Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Chris Keenan has the above photo showing at Colorado’s Center for Fine Art Photography at the moment, at an exhibition entitled ‘Portraits‘ juried by Mary Ellen Mark. Tom is the owner of a prefab home in Moseley – once surrounded by many similar ones, his is now one of the few remaining among the redeveloped … [Read more…]
Yep, from here on in it’s pretty much inescapable. The Frankfurt Christmas Market (a celebration of charming curios and glühwein or a tat-strewn bovine/pedestrian magnet depending on your point of view) opened today, which is as good a reason as any to link to Old Dead Eye’s lovely video. Apparently there’ll be a Solihull one … [Read more…]
Home By Six is a new project from Multistory: Whatever it is about your journey, if you can tell it in six words we want to hear it. Stories will be featured in an exhibition called ‘Home by Six’ which will take place at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in the Community Gallery from 21 … [Read more…]
There’s a new open mic spoken word and poetry night called Coffee Shop Poets that’s starting at The Margarett Rose Abri, in Digbeth – a relatively new place that’s billed as being friendly to artists (the cafe, that is). Actually, on that theme, the flyer insists that there will be no alcohol served, that the … [Read more…]
The fizzPOP Howduino event takes place on Saturday 21st November, 10am – 5.30pm: It’s a free event that will bring together 40 people from different backgrounds to work individually and collaboratively on various projects based around the Arduino platform. (Arduinos are small microcontrollers designed for easy prototyping of things that have electronics/data that respond to … [Read more…]
One for the font-worriers this (and I know there are a few who read this blog). UKType are organising Typographic Horizons at BIAD on 18 November 2009. The programme includes a fair amount of local talent (I’m no expert in this area but I recognise the names of David Osbaldestin, Smile, Ben Waddington and the … [Read more…]
The latest from Kate Beatty: I shot a body of work a few years ago which looked at the decline of independent business called ‘Dying Breeds’. The other is a little personal project that I have called ‘Birmingham artists’ but it’s really about Birmingham people. These boys Steven and Nathan are PolarBear Records, an independent … [Read more…]
Another Birmingham institution makes it into double figures this month – Brilliantly Birmingham, the international contemporary jewellery festival, is celebrating its first decade from 21 November to 28 February. There’ll be two exhibitions at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: FLUX, the annual selling show which attracts international entries from new and emerging designers, and A … [Read more…]