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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 [...]

HIGH DEFINITION TRAINING - Light House Media Centre

HIGH DEFINITION TRAINING
Light House Media Centre offers structured and bespoke continuous professional development in High Definition production techniques, which will enable UK based filmmakers and broadcast engineers to widen their skills base as well as allowing independent production companies to access this knowledge transfer at a competitive rate.
Post Production for High Definition
Mon [...]

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 [...]

Artfest Short Film Submissions

Film

ArtsFest 2009 - submission info:
“My name is Sam Groves and I am co-ordinating ArtsFest’s film
programme for 2009. If you have a film that you would like to get shown at ArtsFest in September, please send it to (a long with contact details and any relevant information about the film): 
 
Sam Groves
129 Northfield Rd
Kings Norton
Birmingham
B30 1EA
 
Or e-mail:
sam.groves@hotmail.co.uk
 
There is no [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New online printing business - highflyers

Design     Print

Small online printing business seekign to work with artists, musicians, promoters…
With contacts abroad ( it’s a sectret!) highflyers is able to offer some of the most competitive prices locally if not nationally!

The Great Animation Challenge!

Animation Forum WM and the organisers of Flip Animation Festival have teamed up to launch The Great Animation Challenge! Here’s how it works:
We provide animators across the UK with a number of songs by up-and-coming bands to animate music videos to over the next three months. Submitting them via our Vimeo Group, the best and [...]

Wrote Under

Creative     Birmingham
Wrote Under
“we’ve been running an anything-goes open mic every month since January 2006, first at the Market Tavern and now at the Adam & Eve in Digbeth. Our original purpose was to try and publish people’s writing and fund other multi-media projects such as music CDs and - now we’ve thought of it! - films. [...]

Anthony Peskine @ The Wasp Room

Art     Exhibition

Anthony Peskine - Who Do You Think You Are?
Private View : Tuesday 28th April, 6-8pm
Exhibition open April 30th - May 17th, Thursday/Friday, 3-7pm; Saturday/Sunday, 12-5pm.
The Wasp Room is pleased to present ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, the first UK exhibition by Parisian artist Anthony Peskine.
Adopting and adapting the visual languages of advertising campaigns [...]