Nice stuff from Flourish Creative. That’s Frosty the Bear back in August, snapped at the Victoria Sq beach by abrinsky. He’s been waiting months for the weather we’re having now. What? You wanted yet more pics of the snow?
I’m not about to do a full on ‘best of’ thing, but there was plenty of goodness about in 2009: Birmingham Opera Company’s ‘Othello’ Birmingham Royal Ballet’s ‘Quantum Leaps’ ‘Birmingham Seen’ at BMAG Zena Edwards’ ‘Security’ at The Rep Tom Dale Company’s ‘Roam’ at DanceXchange The Event Kindle Theatre’s ‘All You Can Eat’ And plenty … [Read more…]
Local Heroes, Birmingham UK from Platform. Starts with fightin’ talk: Birmingham, that murky, grey metropolis. It’s easy to think of everything in the ’second city’ as indistinct and ethereal as a cloud of smoke, a no-man’s land slap bang in the middle of the country, not far enough south to have a snobby art streak, … [Read more…]
Being the editor of CiB comes with certain privileges, one of them being the opportunity to give your other projects a cheeky plug. As you may know I co-run Colour live music events, and we are putting on our first ever Birmingham gig at The Victoria next Tuesday. The evening will feature music from 3 … [Read more…]
Likemind: Birmingham A monthly coffee morning that's open to all and has no agenda other than simply to get people talking. Organised by James from Supercool and Lucie from Saint Caffe. The next one is tomorrow 8.30am to 10am at Saint Caffe, St Pauls Sq. Another Byte Of Banality Midge works at Urban Village and … [Read more…]
OJS Theatre – What’s On May to July 08 Comedy and theatre listings for the Old Joint Stock Theatre during May to July 2008 Birmingham Words handover The National Academy of Writing/BCU are taking over Birmingham Words from 12 May. Good luck to all involved and I’m looking forward to seeing what the “new and … [Read more…]