Created in Birmingham

Social Boom

On the last Wednesday of every month, meet ups will take place from 6.30pm at The Cross in Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8HW

Media Talent Bank

we are holding an exhibition and networking evening at Orange Studio’s on the 10th May

Creative Playground

Please join the group if you have anything to do with Creativity in Birmingham (Advertising, Architecture, Arts, Crafts, Design, Fashion, Film, Games, Music, Television & Radio).

Birmingham Actors Group

The plan of the group is to have regular workshops, practice acting technigues, run through scripts and much more. The group will also have events were you can socialize with people who share similar interests

Birmingham Screenwriters Network

Our aim is to provide guidance and support in various areas of the field – to offer critical feedback for works in progress and provide a sense of community for members.

• CiB needs votes
  Drat, we’re languishing in 2nd now. Please vote (again, if you already have). If CiB has ever promoted anything of yours, please could you return the favour?
• Art Stalking: One Day Comic & Feature: Architecture
  “Works by Henrik Schrat (with guests) & Shezad Dawood form an installation at ESP that feels very different from the opening exhibition there”
• It’s behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment
  Jon Bounds rounds up and generally tries to explain what Twitpanto, the Twitter pantomime, was all about
• Laundry – an association of multi-disciplinary artists
  Members of Laundry have visited “Hania, Crete, to negotiate and plan a Creative Laboratory with the Etz Hayyim Synagogue, as part of the Intercultural Dialogue project with Borderland Foundation and New Culture Foundation”
• 7 Inch Cinema » The Way We Were
  Ian rounds up an interesting and varied 2008 when he should be writing the Flatpack brochure
• Media Talent Bank – January member of the month
  Garazi Gardner is member of the month for January and is “a freelance photographer based in Birmingham who specialises in fashion, portrait and both live and promotional music photography”
• Enduring America
  Enduring America is a blog about US politics and foreign policy straight outta Birmingham Uni. Contributors include Scott Lucas, Prof of American Studies, and PhD student Mike Dunn

Media Talent Bank is a collective of creatives, media organisations and freelancers. Through this robust online database of individuals, employers can source the hottest creative talent around through personalised profiles.

This project is funded by Digital Central and managed by Media Content Lab part of Birmingham City University with the aim of galvanising the West Midlands creative and media communities into a strong and sustainable sector

It’ll be interesting to see how this takes off. If you’re a creative type then I’d say it’s probably worth a couple of minutes of your time to fill out a profile – you never know who might be looking to give you some work.

Another site maybe worth checking is Behance. It’s not for everyone though – you have to ask to be invited – but it aims to be a (fairly prestigious) platform for the world’s leading creative professionals. There’s a few folks from Birmingham on there but of those, only Suzie Webb (website) has had a mention here before.

• Links for November 23rd | daveharte.com
  Dave Harte has a few good links – Self Portrait Birmingham, an RSS feed for the Media Talent Bank blog and the BrumMusicArchive’s YouTube channel
• Film Forum West Midlands − MECHANICAL EYE- Community film project
  The Film Forum WM pick up on Mechanical Eye, a project “to encourage young filmmakers within the region to use their creative tools and minds together and, come up with simple stories to appeal ‘at and to’ the common man through an artistic outlook”
• Birmingham School of Architecture Year 1 Blog
  This is interesting – as the title says, it’s a blog for year 1 architecture students and they seem to be throwing all sorts of bits and pieces at it
• Who is Brummie of the Year 2008? – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
  The voting has opened
• Harry Palmer: Birmingham’s hedgehog crisis. Why it’s so important.The full story
  A thoroughly interesting explanation/reflection on Saturday’s public speaking event