Their hopes and aspirations cover better collaboration, apps for artists and a look at what to expect from Birmingham’s theatre scene over the coming months.

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If you want to dance your way into 2012, there are plenty of clubs offering NYE nights. Gatecrasher have got 2manydjs, Eric Prydz, AN21 and Max Vangelli, Bigger Than Barry are at The Old Crown, Eclectricity at the HMV Institute with Chase & Status and Annie Mac, Hott Date are doing a thing at Hennesseys and Glas will meet Face at The Rainbow. Everywhere else has got a thing going on though.

If you’d rather keep things slightly more pub-based, then Island Bar and The Victoria are getting together for a joint celebration. Sam Redmore and This is TMRW are looking after the Hare and Hounds and there’s a ‘live fast and die young’ fancy-dress night at The Fighting Cocks in Moseley. Your local will probably be open too.

Not to be outdone, Birmingham City Council are putting on “low level pyrotechnics” in Victoria Square while the Big Screen will show the BBC One New Year Celebrations between 10pm and 12.30am.

Music is covered too, with The Subterraneans at The Jam House, The Father Teds at The Irish Centre, Soul Survivors at Sutton Town Hall, and Symphony Hall’s New Year’s Eve Gala.

And finally if you need a laugh after this long year, there’s comedy at The Glee Club, Highlight and Jongleurs.

Birmingham Royal Ballet and mac managed to raise a decent amount of money through The Big Arts Give, while Moseley Folk and OxjamBrum ended the year with a Christmas Ceilidh and Flatpack released a few highlights set for their 2011 festival.

We also featured a few independently made Christmas cards by local designers, took a look at what can be expected from the new Library of Birmingham interior and the much anticipated budget for Birmingham art organisations was announced by Birmingham City Council.

As the year drew to a close, Rhubarb Radio made a plea for help, the 2010 Twitpanto production of Jack and the Beanstalk took place and we took a look at what Birmingham’s creative minds had come up with for the festive season.

Christmas Day television treated us to Birmingham Royal Ballet, with a prime Christmas dinner slot on BBC1, while Birmingham Opera Company also made it onto BBC4 for post dinner relaxation.

Brilliantly Birmingham kicked off together with the fifth annual FLUX exhibition, Aedas Presents launched a new monthly art programme and Art of Ideas finally arrived with a host of associated events running over four days.

The We Are Birmingham Shop opened its doors with a drinks reception, Chris gave a debrief of the Arts Council briefing on funding and the West Midlands creative jobs board, Jobplot, returned with a fresh makeover.

November also saw the launch of The Pilot Project, Jennifer Tee’s exhibition, Memento Park opened at Eastside Projects, and Chris attended the wedding of the year.

Lucy McLauchlan returned with her paintbrushes to add something a little interesting to the Moseley Road hoardings, while VIVID launched their latest project, Language, and as December approached, the Christmas fairs sprung into action.

As winter kicked in, we bid a Blonde Farewell to Ikon Eastside, got crafty with Craftspace, said hello to Creative Central and looked ahead to Flatpack and Fierce’s joint 2011 venture.

The Art Bar opened featuring exhibitions and a connection with the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery, the Union Black Film Festival took place with a string of events and screenings. Meanwhile Punch and OOM Gallery published photographer, Pogus Caesar’s book, Musik Kinda Sweet

October was also the month of The Big Draw, with an array of activities popping up in association all over the city. We took a look at what Shout Festival had in store for 2010 and, with the help of 40 local bands and musicians, OxjamBrum took over 6 venues in Birmingham for 12 hours of music.

We gave a run down of various Halloween festivities taking place around the city, plus Invisible City hosted Media Circus, celebrating creative Birmingham, and Moseley Folk and Symphony Hall launched the monthly Folk For Free.

Oh and more arts cuts were announced.

With yet another packed programme, Artsfest 2010 took place on the same weekend as Birmingham Zine Fest and VIVID’s Cum Clubbing, while Friction Arts also held Inside Out Festival towards the end of the month.

Bullring announced their plans to spice up Spiceal Street with a regeneration which will see a hub of new restaurants appear in the space by St. Martins church, and with a wave of fresh cuts, the ‘Save the Arts’ and ‘I Value the Arts’ campaigns were launched.

International Project Space launched a week long programme of radio shows featuring a selection of independent art organisations, plus The British Science Festival took place, with a programme full of thought provoking seminars and events, and the Walsall Word Cloud began to take shape.

Brian Griffin’s retrospective exhibition, Face to Face, landed in Snowhill, we took a look at some of the highlights ahead of the Birmingham Book Festival and Sampad launched Radiu5 with a call for young volunteers.

The latest version of The Big City Plan was announced and the We Are Birmingham shop put out a call for people wanting to get involved.

2010 also saw the return of The British Glass Biennale in Stourbridge, The Public welcomed video artist Bill Viola’s exhibition The Fall into Paradise and the anticipation for Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Cinderella started to build as Creating Cinderalla began charting the show’s development.

We took a look at an audio slideshow on The Diskery, put together by Sam Coley, along with couple of locally produced music videos, including Moseley folk faves, Goodnight Lenin’s debut single ‘Crook in The Creek’.

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

New quarterly Birmingham based magazine, LABB, was launched, and with not long until Artsfest 2010, we took a look at some of the big acts scheduled for the festival, along with the latest information on the Black International Film Festival.

The Photography Collective and Birmingham Photo Space teamed up with Rhubarb Rhubarb to bring us the Contact Exhibition, featuring a selection of local photographers, while Mohammad Ali’s Writing on the Wall documentary was premiered at mac.

Pete kicked off discussions about how to follow on from the CiB Shop, The Little Chill looked like fun and involved pretty much every promoter in town and Supersonic’s line-up started coming together.

There was a lot of kerfuffle around the filming of Turbulence, with lots of people getting involved in that too, and people seemed to be printing big flyers for things. I didn’t make it to Taste of Birmingham but people tell me it was pretty good. We also flagged up the work of Sweaty Eskimo.

BARG announced some fun and games at the Mac, Haji Noor Deen visited The Hubb, the Cut Out Shop folks made The DIY Times and I did a bit of a write-up from the BE Festival. New Art Gallery Walsall hosted the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize for a while and the entirely excellent-looking Six Summer Saturdays started.

There was news of cuts from the new government and I tried to wrap my head around the mess that was being made of sorting out a LEP for Birmingham/West Midlands. The flyering/postering issue got another run out too.

Birmingham didn’t get the nod for City of Culture 2013. Ah well.

The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. Birmingham presented its final bid for the City of Culture and we crossed our fingers. Temper filled the streets with fashion icons. We looked at the trailer for Soulboy and discovered the blog for Reuben Colley Fine Arts.

The Arts Council announced a 0.5% cut in funding to RFO’s. Boo. We found some familiar faces in Synth Eastwood’s video tomfoolery from the Flatpack Festival. Treasured at the MAC looked good.

Bright Space started looking for people to get involved in Platform and I asked ‘Does Birmingham Future interest you?‘ and got a fairly resounding ‘Um, who?’. Theatre folk came together and spoke easy, the newly opened Zellig hosted the Bass Festival’s Fight The Power exhibition and there was talk of verbalising and visualisation.

Creative Republic launched Invisible City and Marketing Birmingham released a new promotional video for the city that featured a host of creative talent.

The Created in Birmingham closed its shutters for the last time at the end of the month. Someone kissed the feedback book:

International Dance Festival Birmingham came to an end too, while Ian looked forward to what was in store at the 2010 BASS Festival and I had a peek at the Lichfield Festival’s line-up.

RoguePlay left the Custard Factory, I noticed Writing West Midlands for the first time, Ikon announced their series of ‘Favourite Things’ talks, the Daze-Ray exhibition occupied a corner of the Jewellery Quarter and IPEX took over the NEC.

hobbypopMUSEUM spent some time at Eastside Projects, the annual Cure Leukemia Art Auction took place, Ben Javens made a tea towel, end-of-year-show season started up and there was a photography exhibition at the Custard Factory.

I went to visit the flashy gizmos at University of Birmingham’s Heritage and Culture Learning Hub too.