Archive for August, 2008

Mere seconds after making a snide remark about there being no info about the Birmingham Digital Festival, the blog goes live (in fact it was transitioning from some test server as I wrote, but I couldn’t be bothered to change it). So yay for information, boo for my laziness! Hello Digital is, they say,...
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Be Birmingham is what used to be called Birmingham Strategic Partnership — that’s a sort of talking shop between things like the police and the council, which everyone is invited to contribute to. They’ve revamped their website to include a forum, as well as blogs from their “community champions” – who take “various views...
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A day after we found out the line-up for the Book Festival, and as we continue to find out very little about Artsfest and nothing at all about the “digital festival“, the bill for the Birmingham Comedy Festival is live. Personal highlights include Mark Steel, Richard Herring (although I’m pretty sure their tours would...
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The charming Russ L, points us to the line-up of this years Birmingham Book festival via a post on the BiNS talk boards. There’s the usual opening quiz, David Lodge, Mark Thomas and the godlike Will Self amongst others. Full programme is now on the site.
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I meant to mention this ages ago, but I forgot and I’ve only just remembered now it’s nearly finished: “From 12 – 30 August, Ikon is running a tailor shop in the old Salvation Army charity shop, 3 New Street, Erdington.  Led by creative facilitator Jess Worley and local members of the Erdington Arts...
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have just come into some money, £300,000, and they’re going to use it to create a gallery showing Birmingham’s history from medieval times to the present day. I’m sure we used to have something a bit like this (a local history room anyway). But anyway — apart from getting...
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TV quack Dr Alice Jones is to be dropped 100ft from the ceiling of the concert hall to demonstrate how white blood cells react to sudden changes in the body induced by shock and fear – they could have just subjected her to some of the acts at Supersonic and saved the winching equpiment....
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Heritage Open Days are a set of tours or special openings of buildings around the country for four days every September. This year’s itinerary is now out and there are six pages of search results local to Birmingham (can’t create a permalink you’ll have to go to the search page and use “Birmingham” as...
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That's it, The Big Picture has officially got the World Record for the largest photo mosaic! You can explore it here online and it looks fantastic.
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