Creative Midlands Events

Creative Midlands Events


Dangerous Girls Reunited, The Privates, 2 May

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 02:54 PM PST

2 May - Rock & Pop at Hare & Hounds

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A one off 30th anniversary concert by the legendary Birmingham Prog, Punk band, 30 years to the day since their last show on May 2nd,1982. Dangerous Girls, formed in Moseley, 1978 disbanded in 1982, having release 3 outstanding singles and a live e.p, which went to no.1 on the alternative charts, done 214 gigs all over the UK and got drunk on Robin Valk's radio show!

RedLionFolkClub: Wed 2nd May 7.15 for 7.45 pm The wonderful Lady Maisery supports by ODi & Dave Redfearn. Non-members £11 / Members £10

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 10:46 AM PDT

RedLionFolkClub: Wed 2nd May 7.15 for 7.45 pm The wonderful Lady Maisery supports by ODi & Dave Redfearn. Non-members £11 / Members £10

As You Like It , 2 May

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 02:37 PM PDT

2 May - Theatre at The Old Rep Theatre

Birmingham Ormiston Academy's Theatre (BOAT), in partnership with Birmingham Rep, perform Shakespeare's "As You Like It". BOA is the brand new regional Academy for the creative, digital and performing arts.

Metal To The Masses Round 1 Heat 5, 2 May

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

2 May - Rock & Pop at The RoadHouse Birmingham

Metal to The Masses is the competition for metal bands to win a slot at this years Bloodstock festival. Battling, tonight, for a place in the second round is Hurt Season, Rise Of My Empire and Chemically Abused. Come along to support the best of The Midlands metal scene.

Oh What a Lovely War, 2 May - 3 May

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:45 PM PST

2 May - 3 May - Theatre at Artrix

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Join NEW College Degree and Diploma students, for an unforgettable theatrical experience. At times satirical, funny and deeply moving, Oh What a Lovely War has a style all of its own, combining live music, dance, songs and sketches to create a picture of life for those on the front line and those behind it. Created and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1963.

NEW College's Oh What A Lovely War is a classic of the modern theatre and a powerful reminder of the atrocities of a war that cost twenty million lives. Told through the songs, headlines and facts of the period, it's a satirical attack on the military incompetence and disregard for human life the First World War has come to represent a chilling reminder of man's inhumanity to man.

bhampressclub: Drinks Night & launch of property guru Glyn Pitchford's autobiography, Journey to Majorca. May 3, 17:30 Hotel du Vin http://t.co/Il1XzZx5

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:48 AM PDT

bhampressclub: Drinks Night & launch of property guru Glyn Pitchford's autobiography, Journey to Majorca. May 3, 17:30 Hotel du Vin http://t.co/Il1XzZx5

#Shropshire's #Magic #Cabaret is back!! 6th of May at the loft in the Old Post Office Milk Street, #Shrewsbury 01743 241 071 for info

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 01:51 PM PDT

#Shropshire's #Magic #Cabaret is back!! 6th of May at the loft in the Old Post Office Milk Street, #Shrewsbury 01743 241 071 for info

Audience invited to a Ding Dong with <b>theatre</b> group

Posted: 01 May 2012 07:29 PM PDT

A FAST action comedy translated from French playwright Marc Camoletti's Sexe et Jalousie comes to the The Mill, Banbury next week. Ding Dong, performed by the Banbury Cross Players, will be shown at the venue in Spiceball Park Road from May 2-5 with ...
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Peak gala showcase

Posted: 01 May 2012 07:09 PM PDT

Ian Naylor, conductor of the Peak District String Orchestra, at the Buxton Opera House in 2011. Photo: Paul Mann. BUXTON Opera House will host two celebration gala concerts featuring over 400 young musicians from across Derbyshire. Peak District Music ...
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Buxton Advertiser

What's on in Market Rasen

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:59 PM PDT

Raffle proceeds in aid of LIVES. l Country Market in the Salvation Army Hall, John Street, Market Rasen, from 9am-1pm. l Limelight Theatre Group at Brookenby Theatre from 7.30pm. New members, aged 11 years upwards, welcome. Details Ann 01472 852952 or ...
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What's on in Birmingham: The best in <b>music</b>, <b>theatre</b> and comedy - May 1

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:21 PM PDT

0844 338 5000; Brownshill Musical Theatre present The Producers: Lichfield Garrick. 01543412121; WODS present My Fair Lady: Swan Theatre, Worcester. 01905 611 427. Royal Shakespeare Company presents The Tempest: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, ...
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Truth, Lies & Life Writing with Candi Miller

Posted: 01 May 2012 08:49 AM PDT

On Saturday 12th May as part of our Writing Workshop Day, novelist Candi Miller will be running a workshop entitled Truth, Lies & Life Writing.

Born in Zambia and brought up in South Africa, Candi has been a journalist and advertising copywriter. She now lives in Staffordshire where she teaches Creative and Professional Writing part time.

 

In 1994 she undertook an expedition to the Kalahari Desert to visit groups of San (Bushman) people. There she was caught up in a huge veld fire, charged by a bull elephant and enchanted by Ju/'hoansi story-telling around a campfire. This inspired her to write her novels, Salt and Honey and Kalahari Passage- both published by Tindal Street Press.

 

Join Candi at her writing workshop, Truth, Lies & Life Writing at 10am – 12.30pm on Saturday 12th May at South Birmingham College (Main Digbeth campus), Deritend High Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU- 5 minute walk from Birmingham city centre. Tickets are £25/ £20 (concessionary price)

This workshop is designed to demonstrate the power and the pitfalls of mining your own or someone else's memories to tell a good non-fiction story. Bring along a plan or a short piece of your life writing if you want some instant group feedback.

For more information and to book tickets, please click here.

Shakila Azizzada: An Evening of Persian Poetry

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:29 AM PDT

With one week to go now until the Poetry Translation Centre's Persian Poets' Tour arrives in Birmingham with our event, An Evening of Persian Poetry we thought we would tell you a little bit about Shakila Azizzada.

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1964, Shakila studied Law at Kabul University. It was while she was studying that she also began to write poetry and stories, many of which were published in magazines. She then went on to read Oriental Languages and Cultures at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Her first collection of poems Herinnerin aan niets (Memories About Nothing) was published in Dutch and Dari and her second collection will be published later this year. Shakila has also written plays, several of which have been published and performed.


Kabul
by Shakila Azizzada

If my heart beats
for Kabul,
it's for the slopes of Bala Hissar,
holding my dead
in its foothills.

Though not one, not one
of those wretched hearts
ever beat for me.

If my heart grieves
for Kabul,
it's for Leyla's sighs of
'Oh, dear God!'
and my grandmother's heart
set pounding.

It's for Golnar's eyes
scanning the paths
from dawn to dusk, spring to autumn,
staring so long
that all the roads fall apart
and in my teenage nightmares
side roads
suddenly shed their skins.

If my heart trembles
for Kabul,
it's for the slow step of summer noons,
siestas in my father's house which,
heavy with mid-day sleep,
still weighs on my ribs.

For the playful Angel of the Right Shoulder
who keeps forgetting
to ward away stray bullets.

It's for the hawker's cry
of the vegetable seller doing his rounds,
lost in my neighbours' troubled dreams,
that my heart's trembling.

Translated by Zuzanna Olszewska and Mimi Khalvati

Original poem:

کابل by Shakila Azizzada

برای کابل
اگر دلم می تپد
برای دامن بالاحصار است
که مرده هایم را
در آغوش می کشد
هر چند، هیچ گاه
هیچ یک از آن دل های نامراد
برای من نتپیده است

برای کابل
اگر دلم می سوزد
برای "ویش خدا" گفتن لیلا است
که دل مادر کلان را
کلچه کلچه داغ می زد

برای راه کشیدن چشم های گلنار است
که از پگاه تا بیگاه
از بهار تا تیر ماه
آنقدر بر راه ماندند
تا همه ی جاده ها پوسیدند
و بیراهه هایش
ناگهان
در خواب های نورس من
پوست انداختند

برای کابل
اگر دلم می لرزد
برای نیمروز های کند پای تابستان است
که هنوز خانه ی پدری را
به سنگینی خواب نیم چاشتی اش
بر صندوق سینه ام بار می کند

برای فرشته ی بازیگوش شانه ی راست
که هی یادش می رود
گلوله های غیبی را بتاراند

برای گم شدن صدای
سبزی فروش دوره گرد
در خواب های پریشان همسایه هاست
که دلم می لرزد


View From Afar
by Shakila Azizzada

I'm left again with no one standing behind me,
ground pulled from under my feet.
Even the sun's shoulders are beyond my reach.

My navel chord was tied
to the apron strings of custom,
my hair first cut over a basin of edicts.
In my ear, a prayer was whispered:
'May the earth behind and beneath you
be forever empty'.

However, just a little higher,
there'll always be a land
purer than any land Satan could wish on me.

With the sun's hand on my shoulder,
I tear my feet away, a thousand and one times,
from the things I leave behind me.

Translated by Zuzanna Olszewska and Mimi Khalvati

Original poem:

دورنما by Shakila Azizzada

بازخالی می شود پشتم
خالی می شود باز زير پاهايم
دستم به شانه های آفتاب نمی گيرد

نافم را
بر پايه ی عادت گره زدند
مويم را بر طشت بايگانی بريدند
در گوشم اذان گفتند:

"همواره پشت تو
همواره زير پايت خالی باد"
همواره اما
بالاترک زمينی ست
سُچه تر از نيايش ابليس

با دست آفتاب بر شانه هايم
پا می کنم هزار و يکم باره
از مانده های من


Epitaph
by Shakila Azizzada

Whose dying breaths
are sleeping
in your hazel eyes?

What small child's gaze
goes blank at your trigger?

For what young girl,
her heart in your palm,
legs bloodied, does your heart beat?

Mountain man!
What fate will tear the cliffs
from under your feet?

What woman will feel her nipples burn
for your black curls in the dust,
what mother for her son?

Tell me,
in the depths of whose eyes
will your dying breaths find peace?

Translated by Zuzanna Olszewska and Mimi Khalvati

Original Poem:

لوح by Shakila Azizzada

در چشمان ميشی ات
آخرين نفس ِ
کدام ها می خوابد؟

نگاه کدام کودک
با ماشه ات خالی می شود؟

دلت برای کدام دوشيزه ی
دل در کف ِ
ی در خون می تپد؟
کوه مرد!

کدام تقدير
صخره از زير پا هايت می گيرد؟

سياه زلفان به خاک آلوده ات
نوک پستان های کدام زن را می سوزاند؟

بگو
نفس آخر تو
ته چشمان که آرام می گيرد؟


This information was taken from the Poetry Translation Centre's website, http://www.poetrytranslation.org/

For more information about the event An Evening of Persian Poetry and to book tickets, please see the event page by clicking here.

Meet the Author- Jason Lee

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:51 AM PDT

Author and Professor of Creative Writing Jason Lee will be talking about his new novel 'Unholy Days'
Free event
Allestree Library, Derby

Meet the Author- Jason Lee

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:51 AM PDT

Author and Professor of Creative Writing Jason Lee will be talking about his new novel 'Unholy Days'.
Free event.
Mickleover Library, Derby

Young singers' debut concert

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:05 AM PDT

BUXTON'S Pavilion Arts Centre is welcoming audiences to the first-ever concert by the Kaleidoscope Young Singers on Saturday May 5, at 7.30pm. The show will contain group arrangements of pop and rock numbers, featuring songs by Adele and Jessie J among ...
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Carina Schneider updated an event

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Carina Schneider updated an event
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Open Forum: NPPF at Associated Architects

May 10, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm
What are the implications for Architects under the new NPPF? The recently ratified NPPF means a big shake-up in planning legislation, and it is important for architects to stay on top of it. The publication has been reduced from 1,000 pages to just 72 in size and is designed to ensure that developments go ahead unless they are 'unsustainable'. The RIBA is pleased that the RIBA's suggested amendments to the draft have been accepted into the final version of the NPPF, particularly those related to A strengthening of policy on design and providing greater weight for the advice of design review panelsEnshrining high quality design as a core planning principleGreater clarification over the definition of sustainable developmentThe announcement of transitional arrangements to allow local authorities to develop Local PlansStrengthening of provisions to encourage the development of Brownfield sites Join our panel of experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented to the architectural profession by the NPPF. A drinks reception will take place from 6pm with the debate commencing at 6.30pm. The debate will be chaired by Anthony Clerici, RIBA West Midlands Regional Chairman. The panelists are:   Anna Scott-Marshall, Head of External Affairs at the Royal Institute of British ArchitectsRuth Reed, Immediate Past President of the RIBA, Course Director PGDip Architectural Practice at BCU and Partner at Green Planning Solutions llp  Andrew Boughton RIBA MRTPI Director of Planning at Boughton Butler  The event is free, but please book a place via riba.westmidlands@riba.org as places are limited to about 30.See More

Preview: The choir of <b>Gloucester</b> Cathedral head to Monmouth

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:51 AM PDT

by Karen Price, Western Mail THE internationally renowned choir of Gloucester Cathedral will make its first appearance in Monmouth under the banner of the Merlin Music Society this week. Directed by Adrian Partington – who has close links with a number ...
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WIN Tickets to BBC Radio 2 <b>Music</b> Night on Friday 4th May 2012

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:38 AM PDT

WIN 4 tickets to attend the BBC Radio 2 Friday Night is Music Night on Friday 4th May, an exclusive 'behind the scenes tour' of the Westons Cider site, and if that's not all a mixed case of Weston's premium Cider. Westons Cider has been lovingly ...
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What's On - Exhibitions - May 3 onwards

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:10 AM PDT

CREWE: May 1-5 - Crewe Gang Show - almost 100 Cubs and Scouts present a new show with musical items, comedy and more at the Lyceum Theatre in Heath Street at 7.15pm with 2.15pmm Saturday matinee. Call 01270 686777 or visit www.lyceumtheatre.net.
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