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Eastside Projects and Grand Union are feeling festive tonight!

There’s a festive Christmas Quiz at Eastside Projects tonight 6.30–8.30pm, to get you into the Christmas spirit. Power your brain cells on mince pies and mulled wine and challenge the reigning champions – Coventry School of Art and Design – in … Continue reading

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What’s on in Art

A few forthcoming happenings in the local art world are: Virtual Space/Digital Trace launches at Grand Union tomorrow (Thursday 8th December) at 7–9pm. This screening of a ‘series of video works concerned with the rendering and exploration of virtual space, the … Continue reading

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This weekend: Edible Eastside, The Event and Supersonic

Happy Friday people! And what a big weekend we’ve got ahead of us. First off, there’s the launch of the ‘concrete garden’ Edible Eastside on Fazeley Street later on this afternoon, at 4-7pm, where you can see… ‘…a huge visualisation … Continue reading

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The Event 2011

Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum will be hosting The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival from 21 – 30 October 2011 from their galleries, studio spaces and empty buildings in various locations in and around Eastside, Birmingham’s creative quarter in Digbeth. … Continue reading

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Bring Out Your Dead at Grand Union on Friday 30th September

Head over to Grand Union on Friday 30 September 2011 from 7pm for a full night of experimental sounds and immersive visuals. The line up includes: Pierre and Karlheiz (DJ set including special guest The Plague Doctor) Them Use Them (Live set) The … Continue reading

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Amen Brother – new exhibition at Grand Union

Grand Union launched their new exhibition Amen Brother on Thursday, which is on show until 30th July. The piece works with ‘arguably the most sampled piece of music of all time’ from soul band The Winstons – drummer Gregory C Coleman’s … Continue reading

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GoTo10′s Digbeth-themed WiFi signals at Grand Union

On Saturday 30th April I went to the final open workshop from GoTo10 to see the results of their Search Engine residency at Grand Union.  No sooner had I walked in the room than the artists, who were all busily … Continue reading

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Rave on this Friday 13th May

The local arts organisations pay no heed to superstition it seems, as it’s all happening this Friday 13th May. The fun kicks off at 6pm with the launch of Narrative Show and Poster Club – two new exhibitions at Eastside Projects. At 6.30pm there’s … Continue reading

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GOTO10 present !POP!: points of presence at Grand Union today

Last but not least of Grand Union’s Search Engine resident artist groups are GOTO10, who have been busy since 16th April developing !POP!: points of presence, which uses the Digbeth area and its Wi-Fi signals to create public interventions: Using Wi-Fi … Continue reading

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American Mountains – part of Grand Union’s Search Engine programme

I’m not overstating the case when I say my little kayak ride along the canal ride with Kayak Libre was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.  As well as being part of the Fierce Festival programme, it … Continue reading

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