Misc

Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.

A graph of events

Nikki Pugh posted this graphic which made my head hurt a bit, but that wasn’t hard today. See if you do any better. Clicken to embiggen.

Post journo gets blog

Joanna Geary, journalist at the Post, has started blogging and not as part of the Post’s official excursion into the medium. The CiB hook is she often writes about media and creative industries for the paper and her third post should be of interest. The conversation pattern is as follows: Person A is pouring their … [Read more…]

BCU announced

The rather useful looking Skyscraper City forum prints the email sent out by UCE’s Vice Chancellor David Tidmarsh telling staff and students that he’s soon to be BCU’s Vice Chancellor. I won’t post the whole thing but here’s an exceprt or two that caught my eye. Through our research and consultation exercise, we have confirmed … [Read more…]

4Talent Commisioning Comp.

4Talent are running a Commissioning Competition which also combines a talent search and training session. Sort of. To enter submit “three ideas that you think could work as a 4Talent multimedia feature, along with a current CV and links to a showreel and/or examples of your work.” The successful 10 applicants will then be invited … [Read more…]

Paul Kaynes new job

In this post about Audiences Central’s Chief Executive Paul Kaynes leaving to become West Midlands Creative Programmer for the Cultural Olympiad we learn that Audiences Central used to be called Birmingham Arts Marketing, which is something I did not know and makes a lot more sense now.

ACRE at CURS

Had this email through from Julie Brown at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at Birmingham Uni: ACRE is a major, international, 4 year research project funded under the Priority 7 ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society’ within the EU Sixth Framework Programme. The project brings together partners from 13 leading research centres … [Read more…]

Five Birmingham Poets

Five Birmingham Poets by Eric Doumerc Dr. Eric Doumerc is conducting an ongoing research of the Caribbean oral traditions’ influence on Black British performance poetry. His main interests include the study of Jamaican deejaying (the early 1970’s period) and its influence on oral poetry. He travels to Birmingham, UK, where he interviews Five Poets with … [Read more…]