Created in Birmingham

• Twitpanto Narrator (twitpanto on Twitter) was nominated for a Shorty Award
  Go vote for Twitpanto. Please
• Birmingham City Council Art in Empty Shops
  “Birmingham’s Community Arts Team are looking for an arts led organisation with registered charity status to produce, co-ordinate and programme exhibitions accompanied by a minimum of 50 days participatory activity at five empty shop venues across the city between February 2010 and March 2011″
• MULL IT OVER
  Interview with Luke Halliley
• Skeptics In The Pub – Birmingham
  “Skeptics in the Pub (SitP) exists to provide an opportunity for people who are interested in science, skepticism, rationalism, critical thinking to socialise and discuss matters of interest”. Do they really?
• Twitter / Chris Addison
  “I gots to tell ya, The Comedy Junction in Sutton Coldfield has to be one of the best (& best run) gigs in the country”. Ringing endorsement from the chap from The Thick of It
• Digbeth is Good » January at The Mixing Bowl Theatre
  Nicky rounds up what’s happening at the Custard Factory’s theatre. Which is good, cos it was on my list but I’d not got round to doing it
• Kate Hindley artwork « Get Frank
  Ex-CiBster and current songwriter/radio presenter/drama student/Maverick TV intern (I think)/etc Frankie Ward got some artwork by Kate Hindley for Christmas

I like these and there’s a couple more springing up soon.

Brilliantly Birmingham will have a temporary shop at the Pavillions from 5-24 December.

Some of the designers selling their work in the Pavilions include designers from Design Space, an incubation scheme in the Jewellery Quarter which was set up by Birmingham City Council to support new talent in the area

Meanwhile quite literally everyone else has pointed out that the Swifty Pop-Up Shop will be at the Sauce Gallery at the Custard Factory from 10 Dec to 10 Jan. Swifty is a typographer, artist and sleeve designer – he worked at The Face before later becoming art editor at Straight No Chaser.

OH. MY. SWEET. LORD. I’ve just found out he did the ‘If in doubt play Stevie’ print that I once saw years ago and have hankered after ever since. Ok, I’m excited about this now.

The shop will sell:

Everything from originals and one off prints to T-shirts, skateboards and stickers

But whatever, I just want that print. Oh aye, Punch Records are involved with this one too. Here’s a pic: