- Call for submissions – Interactive artwork for touch-screens
Shiny tech stuff at The Public – “Submissions are now being accepted for TOUCHinteractive, UK’s first open submission exhibition specifically for digital-interactive artwork” - Mark Harris
“My work has a strong interest in systems and generative processes in art and music – I have developed a number of software applications which allow me to work with these processes in a live performance environment.” - BBC News – Ten ‘most threatened’ buildings in England and Wales
Includes the former Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road, Birmingham - Birmingham newspaper war: Chris Bullivant closes the Birmingham Press and the Free Press and complains to Office of Fair Trading
“Chris Bullivant says he fears “there is no future for independent publishing in the UK” after deciding to close The Birmingham Press and The Birmingham Free Press, admitting he cannot compete with ad rates he claims are being offered to estate agents by the Birmingham Mail.” - Birmingham Post – Arts funding cuts will hit West Midlands hard, admits Ed Vaizey
‘Birmingham’s arts organisations will lose out to London when they are forced to bid for private investment to keep afloat amid Government cuts, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said” - Birmingham Mail – Brum lap-dancing clubs left out of pocket by Tories
Question is, when referring to ‘one of Birmingham’s leading industries’ was John Lamb referring to Birmingham’s entertainment sector in general or lap-dancing in particular? I should probably be asking Jon Griffin that, but then I’m no journalist - A&B Awards 2010 announced – Audiences Central
People got dressed up and were given statues. Yay! - Screen WM – Birmingham International Film Society wins Film Society of the Year Award
Awarded at the annual conference of the British Federation of Film Societies - contemporary monkey //
A Birmingham-based online art critic who isn’t afraid to call something rubbish if he thinks it’s rubbish. That’s refreshing (says Cheerleader No. 1, despairing of himself) - de papel
I’m not sure who’s behind this blog, but CiB is in the blogroll (a list of ‘Super Blogs’, no less) so I’m giving a courteous nod back - About DANCE BOX « Dancebox’s Blog
“DANCE BOX is a dance network for young people who LOVE TO DANCE, in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire” - Radio Wildfire
“Radio Wildfire broadcasts to you from the West Midlands of England. It concentrates on live literature, spoken word performances and oral art” - William Gallagher
A writer and photographer from Birmingham. Seems to write knowledgeably on Strictly too
