After our earlier post about volunteering we’ve learnt of two more opportunities; Espirito Brum and Irish in Birmingham are celebrating Brazilian and Irish culture respectively. After successfully taking The Flyover Show to South Africa earlier this year Soweto Kinch brings it back to it’s Hockley roots. Also tomorrow Six Summer Saturdays continues with NoFit State … [Read more…]
Notorious – music to taste wine by!! ‘The choir with a difference’ with their latest trailer. The show’s on Sat 14 July Suki10c Promotional Video – YouTube Another very nicely done video: “See how we have transformed a derelict, crumbling, abandoned space into a creative, artistic and vibrant space, a space for all to utilise … [Read more…]
Videos for the first half of Birmingham’s street theatre season, Six Summer Saturdays, are up online on the Hippodrome’s Vimeo account. Here’s week three: And you can follow these links for week two and week one. Listings for all the craziness happening around the city centre are on sixsummersaturday.com. UPDATE: I’m planning to be down … [Read more…]
More Hippodrome-backed craziness in the streets of Birmingham this year, from 9 July to 13 August. Giant lobsters, a scary ice cream van and a man with a big red balloon over his head. There’ll be some extra stuff on Fridays this year too. Splendid. I’ve also just learnt that the area outside the Hippodrome is … [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…]
Six Summer Saturdays Week 2 from Birmingham Hippodrome on Vimeo. If you’ve been in and around Birmingham for the past four weekends you’ll have seen all sorts of shenanigans going on as part of Six Summer Saturdays. Shows and highlights from the best outdoor theatre have been organised by the Hippodrome, which are free to … [Read more…]
This is an exciting one. I was hanging around the National Theatre on Sunday and picked up a brochure for the outdoors stuff they’re doing over the summer. There was some really good stuff lined up. Now, in a pleasingly similar vein, an email about the Hippodrome’s Six Summer Saturdays programme (website coming soon) has … [Read more…]