Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
There seems to be a few jewellery-related things on at the moment. Brilliantly Birmingham is ongoing until 21 December (although it’s a little hard to tell what’s happening and where from the website) and now there’s a new website for BCU’s School of Jewellery. It looks like this: Couple of things: the RSS feed for … [Read more…]
Made in Moseley is a joint Moseley CDT and Media Content Lab project: to promote and support artists and designer-makers based in and around the Moseley area of Birmingham, the Made in Moseley Shop allows members to sell their products online via a shared shop front
Britglyph is “a collaborative public art project across Great Britain”. The idea is you find a spot on the map near you, take a stone there, take a photo of yourself with that stone and submit it (the photo) to the site. There’s a marker just near Five Ways if you want to get involved … [Read more…]
Jon Bounds of Birmingham: it’s Not Shit gives his thoughts on the Creative Director issue. Please give it a read.
From the Traditional Arts Team. Here are their Birmingham storytelling events for December: Wednesday 3 December, 8pm BIRMINGHAM STORYTELLING SESSION Upstairs at The Bull’s Head, St Mary’s Row, Birmingham B13 8HW http://www.tradartsteam.co.uk/storytelling/bhamsession.htm Thursday 4 December, 8pm BIRMINGHAM TRADITIONAL SONG SESSION Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham 14 www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song Wednesday 17 December, 7:30pm BIRMINGHAM … [Read more…]
At the kratesitwards (as some are calling them) on Saturday, Coun Neville Summerfield bigged up some of the support initiatives for creative types in Birmingham: Creative Birmingham – pulling together key public agencies investing in the creative industries Design Space – accommodates and finances new design agencies in the Jewellery Quarter SRB6 Creative Industries – … [Read more…]
And the winners are: Digital Native Academy Ltd – The Regional Outstanding Business Development Award Electric Cinema (vid via Pete Ashton) – The Birmingham Outstanding Business Development Award LHM Media – Innovation Award Fierce Earth Ltd (vid via Pete Ashton) – Outstanding Market Development Award (with a Special Commendation Award in the same category presented … [Read more…]
Some bad news – according to The Guardian “BBC Resources’ Birmingham and Bristol bases will be closed”. Mark Thomas, the BBC Resources chief executive, has apparently emailed staff to explain that jobs will be lost across the corporation’s commercial post-production and studios arm and that the Birmingham premises are no longer commercially viable. As the … [Read more…]