Blog Profile / Created in Birmingham
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| Archived Since: | November 2, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
#InstaBrum
Saturday 18th May – 1pm – 3:30pm #InstaBrum is an Instagram Photomarathon, an event in which participants are given themes to photograph within certain time and post to Instagram. Taking place on Saturday May 18th, the goal of this event is to network, have fun and spread great views of Birmingham through the web. The [...]
Public Arts Forum
Birmingham Civic Society is holding a Public Art Forum on the evening of Wednesday 15th May, to take forward the debate on the future of Public Art for Birmingham. Birmingham Civic Society has decided to commission a new innovative work of public art to be positioned in the city centre through an open competition. The piece will be [...]
Hit the Ode
“Hit the Ode brings the most exciting poets from the region, the country and the world to the heart of Birmingham. Join us! We have poems. Poems which contain small parts, unsuitable for unsupervised play; poems scored for philharmonic orchestras and rush-hour traffic; poems with wind-up mechanisms. Good poems. Come and get them.” The next [...]
Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary
On 15th May, The Public are launching Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary, an exhibition curated by David Thorp, “celebrating the vitality, diversity and humour that art can embody.” They have a number of local names you may recognise amongst their big name artists, which include; Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Tracey Emin, David Shrigley (pictured) Martin Creed, Hugh Locke, [...]
Art Bus – Thursday 16th May
Art Bus celebrates its tenth birthday this year. Organised as part of Museums at Night 2013, the free bus will visit five galleries across Birmingham during the evening of Thursday 16 May 2013. The bus will also stop at the mac, Barber Institute, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Eastside Projects, Ikon Gallery and the RBSA Gallery. Each gallery is open late (to [...]
Spectrum – Birmingham School of Jewellery
Spectrum is an exhibition showcasing the work of the jewellery and silversmithing world through the work of the 13 Artists in Residence (2012-2013) at the Birmingham School of Jewellery. The exhibition gives the audience the opportunity to see the work of the current emerging and established designers within this field. Each resident has a specialist [...]
The Shock of Spring
West Midlands Readers’ Network, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Writing West Midlands present The Shock of Spring, a readers’ afternoon with Helen Cross, Sabine Durrant, Chris McCabe and Nathan Filer. Saturday 11th May. Join us for an exploration of the psychological thriller, the crime novel and the novel that unearths the underbelly of domestic [...]
Artist, reveal yourself!
3rd – 5th May 2013 Artist, Reveal Yourself! organised by PAiL West Midlands in collaboration with Polish Expats Association, launches on the 3rd of May 2013 at the post-industrial spaces of A.E.Harris. For three days, visitors will have a chance to see many artistic projects from various art disciplines including visual arts, theatre, music, slam [...]
Art SOAK revisited
Arts Forum Selly Oak have announced dates for some of Art SOAK festival‘s rescheduled workshops, which had been postponed from their March festival (you may remember it was a particularly snowy weekend.) Art SOAK Revisited is taking place across weekends in May/June, and more information is on the flyer below, and on the Arts Forum [...]
Support the Birmingham Architecture Festival 2013
Earlier this year, we wrote about the Birmingham Architecture Festival taking place across Birmingham in May. They have recently launched a kickstarter to help fund their efforts, and at the time of writing they are half way to reaching their target of £1250. “The Birmingham Architecture Festival is a welcome addition to Birmingham’s burgeoning independent festival [...]
ARTifex – Young Jewellery Designer Awards 2013
ARTifex Young Jewellery Designer Awards is run by the directors of ARTifex Gallery in Sutton Coldfield; Ross Fenn and Nigel Bates. The competition is open to young jewellery designers from, or studying, in the Midlands aged 18 – 25 and to enter you must design and produce a unique piece/pieces of jewellery! Click here to [...]
Capsule: Artist Opportunities
Capsule have two call outs for artists to produce exciting work for the Library of Birmingham opening season. We are looking for artists/organisations to take on week long residencies within an exciting space designed by Studio Myerscough, and we will also commission an artist/illustrator to create new work to sit in the new Children’s Library. Show More Summary
Patrick Staff: A Factory As It Might Be
Patrick Staff: A Factory As It Might Be is the current exhibition at the International Project Space at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design’s School of Art in Bournville. For those who don’t know about International Project Space: International Project Space (IPS) is a non-profit contemporary arts organisation situated on the Bournville campus of the [...]
The Brum Diary
The Brum Diary is a rather nice tumblr I came across last week via PROVIDE. Not much information on it, apart from “A photographic journal of my life as a scenic carpenter in Brumton”
Friday Links 12th April 2013
A few Friday links… it’s quite a big round-up, so grab a cup of tea and have a good sift through. News: MITTWOCH AUS LICHT by Stockhausen, a commission for the London 2012 Festival, produced by Birmingham Opera Company last August in a disused Digbeth factory has been shortlisted for the two top awards in the [...]
Of All The People In All The World
Two Snowhill is the latest addition to Birmingham’s skyline and from the 12th April to 21st April it will play home to ‘Of All The People In All The World’. This award-winning show from Birmingham based theatre company Stan’s Cafe has been viewed in 50 different cities around the world and is returning home for its [...]
Welcome to Birmingham: Ikon Gallery
In the time that I’ve lived in Birmingham there’s a place that has frequently come up in conversation/email/the twittersphere that I have never knowingly been in the vicinity of, let alone visited. Yet Ikon is one of the best regarded galleries in the region, and I finally made the trip last month to see what [...]
Bandstandaudio – The Other Way Works
“Bandstand is a collection of digital audio performances for Bandstands from The Other Way Works. The audio performances are located in the landscape, and can be discovered and experienced using your smartphone’s GPS in conjunction with our Bandstand App. We are hoping to have the Bandstand App available on the iPhone and Android stores in early June, [...]
Library – print boutique
Last month online boutique Library launched, selling prints from established designers and illustrators. It’s Birmingham based, and most of the artists involved are from the Birmingham area. With a range of posters on offer from designers such as Family, Mou&Ye, Known As Unknown and Others Studio, Library has carefully chosen each artist to offer a [...]
Cinemasters of the Universe
Cinemasters Of The Universe brings you a unique, unorthodox and unparalleled pop-up cinema experience, showing the films you love the way they were made to be seen – on the silver screen. Cinemasters will offer up nightly double-bills and weekend matinees. Showing cinematic masterpieces, cult classics and world-class bad movies in a bespoke underground environment, [...]