David Rowan’s new website has cropped up on a fair few blogs recently and with good reason. It’s real purty, with a stack of great photography on it and is dead clever to boot.
David is a photographer at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and also lectures, consults and does bits of art design and graphic [...]
Brummie of the Year 2008 - Nominations open
BiNS are asking for your suggestions. The early frontrunner seems to be the (semi-anonymous) TWMDriver
D’log - Flogging Brum
“An overseas student recounts his first-time experience of visiting Birmingham”. There’s a 2nd post too. BMAG fares well, Think Tank less so.
How to promote your night/gig/event online | Chris Unitt
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Script are a registered charity based in the Custard Factory and are:
dedicated to developing and promoting [...]
A copy of ‘Forward‘ (the council’s official publication profiling policies, initiatives and events) just plopped through my door. Let’s see what interesting event info there is and pull together some links.
The Old Rep Theatre, which closed in Feb for renovation, re-opens on 30 Sept. The first show is ‘Messed Up’ by Small Heath Young Rep. [...]
Artsfest is a big sprawling beast of a festival and a difficult one to wrangle from a listings perspective. A few people have chipped in with their take on how things could/should be presented but for me, while all of them help in some way, none of them really hit the nail on the head. [...]
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Posted September 10, 2008
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Tagged artsfest, birmingham opera, bmag, brb, cbso, comfortism, dracos, elliot jack, live brum, matthew somerville, maylight, needle, nic gaunt, of all the people in all the world, project x presents, raw magic, sonia bhamra, stans cafe, the rotunda, thericeshow, town hall, willard wigan
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D’Log has spotted that the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery have been given some money by the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation Improvement Fund to develop new audiences. From the BBC:
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will spend its £300,000 grant on a new gallery telling the story of the city from medieval times to the present.
ArtsFest - Short Cuts submissions to be in by 30 May
As blogged previously but I’ve just been told the submission date is 30 May. Contact Kate Sullivan (kate.sullivan[at]birmingham.gov.uk) at ArtsFest for details/submission forms.
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News of “what is now known as Europe’s premiere review of the image, bringing to Birmingham 60 of the worlds most renowned [...]
You wouldn’t know it from their own website (or at least I can’t find mention) but on bank holiday Monday, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are offering
a rare opportunity to access the fascinating collections in store. This is no ordinary warehouse! It’s an Aladdin’s cave crammed to the rafters with every type of object you [...]
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