Free things to do this weekend
Bollywood Steps
An outdoor dance spectacular that’s part of Birmingham Town Hall’s 175th birthday celebrations. They’re hoping for up to have had up to 12,000 people take part. It’s being performed on Friday 9 October at 8pm and Saturday 10 October at 3pm and 8pm – and you can learn the steps half an hour before each performance.
It’s part of the People Dancing programme and there’s plenty more info on westmidlandsdance.com and the Bollywood Steps website.
Birmingham Poet Laureate Inaugral Reading
Tonight, at the Library Theatre, our new poet laureate, announced yesterday as Adrian Johnson (ACE West Mids Literature Officer), will be performing for the first time in his official capacity.
Info on the Birmingham Book Festival website.
Goings on in Digbeth
Nicky Getgood, on Digbeth is Good, has linked to a fair amount of interesting stuff happening:
- Eastside Studio are holding an Open Studio on Saturday afternoon from midday to 5pm to ‘celebrate the completion of carving the ‘Rugby Writers’ commission’
- Also on Saturday, VIVID are taking part in The Big Draw with a variety of artists getting visitors to interact with their work
UPDATE – Oops, cheers to Nicky Getgood for pointing out the next one is on Sunday 18 October:
- On Sunday Nikki Pugh is doing a GPS-assisted walk around “the perimeter of the regeneration area taking great care to stop, investigate, prod, document, tell stories about and explore things along the way”
Also, see the comments for more free stuff this weekend.
Links for December 8thDigbeth video toursw i d e o p e n s p a c e at Curzon StreetWin an urban art weekend (in Birmingham)Faintheart free screenings
Hey – just a heads up that Nikki Pugh’s Eastside walk is next wkend Sun 18th Oct. Pop it in your diaries! :-)
However there is a Bham Flickr group meet from 2pm this Sun. Meet in Coffee Lounge with your camera and go from there.
You can find Nikki Pugh playing games in the Bullring this Sat afternoon, meet the BARG crew by the Bull at 3pm for the fun. See http://barg.org.uk/make/announcing_the_bullring_playtest/ for details.
Also, there’s a IWIC celebration of modern Ireland in the newly refurbished Irish Centre from 6.30pm Sat evening. It’s not free but the evening of song, dance, drinks and food should be worth the £10 ticket price. See: http://digbeth.org/2009/10/iwic-presents-a-seisun-this-sat-10th-oct/
Maybe see you out and about over the weekend, it’s going to be an active one!
Yeah, we’re BARGing in the Bullring centre this Saturday (10th) and walking around Eastside next Sunday (18th). (You’ll be disappointed if you’re expecting GPS assistance though – this one is specifically to do all the things I can’t do when I’ve got a sat-nav in each hand!)
Both events are indeed free and you don’t need any specialist knowledge for either of them, just a healthy curiosity in your surroundings.
I hope this doesn’t count as spamming…
It’s not perfect, and doesn’t get the attention it deserves (from me) but I try and note upcoming Free events in Brum as best I can. http://livebrum.co.uk/events/free (you can even visit this directly by going to http://freebrum.co.uk which may (repeat *may*) become something more interesting one day…