Just past the halfway point… Pete kicked off discussions about how to follow on from the CiB Shop, The Little Chill looked like fun and involved pretty much every promoter in town and Supersonic’s line-up started coming together. There was a lot of kerfuffle around the filming of Turbulence, with lots of people getting involved … [Read more…]
Summer brought with it degree show time of year and also the first Birmingham European Theatre Festival (which I’m pleased to see will be back again this year). Listings started coming out for the HMV Institute too. The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. … [Read more…]
The CiB Shop wound up after three hectic months, with Pete announcing the impending announcing the impending closure. Before that, INKwell popped into the shop for some screen printing, the City of Culture bid got it’s send-off and The Story Exchange popped in. The Created in Birmingham closed its shutters for the last time at the … [Read more…]
So that’s it then – the final pitch was in Liverpool yesterday and we’ll have to wait until July (can’t find an exact date) to find out who, out of Birmingham, Derry/Londonderry, Norwich and Sheffield, will have the title of City of Culture 2013 bestowed upon them. A neat addition yesterday was the chance to … [Read more…]
Birmingham Big City Culture – City of Culture Bid 2013 There’s an official website for the bid. I’m always the last to know about this kind of thing £1.285million National Heritage Memorial Fund grant saves the Staffordshire Hoard “The grant, awarded to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (PMAG) … [Read more…]
Birmingham have made the shortlist for 2013 City of Culture along with Norwich, Derry/Londonderry and Sheffield. Which is a shame cos I had a tenner on Durham*. Fingers crossed though, overall I think this would be a good thing. I’ve still no idea what went into the bid, other than some blandness in the DCMS … [Read more…]
I was having a flick around the Big City Blank Canvas website last night – that’s the website to support the City of Culture bid. Since I last checked in the’ve added to the list of ‘advocates’ for the bid. My eye was drawn to the profile for Apache Indian – he’s one of the … [Read more…]
BBC iPlayer – The Politics Show West Midlands: 17/01/2010 Birmingham’s City of Culture bid gets profiled at 46 mins 20s Poetry Workshop with Roz Goddard On 6 Feb, promising that “This workshop will look at ways we can re-seed the ground we love to produce fresh, exciting poems. You will look at startling beginnings, expressing … [Read more…]