Created in Birmingham

Happening upon the 31st day of March in the year 2010. Holly Grange and Kate Pennington-Wilson are on curation duty:

For one night only the catacombs of The Vaults will be flooded with sonic reverberations inspired by the lives, past and present, of this renovated Victorian building. The mute histories contained within the walls will surrender their silence and seep out into your ears.

Artists include: Sarah Farmer, Rob Glover, EL Heath, Scott Johnston (aka Film Ficciones), Matt Eaton (of Pram)and Candice Jacobs.

The exhibition will be followed by a DJ set and archival footage from Birmingham-based music promoters COLOUR.

Here’s one of those Facebook events for more info. Cue picture:

Others have written about this too:

• More Canals Than Venice
• An Endless Supply
• ARC themselves

I’ve been hoping this would surface online somewhere. For Capsule’s 10th birthday Film Ficciones created a little celebratory film. I’ve seen it a few times now and I’m pretty sure I’ll watch it a few more cos it’s great.

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.

• Best Believe – Promoting Tolerance Through Arts
  I’m a bit slow to link to this, but Amy has a guest post from Ulfah Arts’ artistic director Naz Koser
• KateGoes Sock Crazy
  KateGoes would like you to make sock puppet monkeys to star in the video to their first single. Film Ficciones seem to be involved in this too. 31 Jan 2010 is the deadline
• something I said : Look Here!
  Nice idea this – thinking about those huge banners used to cover up scaffolding – “So what happens a lot of times is that the banner is just a huge photo of the building – which is pretty cool. But what if the banner were more like experimental art? Or a photo of something else?”
• Interview: David Massingham
  DanceXchange’s artistic director talks about the International Dance Festival Birmingham
• Tom Bellamy EP Launch Party | Hare and Hounds
  I’ve never heard Tom Bellamy’s music. Really I’m linking to this because I like the artwork (by Jonathan Farr from Mexico City)
• Anna Minton: ‘Ground Control’ Talk
  “Acclaimed journalist Anna Minton presents her book Ground Control” at The Public on Wednesday 18 Nov. I mean to pick up a copy of this a while back but plain forgot. As The Guardian summarised it “This timely and powerful study argues that a flawed urban-planning strategy has turned our cities into unfriendly, suspicious places”
• An Introduction to Creative Theatre Producing, Birmingham Rep
  This course “will look at everything needed to put on a show or start a production or theatre company, from the local pub, to a national tour, to the West End of London. It will also touch on film and TV opportunities”
• Analogue Out in the Open: Unguided Tours
  “For the final part of the Analogue project you can book your place on an ‘unguided tour’ of Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution”
• Unlimited – Invitation to Advice Session
  Arts Council West Midlands will be holding an advice session for Unlimited, the UK’s largest ever disability arts programme, on Friday 20th November 2-4pm at their offices. Click the link for details

• Brumcast 106 ‘Asshole, Jackoff, Scumbag’
  Little Chris is back once again, like some sort of renegade master
• Inter-Act
  Shiny and new – “Inter-Act is a newly established devising company made up of young creative artists. Inter-Act are dedicated to creating new and exciting pieces of work whilst also providing educational programs for young people”
• The Big Picture – Help make the World Record mosaic at Thinktank
  From Monday 4 August until Thursday 21 August production of the individual panels that make up the mosaic will be taking place in Thinkspace, in Thinktank, Millennium Point. Volunteers are needed
• 7 Inch Cinema: Birthday Film
  From Scott from Film Ficciones – “I made this for UK film outfit 7 INCH CINEMA to be shown at their 5th birthday night, inspired by Kubrick. It’s all a bit of an inside-joke, so apologies to anyone stumbling across this completely unawares”
• Sutton Festival of Arts 08
  Photos from the weekend by Stuart Parker
• How to put people off contemporary art – The Eclectrician
  On the new Ikon Eastside exhibition – “The exhibit looks great, but oh, how my heart sank as I read the accompanying blurb”.

Having promised to mention this before, I nearly forgot.  This summer:

Friction Arts will be collaborating with their US partners, Touchable Stories on a unique, living history arts project, attempting to reveal the true voice of Digbeth, Birmingham

There’ll be an exhibition and a series of other events including meetings, talks and dinners.  The first such event will be ‘Mining For Gold – a master class in oral history and community engagement’ from 3pm to 8pm on 25 July.  Shannon Flattery (Touchable Stories) will talk about work in some of the ‘third world’ communities in the US and Sandra Hall (Friction Arts and recently consultant to the Dutch culture dept) will present her own approaches to working, and making art.

There’s more general info on the Friction Arts site and here’s the flyer for this particular event:

Also coming up at The Edge, although I’ve not seen any info anywhere yet, Scott from Film Ficciones and Matt from Pram will be hosting some underground film nights.  I think that’ll be on Saturday 26 July but if anyone has any further info then let me know.