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Birmingham's Style In The City event postponed

"The event, which was scheduled to take place in April and was to include activities across the city including celebrity-studded catwalk shows, will now be delayed five months and instead take place in September."

We mentioned Live Brum before, but as of now it’s, er, Live. Josh Hart has put together the site with the idea of making it as easy as possible to put events in — and getting the listings out in any way you desire. RSS feeds for dates, venues, genres, little widgets for you to pop the event on your blog or website (like the Moseley Folk one below), there’s even a very clever twitter thing coming soon I hear, or you can just browse however you like. It’s certainly easy to use, almost everything can be clicked on to take you to more listings, or more information and Josh is willing to listen to feature requests and other ideas — as well as working hard still on his own — so it can only get better. I’m thinking that I might like it to learn what sort of events I attend and push recommendation a little how Amazon does, but as a launch product it’s fantastic. Birmingham might just have got the events listing website it deserves.

Brum Guide might look a little bit (or indeed a lot) like Wikipedia, but it’s just for us – it’s to create a guide to Birmingham written by Brummies (and honourary ones), or it will be if we fill it up. You see it’s a wiki – which means anyone that can see it can edit it, can add pages, can fix mistakes (my poor spelling for example) and we can build up a guide to Brum that contains all the little bits of fun and facts that only we Brummies know. Think of it like helping to write a Lonely Planet guide – but you didn’t have to explain the currency or weather, just add things that you know about Birmingham. I always marvel at how much there is to learn about the city, how many great places to visit you don’t know about, how much interesting stuff goes on outside our own little enclaves and the city centre. I’ve started with a few little bits that I’ve copied and pasted from stuff I’ve already written – can you can too if you don’t mind it being part of the guide. To add something you just do a...

It’s Talk Like A Brummie Day – Today

Most visitors to B:iNS would probably be speaking like a brummie anyways, but the idea for today is to get all those other people to have a go themselves. If you’re having fun talking like a brummie add a comment to this tread on www.talklikeabrummieday.co.uk. BREAKING NEWS: Due to extreme weather – the event planned for Chamberlain Square in by the Big Screen this afternoon is off, it wouldn’t have been much fun for anyone to be drenched. The organisers tell me that it may happen later in the summer, but nothing is confirmed as yet. It won’t be TLABD then, but it’ll still be good.

Yay and (Betty) Boo

The good news is that Moseley Festival’s Music in the Park no longer clashes with Rootsville – it’s been moved to 11th and 12th August. The bad news is that Rootsville now clashes with Betty Boo at the Nightingale!

Architecture Week 2007 – stuff that surrounds you

Architecture Week 2007 starts tomorrow and lasts for just over a week, helpfully. There’s a huge amount going on – check out the catalogue on CiB. Personal highlights for me are Tunnel Vision – a trip down the tunnels underneath Brum City Centre, and a walk round neglected buildings in Digbeth. If you don’t share my particular passion for dilapidated and unloved buildings there’s plenty of cleaner stuff going on..

London 2012:Your games, your say

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and London 2012 chairman Seb Coe will come face-to-face with members of the public later this month in a new initiative designed to give people a chance to tell big names involved with 2012 what’s on their mind and get answers to their questions about the Games. The first of a series of ‘London 2012: Ask the Team” meetings will be staged in Birmingham on 25 June. Tessa Jowell and Seb Coe will be joined on stage by Sir Roy McNulty, acting chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, 2000 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis and Councillor Chris Saint, who heads the local 2012 Nations and Regions group, working to ensure 2012′s benefits reach the West Midlands. more here

Dynamics Press Launch, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham : Originally uploaded by amyclarke_uk. These great huge things will be scaring the living heck out of small children over the weekend at the mac – as part of the two days of the Dynamics International puppet festival (that we’ve mentioned before). The Uncle Albert out of Fools and Horses look-alike is Kind Fiddle-Dee-Dee. A slightly smaller fella, Pépé (who does paintings lucky children), is appearing at the BBC in the Mailbox on Friday – should you have a marionettey-itch that won’t wait till Saturday.

02/05/2007 : Originally uploaded by bounder. totally wind and solar powered! aimed at kids 6-11 featuring Dom-Diddlyom-Dom and the oo-er missus Croissant Neuf Circus Big Top. 19th May at Millennium Green. More info on the council website

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Posts Tagged ‘ events ’

Birmingham's Style In The City event postponed

Live Brum live

Brum Guide – it’s wiki’d

It’s Talk Like A Brummie Day – Today

Yay and (Betty) Boo

Architecture Week 2007 – stuff that surrounds you

London 2012:Your games, your say

Puppetry of the puppets

green roadshow

@onBirmingham – Breaking Brum News on Twitter