Arts
High Vis Street Arts And Culture Festival Returns This September 7th
Olly MacNamee
August 20, 2019
Birmingham’s street arts and culture festival, High Vis Fest, returns for a second year this September 7th. And, once again the intentions by the organisers - of which, I admit…
60ft Peaky Blinders mural unveiled in Digbeth ahead of new series launch
Staff Reporter
August 19, 2019
A Midlands artist has had his Peaky Blinders fan art turned into a 60ft mural on display in Digbeth in Birmingham. Local lad James Mundy from Stoke-On-Trent submitted his portrait of…
Where once there were many, now there is only one: Not Another Comic Con is on in Birmingham
Olly MacNamee
August 1, 2019
It wasn't that long ago that Birmingham could well have been accused of having too many comic cons across the year. Sandwiched between the two big MCM Comic Con shows…
Accessing Art: Mohammed ‘Aerosol’ Ali opens up his studio to school students
Olly MacNamee
July 28, 2019
International street artist Mohammed ‘Aerosol’ Ali has always followed his own path through his art not only embracing the street art culture of graffiti, but also remaining faithful to his own…
Lowkey, Lady Sanity and Foka Wolf to perform at the Festival of Audacity after-party
Vimal Korpal
July 15, 2019
Rapper Lowkey will be headlining a huge afterparty of hip-hop and art activism to mark the end of Free Radical's Festival of Audacity this weekend, taking place at The Mill…
Andy Street plans visionary film studios with Steven Knight for West Midlands region
Fahima Khatun
July 8, 2019
Mayor Andy Street has announced a new board to help create unity within the West Midlands media industry, and wants to join forces with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to bring a big…
Young artists to bring open-mic poetry night to stunning grounds at Blakesley Hall
Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
The Ramblers Ball - a popular open-mic poetry night created by Digbeth’s social enterprise café Evolve - is back next week, and this time it is hitting the road! Taking over the…
Game of Thrones star Tara Fitzgerald to join actor Robert Lindsay in Birmingham for Prism
Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
Tara Fitzgerald, star of Game of Thrones and Waking the Dead, will be joining Robert Lindsay in this year's production of Prism, which opens at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on…
FIRST LOOK: Photos released of new stage production of Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’
Staff Reporter
July 3, 2019
Birmingham Hippodrome and Leicester’s Curve have released the first production images from The Color Purple which has its official opening night at Curve. Made in the Midlands, this brand new…
The Birmingham Indian Film Festival celebrates fifth anniversary with city launch
Ranjit Dhillon
June 22, 2019
The Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) is back in town for it's fifth consecutive year and it will show films across a number of Birmingham locations over the next ten days. The…