Were you there?

Kate Spragg — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:56:40 +0000

Were you there? VIVID would like to talk to anyone who attended the following events in Birmingham in the 1980s.

John Akomfrah: Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On © Pogus Caesar / OOM Gallery Archive 1985

– The launch of ‘Handsworth Songs’ at the Birmingham Film & TV Festival in October 1986

– Q&A with Dennis Hopper at the Triangle in 1985 or 1986

Please contact Harriet intern@vivid.org.uk or 0121 766 1304.

Links for February 6th

Kate Spragg — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:49:44 +0000

Birmingham: British rock’s forgotten city?
Louis Pattison at The Guardian Music blog chews the fat over the city’s musical heritage and starts debate a plenty with statements like ‘Birmingham, however, is not a music city’, and comparing Brum to the swaggering ‘Madchester’.
D’log – Handsworth Songs
The excellent 60-minute film Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective; 1986) is now available on YouTube, taken from an old VHS tape of a Channel 4 broadcast in the late 1980s.
Vivid – Pioneers Series
VIVID’s Pioneers series continues in February with two exciting programmes, Inspirations and Figuring Landscapes. Inspirations + special screening programme presented by Malcolm Le Grice Sat 07 Feb 2009.
Bloggers love snow
Matt Murtagh’s photographs of an eerie winter wonderland. Parboo’s snaps of Mac, kebablog’s obligatory snow post and finally snowc*ckhunt, snowy adventures of the … erm, phallic kind.
Birmingham Twitter Flash Mob
Simply a flash mob of Twitterers in Birmingham City Centre. At midday, the mob will stand still for two or three minutes, and produce signs saying “I’m a twitterer”, “Twitter rocks”, “tweet tweet”, you get the idea.