Over the next month, Grand Union have a programme of Live Acts and Sound lined up, which kicks off this Friday, 4 Feb, with performance artist Tom Marshman. He’ll be performing ‘The Passion of the Pole’, a controversial piece which confronts taboos of mental disorders and religion. Clinging to a dancing pole, a sentimental character … [Read more…]
Codify is a free event taking place at Grand Union on Friday 10 December, presented by My Imaginary Friend. Musicians and artists based in Birmingham will be putting on this special performance, featuring live adjusted sound and video, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, sax & ableton. Doors open at 7.30pm, and the performance starts at 8pm.
Art of Ideas kicks off towards the end of this week, the four day event will celebrate the cultural life of Birmingham, with a series of talks, exhibitions and related events held at various galleries and institutions around Birmingham. We’ve already mentioned a few of the associated events such as The Witching Hour and In … [Read more…]
Blogging the retail game « I Am Pete Ashton “So starting in a fortnight I’m going to start my journey, exploring the indie retail landscape of Birmingham from a We Are Birmingham perspective” Pete’s good at blogging. This’ll be interesting Digbeth is Good » Hither and Thither’s tour of Digbeth art spaces A nice run … [Read more…]
A few new exhibitions opened in Digbeth over the weekend, we missed a mention of the launch but luckily they all run until November, so there’s still plenty of time to take a look. Jennifer Tee: Local Myths at Eastside Projects Exhibition continues to 6 November 2010 Eastside Projects presents the first UK solo show … [Read more…]
I got this in the post the other day: Poster and press release for Hiker Meat by Jamie Shovlin at Grand Union Supersonic flyer Two organisations mailing their stuff out together – you’d think that sort of thing would happen more often. Looks like Grand Union will be staying open later during Supersonic too.
Here are some pics of a couple of posters/fold-out leaflet things. I was sent this one which publicises Grand Union‘s thing with Justin Carter: And I picked up this one which is stuffed with the mind-bogglingly long list of events Rhubarb Rhubarb are doing/associated with over the next few weeks: Btw, if you want half-price … [Read more…]
Birmingham (at Grand Union and The Lombard Method), to be exact) 11-12 June: Manchester (specifically, at Rogue Studios) 5-6 June: