Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
It’d be pointless me adding to the mounting pile of gushing reviews this performance is receiving, so I’m going to float an idea instead (which should give you an inkling of what I thought of it). Graham Vick is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company. Year-round he works with the world’s major operas and … [Read more…]
A short video featuring 300-year old manufacturing company, Toye, Kenning & Spencer. Their Jewellery Quarter factory produces their metal goods and houses their design department. The firm designs and produces a wide variety of items including medals (including MBEs, OBEs, CBEs, GBEs, KBEs and DBEs for the Queens honors), trophies (examples produced by Toye being … [Read more…]
There was a good showing for Birmingham on last week’s Culture Show. It’s available until Friday 11 Dec, so there’s still time to catch it. Birmingham Opera Company were featured (at 11mins). Othello is currently racking up rave reviews in a manner approaching unseemly – 5 stars in the Guardian and Times and the Birmingham … [Read more…]
Natasha came to Birmingham to study for a degree in fashion design and has been here ever since. She makes: Wedding tiaras, headbands and bespoke headwear created with inspiration taken from floral silhouettes with small delicate details There’s more on Natasha Jane’s website and on her Facebook Page.
The Bench 504 is a graffiti store in the Custard Factory. Their blog features lots of (often Digbeth-y) street art stuff. Nicky Getgood noticed this.
I kinda don’t want to know too much about this before doing it, which makes telling you about it a little difficult. All I really know is that it’ll happen on 18 December at 6pm in Birmingham. You can sign up on the Subtlemob website. People use the words small, gorgeous and filmic to describe … [Read more…]
Birmingham’s bidding for the title of City of Culture in 2013 and as a result a couple of attempts to get your feedback have been launched. Big Blank Canvas Big Blank Canvas is a project managed and devised by Fierce (on behalf of the council who are responsible for the bid itself) which, in its … [Read more…]
It’s taken me a while to mention this one although it’s been on my radar for ages. Birmingham Opera Company are doing Othello on 7 dates between 5-19 December. It’s going to be amazing and epic because, by and large, amazing and epic are what Birmingham Opera Company do. Like last year’s King Idomeneo, this … [Read more…]