October brought with it the Tory Party Conference while BCMG launched their 2010/11 season, and we looked ahead to the Witching Hour exhibition, featuring a collection of local exhibiting artists, both internationally renowned and emerging.
The Art Bar opened featuring exhibitions and a connection with the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery, the Union Black Film Festival took place with a string of events and screenings. Meanwhile Punch and OOM Gallery published photographer, Pogus Caesar’s book, Musik Kinda Sweet
October was also the month of The Big Draw, with an array of activities popping up in association all over the city. We took a look at what Shout Festival had in store for 2010 and, with the help of 40 local bands and musicians, OxjamBrum took over 6 venues in Birmingham for 12 hours of music.
We gave a run down of various Halloween festivities taking place around the city, plus Invisible City hosted Media Circus, celebrating creative Birmingham, and Moseley Folk and Symphony Hall launched the monthly Folk For Free.
Oh and more arts cuts were announced.
October also saw the eighth edition of Supersonic Festival
“Supersonic confirms that there’s certainly something in the air in Birmingham, or, as one of the organisers suggests, in the city’s architecture, that makes even the older artists come across as fresh. That’s because you’re not observing them on display in a ‘zoo’, but working in their natural habitat: a post-industrial space. So many other music festivals offer what you expect to hear, merely affirming your good taste in music, Supersonic is a place to be educated and surprised: new, experimental and intellectually nourishing material is cleverly smuggled in under a black cloak of fist-pumping riffs and cathartic noise.” The Wire Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgydR9nZbaM