The book of the exhibition, put together by Damian Brown: 96 pages of images and text documenting the artists featured in the Strong Brum project that was commissioned by Birmingham City Council and exhibited between September and December 2009 at The Drum, thanks to Mukhtar Dar. The book itself is bookstore-quality with a hardcover, professionally … [Read more…]
To parrot the official blurb: Screen WM’s Festival of Film gives you the chance to enjoy free screenings of sensational films that have been inspired by, produced or filmed in the West Midlands It runs from 16-29 November at venues around the region. Here’s the main list of films, and here’s what’s playing when and … [Read more…]
Birmingham’s People comes from the folks at Birmingham Photospace and is a continuation of the portrait project they carried out over the Artsfest weekend in September. The website has been featuring the portraits taken, including the latest of ‘Radway’ (below) who, unless I’m mistaken, is none other than Violet Attack from the Birmingham Blitz Derby … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
David Barrow’s northern soul paintings at St Pauls Gallery “An exclusive exhibition of David Barrow’s Wigan Casino paintings will open on 21st November” West Midlands Media Top 100 | daveharte.com Dave Harte raises the prospect of a West Mids media top 100 to include people from “TV, radio, the press and publishing, film and production, … [Read more…]
One for the younger people: At long last The Drum is launching “Young Gifted Brum“, a free and continuous program of performing and digital arts for Children and Young People. The launch will take place on Thursday, 6th November at 5.30pm – 7.30pm at The Drum, Aston and all Young People aged 8-18yrs are welcome … [Read more…]
In a nutshell, a version of Mother India (seminal 1957 Bollywood flick) has been re-visualised and re-scored and will be officially launched at The Drum (who co-commissioned it) on 2 August at 7.30pm. This looks pretty much essential and I’m gutted that I’m not going to be around to see it. Instead, I’m going to … [Read more…]
As I was leaving the Electric yesterday having seen the excellent Planet B-Boy I was handed a brochure for this year’s BASS Festival, happening across the East Midlands over June. BASS stands for British Art and Street Sounds and the festival is a Punch Records production in partnership with 2Funky Arts, Hella Music and Baby … [Read more…]