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Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: October 2008

Russ L's 'Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands' for the month picks out the best music, theatre and fighting events around, so you dont' have to. A lot of Book Festival picks, and a plug for “Of All The People In All The World” which Russ reviews as: "acclaimed by many (including me) to be The Actual Best Thing Ever."

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Pilau talk

Pilau talk

Great to see so many people at Stan’s Café‘s ‘Of All The People In All The World’ — the show where there is a grain of rice for every person on the planet. That’s a lot of rice, some on it’s own, some in piles that would soak up a skip full of balti. What could be a spectacular but worthy and static thing is brought to life wonderfully, by the factory setting — that remains untouched — and by the playful statistics sitting along with the serious. You might find grains lurking where a missing brick should be, or tucked into a foreman’s room. You can tell it gets people thinking, there are conversations happening all around the venue. And it’s ever changing, there were three or four statistics added while we were there — a couple tiny, but some a bag or two in size. The proper seventies sitcom brown overalls are great too: The factory even smells good, I’m guessing that moisture in the air plus the few rays of sun that have snuck out are slowly resulting in George Orwell and co cooking. You can see plenty of photos and reactions on a website built...

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Rice to be you, to be you — rice!

Stan’s Cafe‘s “Of All the People in All the World” is to hit Birmingham from the 13th September to the 5th October. The show uses grains of rice to represent each person on earth, and they are arranged and rearranged to illustrate statistics. I’ve made it sound like a dull, but edible, PowerPoint graphing solution. But it’s phenomenal: You will be given a grain of rice. This grain is you. Inside lots of people are waiting for you, billions of them, each represented by a grain of rice. 112 tonnes of rice – 6.7 billion grains – one for everyone on the planet. As you explore the extraordinary landscape of rice hills and mountains stretching out in front of you, you discover every pile represents a different population and that together these piles tell hundreds of stories, stories of the world’s people and politics, history and current affairs. It’s £2.50 at Birmingham’s AE Harris Factory, B3 1SZ. You can add a statistic to the performance here. (Thanks to Nick Booth, who’s — rightly — been going on about how brilliant this is for ages.)

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