- Is Digbeth the new clubbing capital of Britain? | Digbeth is Good
Interesting. Also, seeing as how I’ve mentioned LAB11, Gibb Street Warehouse and Air on here recently, there might even be a small chance I’ve got my finger somewhere near the pulse after all - A destination wedding in Sierra Leone with Lee Allen photography | Rock My Wedding
Rock My Wedding features Lee Allen’s trip to Sierra Leone to photograph a wedding with 1,100 guests - Supersonic ) Info ) Jobs
This could be good – Capsule are looking for a new design illustration person/team to give the Supersonic Festival a new look - Pictures in the News | May 1, 2012 – Los Angeles Times
A peek at The Voyage, coming to Birmingham soon…
Links
- Workshops & Classes – Black Country Atelier
If you were looking for workshops on 3D printing, laser cutting and microcontrollers/Arduinos then look no more - Barrowclough: 48SHEET and Brum art. An ill informed rant. – Zang Productions
More love for 48Sheet and general frustration for the state of arts promotion in the city - Bert & Gert’s Vintage Markets
Organising markets at The Square and Great Western Arcade
- The Voyage
The website for the big outdoor spectacular seems to be up now. Looks like a big, interesting thing and they’re after a load of volunteers too (click ‘get involved’) - FOUR WALLS
A photographic exhibition happening in a couple of weeks time - Martin Parr: Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory on Vimeo
I linked to a 2 minute version of this back in Jan but missed the longer version. Here it is. Commissioned by Multistory with thanks to the folks at Fluid for flagging it up. - Alex Bermingham – The Amazing Paper
These are pretty cool
- Insight into Photography of the Staffordshire Hoard « Birmingham Conservation Trust
BCT picks up on some behind-the-scenes info - 10 TODAY! – Natasha’s posterous
Congrats to Dreamfinder Productions who've racked up ten years in business
- VICE: Your Town Is A Paradise (Birmingham) « Homepage
Pics by Alex Dean - Edible Brum Magazine Spring 2012
Quite a nice thing, this. - Synonyms For Churlish : Top 10 things I did on my uni placement with Fierce fest
In no particular order… - Lunch Club | Eastside Projects, 26 April, 1–2pm « We Are Eastside | Birmingham
Sounds very pleasant. Just take a packed lunch. - Balloon orchestra – YouTube
From Curious Sounds in Curious Spaces last weekend. - Free Easter Egg Download!!! at First Fold Records
Free tunes.
- curatorcharlie: Artist Residency, Birmingham, UK
Clarke Griffiths Levine offers residency in Birmingham UK in May 2012 - SARAH SILVERWOOD: Holy Mountain Party at Fierce Festival 2012
Pics from the party. - K2TOG – Knit 2 Together | Sponsume
The Stitches and Hos folks are raising money to cover the columns outside BMAG with knitting - Top Tube Map of Traffic-Free Cycle Routes in Birmingham
Birmingham’s traffic-free cycle network – a map of routes via canals, walkways and so on - Alex Hughes Cartoons and Caricatures – Sketchy Performance
A year of sketches from Dr Sketchy’s Birmingham from Alex - Moseley Memories « John Mostyn’s Blog
Writer Nick Toczek’s recollections of upstairs at The Fighting Cocks in the early 70′s
- For Sale – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
This is kinda sad but hopefully it can find a good home. Also, at £5k this should’ve sold already - Audiences Central
It’s technically their last day tomorrow but their pub-based send off was last night. Good luck to everyone who’s moving on. For now: “This website is part of the legacy for Audiences Central, the regional audience development agency for the West Midlands (2004-2012)” The links page is very useful - Audiences London : AL and AAA announce successful bid to Strand 1 of ACE Audience Focus Fund
Hello. I hadn’t spotted this before: “All About Audiences will be managing a contract from Warwickshire County Council previously delivered by Audiences Central to coordinate audience development support in the county during 2012/13″ - We want your food stories! at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The Rep. They want your food stories. - Emma Case Photography: please RT…
Sad to hear this from Emma. Insure your stuff and back up your computers people – there are bad people about - Flatpack 6 collective memory
One of those round-ups of what everyone’s written about the festival. I like these. - VIVID POD SPACE FOR SALE – Architecture WM
The VIVID Pod prototype is arguably the first manufactured, mobile artist’s space in the UK. The pod concept was developed by architect Ranbir Lal in collaboration with VIVID in response to VIVID’s artist research programme; it explores the possibilities of integrating production within an exhibition environment.
- The face of Urban Village
Urban Village are after a pair of models for their spring/summer campaign. There’s a Small Faces gag to be made here but it’s just not coming to me. - Gemma Cairney – Wikipedia
Radio 1′s new weekend breakfast host is from Birmingham. And it was her birthday this week. - Get your name on the next Weekend Sun single
Name that tune.
- pointe blank
Lots of beermat doodles from the Pointe Blank / FAKE Magazine / Inkygoodness / 6/8 Kafe jamboree last weekend. I went along to this and wanted to write a bit more about it but it’s been a busy week. Check out the photos and be assured it was a good thing - Call for Submissions – Birmingham Art Prize
The Departure Foundation is seeking outstanding artists from the Midlands to take part in The Birmingham Art Prize.
- 2 Weeks 2 Make it West Mids 2012
The music video competition is back - Fused Magazine – Special Edition – Crowdfunder
The Fused folks are crowdfunding their next edition - Radio To Go: Two studios: Artisan and Elephant House. Think the web has made it easier? Think again
Robin Valk has been doing a good run of well-informed interviews. This is the latest - Open Submission, [ S T A T E ]
[ S T A T E ] a monthly performance platform in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter Birmingham, @ the VAULT, invites you to submit a performance/ live art, installation, video that questions the [ S T A T E ] for its opening night on Wednesday the 27th June - Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands – March 2012 « Oh. (Russ L’s getting weighed down with all this information)
Lots of things, this month. Fierce, Flatpack and BOC are biggies but there’s plenty more besides. - Cheap as Chips! Navigating Fierce for Free! | Fierce Festival
“You can spend a weekend at Fierce, have a great time and not spend a penny”
- Oscar win for Balsall Heath charity Islamic Help documentary Saving Face
“The film, which charts the work of Balsall Heath-based Islamic Help and its long-running programme treating victims of the devastating attacks, received the prestigious accolade in the short documentary category” - The Library of Lost Books
“The Library of Lost Books is an ongoing project to rescue old, discarded and damaged books and to re-work them, breathing new life into them through the interactions and interventions of book artists” - Home open days at DanceXchange – West Midlands Dance
DanceXchange are hosting open days to get people involved in Home, a large-scale public dance performance as part of Dancing for the Games and International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012 - Jim Rogers, Here is my full piece for the Pointe Blank 2…
Here is my full piece for the Pointe Blank 2 exhibition based on the play “Hobson’s Choice” It’s very much inspired by the play and the 50’s film but composition wise I was inspired by the artists Drew Struzan and Steve Purcell.
- RIBA West Midlands hosts film night tribute to John Madin
The films will be curated by Architecture WM and architect Alan Clawley, author of ‘Twentieth Century Architects: John Madin’ - Mark Harris: An Idea of north / Learning to walk | CD feature Album of the Month Experimental
Good review for ‘Birmingham-based sound artist’ Mark Harris. Album of the month, no less
- The (animated) Digbeth Summit | Digbeth is Good
More student-animated Digbethness. Nice this. - Radio To Go: Shambala and Moseley Folk – summer scheming in the bleak midwinter
Interviews with Jon Walsh (Kambé Events, Jibbering, Shambala) and John Fell (Moseley Folk, Goodnight Lenin) - Volunteers needed!
Friction Arts are looking to get more people involved in what they’re doing, with an exploratory event on Thursday evening (16 Feb) - Floozy in the Gutter
“The weekly best bits of Birmingham street art (and my own guerilla knitting ventures) updated every Sunday” - IDEA Birmingham
A university/business collaboration promoting design-driven innovation
- Job listing for Trustee – Audiences Central
“Birmingham Museums Trust is seeking Trustees to take up the challenge of steering this new organisation (a trust to run the city’s nine museums sites) through its first few years and delivering our vision for a national museum in Birmingham” - InterFace 2012
InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2012 it is being hosted by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design at Birmingham City University - IdeasTap | Creative Briefs: Fierce Festival Press Gang
If you’re aged 16-19 and fancy some experience in multimedia journalism this may be the gig for you. Not everybody has ‘interviewed a dachshund’ on their CV - Oxygen Rooms
Rehearsal and recording studios in Hockley - Flickr: “wagflickrmeet”
Wolverhampton Art Gallery hosted a Flickrmeet the other weekend. Not sure if there’s a page with more info but all the tagged photos are here - Turning Point West Midlands | Part of the Turning Point Network | Road Trip West Midlands – Artist and Writer wanted
“The commission will fund a visual artist and a creative writing to undertake a road trip in the West Midlands and to produce art work (visual art / creative writing) in response to this experience”
- 36 Hours – Birmingham, England – NYTimes.com
“In terms of respect, Birmingham is the undisputed Rodney Dangerfield of British cities”. Thank you? - New Birmingham Jazz Scheme: Stepping Up
Birmingham Jazz have got three £1,000 grants to support the writing, touring or recording of contemporary jazz - Walk of Fame for King’s Heath
“A Walk of Fame is to be created along York Road to celebrate King’s Heath’s musical and comic heritage” - Film and TV productions worth £10 million to Birmingham over just six months
Stephen Poliakoff drama Dancing on the Edge starring actors Matthew Goode and Chiwetel Ejiofor, has just finished filming in the city.





