Home of Metal are opening its doors in Wolverhampton this weekend to welcome metal fans to dig through their collections of memorabilia, t-shirts, and posters to contribute to the Home of Metal archive.
As the flyer rightly says, it’s free to pop along on Thursday 17th, Friday 18th and Saturday 19th June between 10am and 6pm.
Tickets are £10, with all profits going to the Trust, and are available from this link here and the Bullring Topshop store. They’re limited to 500, so get your skates on if you want to go.
There’s a promise of bunting on the flyer, so you can guarantee there’ll be a party atmosphere at the Kings Heath Big Summer Party on Saturday. Here’s that flyer I mentioned:
So, if food, craft, sports and games are your thing, you could do worse than to get yourself down to Kings Heath High Street for some free, all-day fun courtesy of Kings Heath Centre Partnership. Here’s a little map and some more detail:
Local illustration collective Girls Who Draw – including Gemma Correll, Anke Weckmann, Mary Kilvert, Sarah Ray, Kate Hindley, Ruth Green, Currentstate, Yee Ting Kuit, Karoline Rerrie and Michelle Turton – are taking their exhibition ‘Travelling Menagerie’ to the Here and Now Gallery in Falmouth throughout July. More info at menageriebook.blogspot.com
Their end of year show will be for one night at Masonic Buildings on Severn Street, Birmingham on 25th June from 6.30pm till 9.00pm and the after show party will be at the same venue from 9.00pm till late, by invitation only.
Here’s some background to the project:
The students, this year, have chosen to voice their displeasure and resentment at the draconian and ill-conceived Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. Many of the students have been accosted and questioned by the police and security guards whilst in the act of taking photographs for assignments in the course. Also, many of the public have confronted the students during their photographic activities accusing them of potential child offences even though they were clearly photographing a tree or derelict buildings etc.
Here’s what the project’s website has to say about it all:
The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality.
There is a clear need for ordinary people to discuss, express and enquire about aspects of daily Muslim and religious life in response to the climate of polarised media reporting.
Visitors will be invited to interact with the installation that consists of a series of freestanding sculptures, photographs and projections. The exhibition contents were generated from community workshops and invites audiences to ask and explore.
I Am Camera is a collective showcase of work put together by a group of emerging and established artists who are currently rooted within Birmingham.
The exhibition will showcase the work of these artists who all come from a wide range of visual media professions including Fine Art, Documentary, Landscape, Fashion and Commercial roles.
I Am Camera is happy to be bringing this event to the heart of Birmingham between the 10th & 19th of June. There will most certainly be something for everyone to feast their eyes upon so why not pop by say hello and enjoy the work on show?
A notable highlight from the programme is the acclaimed Monty Python’s Spamalot, which comes to the Alex in the winter. Even better, if you book your tickets for before 31st August 2010 you’ll get £5.00 off per ticket. Nice.
It’s Stirchley Thought Exchange on Pershore Road on Saturday 5th June. There will be a range of activities that will run between 11am – 4pm, including:
People, Plants and Places:
Add you name and favourite plant (and why) to a mini-flag and pop it
on the Birmingham map – so we can trace people’s favourites…
Say it with Flowers:
You will be invited to contribute to the garden of thoughts…
Plant thought exchange:
Plants rescued from Stirchley’s derelict sites will be given back to
the community – come and take a plant and its story – information on
where it has come from and where it would like to live, but be quick,
there are around 40 plants looking for new homes, and they’re sure to
be popular!
Plant Poetry board:
Feel inspired by the plants and their stories? Contribute to the plant
poetry board…
Plant quiz:
Take a quiz sheet and try your hand at identifying parts of Stirchley
by its plant life… there might be a prize in it! So be sure to
enter…
It’s nearly the end of term, and you know what that means… showcases! Birmingham City University are already on the case with Exhibit This by its final year Media and Communication students. And the plan is…
…to display their creative work to industry professionals and the general public while celebrating their achievements throughout their degree.
As you can see from the flyer, you can expect work from a range of media disciplines, from photography to web and new media, so if you want to check out some new talent in the field, it might be worth a poke around.
Exhibit This is at The Bond in Digbeth on 7th and 8th June, between 6pm and 8.30pm.
There’s not much info floating around about Emerging apart from a couple of flyers, but it looks mighty interesting all the same. It’s a photography exhibition featuring Niall Patterson, Paul Watt, and Hannah-Beth Todd amongst others, and you can see it at the Custard Factory between 1-8 June, 10am-7pm.
The Source Spring Fair brings together stallholders offering local vintage, flea, fair trade, vegan and green goods. It’s taking place at Moseley Exchange on Saturday 22nd May, 10-4pm, and it’s free to have a mooch around.
THE SoURCE aims to spread the sustainability message and promote quality, local sourcing and fair trade.
I have no idea if there are stalls still available, but if you’d like to have a stall yourself they’re priced at £10, payable on the day. Questions can be fired at Louise Palfreyman on louise.palfreyman@gmail.com.
BASS Festival is the UK’s only month-long celebration of Black Music and Art. The festival is now in its fifth year and this year’s line up of events, produced by Punch Records, includes new commissions, gigs, exhibitions, master classes, showcases, club nights, theatre, conferences and film.
Handily, you can check out the brochure and browse what’s on right here:
There’s also a theme for this year’s festival, which is explained here:
The theme for BASS 2010 is DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) forms the building blocks of life and controls the development and functioning of all known living organisms. But what does DNA mean to us individually in the 21st century? Identity, test tubes, control, heritage, science, ID cards, family, databases, samples, genomes, protest? The fifth BASS festival will explore how DNA varies and develops, whether caused by external forces, or by personal development, enabling us to rethink our evolving identities.
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 Mayuntil 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.
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