This is an interesting new road sign on the corner of Digbeth High Street and Heath Mill Lane – it seems to be telling the traffic to STOP for a nice cup of tea.
YouTube – F M MOTORS 2 – It’s not only VIP Limosenes on Heath Mill Lane but also ‘quality used cars’ from F.M Motors, who have a great advert showing off their wares. No Yellow Hummers on sale though, I’m afraid.
INSPIRATIONS (Sat 07 Feb 2009) invites five UK based individuals who have played a major role in the critical, artistic and curatorial development of moving image, to select one moving image work that has made a significant impact on their own practice…FIGURING LANDSCAPES (Wed 25 – Sat 28 Feb 2009) is a remarkable collection of moving image works that has grown from the background of the political and cultural history that links Australia and the UK and the close relationship that continues between them.
Bit of a trek into Digbeth as I always go down the wrong road and end up on a ten-minute loop to find the place. [Tell me about it, take the hint Big City Plan!] But the trip is well rewarded; another Grade II listed building, designed by renowned Birmingham architects James and Lister Lea, clad in terracotta and crammed full of deft touches such as cut glass mirrors, stained glass, corridor tiling and a rare surviving partition screen.
How do vegetarians get fat? – By eating like pigs, but not pigs, in the Friends of the Earth Warehouse Cafe on Allison Street, according to Paul Fulford in the Evening Mail.
Digbeth Olympics Ridiculous River Rea Raft Race – John Mostyn, Adam Crossley and some unconvincing-sounding Welsh guy travel down the River Rea in rubber dingies and manage to emerge with all their skin intact.
Gigbeth competition – This competition for free weekend tickets is such a fantastic idea: ‘Gigbeth is looking for entrants to create their own version of The Sugarhill Gang classic ‘Rappers Delight’ and post them on a specially created You Tube page. Entrants are invited to come up with the best and most original alternative music video to the ground breaking hit, or to produce their very own recorded performance of the song.’ If like me, you just fancy giggling at the entries rather than making one, all entries will be posted on Gigbeth’s YouTube.
Pub Crawl – The Final Leg – Bull Ring and Digbeth – A guy and his camera in the Bull Ring and ‘Digbeth, dusty, dirty, noisy Digbeth’. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, his camera died as soon soon as he hit The Dubliner. This may be a good time to tell you that me and Antonio Gould are planning to do a repeat of last year’s Digbeth pub crawl for our birthdays on Saturday 10th January 2009. We plan to make it bigger, better and bloggier, photographing and twittering our locations and drunkeness levels. All are welcome, especially if you’re wearing a flat cap – stick it in your diaries!
ABOUT CLARE EDWARDS « Un-convention Blog – Meet Clare Edwards, Gigbeth’s highly qualified Director. More importantly, her favourite pie is also my choice: steak and ale (although I will stretch to beef and guinness). Great minds think alike.
News from Eastside Projects « Fused Magazine – Eastside Projects on Heath Mill Lane opens on Fri 26th Sept 7-10pm with This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things with a lot of artists, including BILL DRUMMOND! I like him.
Spaghetti Gazetti: Irish heritage and arts events at artsfest Birmingham – The Birmingham Irish Community Forum, Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival & Birmingham Irish Heritage Group are running events as part of Birmingham’s artsfest this weekend, mostly in the Birmingham Irish Club. Loads of great music and dancing.
finding the creative needles in birmingham’s haystack – Graphiquillan, spurred on by Creative Republic this week, rants articulately about Birmingham City Council’s crap approach to creativity in Birmingham and begs for No Logo. A musician once told me that the Council agreed to fund their music video only if the Birmingham City Council appeared within it. Says it all really.
