A little while back Fullrange Films gave Nicky Getgood a Flip camera on the condition that she use it to document Digbeth, as is generally her wont on Digbeth is Good.
The first one she did was the Richard Trengrouse Tour of historical Digbeth.
Next up was Ben Waddington’s Digbeth Type and Architecture Tour, the videos have [...]
Deadline is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts and Jon Harington.
In Antonio’s words:
It’s a year-long project by myself and Jon Harrington about deadlines and waiting. It’s possible that we may post more information about it, but in time
In Jon’s words:
Deadline started on January 1st and since then one still image from Antonio’s film and one sentence [...]
This is the CiB mantelpiece and here are some cards:
Boxer Design
Supercool
Clusta
Audiences Central
Fused (click for mixtape)
Substrakt
S&X
Creative Republic
Creative Republic - Christmas 2009 from Created in Birmingham on Vimeo.
Fierce
Made Media
Aston Villa
Capsule
Creative Alliance
Advent calendars
383 Project
Birmingham: it’s Not Shit
Presents
Birmingham Jazz - downloads from 2008
Are there any more around?
Thanks to Amy (aka Sister 45 of Mama Feel Good fame) for kicking me in the direction of Birmingham’s cycling culture.
Spinwell is a blog dedicated to fixed wheel/single speed cycling, the writer is Blacksmile and he covers the scene’s bikes, fashion, art and all that sort of goodness.
It’s also worth mentioning Fix Up Look Sharp [...]
Creative Republic’s masterclass with Michael Wolff happened a few weeks ago - here’s a video of what happened:
Also, if you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the Creative Republic Christmas bash at Kerrang Radio, starting at 6.30pm.
Worth reproducing this email from John Tighe of The Spotted Dog:
Kent Davis of The Rainbow has asked for help in support of two retrospective planning applications for the Rainbow Warehouse. These are for premises that are already up and running, licensed and to quote the local police “run in an exemplary mannerâ€.
Kent’s problem is that [...]
Lisa and Jenny from Capsule gave their thoughts on the Big City Plan to Night Times Newspaper, concentrating on the development of Digbeth. Here’s what they said:
Currently our success has happened in spite of the city rather than because of it, just think what could be achieved if we worked together. Travelling frequently to other [...]
Made in Moseley is a joint Moseley CDT and Media Content Lab project:
to promote and support artists and designer-makers based in and around the Moseley area of Birmingham, the Made in Moseley Shop allows members to sell their products online via a shared shop front
Britglyph is “a collaborative public art project across Great Britain”.
The idea is you find a spot on the map near you, take a stone there, take a photo of yourself with that stone and submit it (the photo) to the site.
There’s a marker just near Five Ways if you want to get involved (which I [...]
Jon Bounds of Birmingham: it’s Not Shit gives his thoughts on the Creative Director issue.
Please give it a read.
From the Traditional Arts Team. Here are their Birmingham storytelling events for December:
Wednesday 3 December, 8pm
BIRMINGHAM STORYTELLING SESSION
Upstairs at The Bull’s Head, St Mary’s Row, Birmingham B13 8HW
http://www.tradartsteam.co.uk/storytelling/bhamsession.htm
Thursday 4 December, 8pm
BIRMINGHAM TRADITIONAL SONG SESSION
Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham 14
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song
Wednesday 17 December, 7:30pm
BIRMINGHAM - KITCHEN GARDEN CAFÉ
A storytelling night to raise the Christmas [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This flared up last week but there’s no sense in letting a good discussion die down.
Bennie Gray, the Custard Factory and Big Peg owner, wrote a call-to-arms called ‘A challenge for Birmingham‘ which was featured in the Birmingham Post. The nub of it was that:
as we face the threat of economic meltdown, Birmingham must become [...]
I’ve just had an email from a journalist writing an article on art in Birmingham. She says:
While I will be looking at galleries such as RBSA and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery I would also like to look at something less conventional such as street art and something with a more independent edge
The first few [...]
Copied over wholesale from the Hello Digital blog (cos I’m not writing this twice):
The East Birmingham & North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns Ltd), supported by Advantage West Midlands, have been investing in the development of Digbeth and Eastside as a Learning and Leisure Quarter and a centre for the creative industries, particularly the digital media [...]
Halloween might not be my bag but at least it’s an excuse to put some interesting events on.
Aside from the Ikon Eastside closing party there are a fair number of Halloween-themed things going on. These are they (all happening on Friday 31 October, except the last two):
The National Trust are putting on events in the [...]
By Chris Unitt
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Posted October 10, 2008
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Tagged back to backs, capsule, ikon eastside, light house, local shorts film club, national trust, nosferatu, old joint stock theatre, outer edge, the edge, town hall, vivid
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The Light House in Wolverhampton are offering creative start-ups the chance to advertise themselves on the Light House LCD Screen Network.
This is a great opportunity for any creative business, from production companies and graphic designers to photographers and more. The screen network covers the main Chubb Buildings reception and Lock Works bar which currently [...]
Bad news from Friction Arts - with the builders due to arrive in a fortnight to start work on the refurb of The Edge Lee, their operations coordinator, has trapped a nerve in his back. With prep work to do that’s a bit of a disaster so they’re asking for a hand:
We need some volunteers [...]
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