Created in Birmingham

• Intimate portrait of contemporary Britain and economic migration revealed in new exhibit at LSE
  “A major new commission by Birmingham-based photographer Andrew Jackson exploring contemporary Britain and economic migration will be exhibited at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from Monday 11 January”
• Tuned On music seminars « Punch Records
  “The seminars will address contemporary issues including strategies, tips and advice from some of the most successful and influential people in the music business” They’ve picked some good topics too
• Boogie Dave Presents… Bentley Rhythm Ace at Space2
  Band reformations are catching up with me. Seems we’ve reached Big Beat. “With support from Cut La Roc and, fresh from supporting Dub Pistols on tour and former vocalist with Norman Cook`s Beats International, Lindy Layton”. Actually, I’m tempted…
• Storyteller/Comedian/Spoken Word Artists
  “The Traditional Arts Team, in conjunction with The Story Slam, are holding their very first story slam event at The Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham on the 20th January 2010 and are looking for storytellers to take part”
• Page not found
  The Custard Factory blog’s disappeared. Hopefully it’ll come back

• Prime Objective Blog :: Victor Man Documentary
  For the Ikon’s latest show Chris Keenan spent a few days “filming the installation down at Ikon and discussing Victor’s work with curator Nigel Prince. The edited video is now live on the Ikon site to aid a greater understanding of the work” I like this sort of stuff
• Folk Monthly from the Traditional Arts Team
  I didn’t know about this. “It covers folk and related events across the Midlands, featuring adverts for clubs, festivals, sessions, bands etc, central diary pages, articles, news and reviews” and costs £12 for 11 issues a year
• Artfall – Birmingham University Exhibition
  “Members of Birmingham Print Makers have put up an exhibition in Staff House at the University of Birmingham which runs until December 23rd”
• début
  début was going to be a paid-to-submit-content magazine. I’m not sure if that’s still happening but for now at least it’s in a blog format. There’s plenty being posted up too. Definitely worth checking regularly

From the Traditional Arts Team. Here are their Birmingham storytelling events for December:

Wednesday 3 December, 8pm
BIRMINGHAM STORYTELLING SESSION
Upstairs at The Bull’s Head, St Mary’s Row, Birmingham B13 8HW
http://www.tradartsteam.co.uk/storytelling/bhamsession.htm

Thursday 4 December, 8pm
BIRMINGHAM TRADITIONAL SONG SESSION
Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham 14
www.tradartsteam.co.uk/song

Wednesday 17 December, 7:30pm
BIRMINGHAM – KITCHEN GARDEN CAFÉ
A storytelling night to raise the Christmas spirit With a Christmas host of local storytellers. KGC menu available from 6:30
Tickets £7.00 0121 443 4725
www.storytelling.uk.net/cafe/events/dec08bham.html

(Props to Spaghetti Gazetti)

• Knight of the Camera: The Photographs of Sir Benjamin Stone MP
  The photos on display in Centenary Square at the moment are by Sir Benjamin Stone MP, an enthusiastic amateur photographer. This is the first time in a century that his work has been shown in Birmingham, his home town
• The Shambala Art Exhibition – Birmingham – The Final Show! at Jibbering Art
  The exhibition moves to Birmingham from Friday 10th – Friday 17th October @ Wild Building, 104 – 108 Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SJ, 10.30am – 6.30pm. The launch night is Thurs 9 October, 7pm – 11pm – expect live art, afrika jam dj’s and more
• Overcoming Dictatorships
  This is the blog for “a two-year exchange between artists, poets and authors from various European countries about their experiences of the change from dictatorship to democracy, in particular after the opening of former communist countries since the end of the 1980s”. There’s a round table discussion at the Ikon on 8 Oct and a conference at Birmingham Uni on 9 Oct (with an exhibition there going on until 9 Nov)
• The Traditional Arts Team are having a ceilidh on Sat 18 Oct
  Apparently this is “part of the Big National Ceilidh – a night when, in cities, towns and villages all over the country, thousands of people will simultaneously be dancing to the music of live bands”
• Local Radio – where is the good news?
  Robin Valk muses on the state of local radio, specifically wondering (with advertising cuts likely and the cost of ‘old school radio’) whether it has any future
• Television’s People Out Today! – Mistys Big Adventure
  Grandmaster Gareth has been suffering. The new Mistys album is out today though, so things should start looking up