Southside Stories – Videos of Southside

Craig Bush — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:30:39 +0000

Working with Electric Flix (a production company based out of the Electric Cinema), Southside have produced a series of videos documenting the characters and thriving locations around Southside and its change from the once dilapidated warehouse district of Birmingham.

These are some really nicely directed pieces that feature an impressive variety of interviews, spanning from corner shop owners to drag queens.

I highly advise you to have a scan around the Southside Stories site and have a watch.

Here’s the trailer…

Opportunities for artists and creatives

cybrum — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:05:00 +0000

Eye Candy, a Festival of Visual Pop Culture, will be taking place in Birmingham on 11-14th October this year. Fused has several new public art commissions available to illustrators, artists and designers, and typographers for prominent locations in Southside. The deadline is Friday 17th August.

Also part of Eye Candy is a commission for artists from new café Le Truc, deadline also 17th August.

Recent visual arts graduates from across the West Midlands are invited to show their work at a high profile multi-site exhibition. In addition 5 bursaries are being offered. Organised by BM&AG with the Barber Institute and Grand Union, applications for both the exhibition and bursaries are open. The deadline for submissions is 5pm, Friday 14 September and more information can be found here.

From Birmingham Arts, Craft and Vintage comes a Success Workshop: PR, or how to obtain free publicity on Saturday 18th August.

Creative Shift are a company based at the Birmingham Hippodrome who specialise in offering training and consultancy to creative businesses. They have just announced the dates of their new half- and full-day skill building courses.

Birmingham Zine Festival is taking place in October and they are looking for zines and comics for their reading table, particularly ones suitable for children and teens, music zines, and from the LGBTQ community.

Last week we wrote about the Three Week Window Festival. The deadline for ideas is Tuesday 21st August.

Our Monstrous Bastard Child is an intensive two week workshop of performance, intervention and collaboration. The workshops will be led by celebrated theatre maker Mark Storor and Birmingham-based Friction Arts.

Contemporary circus theatre company NoFit State will be in Birmingham on Saturday 18th offering workshops as part of Six Summer Saturdays.

As part of the Nottingham Castle Open 2012 Broadway will select a Midlands artist working in film or video to receive a £1000 prize and be included in the exhibition. More details here.

The deadline for the Salon Art Prize is approaching. Any submissions must be received by Saturday 25th August. For more information contact info@salonartprize.com