Capsule to curate the Library of Birmingham’s Opening Season : Capsule Blog “We are extremely proud to announce that Capsule have been appointed to curate the Library of Birmingham’s opening ‘Discovery’ season.” A Brummies Guide to Birmingham “I’ve set this blog up really to document my mini adventures around my home city; to promote the … [Read more…]
@kismetkotch “A new arts hub based in Eastside, at club PST”. Don’t know much else about this one just yet My kind of town: Birmingham | Travel | The Guardian “Who better than an underground club promoter to sniff out the best shopping, food, bars and parties in Birmingham?” Odd that the photo caption says … [Read more…]
Big congrats to Kerry and Dave from Fused! Steve’s put some crackin photos on his blog.
Karen Kiely‘s been looking at Birmingham’s fashion blogging scene, which is something she’ll apparently be exploring as part of her Social Media as Culture module on her Masters. She’s picked out Style Birmingham, Uber Brum and The Doll on Fashion. I thought I’d have a root around for a few others. Rajmeena posts sketches, there … [Read more…]
It’s actually a little tricky to find out about local music around the city, I find. This is the stuff I know about, feel free to add other stuff in the comments. News Brum Notes is the website for the free, monthly music and lifestyle magazine (Nov issue out now, Oct one online here). The … [Read more…]
A couple of music-related things came out over the weekend both adding up to paint a less than rosy picture of Birmingham’s current live music scene. The Interactive Cultures team at BCU have launched MusicAsCulture.org – a place to discuss the idea that ‘music is not just commerce’. It’s not an exclusively local thing, but … [Read more…]
Musicians Wanted Any musicians out there want to help with a 3-day project at the Shard End youth centre? It’s with Headliners who do journalism projects for young uns and they’re offering some free publicity Buy Art from the Underground – Fused Magazine Nice to have Fused back and blogging. They’ve spotted that Simon & … [Read more…]
The big Film Dash logo vote Film Dash – the 48-hour film challenge happening in Birmingham on 17-19 October is picking up pace. We need a logo though. A couple have been submitted; please have a look and vote for your fave Capsule Blog » The Joyful Bewilderment Capsule are involved in a group exhibition … [Read more…]