Posts Tagged ‘ art ’

Project Brutal

Do you want to get involved with celebrating and documenting the wonderful Central Library building? You do? Good here's the place:

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Soweto Kinch on Brum and the Flyover Shows on The Stirrer

Soweto Kinch talks to Richard Lutz about growing up in Handsworth, sticking to his jazz and hiphop roots and why he won’t leave Birmingham.

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Brum words…

Brum words…

Although Wordle make everything look like a shoe, the MAC’s #brumwords is getting interesting: “Birmingham Word Cloud | As part of ‘plug in’ – the opening exhibition at the new mac gallery space in Birmingham – we are generating a city word cloud, entirely constructed from words submitted by the general public and associates. You can contribute your keywords (up to 5 please) by emailing Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or via twitter using the hashtag #brumwords”

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Tag cloud for a city

The Mac reopens on May 1 and as part of the opening exhibition, entitled ‘plug in’, they’re are going to develop a tag cloud for the new web site and as a huge vinyl graphic to be rendered on one of the main gallery walls. You to choose five keywords that you associate with Birmingham — anything. The more frequent a word becomes, the larger it appears in the cloud. Email your brum words to: Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or twitter using the hashtag #brumwords.

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Flatpack Festival Highlights announced

Stephen Duffy, David Lodge, Oscar Deutsch… and tons of films too. Smashing.

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mac re-opeining 1 May 2010 – BiNS PR

The Midland Arts Centre re-opens in a couple of months. I've heard about some of the stuff going on around that time already, and while I won't spoil the surprise it sounds like it'll be great.

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Grants for new festivals

From the desk of the Minister for Fun: "Birmingham City Council is inviting applications for grant support for new independent or niche festivals in Birmingham. This new funding stream is called the Emerging Festivals Fund. This is part of a programme of work to grow and support Birmingham’s festivals. Our ambition is to have a year round calendar of festivals. Grants for new niche festival are available between £500 to £4,999."

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Birmingham Graffiti – new blog

A photoblog for graffiti (or graffitti according to the header) in Brum. Nice to see it isn't making any artistic judgements or focussing on some spurious 'art' division.

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Cozy Powell? That’s miles away

Cozy Powell? That’s miles away

Ages ago we asked you to contribute to a Google Map. A Brum music map, of not just musicians or venues or bands, but mangers, personalities, shops, companies, collectives and hang-outs. That map is still open for contributions, but you can now buy an A1 poster of memories: It contains over 200 records, placed on the map by contributors. Zoom in, or see a detail: It’s available to buy on my Zazzle store, with my other map-based artworks. And it’s Christmas soon. Thanks to the Birmingham Music Archive.

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