Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
You’ve got today and tomorrow to get down to Taste of Birmingham in Cannon Hill Park if you’re into foody kinda stuffs. Lots of the fanciest restaurants around the region will be there to tempt you with their wares. They’ll have cooking demos and all sorts of other things too. Also on the foody tip, today … [Read more…]
BMAG are after a freelance artist film maker and a freelance theatre director/writer for a new project called Birmingham – A City in the Making: a series of innovative new history galleries telling the global story of a city and its people which will open in 2012 More info about this (and the jobs) via … [Read more…]
This is an exciting one. I was hanging around the National Theatre on Sunday and picked up a brochure for the outdoors stuff they’re doing over the summer. There was some really good stuff lined up. Now, in a pleasingly similar vein, an email about the Hippodrome’s Six Summer Saturdays programme (website coming soon) has … [Read more…]
This launches at 1pm today over at the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery with a talk and music from Digby Fairweather [insert joke about weather remaining fair here]. From Peter Williams: a powerful exhibition of portraiture that features nu-generation playas like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside legends like Don … [Read more…]
In honour of the fact that Birmingham didn’t tick as many arbitrary boxes as another city in some popularity contest or other (but srsly – congratulations Derry/Londonderry), here’s a picture to lift the spirits: Now that’s culture. (Via @Robintheoffice)
Tonight on the One Show (7pm BBC, although it’ll inevitably be kept back until 7.29pm) we get to find out whether Birmingham gets to call itself City of Culture in 2013. The Daily Mail has already called it for Londonderry (you’ll have to excuse the lack of link to that one) but we won’t know … [Read more…]
Jon Bounds has seen the actual thing.
This is one for the promoters out there. And for anyone who gripes about not being able to find out what’s going on in this fair city (that’ll be most people then). Ian Ravenscroft has a new blog and has used is to voice his annoyance at the lack of places available for trumpeting stuff … [Read more…]