This Friday 21st March marks World Storytelling Day, a global celebration of oral storytelling on the Spring Equinox. This is the one day in the year where people are encouraged to tell and listen to as many stories in as many languages at as many places as possible. It is significant for its ability to … [Read more…]
The new Birmingham Loves Photographers programme kicks off on Thursday 20th March with the launch of the first exhibition along with a film screening of ‘Everybody Street’ in association with Flatpack Film Festival. Between March and October, there will be a series of over 20 photography events, open to photographers of a variety of abilities and interests … [Read more…]
‘The Event‘ at The ThinkTank at Millennium Point is an opportunity for young and youngish people to debate and decide the future of local art, heritage and culture. On Saturday 15th March, people from across the West Midlands are coming together for this free creative consultation event that empowers young people to take leadership roles. There … [Read more…]
Small Talk = “A polite conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters”. There’s an event coming up – which although is sold out – is without a doubt, still worthy of a mention so that you don’t miss out next time. You can get on the waiting list via their eventbrite page just in case there any … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Good For Nothing team have announced the first date for their first gig, ‘Changin’ The Kitchen’. (we wrote about Good For Nothing back in October if you need a reminder about what GFN Birmingham is) Below is an excerpt from their invite… We’ll be getting together for 24hours of thinking, making and … [Read more…]
MMOA (Making More of Outdoors Art): Making More of Outdoor Arts is a research, conversation and thinking project. It has been commissioned by Arts Council England West Midlands and led by Helga Henry (of Creative Shift), and Orit Azaz (independent artistic director and consultant ). We’d like you to get involved in the project and … [Read more…]
If you don’t know what Pecha Kucha is, a brief explanation would be local talkers discussing a topic of their choice, accompanied by 20 slides and 20 seconds for each slide. For a better explanation check out an old CiB blog post here. The recent gatherings (with the last being 25th September and many of the talks that night … [Read more…]
Ok, not that many in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve noticed a small but determined flurry of talk/lecture/discussion events coming through my RSS feeds in the past few days. These are they… D’log has flagged up: A Series of Conversations organised by the Birmingham Photography and Archive Research Group; and Some events and … [Read more…]