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Mayday Art Crawl

The spring reopening of Ikon Eastside this Friday evening is coinciding with exhibition launches by VIVID and Eastside Projects as well, which means it’s Digbeth Art Crawl time again.  I asked Gavin Wade, curator of Eastside Projects, about this and … Continue reading

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Strange St George’s Day

I celebrated St George’s Day in a rather weird and wonderful way.  After a busy day’s work at ACE dance and music I went to street artist Chu’s solo exhibition at the Floodgate Kino Wild Building, curated by Jibbering Art. … Continue reading

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Getgood Link

Eastside Project Emails – Jon Bounds has set up this site, which will publish emails sent to the Eastside Projects gallery mailing list (which you can’t sign up for online), promoting thier exhibitions and events. Like Artist Talk – Social … Continue reading

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Getgood Link

Flatpack Festival Birmingham – The festival programme is now online. If you look at the venues you’ll see Digbeth features heavilly, with the Custard Factory Theatre, Eastside Projects, The Edge, Fazeley Studios, South Birmingham College, Ikon Eastside and Floodgate Kino … Continue reading

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Flatpack Festival 2009

2009 sees the very welcome return of 7 Inch Cinema’s fantastic Flatpack Film Festival, ‘a celebration of eclectic, genre-bending cinema where the magic of early film rubs shoulders with the best new animation, graphics, and live music.’ The festival, taking … Continue reading

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Links for November 30th

Eastfield, I.C.H., Edict of Intolerance, The Hijacks and Dik Guru – Iron Man Records says, ‘Just a reminder of all the fun and frolics that are occuring on Friday 5 December’ in the Wagon and Horses. Forward with pottery – … Continue reading

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Links for November 21st

EC Arts brings major public art to Digbeth – Artist Claire Farrell tells the world about the Digbeth public art project she’s involved with via the Custard Factory’s blog. ‘The final piece, she says, will be “181 linear meters spanning … Continue reading

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Links for November 11th

Because stuff other than Gigbeth has been happening. No, really… Iron Man Records annouces: – 22nd November 2008 Birmingslam Hardcore Collective Present at The GO! Club, The Old Wharf, Digbeth, Birmingham. As above! Eye blog » Type, tart cards, T-shirts … Continue reading

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Links for October 6th

Melinda Schwakhofer’s latest video Hanging Custard ‘is composed of transient reflections of the Custard Factory in Digbeth’, with music from the Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys sourced by her travelling companion and Custard Factory tenant Steve Coxon. Of Comic Nerds and … Continue reading

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Eastside Projects

Eastside Projects launched last Friday with the new exhibition This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things.  The European conflict map was an interesting idea, even if it did look like the police outline of a dead dinosaur’s … Continue reading

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