Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

Jam Night Launch at The Jekyll & Hyde - Wednesday, August 19 at 8:00pm

Music     Live     Venue    Open - Mic

It’s the launch of an open jam night. Come down and bring something that makes noise or bring friends that make noise…. Bring the noise. x

info@thejekyllandhyde.co.uk
The Jekyll & Hyde
28 Steelhouse Lane,
Birmingham
B4 6BJ
Tel no. 0121 236 0345

One Voice Project

Music     Charity

It all started with the baby Pete story in the news. I remember looking at Joey (the drummer of my band, Divine Oblivion) saying “Someone needs to do something about this. No one deserves to suffer like that, especially a child.” From then on, more and more child abuse stories seemed to come into [...]

Creative Playground

Creative     Community     Networking

“I strongly believe that Birmingham needs to do a better job of creating community amongst our businesses if we are to compete with other emerging ‘out of London’ creative/digital hubs like Manchester, Bristol and Brighton. After we have created a cohesive community we will be able to start successfully promoting our offerings to [...]

Regional Creative Investment Road Shows - from Creative Republic

Regional Creative Investment Road Shows
It can be difficult to understand the investment opportunities available to Creative businesses. So, Business Link West Midlands, Screen West Midlands and Advantage Proof of Concept have designed a series of FREE seminars to provide you with information on the range of funding support available to help develop your business.
The road [...]

What is Industry? (Moon Boot Yoga Lauch) - Friday 24 July 2009

Art

Keith Wilson

What is Industry? (Moon Boot Yoga Launch)

7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 24 July 2009
Corner of Typhoo Basin & Warwick Bar Stop Lock, canal accesible from Fazely Street, at canal bridge between Andover Street and Pickford Street.

Join the canal side moon boot yoga launch of Keith Wilson’s What is Industry? a specially bound, numbered and boxed [...]

URGENT: Opportunities at VIVID

Opportunity
The outcomes of this programme will be evaluated with the intention of providing ‘space and time’ for an annual ‘salon’ with similar concerns.
 
 
PROJECT INTERN - ‘The Act of Drawing’
June - October 2009
 
VIVID is seeking an intern to assist the programme team with the research and development of ‘The Act of Drawing’.
 
The Act of Drawing explores [...]

Film     Short

Paper Aeroplane is a micro-budget feature film to be shot in Birmingham, England during August 2009. It will star actor Kriss Dosanjh (This is England, East is East, Dirty Pretty Things) who will also co-produce using his Funki Munki Productions organisation.
Currently the plan is to shoot for 9 days from Saturday 15th August until [...]

Talent 2009

Talent 2009 is set to be an entertainment & fashion extravaganza featuring the cream of the crop of local and national talent. The show will feature singing, dancing, poetry, rapping and a series of mini fashion shows featuring both up-coming designers and models. Coordinated by Aspire4U - founded by BCU students and graduates - the [...]

Wrote Under: The Movie - take two

Creative     Community

Wrote Under: The Movie - take two
Local multi-creative collective Wrote Under are back with a second clip from their work-in-progress documentary, provisionally and thoughtlessly entitled “Wrote Under: The Movie”.
Wrote Under are a ramshackle collective of amateur and professional creatives whose talents include poetry, comedy, comedy-poetry, songwriting, experimental performance, visual arts, philosophy, bipolarity, psychoanalysis and [...]

“hey kids birminghams really cool…”

Even more surprising, perhaps, is the attraction of Birmingham, clearly Britain’s best kept secret. This famously grey urban conurbation is the UK’s fourth most visited city, after London, Edinburgh and Glasgow….