If Birmingham City Council meetings were televised… Not strictly arts/culture related, but if you only click one of these links, click this one. Includes chicken dancing, physical abuse of the Respect Party and what gold dealers in the city can be like Why are Birmingham’s Hackers letting FizzPop die? Thanks to a bit of nudging … [Read more…]
I’ve been invited to meet Jeremy Hunt MP (or The Secretary of State for Culture, the Olympics, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP to give him his full name) later today. The email said: The meeting will give the Secretary of State the opportunity to discuss his plans for local TV with you, as well … [Read more…]
The Eastern Electronic Festival is a new six day festival, taking place from 28 February – 5 March, featuring music, film screenings, art exhibitions, panel debates and world premieres of visual-artworks. The festival will celebrate progressive Asian music and multimedia art, spreading itself across the city, with events taking place at venues including The Custard … [Read more…]
This morning I attended a meeting about the BBC Big Screen ‘Live Sites’. The idea was that we’d have an opportunity to discuss with Arts Council and the gathered digital, media and cultural organisations how to use Birmingham’s Big Screen – currently situated in Victoria Square – in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games. … [Read more…]
Throughout February, Birmingham Central Library are hosting an exhibition on Gypsy Roma Travellers, featuring a series of poster artwork. The exhibition will feature the work of Albanian Roma artist, Ferdinand Koci, along with posters exploring the Romany language and flag, Gypsy Remedies and the Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor poster, plus a series of posters on … [Read more…]
From an interview with Earth (who’ve played Supersonic) on Pitchfork. Talking about Black Sabbath: Pitchfork: Have you ever had any kind of personal interaction with any of the Sabbath people? Dylan Carlson, Earth: No. Sabbath is from Birmingham, England and Tony Iommi supposedly came to a festival we played there once, but I didn’t actually … [Read more…]
Robots Creative do digital video production and post production. I first came across them when I saw they’d signed up to Jobplot – I remember thinking “huh, nice logo” or something equally profound. Anyway, for reasons that completely escape me now, I followed a link to a video on co-founder Mat Cooper’s Vimeo account the … [Read more…]
Over the next month, Grand Union have a programme of Live Acts and Sound lined up, which kicks off this Friday, 4 Feb, with performance artist Tom Marshman. He’ll be performing ‘The Passion of the Pole’, a controversial piece which confronts taboos of mental disorders and religion. Clinging to a dancing pole, a sentimental character … [Read more…]