I was at the Biting Back event on Monday. It was good – I generally come out in a rash when exposed to too much of the more abstract end of artspeak and thankfully (for me – I’m sure some love it) that was avoided, by and large.
I’d been asked to talk about the Created in Birmingham Shop in one of the breakout sessions – I talked over some pics that told the story of how the shop started and finished and how the torch was passed to the folks at We Are Birmingham. I’ll probably put those slides online at some point, but I used a few photos that I’ll need to attribute properly, so that might take me a while.
In the meantime, there are videos of the main sessions online. I’d particularly recommend watching Christiana Galanopoulu’s keynote:
and, with more of a local flavour, Airan Berg’s keynote: