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• Brumcast 105 ‘Everybody Goes Mad’
  Little Chris rounds up the local talent, plays their songs and talks between them
• Ben Neal’s Blog: Got Flummoxed!
  Ben Neal went to Flummoxed and has written all about it
• Through the Eyes of a Child, Fri 11 July – aCtiVe arts
  The culmination of a community poetry project and competition with an event at Pegasus Primary School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale. Featuring Big Brum Youth Theatre and with Charlie Jordan (Brum Poet Laureate) attending
• Picture a Day
  Photographer Craig Holmes of Crowded Gallery intends to take a picture of something that interests him every day for the next year

• PLOT – Supporting Creative People
  Got a start-up creative business in the West Mids and want business/marketing/mentoring advice? Drop into the Light House on Sat 21 June between 12-4pm for their Creative Sessions
• Robot Vs Dinosaur have a blog
  Which alerted me to the fact that Datassette has relaunched his site. RvD’s next night of laptoptronica is at Island Bar on Fri 20 June. They’ve got themselves a YouTube channel too.
• The Public opening weekend
  Fused Magazine have been going through the details – “the building is finally due to open its doors for the first time at the end of this month with a free festival programme on the 28th and 29th June”.
• FLUX-FEST – flyer
  Feast your eyes on the flyer and stick an event or two in your calendar.

Something that’s been in my ‘to investigate’ pile for a while, from 25 June to 13 July Vivid present FLUX-FEST, a season of events celebrating the spirit of Fluxus which, if you’ve not come across it before (like me), emerged as a reaction to the high-art of the 60′s. The emphasis is therefore on fun and frolics and will feature rare film, food, music, performance and miscellany.

So what’s happening?

• On 25 June there’s a dumpling party from 6pm to 8pm at Vivid
• Ensemble Interakt and a.a.s. present Re:Flux at St Paul’s Church on 27 June from 5pm to 9pm
• 7 Inch Cinema present Flummoxed at The Rainbow on 3 July

And there are all sorts of other things too. Check the Vivid website for more. Most of the events are either free or dirt cheap so it’s a ‘no excuse not to’ kinda situation.