We are making a video for a song called ‘General Confusion’. It’s going to be on our new album and features a story read by Sir Patrick Moore. We would like to animate it with your pictures. The song is about the evil General Confusion and his confusing army. They are out to capture the heart and mind of Grandmaster Gareth. Only Major Understanding and his very rational army can stop this from happening. After an intense battle, General Confusion is defeated and is forced to retreat. So perhaps you could draw a picture of General Confusion or Major Understanding or what their armies might look like. Or you could just draw a picture of Patrick Moore!
It doesn’t matter if you’re not Picasso, we will appreciate anything you send. And it doesn’t matter if you’re 6 or 66. Pictures can be any size but the bigger the better! Use paint, felt tips, pencils, whatever. We will try and incorporate as many of the pictures we get sent as possible. Put your name and age at the bottom of the picture, and write your email address on the back so we can notify you when the video is finished. The very best entries will get a prize. When you have completed your picture, please send it to…
Misty’s Big Adventure, P.O.Box 13322, Birmingham, B13 3DX
Any questions, email mistysbigadventure@hotmail.com
If you want to get your picture back, please include a stamped addressed envelope and we will do our best! We’re poor otherwise this would be freepost! Good luck and good scribbling! Misty’s Big Adventure
Soho Foundry handsworth (by ☆eightbaII☆)
Produced by EC-Arts, 48 Sheet aims to test the result when artists are given the opportunity to present their work on equal terms with the advertising messages that dominate our cities. Artists. Harry Blackett. Robin Kirkham. Lucy McLauchlan. Ian Richards. Elizabeth Rowe. 48 Sheet is an experimental art installation project using advertising billboards as blank canvasses for artists, the pilot runs in ‘Digbeth’ Birmingham from 2 – 14 September 2010. (via 48 Sheet « EC Arts)
No idea why ‘Digbeth’ needs quotes…
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For one night only VIVID hosts an art party inspired by the colourful club nights of Birmingham’s underground scenes in the 1980s. VIVID’s project space will be taken over by live music, DJs and visual artists who’ll conspire to create an excitingly strange evening of camp disco!
DJs include 80s original ‘Gay Jon’, the brains behind Bradford Street’s outrageously lewd and notorious Cum Club; and Brian Duffy, award winning sound artist and creator of The Modified Toy Orchestra. Also at VIVID, John Napier (Jugend Klub), Greg Haines (Tropical Hotdog) and Richard A. Spears (Ducks Bath) each bring you a special playlist crafted in response to The Cum Club.”
Not sure if I understand it technically, or if the data available to the tech-thieves is really that scary… but it’s really something that needs sorting.
British Science Festival, Birmingham 14-19 September
The British Science Festival is one of Europe’s largest science festivals, taking place each September. The Festival is in a different location in the UK each year, bringing you the latest in science, technology and engineering.
This year, we will be visiting Birmingham from 14-19 September. Many events will be taking place on Aston University campus and throughout various venues across Birmingham.
October 2010 Programme Announced
The full programme of events is now released, with some incredible writers and workshops on offer.
Highlights include Lionel Shriver, Jackie Kay, Catherine O’Flynn, John O’Farrell, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, plus a panel of new voices. Other events include a keynote exploring the meaning of city of culture, a workshop in Ikon Eastside’s Hitchcock’s Hallway, tea and cake with Jenny Eclair, and exploring human rights with Gareth Peirce.
We believe all writing is international. We are proud to feature writers from Pakistan (Fatima Bhutto) and from Germany (Jörg Albrecht). British diplomat Philip Barclay brings us an account of Zimbabwe’s violent 2008 elections, and David Shukman, the BBC’s Environment and Science correspondent joins us with tales from his new book, Reporting Live from the End of the World.
Poetry, too, is well represented, with Flarestack press and Pascale Petit, and in other non-fiction events, we are unpicking the credit crunch, and discovering what it means to be a refugee in Birmingham.
