You wouldn’t know it from their own website (or at least I can’t find mention) but on bank holiday Monday, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are offering a rare opportunity to access the fascinating collections in store. This is no ordinary warehouse! It’s an Aladdin’s cave crammed to the rafters with every type of object … [Read more…]
Ikon Eastside opens on 27 May with a party entitled ‘Flip Flop Or Die’ hosted by Soi Project. The party starts at 8pm with DJs, a band and a (pay) bar. The dress code only specifies the footwear required, which I’ll leave you to work out. Soi Project’s installation ‘Island’ will be on show from … [Read more…]
Now this is an impressive line-up of events: Saturday 24th – Tinariwen Sunday 25th – Resonance Events presents The Herbaliser and Chris Read while Mad Flow, DJ Maxwell and Chromatouch provide the local talent. Monday 26th – Capsule & Fierce present a Julian Cope lecture plus a screening of Haxan with live soundtrack. The Saturday … [Read more…]
Two things to report from Jibbering, Moseley’s creative dervishes. Firstly they recently launched an exhibition called The Paper Market which showcases limited edition prints by many of the finest contemporary urban artists, illustrators, designers & photographers from within and around Birmingham. and explores the blossoming movement of incredible art that reflects the vibrant and diverse … [Read more…]
Volume Magazine is a quarterly, London-based arts publication geared toward the promotion of new artists, writers and musicians and they’re doing a special issue for Birmingham. Which is good, is it not? The concept in brief is to create an exhibition space at the stadium in which to display a diverse range of work by … [Read more…]
As it’s copyright infringement day on Created in Birmingham it seems appropriate to mention The Chop Shop – Birmingham-based audio/visual cut-and-paste japesters who cutup loads of tv and film footage and make daft audio and video with the results and describe themselves as the Chuckle Brothers with samplers. Think adverts, political speeches, sitcoms and music … [Read more…]
In March I posted a short post on CrIB about the Surface Unsigned festival. Following questions in the comments I extended this post with some speculation about an item in their terms and conditions. CiB was contacted by someone at Surface demanding the post be removed from the internet citing the printing of an excerpt … [Read more…]
As I was leaving the Electric yesterday having seen the excellent Planet B-Boy I was handed a brochure for this year’s BASS Festival, happening across the East Midlands over June. BASS stands for British Art and Street Sounds and the festival is a Punch Records production in partnership with 2Funky Arts, Hella Music and Baby … [Read more…]