The theme of this year’s Plus International Design Festival is ‘Hybrid’. It takes place on 5 to 8 November 2008 and, as the folks at Fused have picked up on, a call has been put out for submissions: The Festival is now seeking exhibitors, speakers and demonstrators to work to the theme of Hybrid, which … [Read more…]
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists‘ current exhibition is called Imaginative Portraits. Running until 30 August, it features A wide range of portraiture by RBSA Members as well as other artists from around the country The winners of the recently launched Biennial Portrait Award will be shown as part of it. The RBSA’s gallery is … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post Power 50 (tremble at their might!) has just been announced. With last year’s list having an impressive showing from the arts world, interest at CiB could almost have been described as ‘mild’. Ok, so it’s easy to be cynical about these things (and it’s open season on the Birmingham Post site – … [Read more…]
I’ve just had an email from Heather at Forerunner Records saying: I’m currently compiling an article for FEED industry magazine about female fronted bands in Birmingham. I’d like to interview (via email) as many female fronted Birmingham bands as possible to feature and maybe review for this article I’m writing. They should contact me at … [Read more…]
Rich Batsford is putting on a few Edinburgh Fringe Festival preview shows at the Old Joint Stock Theatre this week: Tuesday 15 July – Glenn Wool & Carey Marx Thursday 17 July – Zoe Lyons & Scott Capurro Friday 18 July – Reginald D Hunter & Jason Scott I’ve even heard of a couple of … [Read more…]
The Electric Cinema recently completed the final stage of its refurbishment with the opening of a 78 seat second screen which features a High Definition projector. So far film screenings have leant towards the populist with Bladerunner (which I went down to see), The Wizard of Oz and, this coming weekend, The Great Escape. Check … [Read more…]
Not a movement to encourage the growth of facial hair, Beardaid is some new-think from the people behind the Birmingham-based Bearded Magazine. The idea aims to help people working in the independent music industry gain more prominent, nationwide media coverage in the UK and abroad For the price of a pint (£2, kids) a month … [Read more…]
CiB’s frequent flyers may know that 2007’s Supersonic collective memory was a thing of rare beauty, pulling together all sorts of mentions of the festival from across the interwires. This is an attempt at replicating that for Supersonic 2008. [Update, 29 July 2008] I’ve noticed very little new stuff recently so I’m going to stop … [Read more…]