I’ve often wondered why museums and galleries aren’t using their web presence in more innovative and useful ways. I worked within a gallery for a number of years, and this gave me the unsurprising insight that many factors contributed to this: underpaid overworked staff, simply no capacity (in terms of time) to explore new avenues, … [Read more…]
With all this rubbish weather hanging around over the last few weeks it has been too tempting to hide indoors on a Sunday and stay warm. Here is a few exhibitions on around the West Mids, are free to the public and are open on a Sunday. Go on! Put on your favourite woolly jumper, … [Read more…]
Vote again for CiB – last few days Thanks to some fantastic support CiB has a slim lead in the voting. Polls close on Tuesday 13th at 10pm. Please vote daily (and encourage others) until then Screen WM – Birmingham filmmaker shortlisted for the Auteur Award “Birmingham filmmaker Steven Rainbow’s short film ‘A Small Silent … [Read more…]
David Rowan‘s new website has cropped up on a fair few blogs recently and with good reason. It’s real purty, with a stack of great photography on it and is dead clever to boot. David is a photographer at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and also lectures, consults and does bits of art design and … [Read more…]
Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open BiNS are asking for your suggestions. The early frontrunner seems to be the (semi-anonymous) TWMDriver D’log – Flogging Brum “An overseas student recounts his first-time experience of visiting Birmingham”. There’s a 2nd post too. BMAG fares well, Think Tank less so. How to promote your night/gig/event online … [Read more…]
Script are a registered charity based in the Custard Factory and are: dedicated to developing and promoting new dramatic writing in the West Midlands For their new project they’re: inviting writers to submit a short (10 minute) play in response to the “Beijing Map Games†exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Images from the … [Read more…]
A copy of ‘Forward‘ (the council’s official publication profiling policies, initiatives and events) just plopped through my door. Let’s see what interesting event info there is and pull together some links. The Old Rep Theatre, which closed in Feb for renovation, re-opens on 30 Sept. The first show is ‘Messed Up’ by Small Heath Young … [Read more…]
Artsfest is a big sprawling beast of a festival and a difficult one to wrangle from a listings perspective. A few people have chipped in with their take on how things could/should be presented but for me, while all of them help in some way, none of them really hit the nail on the head. … [Read more…]