Yam Big Richard Richard’s DJing, hacks, collages and write-ups from events Warwick Bar A website for Minerva Works, the small industrial estate in Digbeth currently home to Grand Union Studios, Fazeley Park, Street Print and Clifton Steel Fast Forward – 6.8 million items in our collections! Phew « Museum Network Warwickshire Fast Forward 2010, the … [Read more…]
An Announcement from Audiences Central – Audiences Central “It is with great sadness that the Board of Audiences Central announces that Audiences Central will cease trading on 31 March 2012.” A victim of the cuts Anna Mairi; writing for writing. Anna is an English Lit student UoB English Lit student, among other things. This is … [Read more…]
At 7pm on BBC2: Michael Smith looks for the positive in what some consider Europe’s most boring city – Birmingham Putting the ‘n’ into ‘BBC cuts’. UPDATE You can see this episode on iPlayer until 7pm on 4 November. It featured The Event (in particular, Creative Machines, Minimalist Sculpture at Curzon Street Station), Eastside Projects … [Read more…]
BAZ are busy at The Event. They’re hosting Love in the Snug (an alternative festival hub) where you can also buy the in-joke stuffed Mills and Koons, which is: A Brief Introduction to the Saucy Secrets of the Birmingham Art World I did and can confirm it’s simultaneously amusing and baffling (I’m pretty sure some … [Read more…]
In no particular order… Getting to wander around Curzon Street Station (although there’s some good stuff in there, I have to admit I was excited enough about the building itself), finally making it over to The Lombard Method, Simon Faithfull’s window piece at Grand Union, meeting the guys behind BAZ (and Athletico Tortured Artists), Crowd … [Read more…]
The last one was good. Lots to see and lots to do, so go discover on The Event website. Or read on for some blurb: Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is delighted to announce it will be hosting The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival from 21 – 30 October 2011 from their galleries, studio spaces … [Read more…]
Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum will be hosting a silent auction of over thirty artworks from the 6 – 24 June 2011 for The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival due to be held in Birmingham this Autumn. The bidding will close on the 24 June 2011 in Digbeth’s Bond Company, where the works will be … [Read more…]
Job listing for Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum: Call for Proposals (The Event) Good to hear this is happening again, I liked the last one. “Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is pleased to announce it is currently seeking projects from artists and curators in the UK for inclusion in The Event 2011, to take place 21 – … [Read more…]