7 Inch Cinema are coming to the end of their current season and will be back in the new year (and with the Flatpack Festival in March). Here’s their most recent newsletter with info about their final event of the year and suggestions of other things to do in the meantime.
You can sign up to [...]
The Custard Factory has a few new bloggers and Jonathan, who books the Gallery and Theatre and is, appropriately, covering event news, has taken to it with gusto. Here’s a few of the upcoming theatrical events:
3Bugs Bring What the Butler Saw to CF
The Pillowman, at the CF Theatre
Encore ready to rumble at CF
Farshad Sanaee Exhibition [...]
When the finalists for the Creative City Awards 2008 came out the other week I was left scratching my head a little. A few people raised issues or left questions in the comments too, so I rounded them up and sent them off for answering.
Thanks to Mohammed Zahir at Birmingham City Council (Q1-5) and Kenny [...]
Links for November 23rd | daveharte.com
Dave Harte has a few good links - Self Portrait Birmingham, an RSS feed for the Media Talent Bank blog and the BrumMusicArchive’s YouTube channel
Film Forum West Midlands − MECHANICAL EYE- Community film project
The Film Forum WM pick up on Mechanical Eye, a project “to encourage young filmmakers within the [...]
Plenty good news for Tom Horton this week. Not only has one of his pictures been featured by MySpace (see screengrab below) but he’s been picked to be MySpace’s featured photographer for Birmingham.
This will involve me picking out 3 of the most exciting hip and happening gigs / club events a week to go and [...]
Charlotte Hughes-Martin was dubbed the ‘Milk Bottle Banksy’ by the Daily Mail after leaving engraved milk bottles at random addresses around the Stourbridge area.
The Artifex Gallery in Sutton Coldfield are now exhibiting her work.
She explains:
The aim of this project was firstly to have a bit of fun. To release art into “ the world†and [...]
Brumcast 111 is up. Here’s the tracklisting:
Tempting Rosie - Office Floors
The Garcia LX - Bedsit in Longton
The Daniels - Pennys Name
Timothy parkes - All The White Horses
Cult of wedge - dayglo disco sideshow
Shocked Elevator Family - Over the Brother
MPH _ Miss Halliwell - Vacuumusick
Calories - To encounter a deer
AFS Electronica - Mothers Day Part 2
Terrorform [...]
Wrote Under
Wrote Under, the open mic night for music, poetry, comedy, stories and such has a blog here. The next event is Sat 22 Nov at The Spotted Dog from 8.30pm
Crescent Theatre Blog
The Crescent Theatre has a blog. Hoorah!
Punch - BASS 09 Commissions
“The aim of this year’s theme is celebrate and explore Africa’s influence on [...]
I meant to write this up a while back and was reminded by Polarbear appearing on Radio 3’s The Verb (click here to listen again, he’s on at 11mins) the other night.
I’ve gone on a bit about how good I think Polarbear (Steve Camden to his mum) is and a few weeks back I went [...]
Positively Red is
a festival aimed at confronting the legacy of stigma and prejudice associated with HIV and raising awareness of the condition in Birmingham on and around World Aids Day 2008
There’ll be an exhibition in a unit on the lower level of the Pavillions shopping centre from Saturday 29 Nov which will run daily [...]
The mac is slated to re-open in Autumn 2009 when a joint mac/sampad building project will be completed. Artists are being involved in the building work:
we have shortlisted nine artists to produce design proposals for pieces that will reflect the many interests and aspects of our arts programmes and audiences. Works may be integrated into [...]
Pogo Jewellery is run by Helen Puxley who studied at:
Birmingham School of Jewellery before being accepted onto Design Space in 2007, a Birmingham City Council initiative encouraging young graduate designers to set up within the Quarter. In August 2008 she did just that and now shares a workshop with fellow makers
It looks like she’ll be [...]
On Wednesday 26 November a free bus will travel between three of the city’s galleries - the Ikon (which will feature Harminder Singh Judge’s new exhibition), the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the RBSA Gallery. There’ll be free guided tours of the exhibitions.
Here’s the bus timetable:
On the evening the Ikon Shop will be open [...]
Deaffest 2008, the tenth annual deaf-led film and TV festival will be held in Wolverhampton at the Light House 28-30 November.
The weekend of festivities will include screenings of films produced by UK and International Deaf filmmakers; Young Deaffest, which showcases work produced by young Deaf filmmakers; and a conference on Opportunities for Deaf Filmmakers, with [...]
Moselely Arts Market will be on from 9am-3pm on Saturday with 40 or so designers, artists and makers. I think it’s somewhere pretty central - not far from Moseley Green.
As well as this, the farmers market will be on and there’ll be a chance to find out about the Moseley Exchange in case you’ve been [...]
The next instalment from the peope behind the speak-easy cinema takes place on Sat 6 December and this month they promise:
science fiction treats culled from the Outer Spaceways. Our Prime Directive will be, as ever, Lost Movies, Cult Obscurities and Films You Probably Shouldn’t Be Watching!
and
SubAtomic Sounds by TWIGGY AND THE K-MESONS and MICRONORMOUS, and [...]
Normally I’d avoid mentioning (or thinking about) the desperate cry-for-attention that is Broad Street’s Walk of Stars, but the Capsule ladies have managed to find a pretty compelling angle to the latest addition.
Tony Iommi - guitarist for Black Sabbath - is the next person to be honoured, which ties in nicely with the Home of [...]
Rhubarb Radio: Want Airplay?
Send your material to: Rhubarb Radio, c/o Reception, The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham, B9 4AA
The WGGB blog - News from the West Midlands
The first 9 months of the Writers Guild, West Mids branch
Let It Go … - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog
Fiona Ferguson waxes lyrical about the opening of Heard and [...]
Not strictly creative (although I’m not sure what is these days) but it’s Harry Palmer, so worth a mention.
Join Harry Palmer this Saturday (22nd Nov) near St Martins Church – Bullring, Birmingham (3pm sharp) to hear details surrounding the tragic crisis of the hedgehog in Birmingham
Here’s the flyer (update - as per the comment below, [...]
I’m doing this wrong, I know I am. What I should do is go to the places I’m about to mention, ‘experience the art’, get trollied and turn this into some gonzo jounalism effort.
Sigh.
Anyway, there are a few pubs in Birmingham that are pushing the arty side of things - two in Hockley that have [...]
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