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A Saturday East Stride with We Are Eastside

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

There was a definite chill in the air last Saturday afternoon but that didn’t stop a good crowd braving the great outdoors for We Are Eastside’s East Stride, a tour of some of the area’s key arts venues led by … Continue reading →

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This weekend: Flatpack Festival and We Are Eastside launch

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

My, my I’ve a busy weekend in store, what with the Flatpack Festival and We Are Eastside launch and all.  I’d better make a list of all the things I’ve bought tickets for or promised myself I’d see, just so’s … Continue reading →

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The busy Digbeth March hare: St Patrick’s Festival and We Are Eastside

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

Digbeth is set to get brilliantly busy this month with the impending St Patrick’s Festival weekend, closely followed by the launch of We Are Eastside, which will coincide with 7 Inch Cinema’s Flatpack Film Festival. St Patrick’s Festival Birmingham This … Continue reading →

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Ben Waddington’s beer mat art at The Spotted Dog

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Nicky Getgood | 2 Comments

Here’s artist Ben Waddington at his latest exhibition – a beer mat advent calendar currently on display at The Spotted Dog pub on Warwick Street.  It’s an advent calendar made up of painted beer mats depicting signs and scenes personally … Continue reading →

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The funeral of The Site

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Nicky Getgood | 2 Comments

Yesterday a funeral was held for a forgotten croft in Digbeth. The ceremony marked the death of industrial use for a burnt-out warehouse overlooking the river Rea. Public Artist Hannah Hull spent three months researching this site of No Special … Continue reading →

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Digbeth Type and Architecture Tour

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

After a couple of days of going through the film clips and embedding them into the Googlemap tags, I’ve finally finished Ben Waddington’s Digbeth Type and Architecture Tour, which I felt warranted its own page. Here’s a taster clip to … Continue reading →

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