Created in Birmingham

The Oasis Radio has been up and running since Monday and is broadcasting until 27 January. It’s broadcasting from Birmingham City University and is being played out in the Oasis shopping centre and online.

It’s mainly music and such, but they’ve also put together quite a decent short documentary about the history of the place too:

• Job listing for Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum: Call for Proposals (The Event)
  Good to hear this is happening again, I liked the last one. “Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is pleased to announce it is currently seeking projects from artists and curators in the UK for inclusion in The Event 2011, to take place 21 – 30 October”
• Happy Birthday to Frilly! – blog – frilly
  A big happy birthday indeed to Frilly
• Experiencing Burningham’s Live Graffiti Battle: Tagged@EXYZT
  “We hope Tagged@EXYZT opened new minds to street art and showed the soul and joy a community the city would rather not exist can create. For all of us involved it was an evening where Birmingham sparkled”
• Presenting the world’s biggest art prize: the £175,000 Gulbenkian
  “Graham Vick and his Birmingham Opera want to turn Brecht and Weill’s political satire Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny into a multi-participant online production examining the survival of the soul in a virtual world”
• Birmingham Hippodrome: Chief exec’s 10-year journey
  Interview with Stuart Griffiths
• Desert Island Life « More Canals than Venice
  Jeans Retailer Promotion in Decent Line-up of Events Shock. Featuring Project Pigeon, Flatpack Festival, LOAF, Chicks Dig Jerks, Them Lot and Mr Hudson (NB – some, perhaps all, of this has happened already)
• AE Harris
  The venue now has its own website
• Pickled
  Based in The Oasis: “Here at Pickled, we aim to provide a hireable exhibition space for anyone in the arts. From the amateur to the professional, we want anyone with an interesting art idea or project to come along and exhibit their work”
• The Style Kaleidoscope
  “A vibrant street style documentary of Birmingham, UK”

• We Create*
  “We Create* opened its first shop, on August 1st, based in The Oasis on Corporation Street in Birmingham. The shop incubates 10 local young fashion designer’s and the labels they have developed. The unit also retails designs developed by participants on We Create*’s Fashion Design and its Commercial Development pilot courses”
• Dominic Crane on MySpace
  Congrats to Dominic Crane who won the UK Open Mic Regional Final on Sunday – he’s off to the grand final in Manchester on 6 Dec. His ‘About’ section is pretty impressive
• YouTube – Clifton Mallice and his Chat Up Lines (1940s dating video)
  New short from the Dice Productions folks, as premiered at Popcorn Comedy earlier in the week. It’s a “1940s misogynistic instructional video on how to woo women in a social situation”
• DJ QBert at Rainbow Warehouse
  Nicely put together vid of a visiting master at work
• Lolitics – Our Cast ov Playerz
  Lolitics is Birmingham’s very own Spitting Image, only instead of rubber masks they’ve got captioned pictures of local politicians. Essential reading in the run-up to the next election – here’s an overview of the cast