Birmingham: It's Not Shit

The taste for a New Generation

The New Generation Arts Festival starts today (5th June), it has a theme: “digital utopia”, a blog: which should provide some interesting coverage and overlap with both the Climate Change Festival (both festivals, both are on a bit this week) and Get into Digital month (both have a digital theme and photography competitions) .

I like the NGA thingy, it is unafraid to be a bit weird and start things that may or may not work — today’s opening features Julian Lloyd Webber and the Birmingham Conservatoire doing a live soundtrack to a TV News bulletin, exciting in that is has a whiff of potential disaster or greatness. Do you need to be at the Town Hall to find out if it works? Yes, I think so.

There are also quite a lot of things you can get involved in, like The Emergent Game which has been going for a while. I love the idea of the game, but I think it’s still to really blossom — maybe festival time will be it.

I’ll try and cover some more of the festival in greater detail, as it happens, but feel free to leave tips, thoughts, reviews here…

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 8:54 am by Jon Bounds and is filed under art, what's on. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.