Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
The lovely folks at London based charity Kids in Museums are looking for a volunteer to launch and maintain its Flickr site. Kids in Museums came about when in 2003 Guardian writer Dea Birkett’s young son was thrown out of the Royal Academy for being too noisy, Kids in Museums now leads in promoting family-friendly … [Read more…]
A team of computing students from the University of Wolverhampton and University of Birmingham have picked up the BAFTA ‘Ones to Watch’ award at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. The team, named DarkMatter Designs designed Boro-Toro, a platform puzzle game which uses an innovative control system using Wii technology. Since leaving University two … [Read more…]
Last month an unlikely collection of street artists gathered in Shenley, Birmingham, joined by senior citizens and BBC2’s ‘The Culture Show’ presenter, Lauren Laverne, to create a giant mural. The mural will be a permanent “thank you” to Lottery players, who in just one year alone, invested over £235million to help fund Good Causes projects … [Read more…]
Birmingham City Council’s Big City Plan is looking for imaginative photographs and films showing how you think Birmingham should develop over the next twenty years. In the spirit of this user generated content age it doesn’t matter if you use your mobile phone or the latest camera technology. Entries will only be accepted from amateur … [Read more…]
Screen West Midlands and Film Birmingham bring BBC’s Survivors to Brum Screen WM is proud to announce that the West Midlands, through Screen WM and Film Birmingham support has secured the relocation of the major BBC TV drama series, Survivors to Birmingham. Council leader offers creative alternative to dwindling city. After a string of high … [Read more…]
Last Thursday I joined a rowdy bunch of art buffs, film lovers and the Flatpack devotees on the Flatpack Festival installation trail. The trail started at 5.30pm at Urban Outfitters with an introduction from Flatpack director Pip and representatives from the Universities involved in the project. The festival starts tomorrow with ‘Curzonora’ at Town Hall, … [Read more…]
The theme for ArtsFest 2009 has been announced and is: Anniversaries and Celebrations. The festival will recognise major anniversaries taking place this year such as: The bicentenary of the death of Matthew Boulton. The bicentenary of birth of William Penny Brookes. The bicentenary of birth of Charles Darwin. The 50th anniversary of the Mini The … [Read more…]
Something strange is happening in the city. Shop window sale signs appear to have been mysteriously replaced with intriguing footage and tributes to long forgotten figures. All will be explained on Thursday evening’s launch of the shop-window installation trail from Flatpack Festival. The Trail starts at Urban Outfitters [map] from 5.30pm. A tour will take … [Read more…]