Created in Birmingham

• VIVID exhibition: ECSTATIC (13 May-18 June)
  “a visual and sensory season of moving image works and intervention exploring heightened emotions and altered states”. What more could you ask for?
• First Light Seeks a Media Production Company
  “First Light would like to commission a production company to produce ten ‘How to’ short films”
• A New Generation of Live Artists | Platinum
  Fierce Festival are working with Sarah Farmer, Mark Essen, Rob Jones, Nikki Pugh, Alexs Wojtulewicz and Lucy Nicholls via their Platinum programme. You can see some of this at The Edge, Cheapside on 2 June
• Burningham’s Exploratory Interventions 19-21 April 2011
  More Fierce. This is a nice round-up of what happened at the Burningham site. Some good pics too
• The Art Bus | 383 Project
  Fun times on a tour of Birmingham’s galleries
• The Most Important Cities In the Music Industry Today… – Digital Music News
  Birmingham’s at 12. I have no idea how they arrived at this but still, hoorah!

• Digbeth Is Good – The Ikon in Eastside
  Nicky Getgood’s take on the new Ikon Eastside exhibition by Tercerunquinto and the He An installation at Moat Lane Car Park
• Lucy Nicholls
  Lucy is “an artist working within theatre, dance and performance. I run educational and recreational workshops, classes and programmes for children, teenagers and adults, as well as creating my own work and performing”. And she has a blog.
• Ambient Sound Machine | TAK! Design & Art
  “A sample of an experimental sound application from a site we’re making for photographer David Rowan. You can leave it playing on it’s own or interact with the lines to sculpt the audio”

On Thurs 10 July the first screening of Finished With The War will take place as part of New Vibes at the Patrick Centre.  New Vibes is DanceXchange‘s annual showcase and Finished With The War is

a dance for camera piece that explores the relationship between the First World War and the current war in Iraq through research into the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Andrew Motion

It’s been produced/choreographed by Lucy Nicholls with direction and post-production by Liam d’Authreau and an original music composition by Marc Reck.

There’s more info on the eflyer and also on the Blendstate site and Lucy Nicholl’s own blog.