Eye Candy Festival 2013 launch party kicks off this Thursday, 31st October, at Le Truc and sees the start of the weekend long festival full of art, live drawing, films, installations, workshops and much more. The best thing about Eye Candy Festival is that it is all free and will be featuring work by a … [Read more…]
Art Box is a festival of contemporary art, crafts, and all things creative. 2012 saw Art Box’s first festival in the lovely cathedral city Lichfield – and next year it’s coming to Birmingham too. Art Box 2014 is coming and we’re currently looking for artists and volunteers to help us make the second Art … [Read more…]
20th – 30th March 2014 are dates for your diary as it sees the return of Flatpack Festival. For a reminder of what you enjoyed, or missed, last year watch the below video to view the highlights of the seventh Flatpack Festival. Submissions are now open for Flatpack 8 and this year a new category … [Read more…]
As ever there are a handful of talented Birmingham based artists who are heading up to Edinburgh to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Here are a few: Stan’s Café with The Cardinals: Three cardinals in a puppet theatre tell their biblical history of the world Comedy JQ – James Cook, The Lovely Men and Benny Boot Resident … [Read more…]
On the 27th July 2013 it’s the Warwick Bar Summer Fete. “a moveable feast of art, culture and food. Experience Digbeth’s canalside afresh with street food, guided walks, visual art & performance, aerial theatre, music, family friendly workshops, and a pedal powered cinema.” There are a lot of great groups of people involved in this including: Vivid … [Read more…]
4 Squares Weekender will celebrate opening of Library of Birmingham, 6-8 September 2013 Birmingham’s leading arts organisations are joining forces to stage a major outdoor celebration for the opening of the Library of Birmingham. A range of innovative arts events and live music performances will take place across four squares in the city centre from 6 … [Read more…]
The Balsall Heath Biennale is conceived and co-ordinated by artists and Balsall Heath residents Elizabeth Rowe & Chris Poolman. The project is entering it’s ‘live’ period between July and September 2013. Information on the project is available here: www.balsallheathbiennale.com The project has many different elements: a newspaper delivered to all 6000 houses in the local area (that includes listings … [Read more…]
Birmingham Architecture Festival is happening this weekend – their launch party is in fact tonight. Here is a small selection of CiB’s highlights/recommendations, but do be sure to read up on the programme yourself to see what other activities you could be getting up to this weekend. —- KINO 10 are showing a series of … [Read more…]