This joint exhibition by photographers Louise Holgate and Martin Pickard is opening at The Moseley Exchange on 2 November, taking place from 7 – 9pm, with free wine and cake. The exhibition will run until January 2011.
Martin Pickard will be displaying his collection, ‘Obscured’, which is a series of sometimes abstract images from experiments with motion. Louise Holgate’s collection, ‘A Different Perspective’, is a series of images exploring new angles and ways of looking at the world around us.
This is taking place tonight, at Sound Bar from 6pm. The Halloween Monster Movie Challenge gave filmmakers the task of producing a 3-10 minute horror film on a tight budget, with the condition that they must include some form of monster.
They’ve got Darrell Buxton (cult horror film historian) and Owen Tooth (Midlands based award winning filmmaker) in to judge, and will be screening entries from around the country, around with a bit of live music and fancy dress.
Robin Valk has been busy recording and putting together this radio documentary for Birmingham Music Heritage, featuring musicians such as UB40 who he worked with back in local radio, along with the likes of Andy Hamilton and Apache Indian.
It’s all there – the story of how the children of those early post-war immigrants came up with a vital new approach to reggae, mixed, matched and mashed up… and invented whole new styles of music along the way.
Here’s part 1 of the Handsworth Evolution documentary:
Before it became defunct in around 2006 Arts Central was the arts, culture and entertainment website for the West Midlands region. The website was managed by Audiences Central, the audience development agency for the West Midlands.
On October 1st, 2010 the then neglected and empty website was given a new owner who intends to bring the site back to life.
Tate team up for Ikon – Audiences Central
“Ikon Gallery are one of the partners of the new Plus Tate initiative which aims to support the development of the visual arts across the UK, and to foster a climate where exchange and partnership can flourish”
New apprenticeships launched in creative sector – Birmingham Post
“Noel Dunne, director of Creative Alliance, an organisation which aims to support and develop creative talent, said: “The new creative and digital media apprenticeship will help employers attract talented young people to their organisation”
Jobs in the Meeja | Mind over Matter
Ian gives a few of his top tips for getting a job in the media (although most of it applies to pretty much any sector). Worth a read
Happy 20th Birthday to Glen Howells Architects. They’ve sent us this nice little book filled with photographs from their many projects over the years, including a few familiar buildings from Birmingham’s iconic skyline, such as the Rotunda, The Custard Factory, and Eleven Brindley Place.
The Creative Future blog highlighted this event happening on 31 October. Real Talk are hosting a Black History Month Sale at Oakland Young People’s Centre in Handsworth.
For more information, contact Craig Pinkney on 07973728465
AE Harris, a lovely venue that I’ve seen put to all manner of uses over the past couple of years, is staying open for another two years. That’s good news.
The RBSA Open all media exhibition is due to open 24 November, running for a month in Gallery 1 and 2 until 24 December.
Open exhibitions take place twice a year at RBSA, showcasing a variety of work to cater for all tastes and interests, and they are currently accepting submissions for the upcoming open all media exhibition, which accepts all forms of art, excluding photography.
To enter your work, visit the website for more information and download the application pack containing the entry form which is to be returned by 21 November.
You know the deal by now. I witter on about cuts to arts funding and make up for it all with a picture of a bunny at the end. Only this time it’s a video.
Now, the good thing about writing this twelve hours after today’s announcement is that everyone else has summarised, pontificated and moved on. I can just link to what they’ve written. Blogging is ace. Anyway, onward…
Here’s the Arts Council’s announcement. Fair play to them for getting this out in reasonably good time following the spending review.
The Arts Council will have to halve its admin costs
There’ll be a new system for funding from 2012 onwards (arrangements to be announced 4 November 2010). Everyone will have to reapply – some existing orgs won’t be successful, some new ones will
The budget for budget for ‘strategic opportunities for artistic work’ such as touring, large events and the Cultural Leadership Programme is being knocked down by 64%
Next year will be a ‘transition year’, hence the lower-than-expected cuts, the stay of execution for A&B and CCE and the Guardian describing arts groups as ‘relieved’. So expect things to get worse. Oh, and don’t forget the local authority funding that’s disappearing.
Stitch Up is a new theatre-in-education programme for students aged 13+, currently touring schools through until December. The half day participatory programme is based around Chris Cooper’s play Stitch Up.
Stitch Up creates opportunities for reflection, problem-solving and creative thinking, cultivating innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the classroom.
The play itself is about the alien and alienated, the individual and the community, freedom and necessity. The follow up to Chris Cooper’s Dereliction, it is part of a series of plays about young people on the margins of society.
As the centre of Big Brum‘s theatre-in-education programme, the work celebrates the UN Year of Youth and the EU Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
To find out more or make a booking, contact Claire Procter at claire@bigbrum.plus.com or call 0121 464 4607
To tie in with the Face to Face exhibition we told you about the other week, Collecting Contemporary Photography… In conversation with Brian Griffin and Stuart Whipps, is taking place on Tuesday 9 November at 6-8pm.
Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library, will be discussing the ways in which Griffin and Whipps create, make, exhibit and sell their work to institutions and private individuals. The library holds one of the ‘national collections of photography’, and has recently acquired work by both Griffin and Whipps to add to this growing collection.
The event will be taking place in the lecture theatre at BIAD, Birmingham City University, Margaret Street. To book your place e-mail katja.ogrin@artsandbusiness.org.uk or call 0121 248 1200.
If you’ve already been, or are planning a visit, to the current Face to Face exhibition at Snow Hill, you can also leave your own review on the Facebook page. If the existing ones are anything to go by, this exhibition is well worth a visit.
