A Crafty Beer is a monthly social meet-up devoted to all things craft. If you’re into oil painting, drawing, sewing, knitting, cross-stitching, or jewellery making, or just fancy being inspired over a pint, you can pop into The Victoria pub on Wednesday 27th January, 7pm-11pm. In honour of the New Year this month ‘A Crafty … [Read more…]
I was having a flick around the Big City Blank Canvas website last night – that’s the website to support the City of Culture bid. Since I last checked in the’ve added to the list of ‘advocates’ for the bid. My eye was drawn to the profile for Apache Indian – he’s one of the … [Read more…]
Arts Council England has opened a consultation on the priorities for the arts over the coming decade. They want your views to help form a 10-year strategic framework with long-term goals for each artform and find new ways to help those they fund already. Alan Davey, chief executive of Arts Council England, has this to … [Read more…]
Fancy coming and watching a film? On Thurs 28 Jan The Bullring are showing a few feelgood films at The Electric and we’ve been invited to ask folks along to the later showing. There are 120 free seats available for Amelie at 7.15pm with some food and refreshments thrown in too. If you’d like to … [Read more…]
A new work by seminal filmmaker John Akomfrah will go on show at The Public January 2010 as part of Made in England, a partnership initiative developed by Arts Council England and BBC English Regions. Akomfrah was given access to the BBC’s television, film and sound archives for Made in England, a project that reflects … [Read more…]
BBC iPlayer – The Politics Show West Midlands: 17/01/2010 Birmingham’s City of Culture bid gets profiled at 46 mins 20s Poetry Workshop with Roz Goddard On 6 Feb, promising that “This workshop will look at ways we can re-seed the ground we love to produce fresh, exciting poems. You will look at startling beginnings, expressing … [Read more…]
Photographer Jak Flash is embarking on a project to re-illustrate the 22 Major Arcana tarot cards as photographic images for exhibition. Jak explains a little more on his website: My next project, based around the imagery of the 22 major Arcana Tarot cards, is funded by Birmingham City Council and supported by Birmingham City University … [Read more…]
Jane Anderson is a contemporary visual artist who creates digital portraits and fine art. Her ‘About Page‘ gives some more detail: Jane Anderson is a multi-skilled artist specialising in the production of original, cutting-edge, contemporary art for modern spaces. Working in paint, pencil and digital media, Jane skilfully draws and paints what she sees around … [Read more…]