Colour is the night run by Cib alumnus Katie Spragg and it returns to The Victoria on Thursday 15 October. Back in February (that long ago) they brought Charlie Parr along – there’s a video of him performing a fantastic version of ‘Cheap Wine‘. This time round they’ve got a Commercially Inviable special starring World … [Read more…]
We Create* “We Create* opened its first shop, on August 1st, based in The Oasis on Corporation Street in Birmingham. The shop incubates 10 local young fashion designer’s and the labels they have developed. The unit also retails designs developed by participants on We Create*’s Fashion Design and its Commercial Development pilot courses” Dominic Crane … [Read more…]
This is nice. Creative Review are doing a thing on creative workplaces for their November issue so they asked their readers Where do you work? with the most interesting reponses to be used in the Nov issue. The Jewellery Quarter-dwelling Life Agency have answered with this.
Tomorrow night (Thursday) I’m taking a wander over to Warwick Arts Centre, as are a couple of Birmingham-based outfits, for It Came From Pilot: Father and son duo, Kings of England perform Where We Live and What We Live For. In 2001 75 year old Peter Bowes had a trans-ischemic attack, a stroke. In this … [Read more…]
Only a couple of days in and there’s already some good (and helpful) chat over on the CiB Facebook Page. I’m planning to use that page’s discussion board when I need to ask questions, rather than cluttering up the blog. For example, we’re currently asking for suggestions as to who it’d be good to go … [Read more…]
It was Tindal Street Press‘s 10th birthday the other week (happy birthday!). They’re a Birmingham-based, independent publisher with one heck of an impressive track record – three Booker nominated books isn’t bad for starters. They’ve just had a couple of books nominated for The People’s Book Prize too: Among Thieves by Mez Packer Box of … [Read more…]
Birmingham Book Festival « More Canals than Venice Birmingham Book Festival takes place from 6th -29th October in various venues across the city. PixieSixer rounds up the highlights RegenWM – Seminar – Culture and regneration, 22 October 2009 “This seminar will explore what culture and sport mean to individuals, communities and cities and how they … [Read more…]
One of the newer kids on the block, Best Believe is the work of Amy Martin – Sister 45 of Mama Feel Good fame. Amy knows more than most about artists’ professional development so there’s a few mentions of that amongst interviews of local creatives (Kate Beatty and Nicole Scribbel so far), curated events listings, … [Read more…]