- Creative Alliance Alumni is a Facebook group for people who’ve “taken part in, taught on, worked with or want to get involved in a Creative Alliance programme”.
- Stand up for the maestro. The CBSO’s conductor Sakari Oramo writes an impassioned defense of Elgar as an international figure in the Guardian in advance of their performance of The Dream of Gerontius on Friday June 1st.
- Nearly missed it: An art exhibition at Vivid has been running for the past week or so and finishes on June 2nd. Juneau Projects, Kate Pemberton and Harminder Singh Judge are names that I’ve seen around a lot recently. More info at those links and the exhibition is open Wed to Sat, 12 - 5.30pm here.
- The Wolverhampton Uni’s School of Art and Design Degree Show runs from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th June.
- The next Out of Hours networking event at Light House, Wolverhampton will be on Photography with photographers Gaelle Roche and Anthony William Bye in attendance. It’s on Monday 4th June 5.30 – 8pm and is free. More info.
Links from Delicious- Enduring America
- Media Talent Bank - January member of the month
- Vote for Created in Birmingham
- Birmingham Photospace: Choose a Photographer
- Big Brum Quiz of the Year 2008 - Birmingham: It's Not Shit
- Birmingham Jazz News - Sammy Goulbourne: Barack Obama Mixtape
- ESRC report on Future Management of the UK's Creative Industries.
- Art Stalking: One Day Comic & Feature: Architecture
- It's behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment
- Laundry - an association of multi-disciplinary artists