This weekend is Birmingham first BIRMINGHAM WEEKENDER festival across the city centre. My highlights include: Putty (featured image), a series of installations adding a splash of colour to unusual locations across the city centre. Featured on the trail are Paige Smith’s Geodes and Jan Vormann’s Dispatchwork series (LEGO!) There’s a map available, so you can follow the trail and find … [Read more…]
Tonight (Thursday 24th September) is the launch of Vivid Project’s second instalment of 9 EVENINGS, a series of interdisciplinary events inspired by ‘9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering’. Established in 1966, 9 Evenings was the first large-scale collaboration between artists, engineers and scientists. Tonight’s event is a screening of Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score, a movement piece that was performed as … [Read more…]
mac birmingham is proud to announce the launch of Forge, a new culture magazine developed by The Icing Agency – a team of young arts marketers from mac‘s Next Gen Creative Agency project. Highlighting the work of creative young people across West Midlands region, Forge will feature a variety of content from a variety of artistic … [Read more…]
Made You Look from Badego on Vimeo. “As creatives we’re not only interested in our own craft, but what others do and how we can collaborate with them. Great things happen when people from different disciplines come together and that’s what Badego is all about. On the 30th of September we invite you to sit … [Read more…]
In:Site, organised by Craftspace, returns to Birmingham Cathedral Square (a.k.a Pigeon Park) this week. A festival of graduate creativity, selected artists will be working in the square, transforming the space with a programme of craft interventions inspired by the Cathedral’s tercentenary celebrations. Over the week, each graduate has a day to make a creative intervention. … [Read more…]
“If you have muso facebook friends and you live in Brum, you’ve probably seen Lewes Herriot‘s work. Lewes is a man of multiple talents, which he cheerfully and resolutely refuses to shout about. As well as playing in a pretty damn successful band and having an exhibition throughout August at Birmingham’s Digbeth Warehouse Cafe, Lewes … [Read more…]
This flyer caught my eye last week: A LINE DRAWN FROM THE EYE TO THE SUMMIT “An exhibition bringing to a close the 2015 academic year for artists on the Arts-based Masters. The exhibition will take over the beautiful School of Art building and will showcase an array of emerging artists and art-based practitioners. Exhibition … [Read more…]
Back for a fifth year, Scalarama is an international celebration of cinema taking place during September. For 2015 there are more events than ever in Birmingham. Highlights include: Live text and sound mash-ups at Vivid Projects with Repeator – Material World. A chance to see the Birmingham Camera Obscura in action. The Purple Rose of … [Read more…]