Created in Birmingham

• New Art Gallery Walsall is 10 « area magazine
  “To mark New Art Gallery Walsall’s double figure milestone they will be celebrating with Party! an exhibition designed both to celebrate their 10 years of achievements and the range and diversity of visual arts”
• Library of Birmingham to partner with British Film Institute
  The Library of Birmingham (or LoB, meaning the people working there will be LoBsters) “will become the home of a BFI Mediatheque”. No doubt croissants will be served with a gallic shrug
• Art Events for Feb-April « area magazine
  A round-up of visitable stuff. I would urge you to go to at least one of these things
• a photog blog & more…
  It’s a photoblog (spotted by @getgood), presumably by someone living in Birmingham town (I have deduced this based on the photos that are blogged)
• GET A GRIP – Handpulled Waterbased Screenprinting in Brimingham, UK
  Sam and Kay are based in the Custard Factory. They “Started from a combination of DIY ethics, ecological thinking and a mutual love of Punk Rock”

• The New Art Gallery Walsall – Mitra Memarzia: The Unwanted Gift Shop
  “Mitra Memarzia will transform the Artists’ Studio at the gallery into a gift shop where unwanted items will be celebrated and given a new lease of life”. 18 Jan – 18 April 2010, although you can leave gifts at reception in advance if you like
• The Through the Viewfinder photography of Pete Ashton
  The online hub of Pete’s TTV Photography is up and running. He’s an Artist now, dontchaknow
• Digbeth is Good » Ben Waddington’s beer mat art at The Spotted Dog
  “an advent calendar made up of painted beer mats depicting signs and scenes personally significant to Ben. It’s on display until the twelfth day of Christmas, 6th January 2010″
• Wolverhampton declared to be a better city than Detroit, Los Angeles, Seoul and Accra
  In a frankly tossy survey by Lonely Planet that I shouldn’t really wasting a link on, except it’s an opportunity to say that Art Gallery, Light House and quality of gigs at the Civic are all pretty darn good. So there.

With all this rubbish weather hanging around over the last few weeks it has been too tempting to hide indoors on a Sunday and stay warm.

Here is a few exhibitions on around the West Mids, are free to the public and are open on a Sunday. Go on! Put on your favourite woolly jumper, brave the cold, and go get some culture.

Armando Andrade Tudela
A new series of films reflects upon a modular construction designed by French architect Jean Pierre Maneval in 1963.

4 February – 29 March 2009
Ikon Gallery
Open: Sunday 11am-6pm

In Touch
In this new interactive gallery visitors can engage in and experience a variety of works through touch, sound and light.

01 Jan 2008 – 01 Jan 2012
Birmingham Museum
Open: Sunday 12.30pm – 5pm

Fresh Out of the Box
Exhibiting artists include: Artists Anonymous, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn and Gavin Turk.

Runs till 14th October 09
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Open: Sunday 11am – 4pm

I wanted this to be a longer list but not that many galleries are open on a Sunday, especially the more independant contemporary ones, which seems odd. Can anyone shed some light on why this is?

• Festibull 2008: Battle of the Unsigned Bands
  “Compete against other unsigned bands for the chance to support ‘Cage The Elephant’ at the gig of a lifetime”. That’s right, you can stop dreaming of Wembley and start thinking bigger – the mighty Bullring awaits
• Stereographic – The New Art Gallery Walsall
  Stereographic have been working on a “brand and communications refresh” for the New Art Gallery Walsall and here’s some of what they’ve been producing
• Birmingham Bach Choir – Now Recruiting – Audiences Central
  “Regular performances in Symphony Hall are accompanied by international orchestras like the English Chamber Orchestra, often with world-class soloists… You don’t have to be an expert or a great singer to join the Birmingham Bach Choir but you should be able to read music and to enjoy working hard with everyone else to achieve the high standards we look to maintain”
• Facebook | Drop Beats Not Bombs Crew wanted
  I don’t think they’re after people at the moment but if you wanted to get involved at some point then joining this Facebook group might be a good place to start

• KateGoes and Writes a BBC Theme Tune
  “KateGoes are doing a theme tune for a new BBC sitcom called Coming of Age” as spotted by Dunc from the Autumn Store
• Crisp dust and car boot sales- is it art?
  BBC preview of the forthcoming Margaret Street MA show
• Light House September/October Events
  Spaghetti Gazetti have the list of what’s on over at the Light House in Wolverhampton
• Juneau Projects Live Album Launch
  Fused also report that “Juneau Projects will be launching their live album ‘I Went to the Woods’ at New Art Gallery Walsall on Thursday 28 August 2008, 6pm-8pm and admission is free”
• Help break a World Record this week
  If you have any free time this week everyone working on the Big Picture would love to see you at Thinktank to help build this huge artwork. You can turn up at any time between 10am – 4pm each day until Thursday this week (if you’d like more details see the Big Picture site)
• Sarah Ray exhibition
  Fused report that “The very talented Sarah Ray will be exhibiting her work at The Marcus Galleries from the end of this month”