Coming up from the Storytelling Café

From the Traditional Arts Team. Here are their Birmingham storytelling events for December: Wednesday 3 December, 8pm BIRMINGHAM STORYTELLING SESSION Upstairs at The Bull’s Head, St Mary’s Row, Birmingham B13 8HW http://www.tradartsteam.co.uk/storytelling/bhamsession.htm Thursday 4 December, 8pm BIRMINGHAM TRADITIONAL SONG SESSION Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham 14 www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song Wednesday 17 December, 7:30pm BIRMINGHAM … [Read more…]

The Theatre Lab pantomime session

Taken (wholesale) from the Arts Council’s ‘Arts News’ email. A venue doesn’t seem to have been set but it should be somewhere around Birmingham. The Theatre Lab is a place where theatre practitioners can experiment, and try new things, that perhaps they haven’t had the opportunity to practice in their day-to-day work. Each theatre lab … [Read more…]

Free tunes from Zang Productions

Zang Productions are a new one to me. They are: Birmingham based indie label promoting hip-hoppers The Custodians and Barrowclough, singer/song-writers Bethan Marshall and Selina Blakeney, and electronic-folk rappers Greybeard, Benjamin Blower and University of the King Actually, Barrowclough will be supporting Public Enemy at the Custard Factory tomorrow (Wednesday 3 Dec). Anywho, the reason … [Read more…]

Birmingham arts funding

At the kratesitwards (as some are calling them) on Saturday, Coun Neville Summerfield bigged up some of the support initiatives for creative types in Birmingham: Creative Birmingham – pulling together key public agencies investing in the creative industries Design Space – accommodates and finances new design agencies in the Jewellery Quarter SRB6 Creative Industries – … [Read more…]

Links for December 2nd

Podcasts | Friends of the Stars “Semi-regular podcasts created by Birmingham country/folk band Friends of the Stars. The podcasts, which also feature music, revolve around disucssions held between band members and ‘Executive Producer Robson’, a friend of the band with a tenuous, undefined role in the creation of the band’s musical output. The podcasts contain … [Read more…]

Dice Productions featured on YouTube

Someone in YouTube-land is a Dice Productions fan. A couple of weeks ago their ‘Don’t Touch‘ short featured on the YouTube UK homepage, sending views of that animation rocketing up. Now the trailer for their new piece ‘All Consuming Love (Man In a Cat)’ has been featured on the global YouTube homepage. That’s pretty impressive … [Read more…]

Thoughts on the Creative City Awards 2008

And the winners are: Digital Native Academy Ltd – The Regional Outstanding Business Development Award Electric Cinema (vid via Pete Ashton) – The Birmingham Outstanding Business Development Award LHM Media – Innovation Award Fierce Earth Ltd (vid via Pete Ashton) – Outstanding Market Development Award (with a Special Commendation Award in the same category presented … [Read more…]