staffordshire hoard

Links for 21 April 2012

Chris Unitt — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:43:16 +0000

Insight into Photography of the Staffordshire Hoard « Birmingham Conservation Trust
BCT picks up on some behind-the-scenes info
10 TODAY! – Natasha’s posterous
Congrats to Dreamfinder Productions who've racked up ten years in business

Links for 24 March 2010

Chris Unitt — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:01:39 +0000

Birmingham Big City Culture – City of Culture Bid 2013
There’s an official website for the bid. I’m always the last to know about this kind of thing
£1.285million National Heritage Memorial Fund grant saves the Staffordshire Hoard
“The grant, awarded to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (PMAG) in Stoke-on-Trent, will fill the funding gap to reach the Hoard’s purchase price of £3.285million and means this outstanding collection will remain in the West Midlands close to where it was discovered in July last year”
Sir Michael Lyons to head up Tindal Street board
He’s chairman of the BBC Trust, dontchaknow

Festival Street, big cash and dress codes

Chris Unitt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:44:35 +0000

Digbeth High Street – Festival Street

The idea was put forward by Cllr Martin Mullaney on The Stirrer the other day – Millennium Square is going to be unavailable soon as it’s being turned into a park. Of course, this suggestion came in the aftermath (and I don’t think that’s a completely unreasonable phrase to use. Or would ‘debacle’ be better? ‘Embarrassment’, maybe?) of the Christmas Lights switch-on.

A fine question from Nicky Getgood though:

how will the council deal with noise complaints from local residents who find the festivals disruptive?

Money for art

BMAG is to be given £4.8m towards a new wing forming part of the £9.7million project called Birmingham – A City in the Making. It may one day hold the Staffordshire Hoard (to whit – donations are being collected).

You can wear jeans and trainers to the ballet

You knew that, right?

Birmingham Black History Month 2009

Chris Unitt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:22:26 +0000

In the Birmingham Post yesterday Punch Records‘ Ammo Talwar spoke his mind on what he sees as Birmingham’s neglect of this year’s Black History Month, especially in comparison to the enthusiasm shown over the Staffordshire Hoard:

When do we start pleasing the really big crowds – the ones who aren’t there, the ones who want to see something different? Do we have to get a metal detector down to Handsworth to unearth Apache Indian’s first gold tooth, or lock on to Steel Pulse’s forgotten cymbal set?

It’s Black History Month and there should be real effort and real funding to promote the treasures left to us by Birmingham’s black achievers.

Can’t argue with that.

The Black History Month website has a full run-down of everything happening over October (click the link and scroll down the page). It’s a little tricky to pick things out, although I’ve heard good things of East is East which is on at The Rep and Eric Roberson will be at The Drum on 10 Oct.

In the Birmingham Post piece Ammo mentions a showing of the controversial documentary, Deen Tight:

Filmed on location with Muslim rappers, DJs, slam poets, breakdancers and a graffiti artist in concerts, recording studios, at homes and in the streets. Our story focuses on the perceived conflict between traditional religious ideals and modernity, as well as both the positives and negatives of Western Pop culture on todays’ Muslim youth

That’s at The Drum on 13 October.