A collaboration between Balsall Heath Local History Society and MACE‘s ‘Full Circle’ Project. Digital Balsall Heath aims to: record the life and times of people living in Balsall Heath and Highgate Flagged up by the Friends of Moseley Road Baths.
A slideshow of pics from the event in Victoria Square a couple of weekends back. Bit gutted I missed this.
iD is a show by Cirque Eloize, a contemporary circus outfit from Montreal that’s coming over to Birmingham Hippodrome from 2-5 November. I met the company back in May and have explained why here. The performers in the show are phenomenal (and nice folks too) so as well as doing interviews and things I tried … [Read more…]
More Hippodrome-backed craziness in the streets of Birmingham this year, from 9 July to 13 August. Giant lobsters, a scary ice cream van and a man with a big red balloon over his head. There’ll be some extra stuff on Fridays this year too. Splendid. I’ve also just learnt that the area outside the Hippodrome is … [Read more…]
Yesterday afternoon I asked Twitter what I should write about next on CiB. I was given four topics and these are they (in reverse order). Digbeth v the JQ (via @EleanorWi) Ooh, good one – the battle of the so called ‘creative quarters’ – this could be fun. I’ve just moved from working in Digbeth … [Read more…]
This month The Producers’ Forum is partnering with Screenwriters Forum and Writing West Midlands to run a speed dating session between writers and producers. 25 May. More info and registration here. Regional organisations getting together to introduce their members to each other is a VERY SENSIBLE THING. It’s actually kinda baffling that this doesn’t happen more … [Read more…]
Is Birmingham a city where it is easy to collaborate with others? I arrived in Birmingham in the summer of 2006, tasked with preparing Town Hall for its anticipated re-opening, due to happen 18 months later at the end of 2007. Although I had lived in the Midlands during my school years, I didn’t really … [Read more…]
From time to time a disgruntled promoter will write something accusing the people of Birmingham of being an apathetic bunch who’d rather stay at home than go out and have a good time. See this post from a year ago for an example. James Cook has joined this cohort with a post titled ‘Why the … [Read more…]