Birmingham – a model city : Originally uploaded by catnipmusic.
There’s a 3D model of Birmingham showing future developments in the Pavillions shopping centre. Find out which few bits of the city are not being turned into “luxury” (read tiny) apartments. According to the council website it’s been in the Pavillions since last Nov but it’s the first time i’ve noticed it.
We all love Birmingham, well at least we think that it’s not shit. And there’s a lot of great Brum stuff that you might never get to hear about – we can’t be everywhere (although we try) and some stuff might not be to our, very distinctive, tastes.
What we need is some kind of way that everyone gets the chance to promote their favourite things about Brum…
what we need is www.upyerbrum.com
You can submit a web link to upyerbrum for any story which shows Birmingham’s true greatness. If others agree their votes will push the story to the top of the pile.
Links could be a written story, a film, podcast or photo. You may have seen it on the BBC or a local newspaper site, on a blog or a school site, even written it yourself and put on the web. All that counts is that it shows something great about Birmingham.
You can get voting and submitting, or just pop along to see what’s top of Brum’s pops.
For those that get the whole web 2.0 thing it’s very much like digg – if you don’t give it a try. It’s fun!
BBC Jazz Awards 2007 Jazz on 3 Innovation Award – vote for B19’s Soweto Kinch. via Podnosh
Old John Bull is up on the roof again – Deirdre Alden’s blog reports – this time in Harbourne, protesting against more proposed Post Office cuts. Respect is due, how does he get up there?
Play Shakespeare is a new, brill, online Shakey resource. And as we know the sonnets only work right in a brummie accent
Don’t like to talk about it: Birmingham Conservation Trust are looking for volunteers to help with their latest project – Newman Bros Coffin factory
Like to talk about it (in a good way):Power Up – is an event to help active citizens wield more power in their communities – for anyone involved in community campaigns or site-specific environmental campaigning. (via Podnosh)
According to the Post the council have plans to turn Chamberlain Square into a beach this summer. Why don’t they just do up the one under Spaghetti Junction?
I’ve just come back from a launch for the opening festival of The Town Hall, sorry Town Hall (what have modern corporate advertising agencies got against the definite article? That’s going to a- be ignored and b – sound so old in a year, no hang on it already does), and it sounds so good I can’t believe we’ve been without it for ten years.
It does SOUND good as well, the acoustics were fantastic – we were treated to a song from Soweto Kinch’s new album (great, but he looked like it was a bit early for him) and a barnstorming calypso (i think!) from the venerable Andy Hamilton and the Blue Notes.
It’s now to be run together with Symphony Hall, which should mean that they can compliment rather than compete, and is certainly showing commitment to a wide variety of music – Guillemots with the CBSO, Handel’s Messiah as arranged by Quincy Jones, tea dances, and of course one man and his organ 
There’s also a ‘Brum Rocks’ event which pulls together a host of Midlands Rock Royalty, Robert Plant, Tony Iommi, Bev Bevan et al in aid of the Childrens’ Hospital.
The opening festival is 4-21 October and tickets go on sale in June. More details From THSH.co.uk.
But is THSH pronounced th-iish?
