Ray Hassall on Festivals
The Stirrer interviews Councilor Ray Hassall about the future of Artsfest, the new bi-annual Dance Festival and an “embryonic” bi-annual music festival to complement it. Your thoughts?
Misc
Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Friday Fun
The relevance to the creative industries is tenuous if there at all but this has been amusing me greatly over the last week and I have to share. What do you get when you combine the phenomena of the lolcat, where humourous captions are applied to photos of cats, with the phenomena of local councilors … [Read more…]
Batsford’s Naratives
Rich Batsford talks about Experimental Naratives in relation to the work that goes into structuring Project X Presents. I submitted two narratives: “Welcome, Engagement, Focus, Development, Agitation, Challenge, Excitation, Ecstacy†and “Entry, Acclimatisation, Cohesion, Inspiration, Altercation, Realisation, Transcendenceâ€. It’ll be interesting to see where it all leads.
Art in The Vaults
The Vaults is a new bar and restaurant in the Jewellery Quarter co-owned by Russell of Clusta, but of interest to us is this sentence: The Vaults also exhibits art works from contemporary artists and photographers from across the country. via the Blink blog
Brilliantly Birmingham starts
The Fused kids were at the Brilliantly Birmingham launch last night and report on some stuff that caught their eyes. Brilliantly Birmingham, the annual showcase of contemporary jewelery, runs from now until January 13th with numerous events, exhibitions and fairs across the city. All the information is in this press kit or you can just … [Read more…]
Creative City film
D’log draws my attention to a short film, Birmingham: The Creative City, focusing on two artists who benefited from the Equal: The Last Mile program which helps creatives turn their art into a business. If you filter out the shiny-happy aspect there’s still some interesting stuff in here. The film was put together by Creative … [Read more…]
Dunc on Flyering
The second of Autumn Store Dunc’s guides to putting on a DIY gig or club night is up, this time on the art of flyering and it’s a damn good one. The humble flyer is still the most important bit of paper in the independent promoters arsenal. Posters can be too easily ignored, but putting … [Read more…]
Flickr Sunday
An irregular look through the the Birmingham Flickr pool. from suselstahl from Garry Corbett from Homer Simpsons Donut from Jon Iles