This Thursday their are two very different creative meet-ups happening in the city: The Feb Creative Networks is the 3rd Creative Forum event with special guest speaker Ash Atalla, the writer and producer best known for producing The Office. The Creative Forum bit is usually a series of stands from organisations like Business Link and … [Read more…]
Being the editor of CiB comes with certain privileges, one of them being the opportunity to give your other projects a cheeky plug. As you may know I co-run Colour live music events, and we are putting on our first ever Birmingham gig at The Victoria next Tuesday. The evening will feature music from 3 … [Read more…]
Girls who Draw is an international group of female artists and illustrators, including 3 of Birmingham’s finest: Jane Anderson, Sarah Ray and Karoline Rerrie. For those of you who are planning a trip down to London town before 3 March I urge you to check out the ‘MISFITS AND MISCELLANY’ exhibition at The Exposure Gallery. … [Read more…]
With all this rubbish weather hanging around over the last few weeks it has been too tempting to hide indoors on a Sunday and stay warm. Here is a few exhibitions on around the West Mids, are free to the public and are open on a Sunday. Go on! Put on your favourite woolly jumper, … [Read more…]
Twice Oscar-nominated film director Mike Figgis will be coming to Birmingham on 12 March as the latest speaker in the Boilerhouse Voices series of events staged by Jewellery Quarter based communications consultancy Boilerhouse. Figgis will address an invited audience of Boilerhouse guests, but a limited number of tickets will be available to creative industries professionals … [Read more…]
The Capsule ladies have another big year ahead of them. After receiving huge national success with the Home of Metal project last year they are now in the planning stages of what will be the 7th Supersonic Festival. Here is the line up:
The next Animation Forum WM event will be Shorts on Walls as part of Flatpack Festival. The event starts at 6.30pm, Saturday 14th March 2009 at The Victoria pub. As with previous ‘…on Walls’ events this will be your chance to screen your animated shorts and chat with fellow animators. Entry to the event is … [Read more…]
Many of the local galleries and museums have fun and creative activities for the kids on half term this week: Half Term Family Workshops Following a special gallery tour, families will use a variety of media to creatively explore the themes and ideas within the current exhibitions. 17, 19 February 2 – 4pm Ikon Gallery … [Read more…]