Class Act Drama Centre offers the opportunity to learn drama techniques with professional actors and directors. Classes are open to complete beginners as well as experienced thesps, and even better, tuition fees start from a piddling £2.50 per half hour, which sounds like a bargain to me. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: … [Read more…]
Intimate portrait of contemporary Britain and economic migration revealed in new exhibit at LSE “A major new commission by Birmingham-based photographer Andrew Jackson exploring contemporary Britain and economic migration will be exhibited at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from Monday 11 January” Tuned On music seminars « Punch Records “The seminars … [Read more…]
Kipple is the result of carefully mashing together choice cuts of found VHS footage to produce new, wonderfully odd and generally hilarious films. It’s the work of video mash-up artists Eagle & Feather. Here’s one of my personal favourite Kipple clips, called ‘Tony Robinson’s Running Tales‘: You can find much more Kipple on Eagle & … [Read more…]
Helen Flanagan is a photography student. Her ‘About Page’ says this: Helen Flanagan is currently studying for a BA hons in photography at Falmouth College University. Interested by the human psyche, obscurity and those tender, glorified moments of absence. She’s done some interesting little projects by the looks of her website and blog , including … [Read more…]
Cllr Martin Mullaney has announced the Emerging Festivals Fund – grants of £500 to £4,999 for new niche festivals. Applications have to be in by 4 February, which seems like incredibly short notice for what this is. More details here. Might this be useful to the folks at the recent The Challenge of Change event? … [Read more…]
Sarah Lynch is an illustrator and a member of the Love to Print collective, which is a project handily described on Shoulder to Crayon. You can see some of Sarah’s ornithologically-inspired illustrations and screen prints on her blog.
More music news for Birmingham – hoorah! I heard about The Music Quarter a little while ago and it’s good to see it up and running now. Natalie, the site’s editor, is a BCU student and this, I gather, is to be the focus of her year-long project. Of course, this raises questions about whether/how … [Read more…]
Jade Sukiya is a photographer with an eye for a striking image or two. Here’s her intro: I was born in the mid-eighties to two admirably creative people. Years later that inevitable reality struck as having both my brother and I forced them to get ‘real’ jobs and lead a fairly restricted existence. My story … [Read more…]