Out of the ashes of the Digbeth media arts centre that was VIVID (which closed in March 2012), a new venture has been born with VIVID Projects opening a new space and exciting plans out of the thriving eastside artists allotment Warwick Bar. This all comes as a result of receiving an Arts Council grant for a two year development programme of local Birmingham based work – great news.

Vivid Projects will be setting up shop on the February 22nd with a launch party in the space, check out the details on their Facebook event, and also launching 33 Revolutions, with the first of their projects with Revolution 01, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, How Long Will They Last?” starting at 7pm on their opening night.

Here’s a few more details about 33 Revolutions lifted from Vivid Project’s Facebook:

The opening multi-media season 33 REVOLUTIONS will be a dynamic and sometimes challenging 8-month programme that asks the question; can art and culture be a catalyst for social change? Thought provoking encounters between new works and archive from 1960s to the present will addresses the ways in which film makers and artists from a diverse range of cultural situations and societies have protested. 

33 REVOLUTIONS takes the audience on a journey through film, print, performance and song, celebrating personal acts of protest and resistance from the dance floors of 70’s NYC to the anti-institutional spirit of 1960s – 70s Britain right up to the simmering Arab Spring and Occupy!. 

Keep an eye on Vivid Project’s Facebook for more details.

This outstanding video documents some of the rehearsel and creation process of Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s Cinderella. Created by BRB’s Rob Lindsay, this is a rare glimpse behind the scenes, while also being directly set against moments in the final production, all with commentary by choreographer and company director David Bintley.

Well worth 3 minutes of your time.

Zinefest 2012 from Created in Birmingham on Vimeo.

Hopefully the first of many more videos to come!

Are we missing something? Well let us know in the comments or send us a message.

Monday 13th

• Kalaboration – artist talk with Keith Piper, 6–7pm at the Custard Factory. Keith presents ‘A Short Sprint’ video installation. 
• Start of Brindleyplace Film Festival  Brindleyplace’s first open air cinema.
• Oriental Art exhibition opens at Old Print Works, Balsall Heath 4–7pm “A sensory narrative by asian contemporary artists”.

Tuesday 14th

• 8bit Lounge at the Hare and Hounds

Thursday 16th

• Muzikstan free Festival – a free world music festival at Old Print Works in Balsall Heath.

Friday 17th

• Hand in Hand for Syria, a charity gig at The Station, Kings Heath from 7.30pm
• Likemind; coffee, chat, collaborate. From 8am, Saint Cafe on St Paul’s Square

Saturday 18th

• From Tower Hill to Power Hill: Performance at the Drum by ‘Young Gifted Brum’ of stories from Jamaica to Birmingham.
• Walking & Writing workshop led by poet & writer Helen Calcutt in Moseley Park. Places cost £14 per person and are open to all ages. For more information or to book email email@valleyprojects.org
• The Flyover Show under the flyover at Hockley Circus
• Teabags & Gladrags The Dance Workshop, Moseley. 18th August – Garment swap and creative meet.
• ‘If Only I Could’  free circus performance at Birmingham Hippodrome as part of Six Summer Saturdays.
• El Ghost Fest, 6.30pm at The Conservatory, the new venue at Muthers Studio in Digbeth.

Sunday 19th

• www.TradArtsTeam.co.uk The Traditional Arts Team leads music sessions from 8-10pm on the third Sunday of the month at the Prince of Wales, Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham.
• Museum Collection Centre (MCC) Open Day
• As part of the Jamaica Gold season, the outdoor event A34 to Jamaica (at the Drum) presents a cultural day of creativity aimed at children,young people and their families. The festival takes place in Phillip Street Park with activities, food stalls and a fun fair, to keep the whole family entertained.
• The start of Stockhausen Birmingham

MACE (Media Archive for Central England) are currently working on The Full Circle Project, which will run for 3 years as they hunt down hidden or forgotten film footage and home-movies from the past 100 years, created by people of the Midlands.

The aim is to make these materials accessible to the community so that they can be widely enjoyed by future generations and used for research, in exhibitions, screenings and education work.

Our concern at MACE is that films and videos are disappearing fast.  We want to stem the tide by working with organisations across the midlands to help them find and ‘save’ their local community’s moving image heritage.

For more information on the Full Circle Project, contact Mace or visit their website / blog for full details on what they do with donated film, and the local organisations involved.

Goodnight Lenin – Crook In The Creek from Prime Objective on Vimeo.

And here’s the video for ‘She Says’ by Curio Flame and Miles ‘M.I’ Davis on Blemish Records and filmed on Colmore Row by the looks of things:

If you came to the launch on Feb 25th you really need to come back and see the shop now it’s full and buzzing. Here’s a video I shot on Saturday afternoon during a relatively quiet period.

I know a lot of you have been helping to spread the word about the shop which is great as we’re getting all sorts of people coming in. Thank you so much for this and keep it up!

For more updates on the shop, keep tabs on its dedicated blog (which we will update more, honest.)

Here’s one of my personal favourite Kipple clips, called ‘Tony Robinson’s Running Tales‘:

You can find much more Kipple on Eagle & Feather’s criminally-undersubscribed Youtube channel here.