These are a series of short films (each around the 30 second mark) produced by the Eccentric City folks to celebrate their third year. There will be 24 in total, the first four are up on the Eccentric City YouTube account and also here: Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 3: Episode 4: Stay tuned for … [Read more…]
Comedy escapes CiB’s notice most of the time so here goes a mention of the Birmingham Comedy Festival 2008, featuring an impressive list of talent, including the Edinburgh Festival’s newly crowned Perrier (or whatever) Award Winner, David O’Doherty. Holding up Birmingham’s end are drag duo Patrick and Bernadine (Solihull Arts Complex, 4 Oct) and a … [Read more…]
Thanks to Peter Bacon for emailing me about this – the Cobweb Collective is “a voluntary organisation promoting innovative live improvised music in Birmingham” and they have a website that I rather like: They put on regular live events and also put out a monthly podcast called the Cobcast (downloads coming soon). They’ve also made … [Read more…]
<a href=”http://vtsc.info/en/publication/” mce_href=”http://vtsc.info/en/publication/”>optical communications</a>Capsule are after folks to volunteer their time to put together a ‘people’s archive’ celebrating Birmingham and the West Mids as the home of heavy metal: I spoke to Jenny from Capsule about this last week and she made the point that discussions about the Birmingham music scene (or lack of) tend … [Read more…]
Digbeth Is Good – ACE dance and music’s classes “ACE dance and music’s classes for all ages resume in September. All are based at their studio on Floodgate Street.” Nicky points to the details Donald Savage Says….: Final announcement before disappearing on 28th August 2008 “Blog formally disappeared on the 28th August 2008. Birmingham in … [Read more…]
Should you be looking for an affordable art market to visit, it just so happens the second LTD Edition of the year will be back at the Custard Factory on Sunday 31 August along with the Sunday Flea. This here is by Trav Art who will be there with some prints and t-shirts:
The Metro’s West Midlands Life blog (fresh from giving Artsfest a rather unnecessary shoeing) have reminded me of the Outer Sight film nights at The Edge that I mentioned a while back and completely forgot to follow up on. The next one is apparently on Saturday and: the very vague theme is ‘French Fancies & … [Read more…]
and so the beginning of our benevolent colonial rule of Birmingham began A passing mention on 7 Inch Cinema’s latest blog post (they’re just back from Tilda Swinton’s Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams) led me to this – an episode of Rex The Runt where Rex wins the city of Birmingham: