- Job listing for Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum: Call for Proposals (The Event)
Good to hear this is happening again, I liked the last one. “Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is pleased to announce it is currently seeking projects from artists and curators in the UK for inclusion in The Event 2011, to take place 21 – 30 October”
- Happy Birthday to Frilly! – blog – frilly
A big happy birthday indeed to Frilly
- Experiencing Burningham’s Live Graffiti Battle: Tagged@EXYZT
“We hope Tagged@EXYZT opened new minds to street art and showed the soul and joy a community the city would rather not exist can create. For all of us involved it was an evening where Birmingham sparkled”
- Presenting the world’s biggest art prize: the £175,000 Gulbenkian
“Graham Vick and his Birmingham Opera want to turn Brecht and Weill’s political satire Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny into a multi-participant online production examining the survival of the soul in a virtual world”
- Birmingham Hippodrome: Chief exec’s 10-year journey
Interview with Stuart Griffiths
- Desert Island Life « More Canals than Venice
Jeans Retailer Promotion in Decent Line-up of Events Shock. Featuring Project Pigeon, Flatpack Festival, LOAF, Chicks Dig Jerks, Them Lot and Mr Hudson (NB – some, perhaps all, of this has happened already)
- AE Harris
The venue now has its own website
- Pickled
Based in The Oasis: “Here at Pickled, we aim to provide a hireable exhibition space for anyone in the arts. From the amateur to the professional, we want anyone with an interesting art idea or project to come along and exhibit their work”
- The Style Kaleidoscope
“A vibrant street style documentary of Birmingham, UK”
- Best Believe – Inclusion Inspires
“a free conference delivered by MusicLeader West Midlands, Youth Music and Symphony Hall on Monday 16th November”
- Loaf Needs YOU! :: Loaf Online
Tom wants to ‘kickstart a social movement around local food in Birmingham’. Get in touch with him if that sounds like fun
- Ego Theatre and ITV Fixers
“Leminc has collaborated with ITV Fixers on a unique journey to find nothing but the very BEST of birmingham’s raw, artistic talent. (Actors, Dancers, Singers, Poets, Rappers, Entertainers and any other innnovative production) in order to create a powerful, innovative Musical Theatre with purpose”. At the Library Theatre, 7 Nov
- Game Central / Previous Meetings
Minutes from the first meeting of the new get-together for West Mids games people
- The criteria for Arts Council England regular funding | Arts Council
“We have a strategy for the arts which underpins our decisions about funding for individual organisations. This document aims to describe the framework we use in making these decisions”
- Outside IN commissioning leading disabled artists – Audiences Central
“Outside IN is commissioning new work from three of the UK’s leading Disabled Artists for inclusion in three mainstream galleries in the West Midlands and Welsh Borders from 2010 to 2011″
- Robin Valk – UB40: Live, Loud and Local
Andrew Dubber interviews Robin Valk
- shona mcquillan
Artist Shona McQuillan has revamped her site and now has some prints for purchasing
- Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre sold to ATG in £90m deal
The Ambassador Theatre Group have bought the Alex from Live Nation (along with 15 other venues around the country). No great changes planned, according interviews with folks involved, other than to reduce the amount of time it stands idle – currently around 16 weeks a year
