The Sanitised City
Nikki Pugh’s talk at the last Birmingham Salon:
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CiB links for 28 May 2011
VIVID exhibition: ECSTATIC (13 May-18 June) “a visual and sensory season of moving image works and intervention exploring heightened emotions and altered states”. What more could you ask for? First Light Seeks a Media Production Company “First Light would like to commission a production company to produce ten ‘How to’ short films” A New Generation … [Read more…]
CiB links for 4 March 2011
Commercially Inviable Records » Here Come The Light Nights A free sampler of upcoming releases on the label Wanted: Critical friends “BiNS is looking for contributors, willing to go out, and then come back, and write good criticism about what they found”. Splendid. Why couldn’t I quote Charlotte’s Web on stage? Lucy Caldwell on copyright … [Read more…]
Uncertain Eastside
Digbeth is Good linked to this publication, Uncertain Eastside by Nikki Pugh, the first issue of which is now out, offering a ‘critical questioning of the branding of a version of Eastside as the Cultural Quarter and of her relationship to it (or not) as an artist.’ This is the first document in a series … [Read more…]
Make-It Zone pics
Nikki Pugh went to the Make-It Zone open day at the weekend and returned with a load of photos. The sort of photos that made me go ‘ooh’ and ‘cor’ a lot (in my head, at least). The place screams ‘POTENTIAL’ (and also, in places ‘fixer-upper’) and they’ve got artisan workshops for rent. Here’s a … [Read more…]
fizzPOP Howduino
The fizzPOP Howduino event takes place on Saturday 21st November, 10am – 5.30pm: It’s a free event that will bring together 40 people from different backgrounds to work individually and collaboratively on various projects based around the Arduino platform. (Arduinos are small microcontrollers designed for easy prototyping of things that have electronics/data that respond to … [Read more…]
Free things to do this weekend
Bollywood Steps An outdoor dance spectacular that’s part of Birmingham Town Hall‘s 175th birthday celebrations. They’re hoping for up to have had up to 12,000 people take part. It’s being performed on Friday 9 October at 8pm and Saturday 10 October at 3pm and 8pm – and you can learn the steps half an hour … [Read more…]