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Birmingham School of Media - Exhibit This 2012
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Header - Showcasing the talent of BCU Media Students 2012

YOU ARE INVITED

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This is: Exhibit This 2012

29th and 30th May 2012 6-9pm 

You’re invited to attend the annual exhibition from the Birmingham School of Media, showcasing work produced and carried out within the creative industries by graduate students.   


Mingle amongst the future media professionals, tour the exhibition, enjoy a glass of wine and take in some of the inventive, unique projects.

Watch the Televisual dramas and documentaries, hear the Radio shows, learn more about the creative PR and Music Industries events and campaigns, see the spectacular gallery of Photography and explore the technology and design for Web and New Media. 

Use this opportunuity to network and possibly find a new employee for your business! With a vast variety of media specialisms you are sure to find something to wow you!

  Come along to the Custard Factory on 29th and 30th May 2012 between 6pm and 9pm. 

Gibb St  Birmingham, West Midlands B9 4AA 

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For information and media enquires contact

amelia.walker@hotmail.com - @ameliamedia

lucyhird@live.co.uk - @lucyhird 
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Culture Cloud Goes Live

I'm pleased to announce the launch of New Art Exchange's Culture Cloud project.

The aim of Culture Cloud is to connect audiences and creative workers in order to share, curate, buy and sell art using an interactive digital platform. 

Culture Cloud aims to connect gallery, artist/creative, audience and the commercial market place. 
It is also a digital portal encouraging the exchange of art produced by a network of artists from local to international spaces.

The Culture Cloud project was successfully pitched to NESTA/ACE/AHRC in response to the ‘Digital Research and Development’ funding call. 

Culture Cloud is a partnership between the Nottingham-based visual arts organisation New Art Exchange and Artfinder acting as technology provider. 

A team fromBirmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (of which I am a part) will act as academic evaluators on this project.

We've established a project blog in support of our evaluation and welcome any questions and comments about the project as a whole and our part in it there.

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Actors Needed - Please Circulate

Birmingham Opera Company is currently recruiting actors for the premier of Life is a Dream, an opera by Jonathon Dove and Alisdair Middleton, Directed by Graham Vick.  We would be most grateful if you could circulate this opportunity around your contacts.

No experience is necessary, no auditions, just come along and get involved!

Next actors sessions Sunday 26th February 2-6pm and Thursday 1st March 6.30-9.30pm at the Argyle Works (details below).

Argyle Works
Great Barr Street
Birmingham B9 4EX
(Access from Glover Street)

You can get the 97 bus from Moor Street, City Centre, which will drop you almost outside.

Link to Google Maps:

Please find attached a little info on Life is a dream and a rehearsal schedule outlining the time commitment involved.  


getinvolved@birminghamopera.org.uk

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ACTORS SCHEDULE v4 23 February LIFE IS A DREAM.pdf (18 KB)
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Click here to download:
LIFE IS A DREAM Participation Flyer.pdf (70 KB)
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'The Value of Culture is its Price'

Please circulate: all welcome.

Guest Speaker.

2.00pm, Wednesday 22nd February.

Dr Dave O'Brien of the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, City University London.

"The value of culture is its price: exploring economics, evidence and the 'problem' of culture in public policy".

Dr O'Brien is Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at City University London and specialises in cultural value and urban cultural policy issues. His work on cultural value includes a recent secondment to DCMS and report 'Measuring the value of culture', along with several conference papers and forthcoming research articles. 

His work on urban cultural policy can be found in his PhD from the University of Liverpool, which explored the governance of the European Capital of Culture programme and cultural policy in Liverpool and NewcastleGateshead. He has published several papers on this topic and is currently developing a book on the subject.

Discussion

The session will also feature discussion of the recently published scrutiny review from Birmingham City Council/Destination Birmingham: 'Birmingham, A Music City'.

Attendees are welcome to contribute to the discussion which will be chaired by Tim Wall, Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies, BCU.

Venue

Birmingham City University

Room B210 

Baker Building

This just in: creative industries in the Black Country

I was pleased to speak this week at 'Culture in Context', the second conference for the Cultural Research & Intelligence Network (CRAIN).

My talk introduced the report, published that very day, concerning research conducted last year into the creative sector in Wolverhampton. The research was conducted under the auspices of Creative Metropoles with Steve Harding, Jez Collins and Nina Lakberg.

The report can be read online or downloaded in PDF form below.

Alternatively, if you wish to contact me directly, I'd be glad to post a hard copy to you.

 

Click here to download:
The_Creative_Industries_in_Wolverhampton,_Between_Policy_&_Practice.pdf (1.05 MB)
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The Colony @The Drum Wed 12 Oct, 7.30pm

There's another chance to see 'The Colony' this week in the company of an audience.

The screening takes place at 'The Drum' in Aston, Birmingham.

I'll be chairing a discussion with Perline Neale, who is the lady in the photograph below (used again to advertise Black Audio Film Collective's 'Handsworth Songs').

At the time of the filming Perline was a factory worker in Birmingham. Perl now lives back in the Caribbean, and is only in the UK for two weeks visiting her daughters, so it will be an honour to have her at The Drum.

 

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Culture in Context - event.

I'm pleased to be helping with the organisation of this event which might interest readers of this blog.

Here's the invitation:

Book your place for ‘Culture in Context’ - the 2011 Cultural Research & Intelligence Network conference!

The 2011 Cultural Research & Intelligence Network (CRAIN) conference will take place on Wednesday 19th October 2011, 13:45 – 16:45 at The Studio in central Birmingham.

The event, Chaired by Jon Finch (Director of Engagement – West, MLA) will highlight the latest research and intelligence relating to West Midlands culture, sport and tourism.

Speakers, including Tom Bolton (Senior Analyst, Centre for Cities), will explore what it is about the West Midlands and its cultural sector that stands out at a local, national and international level. Throughout the afternoon, there will be plenty of practical tips, including suggestions around how the new wave of practical research toolkits can be used to best advantage. 

The conference is open to all and will be particularly useful for those eager to understand more about the local West Midlands cultural sector – its unique qualities, audience patterns and the intricate social, economic and political context that cultural organisations must negotiate. It also offers a fantastic chance to network – at last year’s conference 88% of delegates made a new contact!

Click here to download the full event programme.

To book your place for this (free) event, email lauren.amery@artscouncil.org.uk with your name, organisation and any special requirements.

Finally, please use the following hashtag when discussing the conference on Twitter: #WMCRAIN (Thank you!) 

Notes: The conference is being organised by the West Midlands Cultural Observatory in association with Birmingham City University and Arts Council England. 

Home of Metal - Panel and In Conversation with....

Black Sabbath: 'War Pigs' (Live 1970).

I'm covering all generic bases today...

The Home of Metal exhibition has been a great success and I would recommend that anyone who has not yet visited does so. Irrespective of any interest in the genre of heavy metal, I think that the exhibition at BMAG is indicative of how popular music is playing a part in heritage projects and how it can galvanise attention to issues of identity. The positive coverage for this project and the city has been impressive and shows how such work can play a part in contributing to improving the image of place, especially that of Birmingham which has a long and negative tradition of representation. As early as 1816 Jane Austen wrote that this city was not a place to promise much: 'One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound'. This comment might serve for the way in which metal has been treated also. For the material which emerged in Birmingham and the Black Country, this project goes some way to challenging and nuancing the cliched image.

Alongside the exhibition in Birmingham (and those in Walsall et al), there is a related academic conference that takes place in the first week in september. I'm very pleased by the fact that Professor Dan Howard, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English (of which my own School is a part) has sponsored a panel on music journalism.

Details of the panel are below as well as information on an 'In conversation with...' event.

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Aaliyah Live In Amsterdam

I'm very pleased to be introducing the first screening of this new film by Pogus Caesar at 8pm on Friday 22nd July which will take place at MAC.

The screening will be followed by Q&A with the director.

There's an article about the film in Birmingham Press.

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Here's a trailer for the film:

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