Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: October 2009 I should’ve linked to this earlier in the month but there’s plenty of recommendations left The Electric’s Children’s Cinema Club Screen WM has the listings for this month’s kiddies club at the Electric with films and creative workshops Shop « Polarbear, spoken … [Read more…]
A couple of music-related things came out over the weekend both adding up to paint a less than rosy picture of Birmingham’s current live music scene. The Interactive Cultures team at BCU have launched MusicAsCulture.org – a place to discuss the idea that ‘music is not just commerce’. It’s not an exclusively local thing, but … [Read more…]
I’m still getting up to speed on what’s happening around town but thought it’d make sense to go through some of the main sources of arts/culture/ents info out there. Next up: listings websites. There are loads of em and theoretically they should all have the same information on them. Here’s the ones I know of: … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group kick off their new season on Friday 16 October with two concerts in one. It’ll start at 6.30pm with a ‘Spotlight on Matthew Sergeant’ and is followed at 7.30pm by a programme featuring premieres of a couple of BCMG’s ‘Sound Investment‘ commissions. Matthew Sergeant is/was Apprentice Composer-in-Residence at BCMG and … [Read more…]
Sing! Right Up Your Street is: a week long celebration of the adult choirs and singing groups in the West Midlands Region. Choirs across the region will be opening the doors to their rehearsals and welcoming new members as well as in some cases streaming their rehearsals live on the internet It’s part of the … [Read more…]
I’ve been seeing flyers for Clickity Clackity Anarchy all over the place, so someone’s doing a good job of promoting it: It’s on at BIAD on Margaret Street from 12 to 22 October. More info on More Canals and the Clickety… Facebook Page.
Bollywood Steps An outdoor dance spectacular that’s part of Birmingham Town Hall‘s 175th birthday celebrations. They’re hoping for up to have had up to 12,000 people take part. It’s being performed on Friday 9 October at 8pm and Saturday 10 October at 3pm and 8pm – and you can learn the steps half an hour … [Read more…]
Matt from Smile Creative Consultants put together this photo-montage. He says: We all said how cool it would be to get on top of the tower for a 360 degree joiner of the Birmingham skyline. Does anybody know if it is possible to get up there, and if so, who to contact? If you do, … [Read more…]