This weekend it’ll be two years until the Olympics kick off. There’ll be hundreds of events across the country to celebrate this happy fact with a map that looks uncannily like the one below (click it to go to the website) showing what’s going on where. Around these parts there’s: Culture Vulture Family Weekend at … [Read more…]
Producers’ Forum, 21 July at the MAC WIth Suzie Norton, Screen WM CEO, and her Senior Management team delivering a presentation on Screen WM’s 2010-11 strategy and the next phase of support for the West Midlands Film community Animation Forum West Midlands “Submissions for 2010’s Great Animation Challenge are now open”. Use one of the … [Read more…]
A quick but heartfelt thanks to Lucan, Nicola and the other good people at Fazeley Studios who have helped me out big time over the past few weeks, lending some storage room for the furniture from the CiB Shop at ridiculously late notice. Incidentally, we’re out of their now, so if you’re interested in leasing it the … [Read more…]
Headline: Public meeting about the CiBshop – Monday 26th July, 7pm, The Victoria. Register here. Hello, this is Pete with one of my occasional retail-related posts on the CiB blog. It’s been 6 weeks since the Created in Birmingham shop closed. Since then I’ve had some time off to recover and have started thinking about … [Read more…]
As far as I can tell, none of us have ever really mentioned antiques over the span of CiB’s existence. Here’s an end to that: Antiques For Everyone The summer event of the tri-annual antiques fair is at the NEC from 22-25 July 2010. The BPo will have have a free ticket offer in Thursday’s … [Read more…]
The Tayor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 has just gone on show at the New Art Gallery Walsall and will be there until 12 September 2010: The exhibition consists of 60 photographs which were selected from an open submission of 6,312 prints by 2,451 international phtoographers. The judging panel included The New Art Gallery’s Director Stephen … [Read more…]
You’ve got today and tomorrow to get down to Taste of Birmingham in Cannon Hill Park if you’re into foody kinda stuffs. Lots of the fanciest restaurants around the region will be there to tempt you with their wares. They’ll have cooking demos and all sorts of other things too. Also on the foody tip, today … [Read more…]
BMAG are after a freelance artist film maker and a freelance theatre director/writer for a new project called Birmingham – A City in the Making: a series of innovative new history galleries telling the global story of a city and its people which will open in 2012 More info about this (and the jobs) via … [Read more…]