mac have commissioned some new Stan’s Cafe which is being performed there from Thurs to Sat and then touring later in the year.
Tuning Out with Radio Z is best described by they themselves:
The hosts of the night time show Tuning Out know all about facing down the void. Each night they start the show blank, with nothing planned, armed with just a stack of charity shop records and six hours in which to calm the world’s chaos and settle its people down to sleep.
This is a theatre show, which is also a radio show. You can listen to Tuning Out at home on-line via our website but true excitement comes when you visit its extraordinary studio in the theatre and become privy to presenter’s deeply compromised off-mic World.
Here’s the Radio Z website. You can sign in to the News Room bit and, during the performance, interact with things, send messages and so on.
There’ll be a pre-show talk with James Yarker at 6pm on the Friday to discuss the show. I wouldn’t be surprised if the development of this show had something to do (at least in part) with commentating on a Scalextric race for 24 hours last year, but you never can tell.
The Story Exchange is the visually enchanting invention of Birmingham-based Needle & Thread Theatre, and will be captivating story-lovers, story-tellers, and strays over four days in the Created in Birmingham shop at Bullring from Thursday 13 May until 16 May.
Here’s the blurb (pun intended) for you:
You are invited to browse, peruse and explore the leafy pages of the sumptuous second-hand books. Once you’ve found a treasure to take away we won’t require your pounds or pennies as payment, all we ask in return is a story of your own – fairy-tales; folk-tales; fond memories and funny stories from everyday life are all welcome.
Artistic director Natalie Wilson can be contacted for more info at needleandthreadtheatre@yahoo.co.uk or on 07530 939 380.
INKwell did a screenprinting workshop at the CiB shop a few weeks back and it went really well. They’ll be back again on Sunday this weekend for more of the same.
Cornelius (that is he, above) is a time-travelling tweed-clad alien and is coming to Birmingham tomorrow (Friday 7 May) to make a film about the National Cycle Network. Sustrans have put him up to it. Here’s the planned route:
You can find out more on the little chap’s website. I’m not sure what time he’ll be about but hopefully info will go up there.
Here’s a thing I found on the noticeboard of the CiB shop the other day. Get in touch with the guy if rocking’s your thing.
I’m not usually one to pander to titles with an obscure mix of upper- and lower-case letters in them, but for this I’ll make an exception.
hobbypopMUSEUM is a new solo exhibition at Eastside Projects by the Düsseldorf- and London-based artist group of the same name formed by Sophie von Hellermann, Christian Jendreiko, Matthias Lahme, Dietmar Lutz, André Niebur and Marie-Céline Schäfer in 1998.
As a group they have created potent site-specific installations, fusing painting with sound, performance and film. Here’s some more on them:
hobbypopMUSEUM installations can be seen as textures woven out of figures linked together by iconographic and formal criteria. Their arsenal of figures spans histories of painting, drawing, photo, film and sound to words, performance, sculpture and architecture. Which form the figures take, depends on a basic confrontation with the conditions of site and chemistry of the group.
Eschewing the socio-political agenda typically associated with collective artmaking hobbypopMUSEUM stake their identity on the theatrics of fantasised scenarios and the strong narrative trail or journey through their exhibitions and happenings as a long-term ‘fight for ideas’.
The exhibition opens at Eastside Projects on 7 May at 6pm and will run from 8 May to 12 June 2010.
You may know Dave Gaskarth from his work on the Flatpack Festival and various other such things. He’s just rejigged his portfolio.
I’ve just had a flick through the programme for the Lichfield Festival (PDF). There’s some good stuff, presided over by a new Festival Director, Fiona Stuart. Names I recognised – Rich Hall, Laura Solon, Jenni Murray, Claire Sweeney, Adrian Edmonson, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Ex Cathedra and Rachel Gillies.
Lichfield Festival website.
