Speakeasy is be a get-together for West Mids theatre folk hosted by The Drum and in association with The Rep. It’s on Monday 7 June. Alison Gagen from ACE West Mids and Tyrone Huggins who the chairs the Sustained Theatre West Midlands Hub (which I’d not come across before) will be there. The general format … [Read more…]
Digbeth is Good, We Are Eastside and Creative Boom have already mentioned the Fight The Power exhibition that opened the BASS Festival the other day. Here’s a link to the opening speech and here’s a video of Ammo Talwar walking round and explaining the exhibition: It’s at the Zellig Gallery (Custard Factory) until 26 June. … [Read more…]
Black International Film Festival Call for Entries – 2010 “The Birmingham Black International Film Festival (BIF FESTIVAL) is calling for all film submissions for this year’s festival, due to take place in Birmingham, UK, 25th Oct – 31st Oct 2010” Life in Flashback: TBB #2 is Here! “The latest issue of Birmingham’s premier collage-based magazine … [Read more…]
Birmingham (at Grand Union and The Lombard Method), to be exact) 11-12 June: Manchester (specifically, at Rogue Studios) 5-6 June:
There are two parts to this one: A debate on Thurs 3 June An installation by Raycho Stanev from 3-19 June Both at Friction Arts’ The Edge. Having seen mentions of this all over the place I’m guessing it’s going to be reasonably popular, which is good. Nicky Digbeth gives the info: The Great Excursion … [Read more…]
Intercultural Dialogues is at the MAC on 7 June. Tickets are £6 (£4 concessions).
Two new things (to me, at least) gleaned from the arts bit of the BCC website. First up, Verbalise which culminates in a performance on Thurs 3 June: A celebration of young people’s written and spoken words. Verbalise showcases the talents of Birmingham’s emerging spoken word artists and performance poets, kicking off with a series … [Read more…]
James Tate has been practising with timelapse photography around Birmingham: Marketing Birmingham have a new vid for selling the city. It was put together by Fullrange and, among others, features Birmingham Royal Ballet, Clusta and Made Media