I’ve just had a flick through the programme for the Lichfield Festival (PDF). There’s some good stuff, presided over by a new Festival Director, Fiona Stuart. Names I recognised – Rich Hall, Laura Solon, Jenni Murray, Claire Sweeney, Adrian Edmonson, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Ex Cathedra and Rachel Gillies. Lichfield Festival website.
Formats for Books: Hyphen Press and design publishing is an exhibition at International Project Space, which is at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. Here’s what it’s all about: This exhibition focuses on a fundamental factor in making and publishing books: format. What size should the pages of a book be given? The question … [Read more…]
They are Frilly and they do community arts across the West Midlands. Adrienne and Kirsty established Frilly in order to continue to develop and deliver participatory arts programmes that are driven by participants and where the process of making, experiencing and change is as much a part of the art as whatever is produced They’re … [Read more…]
TROVE’s next exhibition Show of Science presents four artists, including a.a.s., Victoria Jenkins, Lee Stowers and Luke Williams, exhibiting in the Jewellery Quarter’s old science museum. Here’s what TROVE have said about it: All pieces hint at the historic, at first glance there is nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary, though with closer inspection there … [Read more…]
Nidhi Gupta left BIAD last year with an MA in Surface Design. Her ‘Undiscovered Waste’ collection is on show in the window of the Created in Birmingham shop until 3 May: Undiscovered waste is a unique idea based on reusing waste. An Innovative collection where waste meets Indian traditional craft, fused together in such a … [Read more…]
The good news: Screen WM’s 2010/11 Investment Fund opens on Tuesday 4 May 2010 The bad news: Screen WM is also announcing that the UK Film Council has now confirmed a significant reduction of Lottery funding to each of the nine regional screen agencies. They are also reallocating all skills and training funding previously distributed … [Read more…]
Tower of Song Birmingham’s foremost acoustic and roots music venue, it says here. In Cotteridge with lots of events going on First Person: Playwright Nicholas McInerny « Script Online The Chair of Script discussing a recent workshop of his new play STUDIO4 GALLERY: Chris setting up show “Just finished setting up Chris Bourkes Storm in … [Read more…]
I’m disappointed I missed a talk by Birmingham Opera Company‘s Graham Vick at the Barber Institute yesterday lunchtime. I need to keep a closer eye on what happens over there (and maybe, y’know, get round to visiting at some point). Anyway, Ian from 7 Inch Cinema went along and has blogged his notes. Lots of … [Read more…]