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Flatpack Festival 3 announced

Chris Unitt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:45:42 +0000

The splendid 7 Inch Cinema folk have announced the return of the Flatpack Festival which took a year off this year.Â The dates for Flatpack 3 will be 11-15 March 2009.

The website for 2007’s festival is still up including this description of what it’s all about:

The festival remains fiendishly difficult to summarise, but intrepid punters can expect to find shorts, animation, music documentaries, independent features, live soundtracks, discussion events, web oddities, installations, parties and plenty more besides – with a general focus on people using limited resources in imaginative ways

Details are still a little way off with venues just being booked up now.Â Stay tuned though.

This bit of info came from 7 Inch’s latest newsletter/listings for October which is well worth a look.

Oh heck, and I’ve just noticed it also mentions this:

Tuesday 11 November at Warwick Arts Centre
NOSFERATU
More Murnau, this time with the Matthew Eaton/Grandmaster Gareth score performed at Supersonic in July. (Sunrise next please!)

I saw half of this at Supersonic and can’t recommend it enough.Â Nor can Cat Bray for that matter.

Links for 6th October

Chris Unitt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:06:05 +0000

Knight of the Camera: The Photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone MP
The photos on display in Centenary Square at the moment are by Sir Benjamin Stone MP, an enthusiastic amateur photographer. This is the first time in a century that his work has been shown in Birmingham, his home town
The Shambala Art Exhibition – Birmingham – The Final Show! at Jibbering Art
The exhibition moves to Birmingham from Friday 10th – Friday 17th October @ Wild Building, 104 – 108 Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SJ, 10.30am – 6.30pm. The launch night is Thurs 9 October, 7pm – 11pm – expect live art, afrika jam djâ€™s and more
Overcoming Dictatorships
This is the blog for “a two-year exchange between artists, poets and authors from various European countries about their experiences of the change from dictatorship to democracy, in particular after the opening of former communist countries since the end of the 1980s”. There’s a round table discussion at the Ikon on 8 Oct and a conference at Birmingham Uni on 9 Oct (with an exhibition there going on until 9 Nov)
The Traditional Arts Team are having a ceilidh on Sat 18 Oct
Apparently this is “part of the Big National Ceilidh – a night when, in cities, towns and villages all over the country, thousands of people will simultaneously be dancing to the music of live bands”
Local Radio – where is the good news?
Robin Valk muses on the state of local radio, specifically wondering (with advertising cuts likely and the cost of ‘old school radio’) whether it has any future
Televisionâ€™s People Out Today! – Mistys Big Adventure
Grandmaster Gareth has been suffering. The new Mistys album is out today though, so things should start looking up

Pram DVD launch at 7 Inch Cinema

Chris Unitt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:30:42 +0000

Lots of goodness at the next 7 Inch Cinema event:

Launch of Pram‘s DVD ‘Shadow Shows of the Phantascope’
Airings of some of Pram’s inspirations
Brian Duffy and Grandmaster Gareth playing choons

and in a more tradtional 7 Inch vein earlier in the evening there’ll be plenty of shorts including:

Rachael (Rill) Marchant – ‘Untitled Actress’
Brothers McLeod – ‘Codswallop’ (their new short)

It’s on Sunday 28 Sept at the Hare & Hounds, starting at 7pm, and by my reckoning Â£4 is a bargain for all that.Â Here’s the flyer: