Yam Big Richard Richard’s DJing, hacks, collages and write-ups from events Warwick Bar A website for Minerva Works, the small industrial estate in Digbeth currently home to Grand Union Studios, Fazeley Park, Street Print and Clifton Steel Fast Forward – 6.8 million items in our collections! Phew « Museum Network Warwickshire Fast Forward 2010, the … [Read more…]
The Warwick Arts Centre lineup for the next few months features a diverse range of concerts, plays and film screenings. True to form, the cinema schedule picks up on international gems such as A Separation, a tale of divorce and family politics in Iran; and The Skin I Live In, the latest haunting opus from … [Read more…]
From time to time a disgruntled promoter will write something accusing the people of Birmingham of being an apathetic bunch who’d rather stay at home than go out and have a good time. See this post from a year ago for an example. James Cook has joined this cohort with a post titled ‘Why the … [Read more…]
If you’re aged 25 or under and you like getting things for free then make haste to A Night Less Ordinary and see what tickets you can snaffle up. This scheme’s getting the chop soon, so take advantage while you still can. Round these parts The Drum, The Rep and Hippodrome have offers. Looking a … [Read more…]
From the Sustain fund but still, an award’s an award, innit? Arts Council England has made a seventh round of awards from its £40 million Sustain fund for organisations under pressure as a result of the recession. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s application met the Sustain criteria as the … [Read more…]
The next PILOT Night, co-piloted by Kindle Theatre at AE Harris, Birmingham will be on Thursday 1 April 2010. Here’s some copy/pasted info. For more knowledge, and to apply, go to www.pilotnights.co.uk. Pilot is a platform for testing new theatre work from the West Midlands and beyond. Deadline for submissions Monday 1st March, 12pm RELEASE … [Read more…]
Tomorrow night (Thursday) I’m taking a wander over to Warwick Arts Centre, as are a couple of Birmingham-based outfits, for It Came From Pilot: Father and son duo, Kings of England perform Where We Live and What We Live For. In 2001 75 year old Peter Bowes had a trans-ischemic attack, a stroke. In this … [Read more…]