We Are Eastside – arts and culture- Bring Your Own Beamer Birmingham February 8, 2012
- Developing Your Profile Online Saturday 25 February 10–3pm Eastside Projects February 3, 2012
- Thursday Lunch Club 23 February 1–2pm Eastside Projects February 3, 2012
- Why is Painting Still Important? Thursday 16 February 6.30-8pm Eastside Projects February 3, 2012
- Untitled January 31, 2012
- Birmingham Post: Digbeth articles
- Proestes campaign to save Island House from demolition February 1, 2012
- Birmingham historian Carl Chinn joins fight to save Island House from demolition January 31, 2012
- Jazz Diary December 30, 2011
- Health fears over rise of shisha bars in Birmingham December 29, 2011
- HMV Live sale to include the Institute venue in Digbeth and Global Gathering festival December 21, 2011
Free State of Digbeth
Tag Archives: curzon street station
Digbeth on The Culture Show
Digbeth had a brush with fame this week, after appearing in BBC2′s The Culture Show. However, it’s not all good news. Apparently, our beloved Birmingham was recently voted the most boring city in all of Europe. I have one question: … Continue reading
Creative City and Curzon Square – ‘Birmingham’s New Museum Quarter’
So today Birmingham City Council launched the Birmingham Creative City initiative, which aims to increase investment in creative industries and boost the local economy by: Creating a fund to build on existing public sector funding of the arts through loans, … Continue reading
Breaking News: new art gallery complex at Curzon Street Station
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Posted in Art, culture and that, Buildings, regeneration and that
Tagged curzon street station, ikon, martin mullaney, TROVE, twitter
Reclaim the spaces
The green-fingered amongst you might be inclined to join Birmingham Friends of the Earth today for Sunflower Sunday, which marks International Guerilla Gardening Sunflower Day with a mass sunflower plant around Digbeth, ‘planting the seeds wherever there was an unloved patch of ground’. … Continue reading
Burningham from EXYZT on Eastside Green
As Fierce Festival fans will know – there’s a new Burningham construction on Eastside Green by Curzon Street Station, created especially for the festival by EXYZT art/architecture collective. It’s the result of a psychological analysis of Birmingham, which concluded that … Continue reading
High Speed Rail Consultation
The Department for Transport is holding one of the largest consultations ever undertaken by Government for the High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham. The proposed terminus will be at Curzon Street, utilising the historic station building. Although this … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings, regeneration and that
Tagged curzon street station, high speed rail, hs2
Some non-Digbeth linkage
Some interesting things have come to my attention that are beyond the Digbeth borders (yes, I do occasionally look beyond them). Here are a few: Oubliette Above is Pete Ashton’s lovely ‘Through the Viewfinder’ picture of the sad, neglected Curzon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Local Life
Tagged brooklyn, Chris Unitt, Created in Birmingham, curzon street station, dan simon, digbeth, dumbo, dumbo nyc, grand opening, guardian, helga henry, links, new york, oubliette, Pete Ashton, toblog
Links for October 16th
Happy Robot Music: Omnia Opera, Betty and the Id, Windscale gig – Three live bands play at 22 Green St warehouse on Saturday 18th October 2008 for “a demented mashup of plasma rock, psychedelia, post rock, prog, electronica and acid”. … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings, regeneration and that, Local Life, The Sound of Music
Tagged ash-10, birminghamcityuniversity, blogactionday, charlottecarey, chrisunitt, curzon street station, Digbethisgood, Eastside Blog, eastsidecityfarm, feastside, greenst, happyrobotmusic, links, nickbooth, peteashton, podnosh, steflewandowski, toblog