Birmingham Conservatoire are offering ‘tricks and treats for everyone’ at their Composer’s Platform Halloween Special. If dinner and theatre’s your thing The Kitchen Garden Cafe is offering Fright Bites with Don’t Go into The Cellar Theatre Company. On the filmic side, The Electric are showing Ghostbusters and at the MAC you can see Nosferatu with a live score … [Read more…]
Being a classical musician, I have often found that contemporary music is met with extreme unnecessary prejudice from most audiences, and even from the musicians themselves. However, we have come a long way since Arnold Schoenberg and his band of merry Serialist pranksters. We are lucky to live in city so diverse that there is … [Read more…]
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research are hosting ‘Jazz and the Media‘, in partnership with Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham Jazz on 15 October. The event welcomes three internationally recognised speakers who will be presenting seminars throughout the day. Mike Connolly is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 10 years experience in factual and arts … [Read more…]
Know Your Place “If you are a freelancer, recent graduate or SME then why not come and be inspired at the third Know Your Place event” On 23 August at Zellig. These get good reviews – worth signing up for Ben Javens: Time Out Cover Illustration #2 Nice work by Ben, although Time Out are … [Read more…]
Birmingham Book Festival are having an extra one-day festival on 29 May this year. The line-up of events (shamelessly nicked from their website) looks like this: National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading. Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal. Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The … [Read more…]