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Favourite art things

Ikon’s These are a few of my favourite things talks where cultural peoples from Brum get to reveal things that inspire or interest them — they’re short (an hour) and free — and well worth a look. Here’s who’s coming up in the next couple of months: Wednesday 9 June – Ikon Youth Programme participants Wednesday 16 June -Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters’ Club Wednesday 23 June – Ruth Claxton, Birmingham-based artist Wednesday 30 June – Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison, Joint Artistic Directors of Fierce Festival Wednesday 7 July – James Langdon, designer Wednesday 21 July – Anthony Cartwright, Dudley-born author of The Afterglow Wednesday 28 July – Lynsey Hanley, writer and journalist for The Guardian All 6.30-7.30pm at Ikon Free admission (reserve by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708)

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Preaching to the converted

I spent last weekend at a festival in Cheltenham, Greenbelt, asked by Ben Whitehouse to give a couple of talks to the literature tent. How many of them would be interested in the sort of nonsense I talk I didn’t know, but there was a fair crowd for each one and they were all nice enough to stay while I burbled — and a goodly few to ask questions afterwards. As BiNS readers you may find them a little old hat, and despite the slides there’s a little missing from the overall experience. Still, if you’d like to listen to them, they’re a fair introduction to Birmingham: Birmingham Its Not Shit View more presentations from Jon Bounds. And the shenanigans that went on on the eleven bus last November:

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The history of BiNS

Sort of. At WxWM2 (a gathering of Brum interweb interested types) I did a brief talk about how I came to start BiNS — it was improvised and I wandered wildly off topic. Thanks to the wonderful guys at Rhubarb Radio (where I also do the Saturday breakfast show, plug plug) it’s now available as audio. Listen to download it if you like. There are also all of the other talks too, not fair of me to pick one out — you will probably enjoy them all.

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Leaving Las Brum

Mighty-booshed, twice Oscar-nominated, film director Mike Figgis will be coming to Birmingham on 12 March as the latest speaker in the Boilerhouse Voices series of events. Limited amount of tickets available.

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BiNS is mostly by Jon Bounds a Birmingham based social web consultant, producer and writer., You can hire him to work on your social web campaigns or anything really—he's not fussy. Follow him on twitter or drop him an email.

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