Wrote Under Wrote Under, the open mic night for music, poetry, comedy, stories and such has a blog here. The next event is Sat 22 Nov at The Spotted Dog from 8.30pm Crescent Theatre Blog The Crescent Theatre has a blog. Hoorah! Punch – BASS 09 Commissions “The aim of this year’s theme is celebrate … [Read more…]
I meant to write this up a while back and was reminded by Polarbear appearing on Radio 3’s The Verb (click here to listen again, he’s on at 11mins) the other night. I’ve gone on a bit about how good I think Polarbear (Steve Camden to his mum) is and a few weeks back I … [Read more…]
Positively Red is a festival aimed at confronting the legacy of stigma and prejudice associated with HIV and raising awareness of the condition in Birmingham on and around World Aids Day 2008 There’ll be an exhibition in a unit on the lower level of the Pavillions shopping centre from Saturday 29 Nov which will run … [Read more…]
The mac is slated to re-open in Autumn 2009 when a joint mac/sampad building project will be completed. Artists are being involved in the building work: we have shortlisted nine artists to produce design proposals for pieces that will reflect the many interests and aspects of our arts programmes and audiences. Works may be integrated … [Read more…]
Pogo Jewellery is run by Helen Puxley who studied at: Birmingham School of Jewellery before being accepted onto Design Space in 2007, a Birmingham City Council initiative encouraging young graduate designers to set up within the Quarter. In August 2008 she did just that and now shares a workshop with fellow makers It looks like … [Read more…]
On Wednesday 26 November a free bus will travel between three of the city’s galleries – the Ikon (which will feature Harminder Singh Judge‘s new exhibition), the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the RBSA Gallery. There’ll be free guided tours of the exhibitions. Here’s the bus timetable: On the evening the Ikon Shop will … [Read more…]
Deaffest 2008, the tenth annual deaf-led film and TV festival will be held in Wolverhampton at the Light House 28-30 November. The weekend of festivities will include screenings of films produced by UK and International Deaf filmmakers; Young Deaffest, which showcases work produced by young Deaf filmmakers; and a conference on Opportunities for Deaf Filmmakers, … [Read more…]
Moselely Arts Market will be on from 9am-3pm on Saturday with 40 or so designers, artists and makers. I think it’s somewhere pretty central – not far from Moseley Green. As well as this, the farmers market will be on and there’ll be a chance to find out about the Moseley Exchange in case you’ve … [Read more…]