Comics http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CiB-Google-copy-32x32.jpg Comics http://www.createdinbirmingham.com 32 32 Opportunities for artists and creatives http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2012/08/16/opportunities-for-artists-and-creatives/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:05:00 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=12633 [Read more...]]]> Eye Candy, a Festival of Visual Pop Culture, will be taking place in Birmingham on 11-14th October this year. Fused has several new public art commissions available to illustrators, artists and designers, and typographers for prominent locations in Southside. The deadline is Friday 17th August.
  • Also part of Eye Candy is a commission for artists from new café Le Truc, deadline also 17th August.
  • Recent visual arts graduates from across the West Midlands are invited to show their work at a high profile multi-site exhibition. In addition 5 bursaries are being offered. Organised by BM&AG with the Barber Institute and Grand Union, applications for both the exhibition and bursaries are open. The deadline for submissions is 5pm, Friday 14 September and more information can be found here.
  • From Birmingham Arts, Craft and Vintage comes a Success Workshop: PR, or how to obtain free publicity on Saturday 18th August.
  • Creative Shift are a company based at the Birmingham Hippodrome who specialise in offering training and consultancy to creative businesses. They have just announced the dates of their new half- and full-day skill building courses.
  • Birmingham Zine Festival is taking place in October and they are looking for zines and comics for their reading table, particularly ones suitable for children and teens, music zines, and from the LGBTQ community.
  • Last week we wrote about the Three Week Window Festival. The deadline for ideas is Tuesday 21st August.
  • Our Monstrous Bastard Child is an intensive two week workshop of performance, intervention and collaboration. The workshops will be led by celebrated theatre maker Mark Storor and Birmingham-based Friction Arts.
  • Contemporary circus theatre company NoFit State will be in Birmingham on Saturday 18th offering workshops as part of Six Summer Saturdays.
  • As part of the Nottingham Castle Open 2012 Broadway will select a Midlands artist working in film or video to receive a £1000 prize and be included in the exhibition. More details here.
  • The deadline for the Salon Art Prize is approaching. Any submissions must be received by Saturday 25th August. For more information contact info@salonartprize.com
    • ]]>         British International Comics Show 2010 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2010/08/16/british-international-comics-show-2010/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2010/08/16/british-international-comics-show-2010/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:39 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=6577 [Read more...]]]> British International Comic Show 2010

    Cooler than your average comic book convention, this years British International Comic Show 2010 is being held at Thinktank Millennium Point on 16 & 17 October.

    So far they have a whole bunch of comic legends announced as guests for the weekend, and are open to submissions for this years Portfolio Review.

    This is your chance to show your stuff to top commissioning editors in the field, in previous years aspiring artists have been snapped up by the likes of DC, Panini and Warner Bros at BICS, going on to launch careers as professional comics artists.

    There are still more events to be announced, so check their website for updates.

    Tickets are now on sale, with concessions for the kids, available as either full weekend or single day passes.

    ]]>     http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2010/08/16/british-international-comics-show-2010/feed/ 2     Hi8us: Comix http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2009/05/13/hi8us-comix/ Wed, 13 May 2009 20:19:49 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=3633 [Read more...]]]> I try to keep up with what great projects the Midlands arm of Hi8us are up to. For last year’s Hello Digital event they worked with a group of older people to enable them to tell their stories through digital media. Hi8us are a great resource for the Midlands and their projects, whilst being aimed at hard-to-reach young people, older people and those with physical and mental disabilities, they do it without being po-faced and by getting involved in modern and relevant media.

    comix_spideySpiderman, drawn by John McCrea

    The latest scheme is a continuation of their work with comics, or should I say Comix.To take part in this new scheme you need to be over the age of 16 (which isn’t hard, lets face it) with a passion for comic art and live in the West Midlands. The lucky chosen few will also get to work with people on similar schemes across Europe and get a supported trip to a comic art festival in Spain, as well as a trip to the Birmingham’s International Comics Show.

    20 talented individuals will get the opportunity to develop their skills with John McCrea (X-Men, Spiderman and The Hulk), Hunt Emerson (The Beano, Wall Street Journal and Fortean Times), Laura Howell (The Beano, The Guardian), and Andi Watson (Geisha, Buffy) amongst others.

    Interested? Pop onto the Hi8us website.

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