The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. Birmingham presented its final bid for the City of Culture and we crossed our fingers. Temper filled the streets with fashion icons. We looked at the trailer for Soulboy and discovered the blog for Reuben Colley Fine Arts.

The Arts Council announced a 0.5% cut in funding to RFO’s. Boo. We found some familiar faces in Synth Eastwood’s video tomfoolery from the Flatpack Festival. Treasured at the MAC looked good.

Bright Space started looking for people to get involved in Platform and I asked ‘Does Birmingham Future interest you?‘ and got a fairly resounding ‘Um, who?’. Theatre folk came together and spoke easy, the newly opened Zellig hosted the Bass Festival’s Fight The Power exhibition and there was talk of verbalising and visualisation.

Creative Republic launched Invisible City and Marketing Birmingham released a new promotional video for the city that featured a host of creative talent.

Birmingham’s leading membership organisation for young professionals working in the professional, financial and creative services sectors

Chris Brown is involved with them and has a question or two:

One of the things I’ve been tasked to look into is why there is a lack of creatives at these events. Is it cost, type of events or simply a lack of understanding to what Birmingham Future is. Perhaps it is the speaker or even the lack of other creatives attending

I’m guessing that there are a few people who read this who would describe themselves as working in the creative service sector (and several more who would rather be beaten with a stick than referred to as ‘a creative’). Have you got any thoughts on this?

The winner won’t be paid for their hard work but they will get a bottle of champagne, a couple of tickets for the ball and their work will be seen by 320 of the city’s keenest young suits.

The criteria:

• The Invitation must include space for the venue, time and date as well as sponsorship logos
• The Menu should include space for details of the meal and sponsorship logos
• Designs must be no larger than A4
• It must avoid any special finishes, such as cut-outs
• It must not use bright colours, such as orange (PMS 021), fluorescent colours or metallic inks
• You must have authorization to use any logos/images in your design

Designs need to be in by 21 November, give the Birmingham Future office a shout on 0121 632 2200 if you want to get involved.