The Art of Ideas is three events taking place in Birmingham this week. I’m going to attempt to gather the various online responses in this post. As usual, send me links or add them in the comments. Ruth Ward has set up an Arts of Ideas blog gathering together all the material associated with the … [Read more…]
7inch Cinema April listings Their stuff plus a load of related activities and the like in the region. Invaluable. (tags: 7inch listings whatson) 383news – Diffusion PR Launches John 383 walks through what they did (tags: 383 design internet) Wechtie’s blog: Coming up… A mini-guide to this week with a dance / theatre bent. (tags: … [Read more…]
As part of a possibly series on overlooked musical scenes in Birmingham Wechtie’s looking at Broken Beat: Whilst the scene is dominated by artists and labels from West London, Birmingham has always had a particular and important place in the genre. There are a number of Birmingham artists, DJs and promoters who are major players … [Read more…]
Part of New Generation Arts this year is a game to be played across the city using online tech but also with a hands on arts’n’craft angle. It’s been devised by Nikki Pugh along with a bunch of other souls and having been in the preliminary ideas-bashing stage I have high hopes for this being … [Read more…]
JamFactory aka Gavin Strange is a brilliant designer from Bristol, but he’s launching his new vinyl toy collection, Droplet, here in Brum which gives me a good excuse to write about him here! I first discovered JamFactory on Flickr, I think after one of his ‘Free Art Friday‘ pics showed up in Flickr’s interesting pages … [Read more…]
If you’re under 30 and doing creative stuff go enter for the 4Talent awards. You’ve got until August so no big rush. Birmingham connection? They’re run by the 4Talent team at Maverick.
Twitter is a service that’s getting a fair bit of traction in Brum right now. Like most of these things it’s as useful as you find it to be so don’t feel you’re “doing it wrong” if you don’t get it, but I’m finding it rather invaluable so you might too. It’s a combination of … [Read more…]
A meetup of people who blog in Birmingham took place last night. It went rather well I thought. I’m keeping a roundup running on my blog, collective memory style, of links to stuff that’s come out of it including a video of the “unpanel” discussion. Many cool ideas and plans came out of the evening … [Read more…]