Some good news relating to film funding, just for a change. The BFI have a Transition Fund for “projects facing budget cuts in funding as a result of the changes in the national and regional film funding landscape”. There were two successful local applicants: Birmingham International Film Festival Award: £4,950 The Birmingham Black Film Festival … [Read more…]
Job listing for Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum: Call for Proposals (The Event) Good to hear this is happening again, I liked the last one. “Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is pleased to announce it is currently seeking projects from artists and curators in the UK for inclusion in The Event 2011, to take place 21 – … [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…]
It’s festivals a gogo with the Fierce and Flatpack festivals kicking off today with a whole load of interesting stuff coming to Birmingham between now and Sunday. You’ll no doubt have done the decent thing and booked up a load of tickets for both of these already but, if not, there should still be time. … [Read more…]
We Are Fierce – Open Invite to Flatpack & Fierce Festival Launch, Tues 22nd March Don’t forget to RSVP YouTube – Motionhouse Machine Dance ‘The highlights’ A dancing digger. Cool Culture – Funding opportunities 2010 | EACEA Apparently something on this page says that Birmingham Rep have been given some European cash for ‘Four Cities, Four … [Read more…]
The new site and programme is up for this year’s Flatpack Festival (23-27 March). Hoorah! I’ve had a brief skim through and, as with previous years, would recommend ignoring the titles (which tend to leave me going ‘Eh? Never heard of it’) and read through the descriptions (which tend to leave me going ‘nice, I … [Read more…]
Handmade Birmingham Arts Market Social Meet Up – Eventbrite There’s to be a get-together of market folk on Monday 17 Jan Call for volunteers : Flatpack Festival Flatpack want volunteers WaB Sale! | We Are Birmingham The We Are Birmingham shop has a sale on – go grab a bargain latest scribbles Carl Booth is … [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…]