We Are Eastside – arts and culture- Eastside Projects, Jim Howieson: Sports Hall Sessions, Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm May 18, 2013
- Eastside Projects, Gunilla Klingberg: Parallelareal Variable, Exhibition Launch Friday 7 June, 6–8pm May 18, 2013
- A Small Hiccup at Grand Union May 9, 2013
- ART AFTER HOURS at Grand Union: Don’t go into a butchers asking for a piece of cod May 9, 2013
- Graphic designer opportunity – Birmingham 2022 May 7, 2013
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- Birmingham Post: Digbeth articles
- Birmingham Opera Company's airborne Mittwoch nominated for two major awards April 12, 2013
- Birmingham creatives flying high thanks to Honda advert March 14, 2013
- Birmingham Wholesale Markets to leave Digbeth, city council confirms March 12, 2013
- Review: Foals, at the Institute, Birmingham March 7, 2013
- JFK memorial returns to Birmingham after a decade in storage February 25, 2013
Tag Archives: film
Filum tomorrow: Into The West
Filum Night tomorrow at The Spotted Dog is a screening of the magical Into The West: This contemporary Irish Western starts in the slums of Dublin, where Papa Riley (Gabriel Byrne), once a leader of a nomadic tribe of travelers, … Continue reading
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Tagged film, filum, Into The West, Spotted Dog
Filum on Monday: Juno and the Paycock
Irish ‘Filum Night’ at The Spotted Dog this Monday 12th December sees a screening of Juno and the Paycock, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1930 film of Sean O’Casey’s play. If you’re leaking money in the run-up to Christmas, this might serve as a … Continue reading
Posted in Spotted Dog, The Irish Quarter
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, film, filum, Juno and the Paycock, Sean O'Casey, Spotted Dog
Film screenings in Digbeth next week
There’s a screening of the film The Fighter at The Spotted Dog this Monday 17th October, about the American-Irish boxer Micky Ward: The Fighter is based on the true story of 1990s welterweight boxer Micky Ward and his crazy ex-fighter brother … Continue reading
Posted in Custard Factory, Local Life, Spotted Dog, The Irish Quarter
Tagged anchorman, Custard Factory, film, filum, flixfixer, social cinema, Spotted Dog, the fighter
Some film fun this week
There’s quite a bit to be had, starting tonight with a screening of Jim Sheridan’s film In America at The Spotted Dog: Following the tragic death of their two-year-old son Frankie, Irish couple Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their remaining … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Spotted Dog, The Irish Quarter
Tagged BIFS, Custard Factory, Custard Wednesdays, film, filum, Flix Fixer, In America, Irish Travellers Movement in Britain, Jason Hall, Jim Sheridan, Kareim El-Jamal, Library Theatre, Pavee Ceilidh, Spotted Dog, Tracy Corcoran, West Midlands Human Rights Festival
Link: Belated Roundup. « The Neighbourhood
Belated Roundup. « The Neighbourhood – The next open mic film night that is The Neighbourhood Watch is at VIVID on 28th September. If you’d like to get involved and submit a film and maybe even a reading/live accompaniment alongside … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Getgood Links
Tagged film, links, neighbourhoodwatch, toblog, Vivid
Screening of Once in The Spotted Dog at 8pm tomorrow
Local resident John Gordon has requested a screening of the film Once in The Spotted Dog tomorrow night (Monday 19th Sept) at 8pm, and who are we to argue? John says of the film: John Carney’s 2006 film ‘Once’ is … Continue reading
Posted in Local Life, Spotted Dog
Tagged film, filum, Once, Spotted Dog
Screening of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon at The Spotted Dog this Monday 8th August
There’s a bit of summer silliness at The Spotted Dog Monday 8th August with a screening of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon: Puckoon is a wee Irish village that gets caught up in an argument about where the border separating Northern Ireland from … Continue reading
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Tagged film, filum, Puckoon, Spike Milligan, Spotted Dog
Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! at Irish Heritage
Last night Ian Nesbitt (OutSideFilm) and Julie Cassidy Gosling (Chair of Nottingham Irish Centre) very kindly travelled over from Nottingham to present Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! (the film they created with The Long Distance Gang) to Birmingham Irish Heritage. A short … Continue reading
Two forthcoming screenings of Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!
They were among the many thousands who came to Britain to work on the roads and building sites of a booming postwar economy and who, for various reasons, have never been able to go back. When I read this article in … Continue reading
Screening of The Magdalene Sisters at The Spotted Dog this Monday 30th June
This coming Monday 30th May there is a screening of Peter Mullan’s powerful 2002 film The Magdalene Sisters, about Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries: It is a sustained and all-but-deafening howl of rage on behalf of vulnerable women whose story is … Continue reading
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Tagged film, filum, magdalene laundries, magdalene sisters, peter mullan, Spotted Dog