- Sounds Of The City charity CDs | We Are Birmingham
“Vicinity Records presents Sounds of The City – a showcase compilation series celebrating contemporary music from select cities around the globe”. With Birmingham represented by Vinny and the Curse, Tempting Rosie, Pick Your Weapon and Glatze. Proceeds go to charity and you can grab a copy from We Are Birmingham - Jonny Costello – Bite Down on that Gumshield Son
“Recorded in one take on CD & vinyl, it’s a selection of tracks old and new, hard and not so hard inspired loosely by the UK and Birmingham sound of today and yesterday” - Art & Heritage quarterly « D’log
“A new quarterly Midlands art magazine, Art & Heritage, produced for a consortium of Black Country and Wolverhampton museums and galleries” - Colourful World of Concrete
“Concrete needn’t be grey or square or boring I’m going to attempt to show what can be done. The world can be a much brighter place even built of concrete” - FRAME: Whats it all about?
“The Frame mission is to encourage, support and stimulate the growth of the creative industries of Photography and Graphics in Birmingham.” They’re going to have premises and everything. Sounds very good. - Emily Warner
Just noticed this new(ish) blog from multi-disciplinary artist Emily Warner - Place, Space & Identity
Fierce Earth are looking after the third incarnation of PSI. There are six commissions with budgets ranging from around £7,000 to £23,000 for a high impact, big beautiful project to put Stoke-on-Trent on the map - Blink Animation
They do a lot of children’s TV animation and they’ve just moved into Birmingham from Kidderminster - We’ll miss you Andie
I seem to recall this sign cropping up in Ian Francis’s ‘My Favourite Things’ talk at Ikon a couple of years ago. A sad loss. - Edgelands: Between the urban and the rural | Fierce Festival
The NEC as Edgeland - Chief Executive, Suzie Norton, leaves Screen WM
Good luck to Suzie in whatever she does next - Creative England response – Blog – Digital Birmingham
“Birmingham City Council supported by Digital Birmingham submitted a response to the recent consultation document Creative England: A Consultation on Strategic Priorities for Film 2011/12”. And here it is - A penguin being tickled
No, I have no idea what this has to do with Birmingham, art, culture or anything. But then who cares? Maybe I’ll turn this into one of those blogs about cute animals
