Mark Gonzalez is down at The Hubb in Sparkbrook on Sunday, with a performance in the evening and some masterclass sessions earlier in the day. Info via muslimwritersawards.org.uk.

From The Hubb on Twitter:

#soulinthemachine Khyle raja drawing upon @thehubb1 walls pic.twitter.com/KuSs6jxr

That’s for an exhibition called Soul in the Machine that’s opening tomorrow.

The blurb from the press release says:

Soul City Arts welcomes acclaimed author, Na’ima B. Robert, to the city of Birmingham for the first time. She will be launching her controversial new novel about Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, ‘Far From Home’, exclusively at The Hubb.

In addition to discussing some of the original ideas behind her new book, Nai’ma B. Robert will be speaking about her inspiration as a writer and her journey to becoming a published author at Birmingham’s exciting Hubb Arts centre in Sparkbrook, Birmingham.

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 in that too, and people seemed to be printing big flyers for things. I didn’t make it to Taste of Birmingham but people tell me it was pretty good. We also flagged up the work of Sweaty Eskimo.

BARG announced some fun and games at the Mac, Haji Noor Deen visited The Hubb, the Cut Out Shop folks made The DIY Times and I did a bit of a write-up from the BE Festival. New Art Gallery Walsall hosted the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize for a while and the entirely excellent-looking Six Summer Saturdays started.

There was news of cuts from the new government and I tried to wrap my head around the mess that was being made of sorting out a LEP for Birmingham/West Midlands. The flyering/postering issue got another run out too.

Birmingham didn’t get the nod for City of Culture 2013. Ah well.