This is an exciting one. I was hanging around the National Theatre on Sunday and picked up a brochure for the outdoors stuff they’re doing over the summer. There was some really good stuff lined up. Now, in a pleasingly similar vein, an email about the Hippodrome’s Six Summer Saturdays programme (website coming soon) has … [Read more…]
This launches at 1pm today over at the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery with a talk and music from Digby Fairweather [insert joke about weather remaining fair here]. From Peter Williams: a powerful exhibition of portraiture that features nu-generation playas like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside legends like Don … [Read more…]
In honour of the fact that Birmingham didn’t tick as many arbitrary boxes as another city in some popularity contest or other (but srsly – congratulations Derry/Londonderry), here’s a picture to lift the spirits: Now that’s culture. (Via @Robintheoffice)
Tonight on the One Show (7pm BBC, although it’ll inevitably be kept back until 7.29pm) we get to find out whether Birmingham gets to call itself City of Culture in 2013. The Daily Mail has already called it for Londonderry (you’ll have to excuse the lack of link to that one) but we won’t know … [Read more…]
Jon Bounds has seen the actual thing.
This is one for the promoters out there. And for anyone who gripes about not being able to find out what’s going on in this fair city (that’ll be most people then). Ian Ravenscroft has a new blog and has used is to voice his annoyance at the lack of places available for trumpeting stuff … [Read more…]
Off The Cuff is a new festival happening at The Flapper from 23 to 25 July. (Spotted via Blue Whale Blog)
NB – There’s no conclusions drawn at the end of this post – I’m just linking a bunch of vaguely related stuff together. Daden, the serious games people, have put a list of potential student projects online. Daden’s David Burden explains: In meetings with Universities the topic would often turn to ideas for student projects. We’d … [Read more…]