Tag Archives: Sandra Hall

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

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Bass Festival highlights: Fight The Power and The Great Excursion critical debate

Last Wednesday saw the launch of the Bass Festival with the opening of Punch Records’ exhibition Fight The Power, of global protest and propaganda art. Fight The Power is on until the end of June at the newly opened Zellig, … Continue reading

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Fooling around at The Edge

I’ve popped by Friction Arts’ home The Edge a few times this week, to get a taste of Jonathan Kay and the Nomadic Academy of Fools Last Friday night I got to ‘Know One’s Fool’ with a solo improvised show … Continue reading

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Eccentric City auction

Here she is: Noelle the Dancing Queen, who I paid £13 for in yesterday’s Eccentric City auction at The Anchor Inn, Digbeth. She’s worth every penny. It was a brilliant event, led by Citizen Smith lookalike auctioneer and Eccentric City … Continue reading

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Back to Back to be Bulldozed

Last night I got chatting to Friction Arts’ Sandra Hall (recently no. 43 in the Birmingham Post’s Power 50). She is mightilly upset that this pre-1950′s back-to-back on Lombard St is soon to be flattened. I had a sneaky look … Continue reading

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