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    Getgood Link: We Are Eastside | Birmingham

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, March 1st, 2010 ( Start discussion )
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    We Are Eastside

    We Are Eastside | Birmingham – Another new local website is live and raring to go! We Are Eastside is ‘your guide to the organisations that host and produce bold new work across film, digital media, crafts, music, visual arts, literature and photography all based in Eastside,’ I suspect the site will be getting particularly busy this month, in the lead up to the fantastic Flatpack Festival, which will inhabit lots of local venues such as Ikon Eastside, VIVID, The Bond and The Rainbow. Tickets for events have just gone on sale and are already selling fast so get in quick!

    We Are Eastside has some very useful local information, such as a We Are Eastside map (which I’ll be replacing my old Digbeth arty trail with), and guides to Shopping, Entertainment, Eating Out and Places to Stay. Contributions to the blog are from the local cultural aces that are:

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    Getgood Link: About : Flatpack Festival

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, February 12th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
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    About : Flatpack Festival – A sneak preview peak at the Flatpack fun in store.  Digbeth treats include:

    • WALKING DOWN BRISTOL STREET at Ikon Eastside on Wednesday 24 March, with guests including great Brummie author David Lodge.
    • Dublin collective SYNTH EASTWOOD: FAST FORWARD ‘present an eye-popping night of audio-visual antics’ on Friday 26 March at the Rainbow Warehouse. YouTube film above for us walkie guys.
    • JULIEN MAIRE: DEMI-PAS, a ‘Mesmerising performance using modified slide projections’ on Friday 26 to Sat 27 March at Ikon Eastside.
    • BELBURY YOUTH CLUB give us ‘haunted audio and spooky 70s TV’ on Sunday 28 March at VIVID

    More festival details will be coming soon, so be sure to watch their space!

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    Getgood Link: Programme : Current : Flatpack Festival :: Ikon Gallery

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 ( Start discussion )
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    Programme : Current : Flatpack Festival :: Ikon Gallery – Film extravaganza Flatpack Festival is back this coming 23-28 March, and will be using Digbeth’s great venues again, including Ikon Eastside:

    Once again the Flatpack Festival takes over venues across the city with a colourful line-up of film and performance. Highlights at Ikon Eastside include optical illusions from French artist Julien Maire, a retrospective of work by infuential film-maker Takashi Ito, and an investigation into Birmingham’s lively cultural scene during the 1930s with author David Lodge.

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    Getgood Link: Uber Brum: On/Off. IKON Eastside closing party. 12/11/2009

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, November 16th, 2009 ( One response )
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    Über Brum: On/Off. IKON Eastside closing party. Digbeth. 12/11/2009 – Some interesting photos of people dressed up all monochrome for the Ikon Eastside closing party on Über Brum, ‘Birmingham’s first and only street style blog’. This lady looks familiar. Why it’s Katie Spragg, the old manager of Created in Birmingham!

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    Getgood Link: On/Off – More Canals than Venice

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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    On/Off « More Canals than Venice – A timely reminder that it’s Ikon Eastside’s closing party this Thurs evening from 7.30pm, with the party based on the current Ryoji Ikeda exhibition with complimentary music and visuals organised by Colour. The dress code is strictly black and white. Pixie Sixer knows what she’s wearing – do you?  I do – the same little black dress I bought especially for thier monochrome closing party of last year.

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    Getgood Link: Digbeth: Past, Present & Future :: Ikon Gallery

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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    Digbeth: Past, Present & Future :: Ikon Gallery – Audio recording from the discussion at Ikon Eastside recently.

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    Getgood Link: Ikon Eastside: exhibition opening invitation – Pete’s posterous

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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    Ikon Eastside: exhibition opening invitation – Pete’s posterous – There’s an exhibition opening at Ikon Eastside this Thursday 15 October, 7-8.30pm

    Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist Ryoji Ikeda presents the large-scale audiovisual installation data.tron (2007-2009) which immerses the viewer in a projection of row upon row of numbers, a sea of ever-changing streams of numerical data.

    Exhibition continues to 8 November (open Thursday-Sunday, 1-5pm, free entry).

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    Getgood Link: Birmingham Friends of the Earth: Digbeth: Past, Present & Future

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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    Birmingham Friends of the Earth: Digbeth: Past, Present & Future – Ben Mabbett at Birmingham FoE gives us his take on the Digbeth: Past, Present & Future discussion at Ikon Eastside last week. It was a lively discussion, covering everything from fears of future large-scale developments affecting the fine grain of the area, the ‘creative quarter’, the ‘digital district’, noise abatement issues and the like. Only problem was that we were a panel member down:

    It was just a pity Philip Singleton of Birmingham City Council wasn’t in attendance, he missed a great opportunity to engage with a talented and passionate group of people who had a Typhoo Tea Factory full of great ideas to progress Digbeth in a way that respects it’s past and nurtures it’s future.

    A recording of the session should be available on Ikon Gallery’s website soon.

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    Getgood Link: Siobhan Davies’ Collection breaks down conventional models of dance | West Midlands Dance

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 ( One response )
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    Siobhan Davies’ Collection breaks down conventional models of dance | West Midlands Dance – Hannah Waldram interviews Siobhan Davies about her new work Minutes, which is at Ikon Eastside gallery until 4th October:

    “It’s an action: I’ll put the dance in a gallery space. By putting a dance artist’s movement, their performance, in another space, it is a different context. Do the audience bring a different perspective or a different energy or set of questions when they go into a gallery space than when they go into a theatre space? I’m never going to know the answer, but I like to pose a question.”

    Minutes is part of the wider work Collection, which also includes a video Lying in Wait at the Custard Factory by Indris Khan and Sarah Warsop, and Russian artist Victor Alimpiev’s exhibition at the Brindley Place Ikon Gallery, which consists of videos which reference contemporary dance.

    Hannah has inserted a recording of the full interview into her post.

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    Getgood Link: Colour & Ikon Eastside Collaboration

    Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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    Colour & Ikon Eastside Collaboration « colour – We Are Colour detail how they’ll be providing the sounds for the Eastside Closing Party, using the work from Ryoji Ikeda’s forthcoming exhibition as their inspiration.

    On Thursday 12 November, we’ll be collaborating with Ikon for the Eastside Closing Party, entitled On/Off. The theme of the party will echo the binary principles central to the work of Japanese electronic composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda. Lighting and dress code will be monochrome, while we’ll be showcasing a suitably electronic musician (to be announced soon) and assembling DJ sets that will be both digital in feel and have a party atmosphere later in the evening.

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