The CiB Shop wound up after three hectic months, with Pete announcing the impending announcing the impending closure. Before that, INKwell popped into the shop for some screen printing, the City of Culture bid got it’s send-off and The Story Exchange popped in.
The Created in Birmingham closed its shutters for the last time at the end of the month. Someone kissed the feedback book:
International Dance Festival Birmingham came to an end too, while Ian looked forward to what was in store at the 2010 BASS Festival and I had a peek at the Lichfield Festival’s line-up.
RoguePlay left the Custard Factory, I noticed Writing West Midlands for the first time, Ikon announced their series of ‘Favourite Things’ talks, the Daze-Ray exhibition occupied a corner of the Jewellery Quarter and IPEX took over the NEC.
hobbypopMUSEUM spent some time at Eastside Projects, the annual Cure Leukemia Art Auction took place, Ben Javens made a tea towel, end-of-year-show season started up and there was a photography exhibition at the Custard Factory.
I went to visit the flashy gizmos at University of Birmingham’s Heritage and Culture Learning Hub too.
I’ve just had a flick through the programme for the Lichfield Festival (PDF). There’s some good stuff, presided over by a new Festival Director, Fiona Stuart. Names I recognised – Rich Hall, Laura Solon, Jenni Murray, Claire Sweeney, Adrian Edmonson, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Ex Cathedra and Rachel Gillies.
Lichfield Festival website.
This year’s Lichfield Festival starts on 3 July and closes on the 13th with a programme of music, theatre, visual arts and film.
A nice touch (cos I look for this things) is a blog by the Festival Director, Richard Hawley, who has been posting his thoughts up all this week.
You can see the festival programme but it’s worth highlighting the local talent on show:
- Dancer, director and chereographer, Rosie Kay, will perform her current project, The Wild Party, for the last time at the Garrick Theatre on Sat 5 July.
- Thomas Trotter, Birmingham’s city organist, will play at Lichfield Cathedral on 7 and 9 July.
- PolarBear, described as ‘one of Britain’s foremost performance poets‘, is doing a late night session at the Garrick Studio on 9 July. I’m listening to the tracks on his MySpace as I type this and he’s really (really) good.
