A weblog updated daily by Chris Unitt.
(Previously run by Pete Ashton until he stepped down in April)
Joint-winner of the Media Guardian Innovation Award for Independent Blog 2008. "An entrepot for the cultural chaos of Birmingham"
Job listings from Audiences CentralFrankie was invited down to have a poke around Ditto Music, the Birmingham-based music distributors who have a show on Channel Red (Sky 186) every week-night 6-7pm.
Here’s her interview with Lee Parsons:
She also got slightly more than she bargained for when she ended up being interviewed on the show. Her diary of the evening is […]
Just a reminder that there’s only a few days left to get your applications in for the £1 Arts Commission Scheme run by The Eccentric City:
There is:
No criteria.
We offer:
The successful recipient (£1) and the opportunity to publish the results in our 3rd tabloid paper (10,000 free emotional copies will be out later in the year (we […]
Flicking through the flyers in The Kitchen the other day I happened upon a pile of business cards featuring one of these little chaps:
The card belonged to Antony Collins who does graphic design and illustration, presumably on a freelance basis. His email address, if you want to get in touch, is on his Deviant Art […]
Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: July 2008
Russ L’s ever-useful take on the month’s listings.
New Screen at the Electric « Fused Magazine
“The UK’s oldest working cinema is due to open its second screen on the 4th July after six months of careful restoration, costing over £100,000″.
The Jewellery Quarter Arts & […]
You may remember Frankie Ward, the newest addition to CiB, from her interview with Soweto Kinch. I’ve not really introduced her properly yet but her she is to do that herself:
For some info about the 101 things Frankie’s doing (Gigbeth, Birmingham Live, BBC Blast Arts Reporter, Burn FM Programme Controller and so on), check out […]
Present on 4Talent
Win a ticket to Bestival and the chance to interview an artist on 4Talent’s podcast. Some interesting fun with Twitter from the Brum-based 4Talent peoples.
Collection: Capsule @ Sonar 2008
Jenny Capsule has put up photos from Sonar.
Birmingham Words - New Editorial Team
“We intend to make Birmingham Words reflect the diverse talent from our region […]
Transmissions is the Rep’s young (as in 12-26 year old) playwrights’ programme and was started back in 1998.
To celebrate this decade of fantastic new work, we’re staging extracts from plays that were big hits at previous festivals alongside some new commissions that look to the future.
Click for show details and suggested highlights.
Fact: Ludgate Car Park, adjacent to Great Charles Street (Queensway), Birmingham (UK) in is one of the last remaining sites in the central part of the city that hasn’t yet been built since being bombed during the 2nd World War.
Invite: Join Eccentric Archeologist, Harry Palmer, this Saturday 12 midday as part or an informal mission examining this peculiar […]
First up, don’t forget that Ian from 7 Inch Cinema is presenting his Favourite Things at the Ikon Gallery this evening (25 June) from 6.30 to 7.30pm in the events room.
Consider that a taster for the main event on Saturday - 7 Inch Cinema’s birthday, which they’re celebrating with a line-up so tasty it’s almost […]
Modulate in Capsule
Modulate, the West Mids AV and digital arts collective, have a new piece of work which will form part of an Optofonica exhibition in Amsterdam next month. It sounds incredible and they’re looking to bring it to Birmingham in 2009.
Jerusalem: The East Side Story screening c/o B.I.F.S.
“A documentary of the history of […]
Pop down to St Marys Church, Moseley on Tues 1 July for
An evening of an evening of varied, gorgeous, diverse and engaging spiritually inspired music in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Church by Candlelight.
Music will be from Aa’shiq Al Rasul (Qawwali/Nasheed vocal group), St Marys Schola (Anglican choral), Robert Zhilmor (Flute inspired by Chinese […]
First day nerves - My Fierce Placement…
Gemma has just started a placement with Fierce and it looks like she’ll be blogging about it. This could be a good chance to see what Fierce do all year round, when not concentrating on their festival.
AFWM - Local Animator Wins Watch Film Award
More award-winning - “last week’s […]
This one’s come to my attention a bit late and I’m struggling to find much info on it. Praise be, then, to Nikki Pugh who has blogged about her involvement:
GOODS In: a one-day exhibition curated by Charlie Levine and Harminder Singh Judge.
This is a group show with the works chosen for the theme of “mechanics, […]
Lisa Capsule informed me that videos of Birmingham’s very own ZX Spectrum Orchestra from this year’s Sonar Festival in Spain were already on YouTube, so I went a’diggin.
A brief BBC interview:
The rather nice Baroque:
3:43 of Beepulator:
There may well be more.
PLOT - Supporting Creative People
Got a start-up creative business in the West Mids and want business/marketing/mentoring advice? Drop into the Light House on Sat 21 June between 12-4pm for their Creative Sessions
Robot Vs Dinosaur have a blog
Which alerted me to the fact that Datassette has relaunched his site. RvD’s next night of laptoptronica […]
This year’s Lichfield Festival starts on 3 July and closes on the 13th with a programme of music, theatre, visual arts and film.
A nice touch (cos I look for this things) is a blog by the Festival Director, Richard Hawley, who has been posting his thoughts up all this week.
You can see the festival programme […]
This weekend a few events are being staged around the city by BCU students doing MA’s in Event Management.
First in my inbox was news of The Fresh Air Kite Workshop on Sat 21 June in Victoria Square:
The workshop will aim to teach children how to put together their very own ‘almost guaranteed to fly’ kite […]
Yeah, ok, no-one likes ‘networking’. Fine. How about going for a drink with some good people? Yes?
Ok, well there’s a few things coming up.
On Friday there’s Likemind, hosted by James from Supercool and Lucie from Saint Caffe at the latter’s cafe on St Pauls Square. Drop in any time between 8.30am and 10am to grab […]
The opening exhibit at Ikon Eastside, Island by Soi Projects, will be closing on Sunday 22 June. However, on Friday (20th) at 1.30pm the gallery are arranging for a free tour which should last about 20-30mins.
It’s well worth a look - I was a bit non-plussed when I saw Island on the launch night but […]
Some great news from the peeps at 7 Inch Cinema landed on the virtual doormat today. The Flatpack Festival is the worthy recipient of funding for the next three years, securing it’s future and allowing the organisers to maybe think a little bigger.
Peter Buckingham from the UK Film Council (who are providing the funding) said […]