Birmingham Loves Photographers “The idea will be that each month the group will get together for tea/coffee and a chat at 6/8 Kafe in the City Centre, and pairs will be drawn. Each pair will then get together in their own time and take a photo of each other” Historic Dale End venue to reopen … [Read more…]
I didn’t make it to CoCoMAD but I did get down to the Friday of Mostly Jazz. It was lovely – nice atmosphere if you can handle a concentrated dose of Moseleyness, some good music and an utterly charming setting. There’s a much better review by The Baron over on The Hearing Aid. There are … [Read more…]
I’ve not really had a very good look at this yet but there are some good people involved and there’s an interesting open aspect to it. I’ll do a quote-y thing here and leave you to investigate the rest: anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor … [Read more…]
To tie in with its Festival of History, which takes place at Kelmarsh Hall on 16 & 17 July, English Heritage have set up an historical GPS treasure trail around Birmingham city centre for Saturday 9th July. Here’s how it works: Participants in the treasure trail will be given a set of starting co-ordinates to find using … [Read more…]
iD is a show by Cirque Eloize, a contemporary circus outfit from Montreal that’s coming over to Birmingham Hippodrome from 2-5 November. I met the company back in May and have explained why here. The performers in the show are phenomenal (and nice folks too) so as well as doing interviews and things I tried … [Read more…]
I didn’t head down to CoCoMAD in Cotteridge last weekend but I heard a fair amount about it. A good event, by many reports. TheBrumReaper has some photos from this years festival and from past ones too:
I hadn’t realised this was online and picked up on it while skimming the latest from this / inexplicably / styled website from the Arts Council. I’ll let plan b (not that one) explain: We are making a living portrait of 24 hours in Birmingham with the people who move through its streets, parks, waste … [Read more…]
Area Culture Guide – The Independent Issue Verr noice. BE Festival 2011 « More Canals than Venice A nice interview here with “Miguel Oyarzun, BE Festival Co-Director about the festival and what to expect in 2011” The Stage – O2 to host The Nutcracker at Christmas “Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker will play … [Read more…]