Bollywood Steps An outdoor dance spectacular that’s part of Birmingham Town Hall‘s 175th birthday celebrations. They’re hoping for up to have had up to 12,000 people take part. It’s being performed on Friday 9 October at 8pm and Saturday 10 October at 3pm and 8pm – and you can learn the steps half an hour … [Read more…]
Were you there? VIVID would like to talk to anyone who attended the following events in Birmingham in the 1980s. John Akomfrah: Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On © Pogus Caesar / OOM Gallery Archive 1985 – The launch of ‘Handsworth Songs’ at the Birmingham Film & TV Festival in October 1986 – Q&A with … [Read more…]
Things over on Eastside are really hotting up over the next few weeks. I will be heading down Digbeth way on Friday evening for the opening of SCULPTURE SHOW – an exhibition of work by the following artists showing at Eastside Projects: Athanasios Argianas, Art & Language, Mel Bochner, Susan Collis, Michael Dean, Tatiana Echeverri … [Read more…]
VIVID are giving you the chance to do something different with your weekend are are hosting a series of Saturday screenings of independent video work.George Barber / Beyond Language & introduction by George Barber Saturday 28th March 2pm £3/2 A pioneer of British video art, George Barber was a founding member of ZG Magazine and … [Read more…]
Birmingham: British rock’s forgotten city? Louis Pattison at The Guardian Music blog chews the fat over the city’s musical heritage and starts debate a plenty with statements like ‘Birmingham, however, is not a music city’, and comparing Brum to the swaggering ‘Madchester’. D’log – Handsworth Songs The excellent 60-minute film Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah & … [Read more…]
A couple of events from VIVID: INSPIRATIONS (Sat 07 Feb 2009) invites five UK based individuals who have played a major role in the critical, artistic and curatorial development of moving image, to select one moving image work that has made a significant impact on their own practice. VIVID is delighted to announce 2009 selectors … [Read more…]
At VIVID until 20 December (but only Wed-Sat), The Perfect Sound is a ‘single channel video work’ which looks at the idea of creating a ‘perfect sound’ within the English language. Katarina Zdjelar has been in residence at VIVID for the past couple of months and this is her first solo exhibition here.
Halloween might not be my bag but at least it’s an excuse to put some interesting events on. Aside from the Ikon Eastside closing party there are a fair number of Halloween-themed things going on. These are they (all happening on Friday 31 October, except the last two): The National Trust are putting on events … [Read more…]