- Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra to be based at Custard Factory – ‘The start of November sees the launch of the BGSO – Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestra…will give lgbt people & their friends the chance to perform wonderful music, meet new people and socialise together in a welcoming and supportive environment.’
- Custard Factory – Bennie Gray’s manifesto to avoid Detroitification of Birmingham – ‘What Birmingham needs right now is dozens of informal Custard Factory-type organisations helping to unleash the multitude of small enterprises which, given the right backing, are ready to spring forth from the garages, spare bedrooms, colleges and sheds where they have been honing their nascent skills and ideas and waiting for the right opportunity for too long.’
- Custard Factory – Rhubarb ready to harvest – ‘Rhubarb Radio, the community radio station based at the Custard Factory, has quietly been pulling the pieces together over the last few weeks and is pretty much live.’
- Plus+ Touring the city with the Walking Tours – Ben Waddington is ‘a Birmingham-based historian with an especial interest in architecture, industrial history and typography’. He’s giving guided typography tours for this year’s Plus festival including a ‘Digbeth Type Tour: Exploring use of typography and handwritten letterforms in industrial Digbeth side streets. The area’s history revealed through its use of type.’ These will take place 12.00-1.30pm Weds 5th-Fri 7th Nov. Other tours are Baskerville’s Birmingham, Blue Plaques tour and City Type Tour.
- FREE training « Creative Launchpad – ‘Business Planning for a Successful Creative Business’ on Tues 11 Nov in Birmingham, plus other dates elsewhere.
- Laundry – an association of multi-disciplinary artists. – Laundry Open Lab Nov 6th-9th at the Custard Factory, a profile of international projects and partnerships, both current and propositional.
- Film Dash: And the winner is… – TTV Team for their film’s ‘charm, humour, the use of non-conventional filming techniques and the use of the city.’ I do hope Thingamagoop found his way home from the Digbeth dustbin he ended the film in. If he did, chances are he’s getting jiggy with the Flip machine the winners were given as I type.
- Capsule Blog » Points mean prizes… – A reminder that this Saturday brings the Capsule/ATP Release The Bats Halloween party in Space 2 at the Custard Factory, with an unmissable line up of: SHELLAC / OM / WOODEN SHJIPS / PISSED JEANS / LIGHTNING BOLT + DJ ANDY WEATHERALL
- Custard Factory – A Creative Marketplace for Digbeth / Eastside? – There has been investment ‘in the development of Digbeth and Eastside as a Learning and Leisure Quarter and a centre for the creative industries, particularly the digital media sector…One of the project ideas now under discussion is the establishment of a Creative Marketplace.’ Take the short, simple survey to help determine whether or not there will be one and what form it may take. My first thought was ‘what the hell is a creative marketplace?’, so I was grateful to Created in Birmingham for linking to the explanation here.
