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Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bcu, Birmingham City University., boxxed, flatpackfestival, floodgatekino, floodgatest, jibbering, tiger beer, wild building, year of the tiger
Last night Boxxed opened the doors to its new home of The Wild Building on Floodgate Street, which has formerly hosted the Flatpack Festival and Jibbering Art, amongst others. I’ll let Boxxed’s About page do the introductions:
boxxed has been created to provide a unique and meaningful programme of arts exhibitions and music events, alongside providing services, space and support to local artists, musicians, creatively minded individuals and collectives.
Alongside that core ideal, the directors of boxxed have partnered with local educational institutions to provide equipment, services, workshops and space to teach their arts & media orientated courses. [The main local educational institution Boxxed are currently partnered with is Birmingham City University.]
Boxxed kicked things off with an art exhibition, courtesy of local lad Chu & Tiger Beer, who are celebrating the New Year of The Tiger with 5 exhibitions across the UK. Chu’s creation is a big box in the middle of the warehouse space, the inside walls painted with red-and-blue outline images best viewed through 3D specs.
Using his own bare hands he’s put together a huge wooden 3D cube inside our warehouse, and after putting on the magic specs, intrepid art goers…will get to see the end result of Chu’s stunning work. He’s composing a piece of art that’s not only in ’special glasses’ 3d, but in physical 3d, melting the edges of his giant wooden box. Genius? We think so.
I’m not sure how long the exhibition is on display for, or what’s in store for Boxxed, so watch their space and call in if you can.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, November 6th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: forward, juice 126, laura mcnamara, newso, rob elliot, wild building, zoot
This seems to be something that’s going on alongside The Event in The Wild Building on Floodgate Street. Here’s the blurb sent to me by organiser Laura McNamara:
Working with BJ Components, a manufacturing company based in Digbeth, artists have produced works that celebrate Birmingham’s role as a manufacturing centre, often using products produced by BJ Components as the base for their works. The work that these artists have produced for Forward will be displayed in and donated to B J Components.
Birmingham’s Coat of Arms depicts industry and arts standing alongside each other, with Forward as the motto. Nowhere else in Birmingham depicts this better than Digbeth. The area around Digbeth was the first centre of industry in Birmingham and became one of the most heavily industrialised areas in the city and remains an industrial hub even today. Although the larger companies such as Typhoo Tea and Bird’s Custard have long since moved out of Digbeth, hundreds of small independent industrial companies still remain.
Walking or driving through Digbeth, it is not obvious what or whom is behind the shutters of these industrial units. They are not open to the public and the artwork produced for Forward will also not be on view to the public. The only way that the viewer is made aware of Forward is through video documentation of the exhibition, which will be aired in the Loading Bay of The Wild Building, Digbeth between 12 and 4pm from the 5th – 8th of November.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: floodgate street, jibbering, newso, shambala, wild building
Well, I simply had to stop and talk to this man once I saw his T-shirt (vintage shop purchase, apparently). And I’m very glad I did – turns out he’s one of the artists in Jibbering’s Shambala Art Exhibition that’s launching in the Wild Building, 104 Floodgate St tomorrow evening. A cunningly disguised Newso is standing next to his artwork, which isn’t in the gallery but on the outside wall opposite. He plans to decorate a lot more walls and public spaces in Digbeth, with their owners’ permission, naturally. Catch the rest of his and other artists’ work from 7pm tomorrow.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Beaten Tracks and Peaceful Paths, Custard Factory, wild building
Just got this in a round robin. Could be good to find out what’s been going on in that warehouse on Floodgate Street over the past month!
Beaten Tracks and Peaceful Paths
A devised theatre production inspired by Birmingham’s people and places. Two people can look upon the same picture or hear the same story and interpret it in completely different ways. But what do we have in common, what unites us all?
Tuesday, 19th August – 7 pm
The Custard Factory Theatre
Tickets £1, available on The Door
www.gallery37.org.uk
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Birmingham Opera Company, King Idomeneo, Sherborne Building, wild building
It’s a hive of activity in Gallery 37 at 104-108 Floodgate Street. Yesterday I took them up on their invitation to pop in and found young apprentice artists had totally taken over the large warehouse space, with photographers uploading their images in the main room, musicians and lyricists brain-storming in a side room, the back yard being cleared for astro-turfing and dancers practicing in the first floor studio.
The dancers were preparing to be part of Birmingham Opera Company’s forthcoming production of King Idomeneo, which will be performed on 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23 August at The Sherborne Building, Icknield Square, Birmingham B16 0PP.
Gallery 37 apprentice artists’ work will be shown in Centenary Square on 22 August. There’s also a showcase of UK-wide Gallery 37 Plus work (including Birmingham) in Liverpool planned.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, July 28th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Arts Awards, Birmingham City Council, Pat Dawson, wild building
This morning I bumped into Pat Dawson, an old colleague from Birmingham City Council’s Arts Team. She was following arrowed signs to Gallery 37, which is running a music Creative Apprenticeship programme from Floodgate St for the next 4 weeks. NEET young people interested in the arts will work as apprentices with professional lead artists towards completing a Bronze Arts Award and hopefully progress onto training and employment opportunities. The resulting work will be presented in Centenary Square. This is Gallery 37’s 10th anniversary programme.
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