Videos for the first half of Birmingham’s street theatre season, Six Summer Saturdays, are up online on the Hippodrome’s Vimeo account. Here’s week three: And you can follow these links for week two and week one. Listings for all the craziness happening around the city centre are on sixsummersaturday.com. UPDATE: I’m planning to be down … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post have reported on the plans to rename the ‘Gun Quarter‘. I’m with Sir Albert Bore on this one (except on the political correctness bit – not sure I get that): Like it or not, and I am not into the arms trade myself, the Gun Quarter has a historical connection with this … [Read more…]
What’s good in Brum? :: Loaf Online “Two days in a row this week I was asked for recommendations for food things happening in Birmingham […] Here’s my response” Details of new Birmingham food festival unveiled On the subject of food – “The 10-day celebration of food will take place from October 14-23 and replaces … [Read more…]
Jon, Danny and Midge – friends of CiB all – are off on a road trip and are trying to raise £500 to make it happen. Here’s the plan: Two of Birmingham’s most committed journaleers and artists of human experience—a bi-polar working class warrior with a romantic streak you could drown a fascist in, and … [Read more…]
Realtime, generative Audio Visual performance presented in the MAC’s best kept secret – a gem of 1960s architecture – the HEXAGON theatre, originally the Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre SCREE are DJ Sir Real from the House of God and VJ Catweasel who does visuals for artists like Stevie Wonder. Modulate are an AV collective who grew out … [Read more…]
No, it’s not a very original title. Sorry. Still, Birmingham Rep are continuing their wanderings around the city while building work continues in Centenary Square. Their next show is The Owl and The Pussycat at Birmingham Library Theatre. After that is something extra interesting. They’ll be setting themselves up at their old home, The Old … [Read more…]
Ah, so this must be what the whispering was about. Preclusion No Venue : No Permission : No Money A genuinely guerilla experience, Preclusion is a totally unsupported spontaneous art exhibition. A space has become available for a limited time and the secretive El Perro Radicale has chosen to take advantage of this opportunity to unveil a … [Read more…]
Are you, or do you know, a person under the age of 18 who’s free from 1-5 August? Then may I present the following: Young Rewired State is a week long hack event (1-5 August 2011) where young and aspiring web developers across the country build their own web apps, visualisations and projects using government data, mentored … [Read more…]