Creative Midlands Articles

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• Birmingham’s arts orgs “in crisis” says Council report
• Music: Review: Halesowen Orchestra, at Cornbow Hall, Halesowen
• Music: Review: Messiah, City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall
• Jewellery students visit Sheffield and Hathersage
• NorthantsArts: RT @NPtheatre: More brilliant audience feedback from Steeple Sinderby UK tour venues. Show will continue touring after the New Year http ...
• Creative round-up: M3 appointed for salon launch
• Fine Art tutor Ang Bartram gets published
• The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now
• Barques PR stars alongside Hollywood Monster
• Creative Training Workshops for Business: The Art of… Creativity & Innovation - Arts & Business
• Creative Training Workshops for Business: The Art of… Communication Impact - Arts & Business
• In Pictures: Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery gets set for George Shaw Turner Prize verdict
• Avro Vulcan and Central Valve Steam Engine honoured with Engineering Heritage Awards
• James Edward Duggins - A Warwickshire Impressionist at Leamington Spa Art Gallery
• Middle England, brutalist Birmingham and Harold Steptoe: Three new shows for Ikon
• Sent back to Coventry: Turner Prize nominee George Shaw opens exhibition at the Herbert
• Wheels and Waves brings surf culture to Coventry Transport Museum
• Cabaret Mechanical Theatre want you to push their buttons in Automata at the Allen Gallery
• RAF Museum Cosford unveils rare restored photo reconnaissance Spitfire
• Jagger and Hendrix star in My Generation: Glory Years of British Rock at The Public

Birmingham’s arts orgs “in crisis” says Council report Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:52 AM PST Birmingham's official arts and culture orgs and venues "in crisis"… "according to a council report seen by the Birmingham Post [...] The mac [Birmingham's Midlands Arts Centre] is one of many arts organisations facing a severe financial crisis as city council and Government spending cuts begin to bite. [and] the crown jewels in Birmingham's cultural offer – Symphony Hall, the Town Hall, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Ex Cathedra choir – are struggling to convince the council that they can work together to deliver efficiencies and have been refused a two-year funding package."

Music: Review: Halesowen Orchestra, at Cornbow Hall, Halesowen Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST Founded 25 years ago, the Halesowen Orchestra is a happy orchestra.

Music: Review: Messiah, City of Birmingham Choir, at Symphony Hall Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST During a chorus rehearsal for Messiah Sir Malcolm Sargent once remarked to a soprano, "I can't see you, Madam, which means you won't be able to see me."

Jewellery students visit Sheffield and Hathersage Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:23 AM PST Student trip to Sheffield to visit Robert Lamb Silversmith and Chimo Holdings cutlery manufacturers and to Hathersage to visit David Mellor cutlery design and manufacturers. Students from the Jewellery & Object BA(Hons) were taken by Programme Leader Sarah O'Hana and Martin Drury to see the manufacturing techniques involved in the silversmithing trade in Sheffield. This was to support their design project "Eating is a social ritual" set by Martin, cutlery designer for the Studio William company and part-time lecturer at Lincoln. Unknown to many, the workshops of Robert Lamb are an exceptional tribute to the history of Sheffield's silversmithing trade. Mr Lamb is one of the UK's last apprentice trained silversmiths. He talked to the students openly about extraordinary commissions he has taken on and the huge collection of hand tools he uses for specific jobs. At Chimo Holdings, cutlery and giftware manufacturers, the factory staff showed students all the processes involved including pressing, soldering, hammering, polishing, sharpening blades, applying handles, cleaning…a typical metal processing environment, busy, noisy and smelling of machinery and oil. We marvelled at both the scrap metal heaped up in bins as well as the shiny finished products… David Mellor, in Hathersage is a different type of factory. Open to the public, with a tea room and shop attached, this is a visit that shows the success of a design graduate whose skills include the design of our current traffic lights as well as some very elegant cutlery. The visit enlightened the students with knowledge gathered from the deeply traditional as well as from the modern design-led. In an age where digital rules, students were able to see how idea plus metal is transformed into object and how close they are to becoming part of a truly unique profession.

NorthantsArts: RT @NPtheatre: More brilliant audience feedback from Steeple Sinderby UK tour venues. Show will continue touring after the New Year http ... Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:11 AM PST NorthantsArts: RT @NPtheatre: More brilliant audience feedback from Steeple Sinderby UK tour venues. Show will continue touring after the New Year http ...

Creative round-up: M3 appointed for salon launch Posted: 15 Dec 2011 06:59 AM PST A round up of news from the region's creative sector in the past week

Fine Art tutor Ang Bartram gets published Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:49 AM PST A book on collaboration called 'Mutual Dependencies' has just been published, in which BA (Hons) Fine Art Programme Leader Ang Bartram has written a chapter after three years hard work. Mutual Dependencies is part artists' book and part academic research, containing a range of collaborative and inter-dependant work exploring what the practice of art writing might be. The pages include drawings, recollections, photographs and diagrams, recipes for pigments or preserves, writings, ruminations and tentative articulations; taken as a whole, it engages with the overlaps between score, script, performance, concept and drawing, including scoring the table or drawing conclusions. Unbound, you can find the book available for purchase by clicking here.

The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST 16th Dec 2011 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ Major works by artists including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Bridget Riley are to go on show alongside paintings by emerging talents in a celebration of the complex genre of abstraction from the 196...

Barques PR stars alongside Hollywood Monster Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST 16th Dec 2011 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A new Birmingham PR agency is playing a starring role in getting print and signs specialists Hollywood Monster's name up in lights. Barques PR has been appointed by the company to raise its profile ...

Creative Training Workshops for Business: The Art of… Creativity & Innovation - Arts & Business Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST Key objective To engage with a conceptual artist on the subject of creativity and innovation in project development and execution. Overview This session is led by a facilitator with artist Chris Dobrowloski. This workshop is about creativity, ideas and innovation. It sets out some rules of engagement around innovation, where ideas come from and how far we are prepared to go in terms of taking risks in projects. At the core of the workshop is a unique presentation by artist Chris Dobrowolski. Using original film footage, photographs and examples of his work, Chris articulates his profound and hilarious journey from Art School to major art exhibitions and finally to the Antarctic for three months as the official Artist in Resident of The British Antarctic Survey! The journey is not a smooth one, as he searches for his 'inner need!' It is an awe-inspiring journey that translates powerfully to the challenges we have in achieving personal and work goals, including setting targets, measuring success and motivating ourselves and others in the area of creativity. Focus •    Where do ideas come from? •    How can we be innovative and take risks in uncertain times? •    How do we measure our achievements? •    What does it take to get the best out of ourselves and our colleagues? •    What are the creative tipping points? Outcome Motivation and inspiration around creativity and innovation. Workshop structure •    Introduction of objectives •    Interactive exercises focusing on creativity fundamentals •    Interactive video, talk and demonstration •    Group discussion around workplace actions and application   Fees: £185 plus VAT Bookings: Peter.Collins@artsandbusiness.org.uk or 0121 2481200   Powered by Arts & Business and Menagerie Arts & Business and awarding winning international trainers Menagerie have joined forces to offer three unique, high impact employee development workshops. Each workshop is designed to inspire, motivate and support employees in pursuit of specific personal and organisational development goals. There are three all together, The Art of Communication Impact, The Art of Team Building and  The Art of Creativity and Innovation. Full details of these workshops can be found here

Creative Training Workshops for Business: The Art of… Communication Impact - Arts & Business Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:00 AM PST This is ideal for participants thinking about their face-to-face communication skills and how to improve impact both formally and informally   Key objectives To get participants thinking about their face-to-face communication skills and how to improve impact both formally and informally. Overview This session is led by one facilitator, with two actors. This is an interactive communication training session that includes the introduction of new skills, re-engaging with basics of communication  (the body, mind and voice) and understanding the 'performance' elements of communicating. It draws on the techniques used by actors and directors in the rehearsal room to understand and improve communication impact. The workshop is designed to encourage confident and creative communication by stretching the voice, the body and the imagination. The workshop goal is to bring these 'performance' elements together to give a real experience of the impact we currently make and how to access and enhance on our natural talents. Focus This workshop focuses on both the formal and informal elements of communication in the workplace to provide:  · An understanding of the dynamics and differences in formal and informal communication · An insight into what makes people interesting, engaging and effective · Improved use of voice and breathing techniques · Improved understanding of the use and reading of body language · Tips on how to harness personality, presence and purpose to affect a group · Tips on dealing with conflict or difficult situations Outcome Improved communication confidence for teams and individuals. Workshop structure · Introduction and objectives · Interactive exercises focusing on communication fundamentals · Interactive performance by two actors · Forum of key messages (audience influence communication impact) · Group discussion and actions around workplace application   Fees: £185 plus VAT Bookings: Peter.Collins@artsandbusiness.org.uk or 0121 2481200   Powered by Arts & Business and Menagerie Arts & Business and awarding winning international trainers Menagerie have joined forces to offer three unique, high impact employee development workshops. Each workshop is designed to inspire, motivate and support employees in pursuit of specific personal and organisational development goals. There are three all together, The Art of Communication Impact, The Art of Team Building and  The Art of Creativity and Innovation. Full details of these workshops can be found here

In Pictures: Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery gets set for George Shaw Turner Prize verdict Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST While the announcement of the Turner Prize 2011 winner is taking place tonight, the flagship gallery in finalist George Shaw's home city will be throwing an arty party.

Avro Vulcan and Central Valve Steam Engine honoured with Engineering Heritage Awards Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST The Institute of Mechanical Engineers has given top awards to the famous Vulcan aircraft and the engine which powered most of Britain's electricity more than a century ago.

James Edward Duggins - A Warwickshire Impressionist at Leamington Spa Art Gallery Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST A little-known painter and photographer who was one of Warwickshire's most popular early 20th century artists gets a first retrospective since his death 43 years ago.

Middle England, brutalist Birmingham and Harold Steptoe: Three new shows for Ikon Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST Stuart Whipps looks at the Spread of Ugliness, John Myers presents portraits of mundanity and Dean Kelland becomes part of Steptoe and Son in a trio of shows at Ikon Gallery.

Sent back to Coventry: Turner Prize nominee George Shaw opens exhibition at the Herbert Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST A three-section show at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery shows the past and present of George Shaw's unique views of a city, as well as providing insights into his own career.

Wheels and Waves brings surf culture to Coventry Transport Museum Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST Coventry Transport Museum is bringing the sights, sounds and swells of surf culture to the West Midlands with an exhibition of classic surfer vehicles.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre want you to push their buttons in Automata at the Allen Gallery Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST The Alton venue hosts 20 interactive machines - include men who nibble matchsticks and Egyptians swatting flies - courtesy of the revered art-engineering collective.

RAF Museum Cosford unveils rare restored photo reconnaissance Spitfire Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST A rare Supermarine Spitfire Photo Reconnaissance PR. XIX PM651 is the latest addition to the aircraft collection at RAF Museum Cosford.

Jagger and Hendrix star in My Generation: Glory Years of British Rock at The Public Posted: 15 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST Top of the Pops snapper Harry Goodwin's shots of Elton John, Stevie Wonder and more stars of the 1960s and 1970s go on show in West Bromwich, on tour from the V&A.

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