Screen WM – The West Midlands to play central role in new film TOAST starring Helena Bonham Carter “The investment means that TOAST, produced by Ruby Films for the BBC, will also be filmed entirely in the West Midlands. A fantastic local story, the film will be shot in and around Birmingham and Wolverhampton, with … [Read more…]
I just read an email pointing out that Creative Playground has changed tack slightly and is now Digital Playground: Digital Playground was created in an attempt to network the digital creative industries within Birmingham The next meet-up is on Friday 25 June at the Spotted Dog in Digbeth. Joining the Meetup group and RSVP-ing would … [Read more…]
This summer Creative Republic is running a project to help raise awareness of the many creative ideas that happen in Birmingham. To nominate your favourite creative concept, project, event, exhibition, individual or company simply register for free and ‘nominate’. Winning nominations will be included in a book, video and a final event at the end … [Read more…]
Tomorrow afternoon at Zellig (the new Custard Factory bit – that name’s still not sitting right with me) there’s an event for creative freelancers called Know Your Place. Those who are well tuned in to this sort of thing will know that a similar thing ran at Fazeley Studios a few months back (I even … [Read more…]
The line-up for the first Birmingham European Theatre Festival (Wed 30 June to Sat 3 July) is now up. I don’t know enough about theatre (European or otherwise) to tell you whether it’s good or not, but really that seems like reason enough to get a ticket. Anyway, I’ve been assured that it is a … [Read more…]
Beth White (of LovLi Design) is putting together an exhibition in the cafe area of The Public in West Brom. The plan is: to produce some really fantastic bunting using over 150 different artists. Each artist can create more that one piece of bunting, but each piece must be completely unique. The final piece will … [Read more…]
Rhubarb Rhubarb are having a busy time of it at the moment with one exhibition closing and another soon to open, a seminar and an International Review. The seminar, Photography Still Moving, is on today down in that London and will look at multimedia storytelling. The International Review, titled Collision: Where Image Worlds Meet, is … [Read more…]