Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment is a typographical exploration of 26 letters (and a few sneaky characters) by 35 different Birmingham based illustrators, designers and artists, all displayed as one alphabet There’s an interview with one of the curators, Charlotte Audrey Owen-Meehan, on This Is Happening. More info on CMYKern and a … [Read more…]
mac opened their doors to the press yesterday. I was going to go along but couldn’t make it in the end. Jon Bounds and PixieSixer did though.
This sounds good – a new arts centre called The Hubb is opening on 29 April next to Aldi on the Stratford Road, Sparkbrook (postcode is B11 1QS, if that helps). As the flyer says, the launch will feature Sheikh Jihad Brown, Peter Sanders, Dreadlock Alien and Mohammed Ali, from who’s blog I’ve nicked this … [Read more…]
Spotted at last night’s creative industries debate – a document called Birmingham’s Cultural Capital (PDF) and referred to by the Hippodrome’s Stuart Griffiths as Birmingham’s arts manifesto. Apparently it was produced in October 2009 and was produced by the Birmingham Arts Partnership. The BAP (who are presumably distinct from the Birmingham Cultural Partnership) includes: Birmingham … [Read more…]
Some monthly poetry workshops starting this week and carrying on to the end of the year. Making Poetry are responsible, they cost up to £18 per workshop (with discounts available) and the Shakespeare Memorial Room (at Birmingham Central Library) is where it’ll all happen. This is what they’re doing: 17th April – Getting it Out … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post’s Jon Walker spotted the above advert at Westminster tube station and this morning the paper (well, website) is reporting ‘MPs sign Commons motion to back Birmingham City of Culture bid‘. So how’s the bid going? It’s difficult to gauge this. Thing is, we (as in, the people of Birmingham) aren’t going to … [Read more…]
Birmingham Word Cloud | As part of ‘plug in’ – the opening exhibition at the new mac gallery space in Birmingham – we are generating a city word cloud, entirely constructed from words submitted by the general public and associates. You can contribute your keywords (up to 5 please) by emailing Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or via twitter … [Read more…]
The eagle-eyed shoppers among you may have noticed ballet shoes and tutus, like the one pictured above found in the Created in Birmingham shop, popping up all over Bullring recently. Add this to questions like “What is Urban Ballet?” on the shopping centre’s Life Feels Better twitter stream, and this Urban Ballet website, and it … [Read more…]