- Producers’ Forum, 21 July at the MAC
WIth Suzie Norton, Screen WM CEO, and her Senior Management team delivering a presentation on Screen WM’s 2010-11 strategy and the next phase of support for the West Midlands Film community - Animation Forum West Midlands
“Submissions for 2010′s Great Animation Challenge are now open”. Use one of the bits of audio provided to make an animation - My five tips for bands online | Mind over Matter
Useful stuff from Ian - The Perfect Balti
“One man’s search for Birmingham’s best Balti (and naan bread)” - BBC – Have Your Say: Which UK city would be most worthy of culture award?
A nice amount of support for Birmingham’s bid from the Have Your Say commenters. Given the general level of debate on that forum I’m not sure whether that’s a good endorsement or not… - Birmingham Post – CBSO celebrates a record season as audience numbers grow
“The CBSO has seen average attendances increase by 3.5 per cent in the past 12 months” - A year in the life of a touring Company « Birmingham Royal Ballet’s touring blog
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Chief Executive Christopher Barron writes about the past 12 months for the Company - Switchboard – World-class connections for the West Midlands
“Switchboard is a network of organisations from the screen, digital, media and music industries in the West Mildands”. One to watch. (Disclosure – I’ve been invited on this) - The New Optimists
“We asked scientists “what are you optimistic about?” This site and the book record their amazing answers” - Exclusive extract from local author John Dalton’s new book, Urban Nature Notebook « In Birmingham
“His new book is a collection of short accounts of the author’s encounters with urban nature as he travels around the city”
- Moving on Up – The Future of Film in the West Midlands
“This event is a must for anyone who wants to find out about the strategy of the forum or who wants to feedback on ScreenWMs role within the future of film” With Natasha Carlish (Producers’ Forum) and Suzie Norton (Screen WM) - Just Film for a Fairer World
Monthly film night at the Midlands Co-operative Member Relations Centre at the Birmingham & Midland Institute organised by the Birmingham Co-operative Film Society. Next film is tonight, no info on the programme after that but keep an eye out for more - Scene Not Heard Birmingham – The Saturday Matinées – CANCELLATION, 15 MAY
Tomorrow afternoon’s gig has been cancelled due to noise restrictions that have apparently been placed on Island Bar - Digbeth is Good » A Friday evening full of art
Nicky went to hobbypopMUSEUM at Eastside Projects and then on to The Bordesley Centre of Contemporary Art
- Producers’ Forum Monthly Networking
“The Producers’ Forum next monthly networking meeting will be on Monday 14th December 17:00 at The Victoria Pub” - Business Development Grants – Birmingham City Council
“The Business Development Grant Programme is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund and runs until March 2011. It is aimed specifically at helping new and existing small to medium sized businesses citywide to develop and grow”. Maybe worth a look - Carbon Clothing
Carbon Clothing are based in Birmingham, have been going since 2007 and have created “a huge range of custom funny, DJ, Music and video game based clothing” - Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Christmas card
I liked this – nicely pitched and friendly - Birmingham Hippodrome Blog
The Hippodrome have a blog away from their main site with ‘news and backstage gossip’ promised
- Voting for the Weblog awards now over.
Yes, the polls are closed and thanks to huge support CiB received the most votes in the Best UK Blog category. The winners are not officially announced until tomorrow, but whilst waiting you can go explore some of the nearly 500 finalist blogs in the 48 categories. - The Rage Ensemble Production » Open casting.
Amateur arts organisation Rage Ensemble are putting on a production of ‘Our Country’s Good’ and are holding an open casting and workshops in Birmingham on 31st January. They are also looking for backstage support.
- Birmingham Eastside Blog.
A blog for an area of Brum with rich history and an exciting future – are looking for someone to write for, or take on this blog. - Emerging Producer Training Programme.
Producers Forum have funding from Skillset to offer a heavily subsidised course for emerging producers. - D’log » Art cuts in 2010?
D’log rounds up some worthwhile articles that discuss the possibility of money for the arts next year. - Live in Digbeth, Deritend or Highgate? Tell your story.
Over the next three years or so Friction Arts be working on ‘Echoes From The Edge’. A collaboration with ‘Touchable Stories’ of Boston, USA to work with the communities surrounding their HQ on creating interactive living history exhibitions and a living archive for the histories and stories of the people of Digbeth, Deritend and Highgate. - Birmingham Music Archive.
“The Birmingham Music Archive has been established to recognise and celebrate Birmingham’s rich musical heritage. We are interested in hearing and sharing the stories about the bands, the musicians, the venues and the great gigs that have taken place, the managers and promoters, the records shops, all those personal experiences and memories that surround and inform this vibrant city and its music.” - Remade Fashion Fair.
Freedom Clothing are organising a fair for remade and recycled clothes etc. on the 21st Feb at the Custard factory.
