Monthly Archives: March 2011

Red Dwarf Convention at Holiday Inn in April

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Dimension Jump the one and only official Red Dwarf convention. We can also happily confirm that we’ll be returning to the excellent Birmingham City Centre Holiday Inn for Dimension Jump XVI! The convention will be held over the weekend of the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2011 and we’re open to bookings at a special early price right now.

Midland Metro fly-through of route through Birmingham Did…

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Midland Metro fly-through of route through Birmingham Did Robert Miles do an album in the late 90s called ‘Plinky Shit for Architecture Fly-throughs’? There’s also a bloke seemingly straining to create a dirty protest opposite Rackhams.

Dead space? Birmingham Central Library transformed by Lucy McLauchlan

PRESS RELEASE Dead space? A quiet corner of the condemned Birmingham Central Library has been transformed by artist Lucy McLauchlan as part of a series of experimental exhibitions called Dead space? By Claire Farrell, Arts Producer EC-Arts. Artist Lucy McLauchlan’s work is site specific. Originally from Birmingham she works all over the world exhibiting in galleries and within the public realm. Lucy has recently been published in ‘Beyond the Street – the 100 leading figures in Urban Art”. Artist statement On concrete and glass, plants and birds appear reclaiming what will soon disappear. Look around the city buildings stand now disused and forgotten. Nature reappears in their cracks. Weeds, shrubs, tress and birds make their homes. Is there such a things as dead space? Lucy’s artwork highlights this question as a contradiction. On a quiet corner of the condemned Central Library we learn Todo es posible, anything is possible. The current building was opened in 1974 and is the third library in the vicinity. It was designed by Architect John Madin, its inverted ziggurat form is an unintentional powerful example of the Brutalist style. With the Rotunda tower and the Alpha Tower, it is one of Birmingham’s key Modernist buildings. The exhibitions...

Moseley Folk Festival News Take a sneak peek at some of this years line up Hi Everybody, In what seems to be becoming a habit here is our April newsletter bought to you in March. We were going to wait another week but wanted to give you all a reminder about the next Lunar Society gig featuring Erland & the Carnival & Hannah Peel on 31st March and give you all a sneak peek at the line up for Moseley Folk Festival 2011. Dates for this year are 2nd, 3rd & 4th September. We're putting the finishing touches to our website at the moment where we'll post the full line up as well as an improved archive of previous years festivals. We think you'll like it – more artist's videos, more of your photos, social media, a Moseley Folk Blog, plus lots more useful festival information. 2011 Line Up Preview Although the final line up is still yet to be announced as you can see from the flyer on the right we've managed to book some amazing acts for Moseley Folk 2011. We'll release all the acts in the next newsletter (expect some surprises) but for now...

Council Introduce museum charges

Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House, Weoley Castle, Sarehole Mill – from April 1 will cost adults £4.

Birmingham’s nameless spaces Paul Farley and Michael…

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Birmingham’s nameless spaces Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts have written a book – Edgelands – in praise of England’s marginal places: the miles of parking lots, industrial estates, scrubby fields and derelict yards that exist on the edges of our cities. They take us on a tour of Birmingham’s nameless spaces (via Edgelands: Between the urban and the rural)

Festival smestival, festivals are just marketing exercises where the same shit as normal is glossily repackaged and the “vibe” is some flyers. Not when they’re painstakingly and artistically curated by a team that manage to make Birmingham the centre of the performance art world for a week each year. Go Fierce. Including ‘ Burningham ‘ all week: “a playful intervention on Eastside Green conceived and constructed by acclaimed French architecture collective EXYZT. The site is in the shadow of Birmingham’s abandoned Curzon Street railway station and on the route of the proposed HS2 high speed rail link. You are invited to drop in and help EXYZT in their process of ‘urban psychoanalysis’ of the city. Does Birmingham have low self-esteem? Does Birmingham have multiple personality disorder? Should Birmingham be renamed? Visit throughout the week, and join us for a public feast at dusk on Saturday 26th March.”

Festival smestival, festivals are just marketing exercises where the same shit as normal is glossily repackaged and the “vibe” is some flyers. Not when they’re painstakingly and artistically curated by a team that manage to make Birmingham the centre of the film world for a week each year. Go Flatpack. Including ‘The Secret History of Birmingham‘ on Sunday: “The screening will include Miracles Take A Little Longer, a film about Birmingham’s reconstruction which includes brilliant colour footage from the post-war period and narration by Frank Bough. We’ll also have some marvellous amateur cine footage of Bournville from the 1950s.”

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Emma Wright: “Paradise Place, Birmingham: an unfortunate example of the difference between the vision of city planners in the 70s and the concrete reality” (via Weekend readers’ pictures: Difference | Life and style | The Guardian)

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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Red Dwarf Convention at Holiday Inn in April

Midland Metro fly-through of route through Birmingham Did…

Dead space? Birmingham Central Library transformed by Lucy McLauchlan

Moseley Folk News (inc some of 2011 line-up)

Council Introduce museum charges

Birmingham’s nameless spaces Paul Farley and Michael…

Fierce Festival 2011

Flatpack Festival 2011

Emma Wright: “Paradise Place, Birmingham: an unfortunate…

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