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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 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.”

The Arts are Biting Back, apparently.

"Biting Back is a one day event from Birmingham City Council, mac and Sampad that will address how arts sector professionals and individual artists can learn from examples of successful partnerships in austere cultural landscapes." So far, so worthy but possibly dull arts conference. Not sure the council will be too happy with how it's portraying them tho… Biting Back indeed.

111111 2010

On the eleventh of November 2010 you are invited to take part in a pyschogeographical epic. A window of eleven hours to complete a circuit of Birmingham’s number eleven bus. 2009′s results were recorded here… including MoxyPark’s wonderful 11 bus song:

With the Birmingham Popular Music Archive I’ve been inviting the public to contribute to an online database of music culture in Birmingham, by placing venues, artists, people or anything they feel relates to music on a map. You can see and add your memories to the map, here. An editioning of the results so far were commissioned in the form of the Birmingham Music Map as part of ‘plug in’ an exhibition at mac curated by Simon Poulter. The exhibition has now finished, and the artwork (printed on toughened glass and around a metre wide by 1.4m high) is looking for a new home. I’m happy for it to be displayed in any public place as long as they will display an artist’s card next to it and look after it — it would be brilliant if it was mounted somewhere appropriate, but if you’re interested please drop me a line at jon@jonbounds.co.uk. If you’ve not got the room or worry about your walls’ durability for such a monster, poster/print copies are available, screenprinted on gorgeous white archival paper at B1 (707 × 1000mm /27.8 × 39.4in) in a signed and numbered limited edition of 100 copies. Go buy one (£25 plus £5 postage...

After successfully running markets for local artists, illustrators, photographers, designer-makers, crafters and the like — in the not-exactly-conducive-to-passing-trade environs of the Custard Factory — Handmade have been working with Marketing Birmingham and Retail Birmingham towards launching a new weekly Handmade Arts & Craft Market for the City Centre. The new Handmade Market will be at the Bull Ring Markets, along Edgbaston Street, from St Martin’s down to Debenhams, every Saturday and Sunday. First markets on the 28th and 29th August — local crafty types are encouraged to sign up for a stall now.

Central Library video installation — More Canals than Venice

"From Thursday, VIVID present a new multi-screen video installation by Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry. In a series of tracking shots, the multiple screens show a journey through the empty Brutalist space of Birmingham Central Library."

A contemptible parasite writes…

James Cook talks about the stand-up comedy course starting at the MAC in September. I quite fancy that…

New Arts Market for Birmingham City Centre planned – Creative Open Workshops

The COW have the opportunity to establish a regular city centre craft and arts market — this is no doubt a very good thing, just the sort that a City of Culture would need — and would like opinions at this very early stage. Great news.

Catherine O'Flynn: brutal truths – The Guardian

"Birmingham does have this complicated relationship with its past, where it's always trying to burn photos of itself," she says. "It destroyed all its Victorian heritage and now it's destroying its 60s heritage, without much sense of that being history repeating itself."

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