A reminder that the Birmingham International Jazz Festival started yesterday. There are no particular marquee names as such but the ethos is to put on as much jazz music in as many places as possible for the next week. You can see the programme here but otherwise don’t be surprised to stumble across something if … [Read more…]
This year’s Lichfield Festival starts on 3 July and closes on the 13th with a programme of music, theatre, visual arts and film. A nice touch (cos I look for this things) is a blog by the Festival Director, Richard Hawley, who has been posting his thoughts up all this week. You can see the … [Read more…]
Arts All Over The Place is a festival of arts for mental health. A month-long programme of events kicked off on 7 June and runs through until 10 July. The festival is organised by The Creatives Network for the Arts and Health, enabled by the Social Inclusion team of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust. … [Read more…]
We’ve reached the halfway point of the Midlands’ street sounds/art festival but there’s plenty left to come in Birmingham: Scratch Club, hosted by Sonny Jim, is at The Yardbird on 17 June (free) My Love For Hip Hop is a hip hop poetry event at The Drum on 19 June (£5) Jazzanova and Eska Mtungwazi … [Read more…]
Planning has started for this year’s Gigbeth festival taking place 6-8 November 2008 and coinciding, as ever, with Music Live at the NEC and the Gigbeth Conference. The website has been launched and, although it’s too early to expect much information to be up there for punters, if you want to perform or volunteer at … [Read more…]
Don’t promote your entire programme, promote small batches of events. By all means have a list of everything that’s going on (I’m sure it’s very big and impressive) but don’t go wave it in peoples’ faces too much. Not my idea but that of Anthony Rose from the BBC. His point, made at The Big … [Read more…]
Something that’s been in my ‘to investigate’ pile for a while, from 25 June to 13 July Vivid present FLUX-FEST, a season of events celebrating the spirit of Fluxus which, if you’ve not come across it before (like me), emerged as a reaction to the high-art of the 60’s. The emphasis is therefore on fun … [Read more…]
I went over to the BASS Festival launch last night over at the Woom Gallery (an excellent little place, incidentally). I had a quick chat with Ammo, the guy behind Punch Records, who was enthusiastic about the programme of events they’ve got coming up but most excited about the the competition they ran to design … [Read more…]