Kinda charming this is: From 12 – 30 August, Ikon is running a tailor shop in the old Salvation Army charity shop, 3 New Street, Erdington. Led by creative facilitator Jess Worley and local members of the Erdington Arts Forum, the shop will be making small fabric whales designed by pupils from Erdington Hall Primary … [Read more…]
Jibbering Art‘s next exhibition will focus on Newso who will be: using this exhibition to bridge the gap between his alter-modern abstract, studio based paintings and his crisp spray paintings, that he creates on the streets of Birmingham Newso won Secret Wars Birmingham at The Rainbow back in March, as covered on the Monorex blog … [Read more…]
Mark at Surely has posted up the new promo for The Destroyers – the riotous, Birmingham-based, 15 piece genre-botherers – on the Surely blog: Directed by John Humphreys and shot by Prime Chris in the late hours of a friday night in May, the merry band bring the dawn in atop a multi story with … [Read more…]
The Flip Animation Festival is on from 6-8 November (Thurs to Sat) at the Light House in Wolverhampton. This year the festival will feature the C-Games Conference, a Drawing in the Digital Age symposium, an afternoon of animated Doctor Who and various screenings, talks and so on. The website’s just coming together but the peeps … [Read more…]
Music Network meeting Thursday 31 July 4pm at The TIC “The Birmingham branch of Musicians Union will be supplying luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks lot too. Come and talk about what you’re up to and meet some new people” Rosie Kay Dance … [Read more…]
Exciting news on the Rhubarb Radio front is best summed up by this photo: This is in the Custard Factory unit just opposite reception. From taking the keys on Monday to getting a makeshift studio installed yesterday, things are moving quickly. The Rhubarb Radio blog has more details but reports that: we’re waiting the IT … [Read more…]
As you may have heard, Project X‘s last event was due to take place at the Que Club in June but was cancelled because the venue couldn’t accommodate the collective’s rather particular needs. As such they were forced to forego funding from a tie-in with the New Generation Arts Festival. That was the bad news. … [Read more…]
At the recent Flummoxed event (part of the Fluxus season) Trevor Woolery gave out flipbooks for people to doodle their own quick flicks on. The results of which can be seen here: Flummoxed Flipbook Workshop part 1 from Lonomi Productions on Vimeo. Thanks to 7 Inch Cinema for the tip-off.