Punch Records are running a series of seminars that will be held at the Symphony Hall once a month from 28 January to 28 April. The topics and speakers are: Women In The Arts – speakers include Sarah Love (MTV and BBC 1XTRA), Sacha Brookes (Galaxy), Reena Combo (Editor, Lifestyle) and Justice Williams Live Performance … [Read more…]
Vote for Created in Birmingham (another shameless plea) If you’ve not yet voted, please do. If you have voted please vote again (you can vote DAILY until Tues 13 Jan) Birmingham Photospace: Choose a Photographer Birmingham Photospace, the people looking to establish a permanent photo gallery in Birmingham, are asking which photographer you’d like to … [Read more…]
Thanks to D’log for pointing out the Birmingham connections to two of the designs featured in the Royal Mail’s British Design Classics (PDF) set of stamps. The Supermarine Spitfire, designed by RJ Mitchell, was produced in Castle Bromwich. The Mini was first produced at Longbridge in 1959. (Reminder – vote for Created in Birmingham DAILY … [Read more…]
A little while back Fullrange Films gave Nicky Getgood a Flip camera on the condition that she use it to document Digbeth, as is generally her wont on Digbeth is Good. The first one she did was the Richard Trengrouse Tour of historical Digbeth. Next up was Ben Waddington’s Digbeth Type and Architecture Tour, the … [Read more…]
The Ikon Gallery is running family workshops over the half-term holiday on 17 and 19 Feb from 2-4pm. That’s in addition to the regular ones they’re running on 7 Feb and 7 March from 2-5pm. Places are free but need to be reserved in advance. The themes for (and links to) these workshops are: 7 … [Read more…]
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Please click the pic and vote for Created in Birmingham. There’s no registration required and it’ll take two seconds, tops. You can vote once a day. Someone has kindly nominated Created in Birmingham for the award of Best UK Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. It’s a public vote and we’re up against a few … [Read more…]
230 Miles of Love is an interesting project – a series of sat-nav triggered comedy sketches that are triggered as you drive along the M6. It’s been put out to publicise the charity Motivation. You can download the audio from the website and play it via a Garmin or TomTom satnav thingy or a GPS-enabled … [Read more…]