Two shows will be opening on Friday 5 December at Eastside Projects: One-Day-Comic by Henrik Schrat (with special guests – a.a.s, Access Local, Asia Alfasi, Simon & Tom Bloor, Celine Condorelli, Hans Christian Dany, Shezad Dawood, Stefan Heidenreich, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Plastique Fantastique and Olav Westphalen) Feature: Architecture by Shezad Dawood There’ll be … [Read more…]
Birmingham’s Amnesty International group is putting on an event with Writers Without Borders called Rights Without Borders. It’s on Saturday 6 Dec from 7.30pm at the Library Theatre and entry is free.
Prime Objective Blog :: Victor Man Documentary For the Ikon’s latest show Chris Keenan spent a few days “filming the installation down at Ikon and discussing Victor’s work with curator Nigel Prince. The edited video is now live on the Ikon site to aid a greater understanding of the work” I like this sort of … [Read more…]
There seems to be a few jewellery-related things on at the moment. Brilliantly Birmingham is ongoing until 21 December (although it’s a little hard to tell what’s happening and where from the website) and now there’s a new website for BCU’s School of Jewellery. It looks like this: Couple of things: the RSS feed for … [Read more…]
Made in Moseley is a joint Moseley CDT and Media Content Lab project: to promote and support artists and designer-makers based in and around the Moseley area of Birmingham, the Made in Moseley Shop allows members to sell their products online via a shared shop front
Britglyph is “a collaborative public art project across Great Britain”. The idea is you find a spot on the map near you, take a stone there, take a photo of yourself with that stone and submit it (the photo) to the site. There’s a marker just near Five Ways if you want to get involved … [Read more…]
Jon Bounds of Birmingham: it’s Not Shit gives his thoughts on the Creative Director issue. Please give it a read.
As Nicky Digbeth says: I’ve been thinking ‘bloody hell, the Custard Factory’s busier than usual’. I suspect it’s not, it’s just that all the great stuff going on there is now getting posted on the blog. At the risk of labouring the oft-repeated point, blogging can help get you noticed. Anyway, hot on the heels … [Read more…]