Creative Midlands Events

Creative Midlands Events

W: music, showing, B5

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:54 PM PDT

When: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7pm to 11pm  BST

Where: West Midlands, B5, UK
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: http://birmingham.gov.uk 'Brum Beats' presents at The Bright House

W: music, showing, B5

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:53 PM PDT

When: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7pm to 11pm  BST

Where: West Midlands, B5, UK
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: http://birmingham.gov.uk 'Front Room Records' presents at The Bright House

Bedwyr Williams: My Bad

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:56 AM PST

Free

Start Date: 
16 May 2012 - 11:00am - 8 Jul 2012 - 6:00pm
Distance from home 3,629.18 mi

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Fundraiser for folk festival

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:55 PM PDT

BANBURY Folk Club will host a Song and Ale weekend at Drayton Leisure Golf Centre in Warwick Road this weekend. The event will feature music, ale and dancing and will raise money for the Banbury Folk Festival. Call 01295 709881.
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Talented <b>Herefordshire</b> artists on display at art360

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:41 PM PDT

COMMUNITY arts group art360 is bringing together some of the best and most talented Herefordshire artists to its gallery in Bridge Street, Hereford, with an eclectic mix of art on display until Saturday, April 28. Work featured includes paintings, ...
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High Street to honour St George

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:33 PM PDT

Among the attractions will be a visit from a dragon, maypole dancers from Alfred Street Junior School, Irchester Morris Men, Northampton's official jester, Old Speckled Men folk band, face painting, a fancy dress competition, crafts, a schools dragon ...
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derbyindies: RT @1623theatre: Are you coming to see our FREE show on Saturday as we celebrate Shakespeare's 448th birthday? Waterfall, Derby Market P ...

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:53 AM PDT

derbyindies: RT @1623theatre: Are you coming to see our FREE show on Saturday as we celebrate Shakespeare's 448th birthday? Waterfall, Derby Market P ...

Make songs and see the world and Stony Stratford!

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT


Are you a songwriter?


Local songwriter/performer/activist Dan Plews founded Aortas in 2010 following a successful one-week residential songwriting workshop in Milton Keynes in August 2010, which attracted seventeen people aged 17-69 from seven different countries.


Aortas (which stands for Association for Oral Traditions and Songwriting) recently received a grant to promote and teach Folk Music and Songwriting in partnership with six other countries between 2011 and 2013, bringing local people to five different countries.&nbsp;

The partnership grant awarded by the EU Grundtvig Programme totals &euro;156,000; the body supports cross-border adult education (or 'life-long-learning') initiatives. The first of the international visits was to Bucharest (Romania) in December 2011, followed more recently by Aarhus (Denmark) in March. This will be followed by trips to Poland, Slovenia, Ireland and Germany. In addition, Aortas is hosting a workshop in Austria in August, and plans several more in the UK over the next twelve months.


Since December 2011, Aortas has been running an Open Mic every Sunday evening at the Bull Hotel in Stony Stratford, and from April 22nd this will be preceded by a song-circle - a learning opportunity for budding and established songwriters who would like to:


- improve their writing;


- write with others;


- teach others;


- perform songs for others to evaluate.


Anyone wishing to be involved can get more information from the Aortas website - www.aortas.org.uk - speak to the organisers at one of their regular meetings - or email dan@aortas.org.uk


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OXDOX Film Festival

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT


FOUR HORSEMEN







7.00pm-9.30pm


The Buszy, 401 Elder Gate, MK9 1LR



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Opening screening for OXDOX 2012&nbsp;


Live Panel discussion from the Oxford Union&nbsp;


Join in with 7 other cinemas around the UK


Director: &nbsp;Ross Ashcroft


Running Time: 97 minutes


England 2011


Panel Discussion with Megan Murphy,&nbsp;&nbsp;Investment Banking Correspondent at the Financial Times;&nbsp;&nbsp;Professor David Vine, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford&nbsp;Dr. Ha-Joon Chang,&nbsp;author of the best-selling book &lsquo;23 Things They Don&rsquo;t Tell You About Capitalism&rsquo;&nbsp;and Reader in Politics at Cambridge University; Tarek El Diwany, former trader and head of Islamic Finance Department at Prebon Yaman;&nbsp;


Category:&nbsp; Investigative/ Society/ Social Issues/ Politics


The Modern day horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it.&nbsp; Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled.&nbsp; Twenty three international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still some hope in re-establishing a moral and just society.&nbsp;&nbsp;Four Horsemen&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t bash bankers, criticise politicians or get


involved in conspiracy theories.&nbsp; The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.



Tickets are &pound;3.00 each. Book NOW

Theatre Cuppa – 25 April

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:01 PM PDT

INFORMAL GATHERINGS FOR THEATRE/FILM/TV/RADIO/COMMUNITY ARTS PROFESSIONALS IN THE MIDLANDS

Time for a 'Cuppa'!  If you fancy joining us for the next one, we will be at the usual place – Coffee Room, Hurst St, Birmingham, opp. B'ham Hippodrome – on Wednesday 25th April 7.30pm onwards.  Whether you are joining us for a short or long time, early or later in the evening you will be very welcome.  Children are welcome at the Coffee Room so don't let that stop you coming if you want to be there.  Hopefully we will have another daytime one in the next few months for those who prefer that.

If you haven't been before, Theatre Cuppa has been going for about a year now and happens roughly every couple of months or whenever we have time to organise one.  Its for anyone working in Theatre, film, TV, radio, community arts who would like to come along and connect with other people you may know and/or connect with some you don't, in whatever way you want, personally or professionally. The tone is friendly, casual and unpressured and its a way of celebrating and underlining our artistic community here in the West Midlands.

If you are coming for the first time alone, come and grab one of us – Rochi Rampal or Ali Belbin.  We will be the ones wearing a carnation!  Please feel free to pass the date on to anyone you think might be interested in coming.  Look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes

Rochi Rampal and Ali Belbin

LOVE! SEX! CONFUSION!

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:09 PM PDT

Come and ride the merry-go-round of love at the Blue Orange Theatre in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, as ten writers tackle the thorny issue of intimate relationships.
Ten spellbinding short plays explore Love! Sex! Confusion! and ask if any of us really know what we're doing when it comes to relationships?   BBC Doctors writer Liz John contemplates wifely duties in an 18th century vicarage, while Birmingham Rep writer Robert Warrington wonders if his character can stop talking long enough to get a date!
This gripping compilation of new writing is directed by Graeme Braidwood (Arcadia, Festen, The Homecoming), featuring local actors and has a three-day run on April 27-29 April at new independent theatre, the Blue Orange.   Recommended age 15+ as it contains adult themes. Tickets £10/£8.50 concessions. Box Office: 0121-212 2643 or www.blueorangetheatre.co.uk/whatsonbigscript

Dorothy Heathcote’s Legacy

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:12 PM PDT

West Midlands Mantle of the Expert Network presents

DOROTHY HEATHCOTE'S LEGACY

Dorothy Heathcote, who died last year, was one of the world's greatest drama teachers.

At this special two-day event, a range of practitioners will demonstrate the continuing influence of Dorothy's work in their current practice and thinking.

Key speakers

EILEEN PENNINGTON * LUKE ABBOTT

Eileen and Luke will also lead workshop sessions.

Other workshops will be led by Iona Towler-Evans, David Allen, Denise Jones and others

Venue: NEWMAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 3NT

Saturday / Sunday June 16 – 17th, 2012, 9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.

Early-bird booking fee (book and pay by June 1st): Non-members: £95 / Network members £70 / Students £40

(After June 1st:  Non-members: £105 / Members £80 / Students £50)

Places are limited. For futher information and to register, contact news@midlandactorstheatre.co.uk

Phone David on 0121 608 7144 or Iona on 07866 752169

Death Island Discs

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:32 PM PDT

Women & Theatre in association with Charity Shop DJ Presents a lively and uplifting night of dancing to the soundtracks of our lives…

Wednesday 25th April 2012, 7pm – 11pm
Hare and Hounds, 106 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JL
£3.50 on the door

"Everyone has the desire to tell their story, to let the world know they matter"- Charity Shop DJ

Radio 4's Desert Island Discs is into its 60th year. The format is simple: a guest is invited to choose the 8 songs they would take to a desert island.

For one night only, Women & Theatre in association with Charity Shop DJ, are inviting you and your mates to the first ever 'Death Island Discs' night. You can pick, play, dance or just chat about the records you would want played at your wake.

Rummage through the DJ's discs and put on the songs that mean the most to you – songs you have laughed, loved and cried to – songs you'd want to take with you.

Come & have a dance to the soundtrack of each other's lives.

£3.50 on the door!

This event is part of Women & Theatre's development phase for a new project called Exit Strategy about death and dying.

"Charity Shop DJ manages to be radical through the act of celebration" Jacky Fleming, Cartoonist The Guardian and Daily Mail

W: music, showing, B67

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:22 AM PDT

When: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2pm to 6pm  BST

Where: West Midlands, B1, UK
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: http://birmingham.gov.uk Bearwood Shuffle

E: music, showing, Lincs LN12

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Recurring Event
First start: 2012-09-15 BST
Duration: 172800
Where: Lincolnshire, UK
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: http://www.Lincolnshire.gov.uk Bathing Beauties Festival which takes place in Mablethorpe, Sutton on Sea and Sandilands located along the Lincolnshire coastline.

Summer on the Nene again

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT

While many fans across the globe will be familiar with the pseudonym of Northamptonshire-born Denys Watkins-Pitchford – who earned a name for himself as a lover of nature, a children's writer and illustrator – sadly, many still are not.
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Drum Blondes team up with choir again

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:51 AM PDT

The concert is at Nottingham's Albert Hall on Saturday April 21 and will also feature the winner of the Music Makers award, violinist Amanda Bruce and a brand new programme including songs from The Lion King. Tickets, at £13.50, are available from ...
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Chad's new Tourist Trails book set for Sutton Library launch this Saturday

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:46 AM PDT

AUTHOR Stephen Thirkill will be visiting libraries across the area to promote the launch of Chad's brand new book 'Tourist Trails - in and around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire'. The 80-page book has been penned by Chad journalist and first-time author ...
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Mansfield Chad

<b>What's on in the Midlands</b>: The best in music, theatre and comedy - April 19

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:10 AM PDT

THEATRE: Royal Shakespeare Company present Twelfth Night and The Comedy Of Errors: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford/King John: Swan Theatre, Stratford. 0844 800 1110; Andrew Meller in An Audience With Sherlock Holmes: Old Joint Stock Pub and ...
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:40 AM PDT

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