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

Radio 4 Front Row at the mac

"The MAC in Birmingham – the Midlands Arts Centre – is about to re-open following a £15 million refurbishment. Mark Lawson reports on the building, and discusses the original vision behind the creation of arts centres in Britain." iPlayer will be live for a week (an mp3 is here).

Got a chance yesterday to pop into the mac (still a week or so before the opening, and work being done all over the building) and taste the catering. Yum. The building re-opens to the public on May 1st, with loads of events, a very much refurbed bar and café and free wifi streaming out into the park. The cinema, theatre and hexagon theatre have all had a spruce up and there’s now extra performance space around the building. Most impressive is the huge new gallery space — a vast room that already looks to be very flexible. The opening exhibition ‘Plug In’ is currently being installed, and features a ton of locally related art, including a sound piece by Peter Cusack, photos by Stuart Whipps and this masterpiece too long out of sight: It’s also got the Brum word cloud in situ — have a quick look on the mac blog. But best of all I found out that the mac had once been the site of Bob Carolgees’s brief foray into the World of architecture:

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.

mac's Summer Programme – more details

More information and booking details are now available, including these cool sounding bits: Amplifying The Map – Kate Chapman and Charlotte Goodwin are inviting people who live, work or play close to mac to re-discover familiar places and explore places they have never visited before, sharing their thoughts and observations to create an audio map of the changing landscape. Time and Place – writer and artist Laura Guy is leading a participatory work that will gather public information and personal recollections to form a unique archive leading to a creative visual retelling of the story of mac and the significant presence it has in Cannon Hill Park.

If we say “new mac” it’s good for SEO

Dreadful stock music accompanies a 3D rendering of the new mac. It seems lively with transparent, if static, punters.

Artists commisioned for new MAC

When the MAC re-opens in Cannon Hill Park — next year — there are going to be a load of new piece of art, some inside and permanent, some outside, some transitory. You can see about some of them (with pics and video) on the macartists.co.uk site. One that especially caught my eye is described as: Amplifying The Map - Kate Chapman and Charlotte Goodwin are inviting people who live, work or play close to mac to re-discover familiar places and explore places they have never visited before, sharing their thoughts and observations to create an audio map of the changing landscape. There’s more info in the press release.

See inside the new Mac

James from Stan's Café got a guided tour of the building site that is the MAC at the moment – luckily he took pics and blogged 'em.

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