June’s Out Of Hours, the creative sector socialising shindig at the Light House in Wolverhampton, features a look at the work of Sarah Ray, a Birmingham-based illustrator who’ll be introducing her exhibition Good Day. Among many other things she’s been featured by 4Talent magazine (as per the pic) who will also be there to talk … [Read more…]
Planning has started for this year’s Gigbeth festival taking place 6-8 November 2008 and coinciding, as ever, with Music Live at the NEC and the Gigbeth Conference. The website has been launched and, although it’s too early to expect much information to be up there for punters, if you want to perform or volunteer at … [Read more…]
Starting this Sunday, 15 June, and continuing every third Sunday over the summer, Brindley Place is hosting an arts market. A number of local, up and coming artists will be displaying pieces of work at the event. These include Alice Gow, Antony Bridge of Pochade, Ken Hurd and Christopher Collier. They’re keen to grow this … [Read more…]
Falsify is a Birmingham-based freelance illustrator who works under the house name SA3S. He says: I specialise in illo’s for the music and entertainment industries and love everything dark and graphic with a hint of mayhem! Which, from the look of the work showcased on his new site (shop opening soon) means designing some pretty … [Read more…]
Supercool talk BIAD Ex-BIAD students themselves, the Supercool people have been checking out what this year’s Visual Communication graduates will be putting on display. Live Brum: Win tickets to see the CBSO For Carl Davis and the CBSO on Friday 18 July (tickets are worth £62). Closing date is Friday 20 June. Royal Shakespeare Company: … [Read more…]
An interesting an impassioned polemic from James Yarker of Stan’s Cafe appeared on The Birmingham Post’s site the other day, and includes this paragraph: Let’s get to those rooms above pubs, street corners, concert halls, village halls, school halls, libraries, fields and theatres, where real live people are performing for real live audiences and sharing … [Read more…]
Don’t promote your entire programme, promote small batches of events. By all means have a list of everything that’s going on (I’m sure it’s very big and impressive) but don’t go wave it in peoples’ faces too much. Not my idea but that of Anthony Rose from the BBC. His point, made at The Big … [Read more…]
Clusta: Pushing Forward Behance Magazine have some flattering things to say about Clusta. Capsule’s Sonar Showcase More news of Birmingham hitting the international scene – Capsule are taking Birmingham’s ZX Spectrum Orchestra and Pram to Barcelona for a showcase next Thursday. Antonio Roberts at B-VAC Antonio says thanks to everyone who went down to the … [Read more…]