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Boxxed – the art, film, music and education venue on Floodgate Street in Digbeth – is to close its doors.

The venue – which hosted the shoot for Juice Aleem’s Rock My Hologram music video and more – made this announcement on their Facebook page:

It’s with a great deal of sadness that we have to announce BOXXED ceased trading on Monday the 19th Sept 2011. We’ve had fun and we hope everyone that experienced our unique space did too, but it’s time for us to bow out.

Massive thanks go to everyone that was part of our project, particularly Dave Checkley, Ksmk Neil, all the graff guys that painted our walls just for the love of it (especially Hoaks & Fluid), The Project Pigeon Crew and everyone that volunteered their time to help us out. You know who you are.

According to Digbeth is Good (hat-tip for posting about this originally), Project Pigeon, which is based on Boxxed’s Custard Factory grounds, will be unaffected for now and there will be a couple of closing parties at the venue to see it off in style. Inquiries should be directed to the Boxxed team on 07826 523 650.

Into March and while Capsule took Home of Metal to SXSW and Flatpack were readying another festival, Rhubarb Rhubarb opened the Rhubarb East Gallery

Pete took a break from the CiB Shop to give an update 2 weeks in, The Photography Collective formed and held their first meeting and We Are Eastside launched linking up Eastside’s creative organisations. Project Brutal was announced too.

The Bulls Head shared a few mixes from some of their guests and residents, Tindal Street released Alan Apperley’s Indeterminate Creatures, we had a look at As One’s work (as it seemed to be springing up all over the place) and Juice Aleem asked us to rock his hologram, with the video being filmed at Boxxed.

I Am Camera is an exhibition featuring 25 photographers displaying work at Boxxed on Floodgate Street in Digbeth between 10th and 19th of June. 

Here’s some more words about it:

I Am Camera is a collective showcase of work put together by a group of emerging and established artists who are currently rooted within Birmingham.

The exhibition will showcase the work of these artists who all come from a wide range of visual media professions including Fine Art, Documentary, Landscape, Fashion and Commercial roles.

I Am Camera is happy to be bringing this event to the heart of Birmingham between the 10th & 19th of June. There will most certainly be something for everyone to feast their eyes upon so why not pop by say hello and enjoy the work on show?

There’s also a handy list of all the artists on show on the I Am Camera website here.

New vid for Juice Aleem’s ‘Rock My Hologram’:

The vid was shot at Boxxed in Digbeth and, looking at the blurb in the YouTube description a whole host of local folks were involved (aside from Juice Aleem himself).

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• CAN <UK>
  Based in Ladywood – “We are a design, media and communication company working with people of all ages and abilities to devise engaging cross media projects that enable participants to express ideas about themselves, their communities and environment”
• Arlene Burnett
  Birmingham based artist and curator. Currently to be found at the Rea garden on Floodgate Street in Digbeth
• Eat My Shorts: Haiti Fundraiser Saturday 13th March
  Over at The Edge on 13 March from 8pm. The plan is – “two hours of all sorts of shorts followed by a disco”
• Birmingham based 104 films score a double whammy at the BAFTAs
  They did Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
• An Endless Supply « More Canals than Venice
  Interview with the zine folks
• Digbeth is Good » Boxxed opens its doors
  Excited about this
• Creative Networks: Women’s Short Film Festival
  “Screening a selection of films from the ‘A Corto di Donne’ Film Festival held in Naples Italy 2009 with the organisers and some of the filmmakers as our Guest Speakers” 25 Feb
• The Highlight
  Looks like this has replaced Jongleurs on Broad St. It’s a comedy club. I didn’t recognise many of the upcoming acts, but then I don’t know comedy that well so fair enough. Actually, Roger Monkhouse (no relation) makes me laugh and he’ll be there in the next month or so
• Facebook | Secret Birmingham
  After the kerfuffle around the Secret London Facebook group there’s been a rash of others set up in other places around the country. Here’s the Birmingham one – some good stuff in there
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  What happens when an Initiative, a Forum, an Association and a Group get angry? They get start a Lobby, natch.

I’ve heard plenty of grumbling over the past little while that there’s not enough space around the city for doing ‘stuff’ in, so this might be interesting to a fair few.

Media Kube Productions – 5-7 Vaughton Street South (a couple of mins from Five Ways)

In the words of Pete Homer from Media Kube Productions:

We are a media company based in B’ham who have created a media / music creative apprenticeship course for young people aged between 16-24 wanting to get into creative industries.

We also have two large beautiful open plan warehouses that would be ideal for like minded people to use and bring to life with creative projects such as art gallery / exhibition space, filming etc

They’re also looking at renting office or desk space to create a good working environment for creative businesses.

Here’s what the space looks like:

And here’s a flyer with more info. For enquiries, get in touch with Pete Homer at pete@media-kube.com.

Boxxed – 104-106 Floodgate Street, Digbeth

Recently used for shooting a music video for Basement Jaxx and intended to be used for workshops, exhibitions and events. No pics, but there’s more info on Boxxed’s website.