The CiB Shop window was jazzed up with the help of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Art Detection Services set up their workshop in store and Shady Bird popped by to play a set. In other CiB news, CiBmail was launched.

The Rainbow announced their plans for developments and expansion both upstairs and below, we said goodbye to more independent record shops and sampad celebrated their 20th anniversary.

Trove showed some science, we had a nosey at CBSO’s summer programme and some behind the scenes footage from The Electric showed up.

Not My Type brought together “a veritable who’s who of Brum talent” (to quote myself) and, in other illustration-related news, the Love To Print crowd released Patterns #1.

Other things to look back on and go ‘oh yeah, I remember that’ include Such Tweet Sorrow, BAP’s document on Birmingham’s Creative Capital, the Big Culture Blog and a call for “more of the Simon Rattle effect”. Also, In Our Backyard looked interesting and Chris Bates made a video for Munchbreak’s Television:

To enter – email the name of your organisation to createdinbirmingham@gmail.com using SUPPORT as the subject.

We’ll draw a winner on Wednesday 7 July at about 5pm.

CiB Supporters is our way of helping to keep Created in Birmingham going. For £75 for 12 months we plaster your name and logo in the blog’s sidebar, in a monthly ‘thank you’ post, on our Supporters page and on our Facebook Page. We also include you in a special Twitter list and give you regular  mentions at the end of CiBmail.

We’ll even send you a Christmas card.

Sounds good? As online advertising goes it’s cheap. It also helps to keep this website going, which hopefully you think of as a Good Thing.

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It’ll be a weekly email that will come out mid-afternoon every Wednesday and will feature:

• News about what CiB is up to (online and in the shop)
• A brief summary of the past week’s posts
• FREE stuff (competitions and the like)
• Suggested upcoming events

If you’ve got any stuff you want us to give away competition-style (tickets, CDs, swag, etc) then get in touch. Likewise, if you’re interested in advertising via the email give us a shout.

It’ll probably be a bit rough and ready to start with but we should get into the swing of things soon enough. If there’s anything you’d like to see in just such an email then it’d be good to get some suggestions.

Those that are signed up by mid-afternoon today will get a quick taster to see what it’s all about. Give it a go. If you think it looks like a waste of time you can always unsubscribe again. Sign up by adding your details here: