Arts Forum Selly Oak have announced dates for some of Art SOAK festival‘s rescheduled workshops, which had been postponed from their March festival (you may remember it was a particularly snowy weekend.) Art SOAK Revisited is taking place across weekends in May/June, and more information is on the flyer below, and on the Arts Forum … [Read more…]
Earlier this year, we wrote about the Birmingham Architecture Festival taking place across Birmingham in May. They have recently launched a kickstarter to help fund their efforts, and at the time of writing they are half way to reaching their target of £1250. “The Birmingham Architecture Festival is a welcome addition to Birmingham’s burgeoning independent festival … [Read more…]
ARTifex Young Jewellery Designer Awards is run by the directors of ARTifex Gallery in Sutton Coldfield; Ross Fenn and Nigel Bates. The competition is open to young jewellery designers from, or studying, in the Midlands aged 18 – 25 and to enter you must design and produce a unique piece/pieces of jewellery! Click here to … [Read more…]
Capsule have two call outs for artists to produce exciting work for the Library of Birmingham opening season. We are looking for artists/organisations to take on week long residencies within an exciting space designed by Studio Myerscough, and we will also commission an artist/illustrator to create new work to sit in the new Children’s Library. The deadline for both opportunities is … [Read more…]
Patrick Staff: A Factory As It Might Be is the current exhibition at the International Project Space at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design’s School of Art in Bournville. For those who don’t know about International Project Space: International Project Space (IPS) is a non-profit contemporary arts organisation situated on the Bournville campus of the … [Read more…]
The Brum Diary is a rather nice tumblr I came across last week via PROVIDE. Not much information on it, apart from “A photographic journal of my life as a scenic carpenter in Brumton”
A few Friday links… it’s quite a big round-up, so grab a cup of tea and have a good sift through. News: MITTWOCH AUS LICHT by Stockhausen, a commission for the London 2012 Festival, produced by Birmingham Opera Company last August in a disused Digbeth factory has been shortlisted for the two top awards in the … [Read more…]
Two Snowhill is the latest addition to Birmingham’s skyline and from the 12th April to 21st April it will play home to ‘Of All The People In All The World’. This award-winning show from Birmingham based theatre company Stan’s Cafe has been viewed in 50 different cities around the world and is returning home for its … [Read more…]