- 7inch October listings
“a list of interesting things happening around Birmingham over the next 31 days or so”. You should definitely sign up to their newsletter
- Turning Point West Midlands | Visual Art and Craft in the West Midlands
A run-down of the venues, collections, festivals, schools and artist support programmes, as well as ways of buying the stuff
- Radio Birmingham audio slideshow
This audio slideshow was produced by Pete Simpkin, and used when he gave talks about the work of Radio Birmingham in the 1970s
- K4 Architects designs £50m Birmingham fire station revamp | News | Building Design
A big, average-looking tower. Splendid.
- Imperica – Celebrating imperfection
Interview with Antonio Roberts
- Creative England opens for business
Congrats to Maverick TV’s Jonnie Turpie on being among the first seven people appointed to the board
- Dub to Jungle Documentary – YouTube
Video about Punch’s recent tour with an interview with Ammo Talwar (among others)
- Dear Mr Whitby – Raw Data Now : daveharte.com
“What really got me irritated today is Councillor Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, bleating on about Birmingham getting marginalised when he could actually do something to help Birmingham become a thriving centre of digital creativity.” Everyone loves a rant
- Department for Culture Media and Sport – lottery grants search
Related to the previous link (sort of). Oh look, a big list of National Lottery grants given to Birmingham arts projects over the years
- Bank of England to launch new £50 note
“Inventor James Watt and his financial backer Matthew Boulton to feature on new £50 note, to be issued on 2 November”
- Donald Savage report and evaluation
Remember Donald Savage’s Invisible Arts Exhibition Programme? Well the evaluation report is out with input from luminaries such as Mr Whatby (Conservative Counselling) amongst others
- The Rice Show
A kind of automatic collective memory/aggregator thing for the upcoming Stan’s Cafe production ‘Of All The People In All The World’. Anything tagged thericeshow should show up on there
- CELR: Brownfield canvas: how the Arts can support the regeneration of brownfield land
Happening on 25 Sept at The Tower Ballroom and presented by the Arts Council “The event will also include a focus on the Arts as a creative medium, which can help transform a space, enriching a community or an area through its processes”
- Rich Batsford – Project X Presents: Digital Dystopia Sat Sept 13
“You are cordially invited to the one and only performance of our unique Project X Presents event Digital Dystopia”. Just a week to go, there are some snippets of info about what’s going on here. I’m quite excited about this
- Birmingham Words – Storytelling in Birmingham
The Traditional Arts Team have some upcoming storytelling events in Birmingham, happening once a month at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath
- Birmingham Jazz News: September Newsletter
A couple of chances to check out Maylight with Lizzy Sparks – for free at the Town Hall as part of Light Night then at the Rainbow later in the month. There’s a preview of Oct too, with the very exciting prospect of The Heritage Orchestra performing Amon Tobin’s music
- 7inch september listings
A nice big long list of events for September, lots of filmic stuff and some other things too. Plus a call for someone with money to burn to convert Kings Heath’s recently closed bingo hall back into a cinema… anyone?
