20th – 30th March 2014 are dates for your diary as it sees the return of Flatpack Festival. For a reminder of what you enjoyed, or missed, last year watch the below video to view the highlights of the seventh Flatpack Festival. Submissions are now open for Flatpack 8 and this year a new category … [Read more…]
Bit of a mixed bag today for Friday Lunchtime Links: The Birmingham Central Library demolition had the official go ahead yesterday, doesn’t come a surprise – but disappointing nonetheless for fans of the brute. BBC news via keeptheziggurat Once upon a time there was Birmingham: It’s Not Shit. Paradise Circus: A Birmingham Miscellany LynTyler, Love is a corset exhibition at Urban … [Read more…]
Do you like to push your writing to the extreme? Well next Saturday at Grand Union you will have the chance to push your pen wielding fingers to their very extreme with a 12 hour, all night writing extravaganza. ‘Part 12-hour exam, part club night, part endurance writing event’, the organisers BAZ and Hooky Street Press … [Read more…]
After settling at 183 Fazeley Street back in 2008, Ikon have confirmed that as of April 2011, Ikon Eastside will be closing up for the final time, due to public funding cuts. The large exhibition space at the heart of Digbeth, has provided the perfect setting for large-scale work, video and events over the past … [Read more…]
In a meeting yesterday it was decided that the Arts Council will not fund any further plans from The Public, West Bromwich, including those for the long awaited interactive gallery. The reasons given are an absence of a firm opening date for the gallery and the considerable increase in annual revenue funding required to deliver … [Read more…]
At the kratesitwards (as some are calling them) on Saturday, Coun Neville Summerfield bigged up some of the support initiatives for creative types in Birmingham: Creative Birmingham – pulling together key public agencies investing in the creative industries Design Space – accommodates and finances new design agencies in the Jewellery Quarter SRB6 Creative Industries – … [Read more…]
First Light Movies: Win Hammer film posters here! First Light’s blog has got off to a good start and now they’ve got a competition going. Have a look at one of the films they’ve funded and, by commenting on it, you can win yourself a poster stereographic » Plus+ 2008 – call for help… Can … [Read more…]
Some good news from the Edge has dropped into my inbox. Having secured a ten-year lease for their premises they’ve now secured funding for a big refurb: The wonderful SITA trust have blessed us with the resources to install a new heating system, disabled loos, insulation and a new kitchen!  This will be stage one … [Read more…]