There’s been a little flurry of blog posts from BCU’s Interactive Cultures team announcing a few events and such, including: Animation Explosion 2011 Creative Enterprise Conference The Online Mainline There’s also a set of Creative Metropoles Case Studies which looks interesting (if you like that sort of thing) and features a range of European projects, … [Read more…]
Capital’s first Festival of New Writing took place, International Project Space launched a new film programme and the final ARC of 2010 took place with Important Artefacts. Brilliantly Birmingham kicked off together with the fifth annual FLUX exhibition, Aedas Presents launched a new monthly art programme and Art of Ideas finally arrived with a host … [Read more…]
Au & Ag opens with a preview at Trove on 16 December, showcasing work by Vicky Cull and Justine Moss, in association with Brilliantly Birmingham and Museum of Lost Heritage. Focusing on gold (Au) and silver (Ag), Cull’s work takes on silver, responding in particular to its ‘noble’ connotations with queens, armoury, medals etc. While Moss … [Read more…]
Brilliantly Birmingham is kicking off on 27 November, celebrating contemporary jewellery from local, national and international designer makers for the 11th consecutive year, through until 9 January. With a programme of workshops, special events and free exhibitions, including a ‘Treasure Trail’ of exhibitions at venues across the city, visitors will be taken on a journey … [Read more…]
Call for Participants: The slightest movement, Fierce & Quarantine Quarantine, in partnership with Fierce, are hosting a project entitled The Slightest Movement, bringing together groups of strangers to create a temporary community which openly debates difference, exploring tolerance and ‘otherness’. The task is repeated every day for a week. Each day the event is re-invented … [Read more…]
I like these and there’s a couple more springing up soon. Brilliantly Birmingham will have a temporary shop at the Pavillions from 5-24 December. Some of the designers selling their work in the Pavilions include designers from Design Space, an incubation scheme in the Jewellery Quarter which was set up by Birmingham City Council to … [Read more…]
Another Birmingham institution makes it into double figures this month – Brilliantly Birmingham, the international contemporary jewellery festival, is celebrating its first decade from 21 November to 28 February. There’ll be two exhibitions at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: FLUX, the annual selling show which attracts international entries from new and emerging designers, and A … [Read more…]
There seems to be a few jewellery-related things on at the moment. Brilliantly Birmingham is ongoing until 21 December (although it’s a little hard to tell what’s happening and where from the website) and now there’s a new website for BCU’s School of Jewellery. It looks like this: Couple of things: the RSS feed for … [Read more…]