For those that are into these kind of things, you can now add Created in Birmingham to your Circles on Google+. If you’ve no idea what Google+ is then I really wouldn’t worry about it if I were you. Incidentally, now’s probably a good time to remind you that if you want to follow the … [Read more…]
There’s loads of stuff happening at Artsfest this weekend. I pulled out a few suggestions here (with more in the comments below that post) but to get an idea of what people are up to, here’s a live Twitter search to have a look at: Meanwhile, I’m covering what’s going on in the Dance Marquee … [Read more…]
Today, every so often, I’m going to grab a smattering of tweets and pull them into the timeline below. If you refresh this page every so often you’ll see what’s been added. Or you can see it on the Storify site. [View the story “Birmingham arts & culture tweets, 2 June 2011” on Storify] There’s … [Read more…]
I went to see Stan’s Cafe’s The Cleansing of Constance Brown at AE Harris on Saturday. It was superb and I’d thoroughly recommend grabbing some tickets before it closes on Saturday. Unless it’s already sold out. By rights it should’ve done that long ago. It’s probably better to go with no expectations/preconceptions of about what … [Read more…]
Last night was Birmingham Twestival, a gathering of Birmingham Twitter users. The evening was a delightful mix of games, prizes and squinting at name tags, all in the name of charity. Birmingham joined over 175 countries in hosting a event to raise money and awareness for charity: water. Photo by Lee Allen I had a … [Read more…]
This week Wendy Cope, one of the favourites to become the new poet laureate said that you can’t write poetry to order. Channel 4 set a challenge to prove her wrong: Write a poem ‘to lift the spirits of the nation’ in the format of a 140 character Twitter tweet. Katie Parry aka @supercoolkp, a … [Read more…]
shameless self promotion (for a good cause) « graphiquillan Please go and vote for Shona’s beautiful design. It’s so quick to do and you’ll be supporting Birmingham’s creativeness. Please. Go on 4Talent Central Film Weekender As part of the Hello Digital festival the local 4Talent folk have put together some film events at the Electric … [Read more…]
Back in April Pete did a round-up of Birmingham creatives on Twitter. There have been many additions since then, including accounts registered in the names of various local companies, festivals, etc who are using the (free!) service in all sorts of ways. Not all of them are being used all year round or even updated … [Read more…]