Birmingham Loves Photographers “The idea will be that each month the group will get together for tea/coffee and a chat at 6/8 Kafe in the City Centre, and pairs will be drawn. Each pair will then get together in their own time and take a photo of each other” Historic Dale End venue to reopen … [Read more…]
Area Culture Guide – The Independent Issue Verr noice. BE Festival 2011 « More Canals than Venice A nice interview here with “Miguel Oyarzun, BE Festival Co-Director about the festival and what to expect in 2011” The Stage – O2 to host The Nutcracker at Christmas “Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker will play … [Read more…]
Birmingham’s flagship garden show to be held in derelict bank Sounds pretty cool to me. Project Platform Review – Bright Space- Eventbrite Project Platform was an interesting thing and here’s an invite to a follow-up discussion. Given some challenging circumstances, ‘how can we build on our successes and improve the relationship between youth and culture … [Read more…]
BBC iPlayer – Front Row: Home of Metal and some other stuff The interesting bit starts at 6mins 30s. The exhibition opens tomorrow The 405 – Speech Fewapy // Label Profile Decent piece about the label The National Lottery Awards – Best Arts Project – mac Birmingham Click the link and hit the ‘Vote Now’ … [Read more…]
Public Vote « 2Weeks 2Make It Brum 2011 “Take a look through the amazing videos the contestants made in just two weeks. Then pick your favourite and vote for it at the bottom of the page. It is that simple.” Videos – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The CBSO’s new season has been announced and there … [Read more…]
Roxana Silbert Appointed As The REP’s New Artistic Director “The REP has today announced the appointment of Roxana Silbert as the company’s new Artistic Director” Summer visual arts exhibitions in the Midlands, 2011 « D’log A lovely round-up. Pics and everything Birmingham’s thriving independent film-making scene Profiles of The Casebook of Eddie Brewer, Tortoise in … [Read more…]
Today, every so often, I’m going to grab a smattering of tweets and pull them into the timeline below. If you refresh this page every so often you’ll see what’s been added. Or you can see it on the Storify site. [View the story “Birmingham arts & culture tweets, 2 June 2011” on Storify] There’s … [Read more…]
The Guardian have been doing a series of summer city guides and they asked us to write about some of the stuff happening in Birmingham over the next few months. Ian and I duly obliged.