A new festival makes it debut this year, celebrating the second city’s structures, with everything from the heights of the skylines to the hidden corners. The Birmingham Architecture Festival will be running from the 24th to 27th of May, with the theme ‘Take a Second Look’. This independent festival will span across the city and … [Read more…]
Iain Grant, writer and editor of Pigeon Park Press, is calling for expression of interest from writers for their new project Ten to One and you have until March 31st to get in touch with a sample of your work and a brief writing bio. So, what is Ten to One? Ten To One is … [Read more…]
The Creative Open Workshops (C.O.W) is an artist-run project based in Birmingham city centre. They have been running craft workshops, fairs and social crafting nights since 2008. The sessions run in afternoons and evenings throughout the week and are priced at around £25 per person (price is dependent on materials involved). They cover a range … [Read more…]
After some rumours flying around, it has officially been announced that Birmingham’s Artsfest has been cancelled due to the council’s need for budget cuts. The yearly event was the largest free arts festival in the UK, working with arts communities and centres from across the city. Councillor Ian Ward has stated in a Birmingham Post … [Read more…]
Out of the ashes of the Digbeth media arts centre that was VIVID (which closed in March 2012), a new venture has been born with VIVID Projects opening a new space and exciting plans out of the thriving eastside artists allotment Warwick Bar. This all comes as a result of receiving an Arts Council grant for a … [Read more…]
This Thursday 10th January, you are invited to join HIVE for Tea, Cake and Conversation at The Solihull Gallery between 6pm – 7.30pm. There will be an informative round the table discussion about the pieces in the collection and the collaborative practice. So who are Hive? Hive are a group of Birmingham based artists who … [Read more…]
Trove’s newest exhibition for 2013, Band / Ties, sees two Birmingham based artists, Elly Clarke and Caitlin Griffiths, and two Stockholm based artists, Bjorn Karlsson and Hanna Ljungh, come together for an exhibition that focuses on relationships. It looks at the relationships with people, places, families and communities. The artists involved explore where it is … [Read more…]
Lucie Whitehead’s debut exhibition, ‘Dead to Be Iconic’, will open on Friday 23rd November and run until Thursday 29th November at the Lakeside Gallery in the Custard Factory. The exhibition features 50 portraits of celebrities who have died before their time including James Dean, Amy Winehouse and Heath Ledger (which is one of my favourites). … [Read more…]