over the beautiful School of Art building and will showcase an array of emerging artists and art-based practitioners.

Exhibition Opening Times:
PRIVATE VIEW: Friday 4th September, 5pm-9pm.
The exhibition continues until Thursday 10th September.

http://www.eyetothesummit.com/