Tomorrow, I’ll be at The Public for the showcase event of the DCD Programme. In case you’d not heard of it: Arts Council England West Midlands’ Digital Content Development (DCD) Programme is a three year programme of investment which aims to catalyse the creation and creative use of digital content platforms for arts organisations across … [Read more…]
‘The Woods’ is a performance project currently on at mac, created by Jane Packman Company and developed locally at Highbury Park and mac. It’s been on for a few weeks already, and has attracted over 4000 visitors so far, with a free installation exhibition open throughout the day, along with a performance which tuns until … [Read more…]
Kathakbox is coming to Birmingham next week, premiering on 16 February at mac. The new production from Sonia Sabri Dance Company showcases a new dance style developed by Sonia Sabri herself: Urban Kathak. The innovative production combines Indian Kathak and hip-hop dance, along with Kathak rap and beatboxing, featuring artistic director Sonia Sabri performing with … [Read more…]
Women and Theatre in association with mac, present The Palace of Wasted Dreams, which opens on 3 February at mac. The show is a culmination of a two year project, Wasted, which explores womens relationship with alcohol through participatory musical theatre. Get a skinful of intoxicating, interactive theatre as mac’s new theatre space transforms into … [Read more…]
The Departure Lounge showcases ‘films and film makers taking off’, concentrating on debut and first features by UK directors, screen writers and producers. The first event of 2011 brings an offering by Birmingham based writer/ director John Bradburn, whose film, WRISTS will be screened in mac‘s cinema, at 6pm on 27 January. The film’s producers … [Read more…]
Just past the halfway point… Pete kicked off discussions about how to follow on from the CiB Shop, The Little Chill looked like fun and involved pretty much every promoter in town and Supersonic’s line-up started coming together. There was a lot of kerfuffle around the filming of Turbulence, with lots of people getting involved … [Read more…]
Summer brought with it degree show time of year and also the first Birmingham European Theatre Festival (which I’m pleased to see will be back again this year). Listings started coming out for the HMV Institute too. The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. … [Read more…]
April was a busy month by the looks of things. The 4am Project took the opportunity of the fourth day of the fourth month to take an early morning photowalk, there was a look at what could be expected from the MAC reopening, International Dance Festival Birmingham got into gear and all sorts of events popped up … [Read more…]