More bad jobs news. Channel 4 have announed that the 4Talent Networks teams, including those at the Birmingham hub, ‘won’t be around‘ in 2009. We’re told that: under new management channel4.com/4talent will at least continue but whether they can maintain the impeccable standards set by Nick Carson, Helen Byrne and Catherine Bray is another matter.
This is the CiB mantelpiece and here are some cards: Boxer Design Supercool Clusta Audiences Central Fused (click for mixtape) Substrakt S&X Creative Republic Creative Republic – Christmas 2009 from Created in Birmingham on Vimeo. Fierce Made Media Aston Villa Capsule Creative Alliance Advent calendars 383 Project Birmingham: it’s Not Shit Presents Birmingham Jazz – … [Read more…]
Thanks to Amy (aka Sister 45 of Mama Feel Good fame) for kicking me in the direction of Birmingham’s cycling culture. Spinwell is a blog dedicated to fixed wheel/single speed cycling, the writer is Blacksmile and he covers the scene’s bikes, fashion, art and all that sort of goodness. It’s also worth mentioning Fix Up … [Read more…]
Creative Republic’s masterclass with Michael Wolff happened a few weeks ago – here’s a video of what happened: Also, if you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the Creative Republic Christmas bash at Kerrang Radio, starting at 6.30pm.
New ‘Creative’ guide launched for West Midlands entrepreneurs I can’t find a copy but it looks like it could be a blimmin interesting/useful document to get your mitts on. Can anyone find this online? Young People Arts Project: New Project Opportunity – Audiences Central “Audiences Central, with arts consultant Kerry Endsor, is looking to develop … [Read more…]
David Rowan‘s new website has cropped up on a fair few blogs recently and with good reason. It’s real purty, with a stack of great photography on it and is dead clever to boot. David is a photographer at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and also lectures, consults and does bits of art design and … [Read more…]
Birmingham Jazz and Birmingham Town Hall‘s resonance events are well worth catching when they’re on. The last one was in October and featured the Heritage Orchestra and Lizzy Parks among others. A vid’s just gone up on YouTube with a couple of interviews that captures things really rather well.
Wrote Under (“Birmingham’s only non-for-profit multimedia publishing co-operative”) have a couple more events to trumpet. First up, on Sunday 14 Dec from 3pm til late they’ve got their ‘anything goes’ open mic night at The Adam And Eve in Digbeth. Expect music, spoken word, comedy… pretty much anything of that ilk. Then every other Friday … [Read more…]