Peter Watkins is a freelance Midlands based photographer. Over the last few years, he’s had a both group and solo exhibitions at various venues, including the Custard Factory, The Public and Light House. He’s also been awarded with an Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards, in the Architecture: Buildings, Fine Art: Landscapes and Fine … [Read more…]
Our weekly jobs and opportunities digest, powered by Jobplot – a creative talent, jobs and opportunities board for the West Mids. Jobs: Exceptional Account Manager, Rewired PR Opportunities: Graphic design help needed, PlayDNA DanceXchange Brochure and Website Design, DanceXchange If you’re a film maker, photographer, artist, sound engineer, web designer, writer, radio presenter, arts organisation … [Read more…]
A contemporary creative practice needs to be a problem solver, fund raiser, facilitator and business collaborator. While anyone experienced in cultural and community based areas would be ignorant to ignore the realizations that the current economics demand better value for investments and any funding, do our creative industry graduates know what they need to do … [Read more…]
To your right, you see glorious Cheapside. Factories and warehouses to let with flexible terms.They say that this area will eventually be regenerated, and this street, being closer to the main drag may be ripe for the pickings. Already, the café at the post office hosts storytelling and poetry evenings, serving drinks, snacks and light … [Read more…]
Commercially Inviable Records » Here Come The Light Nights A free sampler of upcoming releases on the label Wanted: Critical friends “BiNS is looking for contributors, willing to go out, and then come back, and write good criticism about what they found”. Splendid. Why couldn’t I quote Charlotte’s Web on stage? Lucy Caldwell on copyright … [Read more…]
The second UK Fulldome Film Festival will take place on Sat 12 & Sun 13 March at the Thinktank Planetarium. The festival examines fulldome as an artistic media, and highlights ‘the creative and experimental applications of immersive environments, beyond the realm of astronomy education most commonly associated with digital planetariums today’. They’ve got a pretty … [Read more…]
Co-produced by VIVID & Fierce, this Saturday, 5 March, will see a public intervention held by artist Eitan Buchalter, from 11.30am – 3.30pm on Heath Mill Lane. Buchalter will be expanding on his current body of work exploring how we flow through and interact with public spaces and what happens when aspects of our environment … [Read more…]
Fairtrade fortnight starts 28th February, the theme’s cotton, and this year Fairtrade Association Birmingham (FAB) are putting on more events than ever! This week will also witness binning of the last of my dubiously sourced Calvin Classic underwear. About the same time as I bought my last poor quality pants (and first of many fairtrade … [Read more…]