Job listing for Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum: Call for Proposals (The Event) Good to hear this is happening again, I liked the last one. “Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is pleased to announce it is currently seeking projects from artists and curators in the UK for inclusion in The Event 2011, to take place 21 – … [Read more…]
I only managed to turn up for a few hours of last year’s BE Festival but, for the atmosphere as much as the work presented, I thought it was great (my write up’s here). so it’s good to see that it’ll be back this year from Tuesday 5 to Sunday 10 July. This time, as well as … [Read more…]
I didn’t make any new year resolutions, but if I did ‘go to more theatre in 2011’ might have been on there. On Saturday I ticked that box good n hard, clocking up the Rep, the Hippodrome and the Old Rep before 5pm. The Rep – The Final Curtain The Rep’s closing for a couple … [Read more…]
(photo by Pete Ashton) I saw Birmingham Opera Company’s staging of Stravinsky’s The Wedding on Friday night – the dress rehearsal, to be precise. Claire Ferrell has commented on our previous post to say: I attended this last night, the performance was absolutely incredible. I am a huge fan of Birmingham Opera Company, they blow me away … [Read more…]
AE Harris, a lovely venue that I’ve seen put to all manner of uses over the past couple of years, is staying open for another two years. That’s good news.
On Saturday night I took a couple of (out of town) friends to AE Harris for the Birmingham European Theatre Festival. We turned up a bit late so only managed to catch the last piece – one which would’ve been a fantastic spoof on art student theatre if it wasn’t for the fact they were … [Read more…]
Applications are now open to companies across Europe for the first ever BE Festival, which will take place over four days: 30 June – 3 July 2010 The venue will be A E Harris where, as Stan’s Cafe point out, a fundraiser will be held for this event: Temple Theatre are going to be performing … [Read more…]
Thursdays have been pretty stuffed with lots of good activities recently but there’s a biggie going on tonight over at AE Harris. Fierce are hosting the Fierce Start Party with all sorts of things going on. 3-9pm – food, installation, performance 7pm – words 9pm-late – post-party with music What, you may be asking, is … [Read more…]