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…
Month: March 2011
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…
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…
Moseley Folk News (inc some of 2011 line-up)
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…
Council Introduce museum charges
Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House, Weoley Castle, Sarehole Mill – from April 1 will cost adults £4. [link]
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…
Fierce Festival 2011
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…
Flatpack Festival 2011
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…
Emma Wright: “Paradise Place, Birmingham: an unfortunate…
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…