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Links for 5 August 2011

Chris Unitt — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:33:50 +0000

Fundraising Session from the RSC « mid * point
“the Royal Shakespeare Company would like to share its resources and expertise, and have put togethera fundraising session that will be held in Birmingham on Monday 19 September from 1.30pm -4.30pm”
Birmingham: Why Bother? • Future Cities of the Future
As always the rhetorical answer to the rhetorical question is “well, who asked you to bother?”. Still, it’s always a shame when someone gives up
Supersonic ) Supersonic podcast no.1
“It’s that time of year again when things start hotting up on the Supersonic front. The wonderful Little Chris of Brumcast fame has lovingly put together a series of podcasts together for your listening pleasure. Here is the first Supersonic special – ENJOY!” Very pleased to hear Little Chris’s voice again
Birmingham Toolkit
“The Birmingham Toolkit is designed to help you talk about Birmingham with pride and confidence”
Enterprise zone ‘to make Birmingham creative hub’
“The zone – which includes Eastside, Paradise Circus and New Street Station – will attract start-up firms by offering discounts on business rates of up to £275,000 over five years, simplifying planning laws and offering superfast broadband”. Plus other good stuff. Also, George Osborne says there are some iconic buildings here “if you look around”.
foursquare :: Created in Birmingham
We have a page on Foursquare now. It’s probably not going to be used much but you never know.

Free stuff for some people

Chris Unitt — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:56:32 +0000

If you’re aged 25 or under and you like getting things for free then make haste to A Night Less Ordinary and see what tickets you can snaffle up. This scheme’s getting the chop soon, so take advantage while you still can.

Round these parts The Drum, The Rep and Hippodrome have offers. Looking a little wider there are offers at Warwick Arts Centre, Belgrade Theatre, Playbox Theatre and the RSC.

Such Tweet Sorrow

Chris Unitt — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:35:24 +0000

Such Tweet Sorrow launched the other day; a retelling of Romeo & Juliet via Twitter. Telling stories via Twitter isn’t a new thing particularly, but the size and scope of this effort is what sets it apart. The RSC are behind this after all, and from what I gather rehearsals and workshops for this have been going on for aaaages.

Oh aye, and the Birmingham link is the involvement of Mudlark as producers, Substrakt as the website designers and Kate Beatty as the photographer responsible for the shots of the cast.

Exeunt omnes. Divers alarums.

Hippodrome’s Robin Hood game

Chris Unitt — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:44:04 +0000

To promote their Robin Hood panto, the Hippodrome have commissioned a flash game where you have to fire arrows at the Sherrif of Nottingham’s sneaky baddies (while not shooting the goodies).

As Fiona at Audiences Central says, it’s a bit of fun “and people like to interact with something, rather than just having a marketing message shoved at them”. So congrats to the Hippodrome for that. I got 55 on my first go, by the way. I might have another crack in a sec.

Here’s a link to the Robin Hood game.

Also via Fiona, here’s a link to the game the RSC have put together for their Don John.