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We probably won’t be able to post everything but maybe this’ll turn into a regular thing. Or maybe we’ll give March over entirely to guest posts and never do it again. Who knows? Maybe we won’t get much of a response and we’ll forget this post ever happened.
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Fancy coming and watching a film? On Thurs 28 Jan The Bullring are showing a few feelgood films at The Electric and we’ve been invited to ask folks along to the later showing.
There are 120 free seats available for Amelie at 7.15pm with some food and refreshments thrown in too.
If you’d like to come along then just RSVP to holly.ryland-jones@bullring.co.uk. Sorry, all places are gone now!
The first of what might become a regular thing, Knowing Me, Knowing You was fun last week. As part of Capsule’s longest birthday party… ever, we got together and invited a bunch of interesting people along to introduce themselves and say (for the sake of getting a conversation going) what they might do if they were to get their hands on VIVID for a little while.
The kind participants were:
All ably compered by Jon Bounds with half-time entertainment provided by Charlie Pinder‘s cake orchestra.
Truth be told, we weren’t sure what people would come back with or what sort of direction the evening might take. As it turned out, ideas included:
- Social spaces
- Turning the place into a massive ball pool/packing it floor to ceiling with jelly
- Setting up a swapshop
- Using it as a place for realising unfinished ideas
- Creating an edgeless, white room and projecting images through hung pieces of perspex
- Kipple Live
- Artist talks
And some other things that escape me just at the moment. To be honest, the suggestions themselves weren’t the most crucial part of the evening. The point was really to get people out, meeting each other and sharing thoughts and ideas. As far as that goes I think the evening was a success.
Capsule have written up the event here with lots of lovely photos. Thanks to them, to everyone who took part and to those who came along to watch.
For the next CiB Project we’ve been asked to take part in Capsule‘s 10th birthday celebrations. We’re getting together a bunch of Birmingham creative types, putting them on a stage for 3 minutes and asking them ‘What would you do if you were given the run of a space like Vivid?’
Featured folks will include:
ATTA Girl, Scott Johnson aka Film Ficciones, Stephen Earl Rogers, James Yarker of Stans Cafe, local historian Ben Waddington, illustrator extraordinaire Ben Javens to name but a few
That list is from Capsule’s website.
There are 20 places left for spectators, so if you want to come along then please admin@capsule.org.uk. If it goes well it might be the first of many such events.
There’ll be full reporting back after the event, so if you can’t make it down then don’t worry.
That’s me (on the right) working the mulled wine stall on Saturday at the Kings Heath Big Party. A huge thanks to everyone who came down and bought a cup of something warm.
In fact, a fair few thanks are in order:
I’ll soon be putting up some info about the next project that’ll see CiB getting out and about in the world. I’d best write some posts about other folks first though.
Announcement time.
Created in Birmingham are going to be running the mulled wine stall at the Kings Heath Big Christmas Party on 5 December. Woo-hoo!
Stop. Flyer time:
If you’re about then please do come and say hi, this blogging stuff is lovely but real life’s great too. Also, the money you spend at our stall will go towards the Kings Heath Centre Partnership and the maintenance of this fair website. Oh yeah, but please drink moderately (we should have hot chocolate for sale too).
There are details of the event here and a PDF of the programme here. Good things that are happening:
This’ll be CiB Project 001 and the first of many. In fact, details of CiB Project 002 are coming soon and it’s a good un. Oh yes.
