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An interview with Birmingham’s Laura Howells – the Beano’s first ever regular female artist (hat tip to Andy Mabbett) - John Garghan, exhibition in the new year
The guy who takes the fasinating photos of torched cars. He’s getting ready for an exhibition at the Solihull Arts Complex at the Touchwood Centre, Solihull. 19 Jan to 7 March - Screen WM – Annual Review
You can get Screen WM’s annual report for 07/08 (and the past couple of years) here - Where next for the Custard Factory and other independent venues?
Interesting post from Kenny at Big Cat pondering what direction a large-ish, credible venue should take in terms of booking acts. Would be interesting to see what people would suggest - New Season Announced at Birmingham Rep : Whatsonstage Midlands
There’s some Philip Pullman, a Caribbean musical, a collaboration between writers and actors from the UK, Japan and Korea and lots of other good things - Young People’s Free Theatre Scheme- successful West Midlands theatres – Audiences Central
A list of “theatres who have been successful in their application for the Arts Council England Young People’s Free Theatre Scheme” - Kebablog – DAB con
A poke around Birmingham’s digital radio options - Dressing-the-Pooh | Crescent Theatre Blog
Interesting from the Crescent Theatre – they’ve got a production of Winnie-the-Pooh coming in the new year. A comment on a previous blog asked whether Pooh would be played in full, semi or no costume. Here’s the answer (maybe drop them a comment on your thoughts) - Still Waiting
Not sure what this is, but it’s to do with Antonio Roberts so it’ll probably be interesting
