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  • Turning Point West Midlands | TPWM Artist Residencies & Critical Writing Bursaries 2012- 2013
    “Four organisations in the West Midlands will lead on TPWN new artist residency opportunities and one organisation on a critical writing project”
  • The Gallery Court
    A Birmingham-based, online seller of art prints and such
  • London 2012 Olympics: Games chiefs order ballet name change
    “Mr Bintley, who has choreographed a host of ballets to worldwide acclaim, described the decision as absurd and complained his new work was being treated like gift shop tat”
  • BLAM!
    Blam is a cooperative group of the most active of Birmingham’s younger generation of jazz musicians and is dedicated to advancing jazz and improvised music in the city
  • Reclaim To Fame
    Sue Thorne specialises in “mixed media, combining my own photography, reclaimed materials and vintage ephemera to create nostalgic and narrative paintings”
  • Watch the Cultural Olympiad trailer – West Midlands Dance
    Olympics! Here’s some dance stuff that’s happened over the past couple of years
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  • Job listing for Trustee – Audiences Central
    “Birmingham Museums Trust is seeking Trustees to take up the challenge of steering this new organisation (a trust to run the city’s nine museums sites) through its first few years and delivering our vision for a national museum in Birmingham”
  • InterFace 2012
    InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2012 it is being hosted by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design at Birmingham City University
  • IdeasTap | Creative Briefs: Fierce Festival Press Gang
    If you’re aged 16-19 and fancy some experience in multimedia journalism this may be the gig for you. Not everybody has ‘interviewed a dachshund’ on their CV
  • Oxygen Rooms
    Rehearsal and recording studios in Hockley
  • Flickr: “wagflickrmeet”
    Wolverhampton Art Gallery hosted a Flickrmeet the other weekend. Not sure if there’s a page with more info but all the tagged photos are here
  • Turning Point West Midlands | Part of the Turning Point Network | Road Trip West Midlands – Artist and Writer wanted
    “The commission will fund a visual artist and a creative writing to undertake a road trip in the West Midlands and to produce art work (visual art / creative writing) in response to this experience”
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  • 7inch October listings
    “a list of interesting things happening around Birmingham over the next 31 days or so”. You should definitely sign up to their newsletter
  • Turning Point West Midlands | Visual Art and Craft in the West Midlands
    A run-down of the venues, collections, festivals, schools and artist support programmes, as well as ways of buying the stuff
  • Radio Birmingham audio slideshow
    This audio slideshow was produced by Pete Simpkin, and used when he gave talks about the work of Radio Birmingham in the 1970s
  • K4 Architects designs £50m Birmingham fire station revamp | News | Building Design
    A big, average-looking tower. Splendid.
  • Imperica – Celebrating imperfection
    Interview with Antonio Roberts
  • Creative England opens for business
    Congrats to Maverick TV’s Jonnie Turpie on being among the first seven people appointed to the board
  • Dub to Jungle Documentary – YouTube
    Video about Punch’s recent tour with an interview with Ammo Talwar (among others)
  • Dear Mr Whitby – Raw Data Now : daveharte.com
    “What really got me irritated today is Councillor Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, bleating on about Birmingham getting marginalised when he could actually do something to help Birmingham become a thriving centre of digital creativity.” Everyone loves a rant
  • Department for Culture Media and Sport – lottery grants search
    Related to the previous link (sort of). Oh look, a big list of National Lottery grants given to Birmingham arts projects over the years
  • Bank of England to launch new £50 note
    “Inventor James Watt and his financial backer Matthew Boulton to feature on new £50 note, to be issued on 2 November”
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  • Keeping it local: regional theatre needs new media | Stage | guardian.co.uk
    “The challenge for arts organisations outside London is to embrace the blogosphere, and fast. I think we need to work hard to nurture the brave souls who are often spending their free time running what’s-on sites and blogs – invite them to our shows, treat them like proper journalists, buy them lunch, encourage our suppliers to buy advertising space on their websites, link to their sites from ours and so on. If we help listings sites and blogs to grow, we’re safeguarding the future of arts criticism.”
  • Sky Arts launches Ignition investment scheme
    £200,000 cash investment for six chosen projects, and bursaries of £30,000 each for young, talented individuals
  • GZA/Genius (of Wu-Tang Clan) | Hare and Hounds
    The GZA. In a pub. In a Birmingham suburb. For a tenner. How?
  • Fireworks, intrigue and change
    A thoughtful piece from Friction Arts’ Sandra Hall. Turning Point West Midlands are apparently lining up some specially commissioned essays from a range of people – looking forward to the rest
  • “Brum band The Toy Hearts had the following stolen last night: STOLEN GEAR – 6th April 2011 2 x…”
    Ouch. Have a look at the list, see if you happen see any of this stuff anywhere
  • Staffordshire Hoard
    New website for the hoard. Hat tip D’log for spotting it
  • Support Sound It Out (SIO)
    Petition for Sound It Out’s ACE National Portfolio application to be reassessed
  • Highbury Studio – Birmingham’s Top40 Artists
    A list of Birmingham artists who have had a Top40 record somewhere
  • Fullrange – Colman Getty
    Good follow-up from Lee Kemp on the Library of Birmingham PR contract thing. Includes an interesting bit on tender documents
  • The Catapult Club celebrates 10 years at Birmingham’s 02 Academy « Area Culture Guide
    Impressive stuff
  • Birmingham’s £25m academy
    “The academy, which is adjacent to Millennium Point in central Birmingham, is being created in partnership with London’s Brit School and Maverick TV”
  • We Are « Nomad Projeckt
    “The Nomad Projeckt is an artistic collective which specialise in the producing audio and visual work of all kinds inspired by old and new hip-hop movements, for details of our work have a look around the site.”
  • Twitter / David McAlmont: Birmingham is also confoun …
    “Birmingham is also confounding one’s expectations with its hot male totty count. I’m warming to the place.”
  • Turning Point West Midlands – Artists’ News & Opportunities Bulletin, 31 March 2011
    Loads of stuff in this. Worth subscribing to (it’s a PDF, btw)
  • Bank your thoughts: artists access to technology?
    “iShed (www.ished.net) is conducting a  feasibility study, supported by Arts Council England, into the potential of a web-based ‘Technology Bank’, where tech and related software can be advertised and offered on loan to creative projects in return for accreditation and shared learning”. Looks like it could be a good thing
  • The Blue Orange Theatre – Birmingham
    Funny – I was wondering about this place the other day. New theatre in Birmingham, due to open 13 April with ‘What The Butler Saw’ although I think there may have been a launch event last night
  • Fused Magazine – Fused at SXSW 11
    Fused went to SXSW and pointed a camera at bands and people dancing in the street
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  • We Are Birmingham team up with Bullring for a very exciting public art project | We Are Birmingham
    Tom Tebby, Carl Booth, Matt Murtagh and James Thompson are doing something to cover the hoardings while the Spiceal Street development goes on
  • ‘type-writing’ Symposium – good, long, comprehensive write-up of the event from Rachel Marsden, who was also one of the speakers
  • Porter, E. and Barber, A. (2007) Planning the cultural quarter in Birmingham’s Eastside
    From 2007 (deposited June 2010) ” In Birmingham UK, the aim to create a new cultural quarter in the industrial inner city area of Eastside represents a unique opportunity for the city to examine and learn from past lessons of the “cultural turn” in urban policy. The article examines these lessons and whether the Eastside scheme is set to repeat the mistakes of the past”
  • Turning Point West Midlands | Event, 26 May
    An afternoon to find out about professional development opportunities for artists, makers and curators in the West Mids
  • BBC U-turn over Asian Network closure
    “The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half”
  • Licence to shoot | The Sunday Times
    Nice bit of profile for First Light Movies in The Sunday Times. “Wanting to give today’s youth a voice, James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is backing young movie-makers in an inspiring project”
  • Jurn crowd-funding call « D’log
    “My JURN search-engine is expanding, with your help! I’d like to build on the two years of hard work I’ve already put into building JURN. I want to make a world-class dedicated search-engine for open-access content in the arts, humanities, and (if funded) the social sciences”
  • April Bloomfield: the English chef taking Manhattan by storm
    Similar to the article we linked to a few months back. Fascinating lady
  • Orbital – Live At The Dance Factory
    Live recording of Orbital at The Dance Factory, Birmingham, UK, June 5th, 1993
  • Social Media Tips for Musicians
    Bobbie Gardner did a talk for someone (I think it was Sound It Out) and has written up her notes
  • A Birmingham Flickr Directory
    A nice, healthy list of Birmingham-related Flickr groups. Started in 2006 and still being updated
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    On 8 November Turning Point West Midlands will be hosting Voice Your Vision at The New Art Gallery Walsall from 10am – 4pm.

    With the opportunity to discuss and debate the future of visual arts in the West Midlands, this event aims to find and prioritize ways of strengthening the visual arts in light of recent cuts to the sector.

    In these challenging times it is important that we play to our strengths that those in visual arts come together as a collective voice. Artists are at the heart of Turning Point West Midlands and we hope you, along with arts organisations – studios, galleries and museums, come together to discuss and steer the way forward for the visual arts strategy within the region.

    The event is free and refreshments will be served. To confirm your attendance email: jane.morrow@bcu.ac.uk

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    These informal meetings are the first stage in a process to develop a Visual Arts Strategy for the West Midlands and will feed in to the Working Groups.

    The TPWM Steering Group has identified Artist Support and Development as a key priority for the Strategy. The purpose of the meeting is to look at how we do this for the West Midlands and to outline progress to-date.

    This is a free public event, if you are unable to attend views are welcomed through the feedback page of the new Turning Point West Midlands website .

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