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…]
Some people send a press release. Some people go a little further. First up is this film for Bright Space’s Platform project. Filmed by Courtney Salmon and starring Matt Windle. And secondly, there’s this rather good promo for the Birmingham European Theatre Festival 2010 (30 June to 3 July). Update: seems the BE Festival trailer’s … [Read more…]
Bright Space are doing a project called Platform and they’re after youngsters: Platform will be a blog written by 16-19 year olds, featuring articles, reviews, events listings and much more. Written by young people for young people it will represent a unique perspective on arts activity in Birmingham. We are now looking to recruit 15 … [Read more…]
Local Heroes, Birmingham UK from Platform. Starts with fightin’ talk: Birmingham, that murky, grey metropolis. It’s easy to think of everything in the ’second city’ as indistinct and ethereal as a cloud of smoke, a no-man’s land slap bang in the middle of the country, not far enough south to have a snobby art streak, … [Read more…]