Yam Big Richard Richard’s DJing, hacks, collages and write-ups from events Warwick Bar A website for Minerva Works, the small industrial estate in Digbeth currently home to Grand Union Studios, Fazeley Park, Street Print and Clifton Steel Fast Forward – 6.8 million items in our collections! Phew « Museum Network Warwickshire Fast Forward 2010, the … [Read more…]
(Photo is Endeavour Space Shuttle Blastoff by jurvetson) Thankfully Heath Mill Studios have written up 3/4 of it already, so here’s a digest: Digbeth triple launch At 5pm, Heath Mill Studios are opening their doors for the first time and Bay Leaf, a new Bangladeshi restaurant in the Custard Factory, are providing the food – I … [Read more…]
The theme for this year’s BASS Festival (9-25 June, all over Birmingham) is revolution: Through music, dance, spoken word and theatre REVOLUTION will be explored in terms of physical movement, music as a weapon of change and celebrating the creators of radical new music and styles. There’s a press release here which has more info … [Read more…]
The theme for this years BASS Festival is Revolution, exploring physical movement, music as a weapon of change and celebrating the creators of radical new music and styles. Punch are offering between £500 – £3000 through their BASS Commissions fund for artists to create new work in music, dance, spoken word and theatre. Here’s the … [Read more…]
Summer brought with it degree show time of year and also the first Birmingham European Theatre Festival (which I’m pleased to see will be back again this year). Listings started coming out for the HMV Institute too. The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. … [Read more…]
The CiB Shop wound up after three hectic months, with Pete announcing the impending announcing the impending closure. Before that, INKwell popped into the shop for some screen printing, the City of Culture bid got it’s send-off and The Story Exchange popped in. The Created in Birmingham closed its shutters for the last time at the … [Read more…]
That title should perhaps be capitalised, but I’m not sure whether it’s a Proper Thing or just a loose kinda ‘it’s complicated‘ thing*. Anyway, I’ve had an invite to the launch of a publication celebrating the ‘vitality, innovation and diversity’ of this group that comprises: Bass Festival Birmingham Book Festival Birmingham International Jazz and Blues … [Read more…]
Digbeth is Good, We Are Eastside and Creative Boom have already mentioned the Fight The Power exhibition that opened the BASS Festival the other day. Here’s a link to the opening speech and here’s a video of Ammo Talwar walking round and explaining the exhibition: It’s at the Zellig Gallery (Custard Factory) until 26 June. … [Read more…]