Bit late on this one, but I’d like to send some sincere thanks to the new CiB Supporters who are helping to keep this website going (and the shop, for that matter): Bareface Media As well as helping to support us, those people are also taking advantage of one of the cheapest advertising deals in … [Read more…]
Election debate for creative industries – 20 April at the Hippodrome Ed Vaizey (Con), Sion Simon (Lab) and Marc Reeves (thebusinessdesk.com) talk creative. Spoiler – it’s really, really important but cuts are going to have be made. Might be fun to ask Sion about the Digital Economy Act if you’ve been following that “Look you … [Read more…]
There’ something poignant about Record Store Day coming round on 17 April with two of Birmingham’s independent record shops about to call it a day. With Tempest and Swordfish on the way out the only ones left vaguely near the city centre (that I know of) are Hard To Find Records and The Diskery. Oh, … [Read more…]
Yesterday we had Shady Bard playing in the Created in Birmingham shop. Here’s 26 minutes of their set (before the batteries in my camera ran out…) Matt Murtagh was on hand with his camera. Thanks loads to Shady Bard for turning our shop into a venue for an hour.
Two installations were installed at the CiB Shop yesterday. First off the Art Detection Services set up their workshop and offices in our Strange Little Room At The Back. Here’s head Art Detector Matt Moore hard at work. Matt will be scanning Art that is brought in to test whether it is Good or not. … [Read more…]
Things we learned by hosting Popcorn Comedy – Dice Productions I’m a sucker for this kind of thing. Lessons here from putting on a stand-up comedy/short film night in a pub Six Birmingham nominations for the RPS Music Awards Big ups to BCMG, Oliver Knussen, Andris Nelsons, CBSO’s Igor Fest, Colin Matthews and Birmingham Opera … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post’s Jon Walker spotted the above advert at Westminster tube station and this morning the paper (well, website) is reporting ‘MPs sign Commons motion to back Birmingham City of Culture bid‘. So how’s the bid going? It’s difficult to gauge this. Thing is, we (as in, the people of Birmingham) aren’t going to … [Read more…]
Birmingham Word Cloud | As part of ‘plug in’ – the opening exhibition at the new mac gallery space in Birmingham – we are generating a city word cloud, entirely constructed from words submitted by the general public and associates. You can contribute your keywords (up to 5 please) by emailing Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or via twitter … [Read more…]