The Flip Animation Festival is on from 6-8 November (Thurs to Sat) at the Light House in Wolverhampton. This year the festival will feature the C-Games Conference, a Drawing in the Digital Age symposium, an afternoon of animated Doctor Who and various screenings, talks and so on. The website’s just coming together but the peeps … [Read more…]
PLOT – Supporting Creative People Got a start-up creative business in the West Mids and want business/marketing/mentoring advice? Drop into the Light House on Sat 21 June between 12-4pm for their Creative Sessions Robot Vs Dinosaur have a blog Which alerted me to the fact that Datassette has relaunched his site. RvD’s next night of … [Read more…]
Some great news from the peeps at 7 Inch Cinema landed on the virtual doormat today. The Flatpack Festival is the worthy recipient of funding for the next three years, securing it’s future and allowing the organisers to maybe think a little bigger. Peter Buckingham from the UK Film Council (who are providing the funding) … [Read more…]
An exhibition currently running at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery showcases the photography of Pogus Caesar, one of Birmingham’s most important visual artists. The exhibition, That Beautiful Thing, features 43 photographs selected from a portfolio that runs into several thousands taken over a 20 year period both in the UK and abroad. Putting the breadth and … [Read more…]
June’s Out Of Hours, the creative sector socialising shindig at the Light House in Wolverhampton, features a look at the work of Sarah Ray, a Birmingham-based illustrator who’ll be introducing her exhibition Good Day. Among many other things she’s been featured by 4Talent magazine (as per the pic) who will also be there to talk … [Read more…]
I went along to the Animation Forum West Midlands event, Shorts On Walls, on Monday which was most enjoyable. The organisers were certainly pleased with how things went and have said so on their pleasingly blog-ish news page. Also on that page is the evening’s screening schedule with links to the animators’ profiles. I understand … [Read more…]