Job listing for Trustee – Audiences Central “Birmingham Museums Trust is seeking Trustees to take up the challenge of steering this new organisation (a trust to run the city’s nine museums sites) through its first few years and delivering our vision for a national museum in Birmingham” InterFace 2012 InterFace is a symposium for humanities … [Read more…]
Eastside Projects Hosting: What is Art? Charity event at St Basils 13/01/12 Organised by ESP member Kartal Uppal, this evening will look at and debate the question; What makes something Art? With contributions from Gavin Wade (Director, Eastside Projects), Tyler Cann (Curator, Ikon Gallery) and Cathy Wade (Artist and Lecturer) Things Team Fierce looks forward … [Read more…]
This one’s kinda brilliant. Fierce Festival are looking for 60 dachsunds from around the West Mids to take part in one of the projects featuring in next year’s festival: Bennett Miller’s ‘Dachshund U.N.’ is a replica of the former United Nations office in Geneva which will hold a meeting of the Commission of Human Rights. Each … [Read more…]
Autumn Glory reviews « Birmingham Royal Ballet’s tour blog This is good – an even-looking spread of reviews from BRB’s recent tour (from both big newspapers and individual tweets) with links through to the source Open Studio at Birmingham Printmakers “At Birmingham Printmakers we are holding an Open Studio on Saturday 26th November from 10am … [Read more…]
I hadn’t realised this was online and picked up on it while skimming the latest from this / inexplicably / styled website from the Arts Council. I’ll let plan b (not that one) explain: We are making a living portrait of 24 hours in Birmingham with the people who move through its streets, parks, waste … [Read more…]
Birmingham’s flagship garden show to be held in derelict bank Sounds pretty cool to me. Project Platform Review – Bright Space- Eventbrite Project Platform was an interesting thing and here’s an invite to a follow-up discussion. Given some challenging circumstances, ‘how can we build on our successes and improve the relationship between youth and culture … [Read more…]
Continuing the theme of writing about some of the stuff I get out and about to, last night I followed the robots down to AE Harris for the Fierce Start Party. The idea with these things is to introduce next year’s artists to Birmingham and vice versa. There are a few Fierce stalwarts and returning … [Read more…]
In the past couple of days the two festivals have posted retrospectives. Flatpack have posted a slideshow of photos (with more on their Flickr account) . While Fierce have rounded up their 2011 festival with a nice, photo-heavy blog post and some links to things others have written about them. They sign off the post … [Read more…]