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A notice for fans of Irish film, literature and that

Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, March 15th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bbc, flatpack festival, inside out, irish centre, John Tighe, katrice horsley, old crown, paul long, philip donnellan, plongy, spotteddog, st patricks festival, synth eastwood, the electric, the rainbow, the secret of kells

Those of you who missed the special screening of the Philip Donnellan piece on BBC1’s Inside Out on 8th March, which featured interviews with Filum fans at the Spotted Dog who’d just watched his documentary film The Irishmen, you can watch it again in the YouTube film above – sorry the sound is a little out.

Fans of Irish film might like to go along to the Spotted Dog tomorrow evening for an Irish Film Night from 6pm onwards as part of St Patrick’s Festival Birmingham.  Landlord John Tighe is screening Everlasting Piece, The Informer and Dancing at Lughnasa.  I can’t make this one because I’ll be chatting about Patrick McCabe at the St Patrick’s Literary Festival at The Old Crown Inn from 7pm.  Go along to hear all about the darkly comic McCabe, poetical W B Yeats, avant-guarde Samuel Beckett, and modernist James Joyce.

Fans of Irish culture might also like to see the Irish storyteller Katrice Horsley weave her magic at The Irish Centre, 7pm this Weds 17th March (St Patrick’s Day), again as part of St Patrick’s Festival Birmingham.  Irish film fans in particular would do well to check out the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham later this month.  Highlights include:

Synth Eastwood’s Fast Forward Show on Fri 26th March, when Dublin collective Synth Eastwood will host a night of live music, animation and interactivity at The Rainbow.

The Secret of Kells at The Electric Cinema on Sun 28th March, ‘a stunning animation about how the Book of Kells was completed and survived to become one of Ireland’s national treasures.’

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New Beginnings

Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: custardfactory, factoryclub, links, space2, the rainbow, toblog

With forums and facebook groups bemoaing the Factory Club’s move from the main Custard Factory to the nearby Space2, Factory Club felt the need to make an official announcement. It is not The End, but ‘a new beginning’.

The Factory Events team, have decided to focus their energy on financing the redevelopment and complete refurbishment of some exciting new spaces within the Custard Factory, to include the 1500 capacity Space 2 warehouse, two large adjoining railway arches and a new, never used before ‘secret room’. These new spaces will herald a wave of bigger and bolder club events organised by some of the most successful promoters in the business.

Meanwhile The Rainbow is set to expand and take over some more Digbeth spaces, I recently received this Facebook message from the Friends of The Rainbow facebook group:

The Rainbow is expanding it’s venues. We are recruiting…We feel that Digbeth is in need of a little bit more. We have been scouring the city for more hidden gems and have found some jaw dropping spaces some intimate some not.  There is a certain criteria for the spaces to fit in with our plans but what we have added to the triangle exceeds our expectations. They will wet your appetite some for many years to come.

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