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Warwick Bar Summer Fete

Kerry — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:00:44 +0000

On the 27th July 2013 it’s the Warwick Bar Summer Fete.

“a moveable feast of art, culture and food.

Experience Digbeth’s canalside afresh with street food, guided walks, visual art & performance, aerial theatre, music, family friendly workshops, and a pedal powered cinema.”

There are a lot of great groups of people involved in this including: Vivid Projects, Flatpack, Edible Eastside, Still Walking, They Are Here, Grand Union, Ikon’s Slow Boat, Companis, Stryx, MSFAC (Margaret Street Free Arts Council), RoguePlay Theatre, Harris Moore, WEMAKE6, Digbeth Dining Club, VINYL and many more.

The event is FREE and on Saturday 27th July, 12pm-6pm. More information in this blog post.

If you don’t know where Warwick Bar is, then see their handy ‘How to find us’ page on their website.

On the same weekend, just around the corner – is the Birmingham Beer Bash, which I think is also worth a mention…

Vivid Projects Launch – 33 Revolutions

Craig Bush — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:00:39 +0000

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.

Links for 18 November 2011

Chris Unitt — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:26:43 +0000

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 6th bi-annual survey of West Midlands museums. In all, 170 of you participated, 79% of all our museums! Covering organisational health, collections, and users, it is a wide-ranging and detailed picture of museum provision throughout the West Midlands in 2010
The Event, Various venues, Birmingham – Reviews
A review of The Event in the Independent
BASS FESTIVAL 2012- Commissions NOW OPEN!
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jamaican Independence and to welcome the Jamaican Olympic team to Birmingham BASS will have JAMAICA as its theme in 2012
Dancing for the Games | Blog | Moving Earth open workshops
sampad‘s Dancing for the Games project Moving Earth is holding open workshops in Birmingham on Saturday 26 November.
Michael’s Animation blog
Michael Price is studying animation at BCU
BBC Performing Arts Funds announce fellowships
The BBC Performing Arts Fund announced recently that 13 dance organisations across the UK had been awarded a grant as part of its Dance Fellowships scheme, including ACE Dance and Music and Warwick Arts Centre’s Boys Dancing
“Long-Eared Furry Things” – blog – frilly
Bunnies, generally
Eastside Projects Public Evaluation Event
“From 27 to 29 October, Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK held a three day symposium to analyse and evaluate three years of an artist run space as public gallery”. The videos are online, I just wish they had titles
Open File
Open File is a curatorial conversation between artist Jack Brindley and curator Tim Dixon. The project began as a blog in February 2011. Launching at Grand Union this November 18th, the project will exist as an on-going series of live events, an open and expanding cumulative publication, and a new web-based archive and resource

OPEN DOORS: Warwick Bar Eastside

Alex Jones — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:55:05 +0000

ISIS Waterside Regeneration are inviting arts, cultural and social enterprise agencies on a site tour of Warwick Bar, at the heart of Eastside cultural quarter on Thursday 24 February, at 12 – 2pm and 4 – 6pm (arriving at 12pm or 4pm).

Visitors will be given the opportunity to express interest and early stage ideas for use of the buildings and spaces, including temporary events, installations or performances from one day to monthly lets.

There remains a commitment to retain Warwick Bar as a distinctive quarter, currently home to Grand Union, the area provides links to Birmingham’s cultural community through a varied mix of on-site activity.

Light refreshments will also be available, with owners and agents on hand to discuss ideas and approaches to sustaining activity in the Eastside area.

RSVP to admin@sueball.co.uk, and meet for the tour at 122 Fazeley Street, B5 5RS.