For starters, I haven’t got a flyer for this one but Lizzy Parks is playing in the Symphony Hall foyers today (Friday) from 5.30pm to 7pm and it’s free. Info on the THSH website. Or indeed the Birmingham Jazz website.

Earlier in the day (in fact from 12pm to 7pm) head over to Lombard Street in Digbeth for PST’s street party. This here flyer says there’s going to be food, live art and heavy bass. And face painting.

MakeIt Zone are having an open day on Saturday.

Capsule have got an event at Kings Heath’s Hare and Hounds on Saturday night called Wedlock. Dunno what that’s a reference to but I like the pretty picture.

There’s loads of other stuff happening too. Have a look at Live Brum for listings.

Face is first up on 23 April at The Rainbow in Digbeth.

Heducation‘s will be on 3 June at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath.

’11 Stops. 11 Artists. One great cause.’

On 3 October, Oxjam will be taking over the 11 bus route. Starting outside the Hare and Hounds and proceeding to ride a full lap around Birmingham’s more interesting neighborhoods, stopping en-route at The Bear in Bearwood for a few drinks and live local music. After riding Europe’s longest urban bus route, complete with a mix of musical genres, passengers will be treated to a Sunday lunch at the Hare and Hounds.

The event is ahead of the main OxjamBrum Takeover, presenting 12 hours of live music for the best of Birmingham’s music scene. That takes place 16 October, and early bird wristbands are currently on sale for £4. Bargain!

Tickets for the 11 bus outing will be on sale from 9am on 17 September via www.oxjambrum.org.uk, and with a limited amount of 40, you’ll need to be quick.

The cost? £11. Of course.

However, it’s the no-budget Turbulence that’s swamped my Twitter stream over the past couple of weeks:

TURBULENCE is a Musical Romantic Comedy. The project is a collaboration between the actors David Alwyn, Adrian Banks, Emma Devereaux, Connor Mills, Shay O’Driscoll and Sophie Waller (all recent graduates of Birmingham School of Acting) and BAFTA award winning producer/director team Natasha Carlish and Michael B Clifford. Other exciting collaborators in the project are Adam Regan and the Hare & Hounds, The Scholars and Katy Pryce

There’s no particular budget for the film but it’s great to see how many people have pitched in to get the thing filmed.

Things are being documented diligently on their blog, so have a browse through. There’s likely to be scope for getting involved if you fancy it – a Twitter search for #turbulencefilm should keep you up to date on that.

Stitches & Hos, the little knitting hootenany organisers have got themselves a spangly new website. In case you’ve not come across them:

Stitches and Hos are a motley crew of enthusiasts for all things knitted, crocheted and stitched who run a monthly knitting night based at Hare and Hounds pub, Kings Heath, Birmingham

They’re there on the last Tuesday of every month, lost in a flurry of wool and needles. You don’t have to be a knitting wizz to go along, as I understand it, so don’t be put off going because you don’t know your [insert knitting jargon] from your [insert knitting jargon].

I’m continually impressed by the quality of the acts they get down at the Hare & Hounds, usually on the Leftfoot nights – they’re pulling out the stops for their 10th birthday:

Last night they had Greg Wilson (sorry I was slow on the uptake if you missed it). Coming up, they’ve got:

• Fabio on Sat 13feb
• Mr Scruff on Fri 19 Feb
• Steve Cobby (Fila Brazilia) on Fri 5 March (that one’s at the Bulls Head in Moseley); and
• Marlena Shaw on Fri 19 March

Sorry, that’s

MARLENA SHAW!

Heck, it’s Sunday morning. If you’ve not heard of her (which you will have, either via a sample or an advert) then I won’t labour the point, just treat yourself to 6 mins 53 secs of Yu-Ma/Go Away Little Boy. Then buy some tickets.

Created in Birmingham are going to be running the mulled wine stall at the Kings Heath Big Christmas Party on 5 December. Woo-hoo!

Stop. Flyer time:

If you’re about then please do come and say hi, this blogging stuff is lovely but real life’s great too. Also, the money you spend at our stall will go towards the Kings Heath Centre Partnership and the maintenance of this fair website. Oh yeah, but please drink moderately (we should have hot chocolate for sale too).

There are details of the event here and a PDF of the programme here. Good things that are happening:

• Muchuu performing at 5pm
• a farmers market
• a vintage market at the Hare & Hounds
• Creative Open Workshops decorating Santa’s grotto from 10am-1pm
• stalls selling stuff by local designer/makers

This’ll be CiB Project 001 and the first of many. In fact, details of CiB Project 002 are coming soon and it’s a good un. Oh yes.