Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Play isn’t just for kids! Come and join BARG as they host 2 ridiculously fun summer events at the mac to introduce you to the world of pervasive games. With any luck you won’t need any more convincing and will just run straight over to register for one/both of these (it’s free). Register for Sunday 15 August … [Read more…]
I’ve still not made it over to The Hubb which is starting to feel remiss of me. They’ve got an interesting thing happening there next week which looks good – a Chinese and Arabic calligraphy collaboration.
I meant to post this a few days back but forgot. Oops. You remember the JFK mosaic that used to be at St Chad’s Circus before all that area was redeveloped? There’s talk of relocating it to the Irish Quarter. The mosaic was commissioned in 1968 and paid for by the city’s Irish community as … [Read more…]
There was a bit of Dave Harte’s Birmingham’s Creative Industries – the ‘business case’ post that really caught my eye – something that I hadn’t noticed/thought about before. First the set-up: I think this position [that creative industries need handouts] comes from the confusion of thinking that the subsidised Arts sector has much to do … [Read more…]
If you’ve ever been involved in anything that Advantage West Midlands (this region’s RDA) has supported (and I’d be surprised if you haven’t in some way or other) then this is relevant to you, even if, on the surface, it might seem turgid, overly political and dull. You may have heard of the government’s plans … [Read more…]
This weekend it’ll be two years until the Olympics kick off. There’ll be hundreds of events across the country to celebrate this happy fact with a map that looks uncannily like the one below (click it to go to the website) showing what’s going on where. Around these parts there’s: Culture Vulture Family Weekend at … [Read more…]
As far as I can tell, none of us have ever really mentioned antiques over the span of CiB’s existence. Here’s an end to that: Antiques For Everyone The summer event of the tri-annual antiques fair is at the NEC from 22-25 July 2010. The BPo will have have a free ticket offer in Thursday’s … [Read more…]
The Tayor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 has just gone on show at the New Art Gallery Walsall and will be there until 12 September 2010: The exhibition consists of 60 photographs which were selected from an open submission of 6,312 prints by 2,451 international phtoographers. The judging panel included The New Art Gallery’s Director Stephen … [Read more…]