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Misty's Big Adventure Drawing Competition

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:52:22 +0100

Misty's Big Adventure Drawing Competition:

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

Brum Punx Picnic

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:07 +0100

Brum Punx Picnic

Soho Foundry handsworth (by ☆eightbaII☆)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:48:10 +0100

Soho Foundry handsworth (by ☆eightbaII☆)

Produced by EC-Arts, 48 Sheet aims to test the result when...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:27 +0100

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…

Brums Smallest Chipshop (by martinpickard)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:58:03 +0100

Brums Smallest Chipshop (by martinpickard)

Cum Clubbing: “ For one night only VIVID hosts an art...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:08:30 +0100

Cum Clubbing:

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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.”

Aaron Bassett says Birmingham Council website vulnerable to attack. Again.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:35:14 +0100

Aaron Bassett says Birmingham Council website vulnerable to attack. Again.:

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.

Handmade Birmingham | Independent designers & makers Arts...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:00:59 +0100

Handmade Birmingham | Independent designers & makers Arts Market * Every Saturday & Sunday * Bull Ring Market

Launch this Sat (28th)

"British Science Festival, Birmingham 14-19 September The British Science Festival is one of..."

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:44:35 +0100

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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.

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- British Science Festival - British Science Festival

"October 2010 Programme Announced The full programme of events is now released, with some incredible..."

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:07:47 +0100

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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.

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- Birmingham Book Festival

Friction Arts’ Highgate Funday on Saturday 4th September...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:00:10 +0100

Friction Arts’ Highgate Funday on Saturday 4th September at Highgate Park

Your Birmingham event at the Museum Open Day 16th August 2010

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:13:48 +0100

Your Birmingham event at the Museum Open Day 16th August 2010:

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is asking the public to help in exploring the history of Birmingham. The first opportunity to do this in person will be at the Museum Collections Centre Open Day on Sunday August 22nd. We want you to bring along your personal objects, stories and memorabilia which relate to your lives in Birmingham and Birmingham’s history from 1945 to the present day. Tell us about your own experiences of living or working in Birmingham. Perhaps you have an object or story to share about Birmingham sport, music, fashion, shopping, schools, landmarks, hospitals, transport, faith, migration, politics or industry? Your stories and objects will be documented and museum staff may later ask to borrow your object for the Your Birmingham gallery opening in autumn 2012.

View from the top of crane at new Library site —...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:57:51 +0100

View from the top of crane at new Library site — BrumCityCentre.com

Inner Ring Road 1971 Commemorative coin 1971 N714 (O) (by...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:13:01 +0100

Inner Ring Road 1971 Commemorative coin

1971 N714 (O) (by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)

Curious, appealing fly-posted graffito on corner of...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:53:53 +0100

Curious, appealing fly-posted graffito on corner of Margaret… on Twitpic

Boot Sale Sounds: Charlie Gillett - UB40

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:36:01 +0100

Boot Sale Sounds: Charlie Gillett - UB40:

Undercurrents radio shows from 1981 with Charlie’s guests being UB40 and Joe Lung. Both talking about the independent music scene at the time. UB40 , who’s debut album was high in the charts chat about their influences and how they got started and play music from The Clash and Gregory Issacs etc. as well as featuring tracks from “Signing Off” which they made in a bedroom studio in Birmingham.

"Anyone in the Birmingham area who wants to join a mod-psych band playing Vox Continental or Farfisa,..."

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:59:23 +0100

“Anyone in the Birmingham area who wants to join a mod-psych band playing Vox Continental or Farfisa, let me know!”

- Twitter / PJ Crittenden: Anyone in the Birmingham a …

Female polka band does world’s best cover of Slade’s ‘Gudbuy...

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:38:04 +0100

Female polka band does world’s best cover of Slade’s ‘Gudbuy T’Jane’

via Dangerous Minds:

“There are no words. Thank the internet these ladies are immortalized forever. One minute and 15 seconds of musical genius.

Filmed sometime in the 70’s in Switzerland, this video and group are shrouded in mystery. Anybody know who they are?”

bounder: Radio Fuzzbox - from 1986

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:33:41 +0100

bounder:

Radio Fuzzbox - from 1986

Journey times to Birmingham New Street throughout the day by...

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:55:17 +0100

Journey times to Birmingham New Street throughout the day by Matthew Somerville

|This video shows the public transport journey times to Birmingham New Street from the surrounding areas over the course of a day. The whiter the area, the quicker the journey time at that point. For example, whenever Wolverhampton (in the top left corner) pulses, that is when a fast train to Birmingham has just pulled in, and so the journey time to New Street from that area is at its minimum. There are various limits imposed, but this is an old video and I’ve forgotten what they are - probably things like 10 minute walk maximum at the start, 5 minutes interchange, etc. It’s more art than useful, and quite hypnotic :-)

The top right pulse is Tamworth, and you can clearly see e.g. the Cross City line pulse out to the south of the centre every 10 minutes, curving up from Longbridge/Redditch.”