Friction Arts are holding a free talk on their recent three-month residency in South Africa on Thursday 18 February, which should give some interesting insights into international public arts programmes. As you can probably see on the flyer above, the talk will also be followed by a Q&A session with the artists that were involved.
The other day someone described CiB as ‘a little ray of sunshine in [their] RSS reader’. I’m going to take time out now to ruin that by talking about funding cuts and such. Sorry. If it’s any consolation I’ll end the post with a picture of a bunny. The other week West Midlands Regional Observatory … [Read more…]
January issue out now! Happy New Year! « Brum Notes Magazine It’s out now. The January issue. betty who? A fashion blog. Or, at least, a blog by a fashionable lady called Isabel Beresford (via Best Believe) Another year over… A quick review of 2009 and a longer look forward at what looks like being … [Read more…]
stereographic » We are X Yet another 10th birthday – Sam and George from Stereographic are celebrating double figures 2009 in review: Art – The Observer Ikon supplies the only non-London shows on the list. Good work Brumcast 142 ‘Festival Strength’ I had a Brumcast binge on the way to Cornwall the other day (if … [Read more…]
Friction Arts have been out in South Africa since the end of September on a project run by Visiting Arts called Square Mile. They’ve been working: with local artists and Johannesburg Art Gallery to create a series of interventions examining the areas cultural, environmental and bio diversity They’ve been blogging regularly and it’s been fascinating … [Read more…]
Nearly five years ago, a group of friends and I decided to take some initiative and create for ourselves the kind of organisation and event that we would most want to be a part of. The result is Project X Presents – a Birmingham based creative network producing events once or twice a year which … [Read more…]
Voting for the Weblog awards now over. Yes, the polls are closed and thanks to huge support CiB received the most votes in the Best UK Blog category. The winners are not officially announced until tomorrow, but whilst waiting you can go explore some of the nearly 500 finalist blogs in the 48 categories. The … [Read more…]
Heard and Not Seen is an arts project, led by Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia with Friction Arts. The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality. The exhibition takes the form of a series of … [Read more…]