We Are Eastside – arts and culture- Eastside Projects, Along Between and On The Lines, Saturday 29 June, 1–3.30pm May 21, 2013
- Eastside Projects, Lunch Club with Gregory Dunn, Friday 28 June, 1–2pm May 21, 2013
- Eastside Projects, Toolkit: Maximum Fidelity, Monday 17 June, 6.30–8.30pm May 21, 2013
- Eastside Projects, Curators Introduction, Thursday 6 June, 6.30–8.00pm May 21, 2013
- Sarah Farmer residency – update May 21, 2013
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- Birmingham Post: Digbeth articles
- Grand Union art gallery celebrates birthday with £100,000 grant May 23, 2013
- 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
Tag Archives: flatpack
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with some Flatpack filum fun this weekend
The Icebook (HD) from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo. Happy St Patrick’s Day Digbeth! In between pints of Guinness at the many local Irish pubs and an Irish Curry at The Bay Leaf, why not take in some of … Continue reading
NewsWaves at Flatpack
Just over a month ago the Flatpack Festival was in full swing in Digbeth. I myself went down to the Eastside Projects to watch The Cinema Exist to Please Women, an open discussion on female film critics. When the talk started we … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that
Tagged Eastside Projects, flatpack, Newswaves, The Cinema Exist to Please Women
My Fierce and Flatpack Festival highlights
The last weekend of March was jam-packed full of some great creative food for thought thanks to to Flatpack and Fierce, here’s a few of my personal highlights: Nothing kick-starts your weekend like a Saturday morning kayak ride along the … 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
Flatpack and Fierce festivals this week
The Flatpack film and Fierce art festivals kick off this week, with screenings, exhibitions and happenings in venues across Birmingham from this Tuesday 22nd until Sunday 27th March. True to tradition, both festivals are making optimum use of Digbeth venues … Continue reading
BRMB change their tune
Last Friday I took the BRMB boys Foxy & Giuliano and their producer Barrie out for a tour that would show them Digbeth has far much more to celebrate than a coach station. The tour gave the lads a feast … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Local Life, Pubwatch, Spotted Dog
Tagged banter, brmb, dirty end, eastside cafe, fierce, flatpack, Spotted Dog, the anchor, Vivid
Getgood Link: Synth Eastwood at Flatpack Festival « More Canals than Venice
Synth Eastwood at Flatpack Festival « More Canals than Venice – Pixie Sixer spots this nice film of Dublin collective Synth Eastwood’s visit to The Rainbow for what was for me a serious hightlight of the Flatpack Film Festival. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Getgood Links, Rainbow
Tagged flatpack, links, morecanalsthanvenice, pixiesixer, syntheastwood, TheRainbow, toblog
Getgood Link: Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map – guardian.co.uk
Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map | Film | guardian.co.uk – A very interesting article about the Flatpack Festival and its role as ‘head cheerleader’ for We Are Eastside, which reflects on both the potential and pitfalls of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture and that, Getgood Links
Tagged flatpack, links, theguardian, toblog, weareeastside
A Saturday East Stride with We Are Eastside
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
Posted in Art, culture and that, Local Life
Tagged 7 Inch Cinema, aggressive localism, alex lockett, Arlene Burnett, behind closed doors, ben waddington, Birmingham International Jazz Festival, Birmingham It's Not Shit, Capsule, claudia borgna, craftspace, curtain show, Custard Factory, east stride, Eastside Projects, flatpack, Friction Arts, gavinwade, gongoozler, grand union, Ikon Eastside, James Langdon, jim simpson, jon bounds, juneau projects, lombard method, old crown, pip mcknight, project pigeon, rea garden, rhondawilson, rhubarb east, rhubarbrhubarb, st basil's, The Edge, Vivid, we are eastside, Yasmeen Baig-Clifford
A little Flatpack fun
I’m hopefully getting a guest post on Flatpack from one of the film festival’s hard-working volunteers, but I thought I’d offer a little round-up of what were my Flatpack picks. On Friday I went to see those crazy Synth Eastwood … Continue reading
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Tagged 7inch cinema, belbury youth club, burning, Capsule, citizensheep, Clark, flatpack, ghost box, Health & Efficiency, hugh cooney, ian francis, Ikon Eastside, Julian House, little chris, michael grimes, mogwai, Moon Wiring Club, penda's fen, pip mcknight, Plasticine Party, stuart braithwaite, synth eastwood, the archers, the rainbow, the secret of kells, Vivid, Winter Sun Wavelength