Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
NB – There’s no conclusions drawn at the end of this post – I’m just linking a bunch of vaguely related stuff together. Daden, the serious games people, have put a list of potential student projects online. Daden’s David Burden explains: In meetings with Universities the topic would often turn to ideas for student projects. We’d … [Read more…]
Pete Ashton, who occasionally still pops up around these parts and is looking into bringing the CiB Shop back, has announced a couple of notable things. First up, he’s resurrecting the social media surgeries that he used to run out of Rootys a couple of years ago. £20 will buy you half an hour to … [Read more…]
Word’s been going round (although at the moment I can’t tell where from) that Thursday 15 July is decision day on the whole City of Culture 2013 thing. While we work ourselves into barely-concealed bundles of anticipation, Arts Industry have done a quick round-up of each city’s bid. All much of a muchness, but recent … [Read more…]
Hiya, still here. I’ve just been off, away and working for a bit. Here’s some stuff: Rhymes from the Rocks is a showcase for poetry inspired by the geology of the Black Country and its storehouse of unusual and beautiful objects. The poems on this site have been produced by young people from the Dudley … [Read more…]
I just read an email pointing out that Creative Playground has changed tack slightly and is now Digital Playground: Digital Playground was created in an attempt to network the digital creative industries within Birmingham The next meet-up is on Friday 25 June at the Spotted Dog in Digbeth. Joining the Meetup group and RSVP-ing would … [Read more…]
This summer Creative Republic is running a project to help raise awareness of the many creative ideas that happen in Birmingham. To nominate your favourite creative concept, project, event, exhibition, individual or company simply register for free and ‘nominate’. Winning nominations will be included in a book, video and a final event at the end … [Read more…]
Tomorrow afternoon at Zellig (the new Custard Factory bit – that name’s still not sitting right with me) there’s an event for creative freelancers called Know Your Place. Those who are well tuned in to this sort of thing will know that a similar thing ran at Fazeley Studios a few months back (I even … [Read more…]
Beth White (of LovLi Design) is putting together an exhibition in the cafe area of The Public in West Brom. The plan is: to produce some really fantastic bunting using over 150 different artists. Each artist can create more that one piece of bunting, but each piece must be completely unique. The final piece will … [Read more…]