Creative Midlands Events

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• Come what May, this is the month for rambling
• Andrew Heath & Peter Maynard: The Sonority Of Objects
• <b>What's on in Stoke-on-Trent</b> and Staffordshire
• Spoken Word & Music Night, 4 May
• A Night in the 1940s, 4 May
• Birmingham Trondheim Jazz Collaboration , 4 May
• Lights...camera...launch! The Making of Milton Keynes..
• Ping It, Ring It, Roll It, Write it at AE Harris
• Birmingham Theatre School – A Clockwork Orange
• TV DRAMA SHOOT DEMO – May 24
• Equity talk – Richard G.Jones, Lighting Designer
• Writing for the stage with Chris O’Connell
• Getting to where you want to be with Andrew Burton
• Writing for Children with Juliet Clare Bell
• Writing Crime & Thriller with Chris McCabe
• Carina Schneider posted an event

Come what May, this is the month for rambling Posted: 04 May 2012 03:45 AM PDT Design Factory manager Hayley Banks will get you motivated during a morning walk in and around Sleaford looking at the landscape, objects, architecture and the wildlife within the natural surroundings of Lollycocks and the riverside. See all stories on this topic »

Andrew Heath & Peter Maynard: The Sonority Of Objects Posted: 04 May 2012 02:55 AM PDT A site-specific audio installation inspired by objects from the museum's archive and elements of the building. 3 May–31 May From May 1, Tue–Fri 10am–5pm, Sat & Sun 11am–4pm, Bank Hol Mons 11am–5pm, ends May 31 at Museum In The Park, Stroud.

<b>What's on in Stoke-on-Trent</b> and Staffordshire Posted: 04 May 2012 02:40 AM PDT AM-DRAM: Conceived as a parody of the BBC wartime drama Secret Army, 'Allo 'Allo was a triumph for writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. In the theatrical version presented by The Rep Players tonight, the adventures of hapless cafe owner René continue ... See all stories on this topic »

Spoken Word & Music Night, 4 May Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:29 AM PST 4 May at The Holly Bush FREE Evening of spoken word and acoustic music

A Night in the 1940s, 4 May Posted: 17 Apr 2012 12:25 PM PDT 4 May - Theatre at Rowheath Pavilion Come along to Rowheath Pavilion, Heath Road, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 1HH on 4th May 2012 for A Night in the 1940s, in aid of Help for Heroes and Rowheath Pavilion. A fun night where we will be taking you back to wartime Britain, with a wartime dress code, wartime themed buffet and decorations. The 16 piece, Ashby Big Band will be providing the musical entertainment for the night and will be joined by some local lasses, so get on your dancing shoes and come along for a good time and a flashback to the 1940s.

Birmingham Trondheim Jazz Collaboration , 4 May Posted: 01 Apr 2012 01:09 PM PDT 4 May - Jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire In an evening of Anglo-Norwegian roaming Jazz, we present to you a continuous programme of music across two settings - the Conservatoire Recital Hall and more informal Foyer Bar performance space. In preparation for joint performances at the prestigious Cheltenham Jazz Festival, we welcome students from the Norwegian Trondheim Conservatory to perform as part of three Jazz collaboration groups with players from our own Jazz course. Headlining this roving event will be Trondheim's wonderful Hanna Paulsberg Concept group, in a concert where exciting new soundscapes and experimental improvisation meet.

Lights...camera...launch! The Making of Milton Keynes.. Posted: 03 May 2012 03:10 AM PDT You are invited to the launch of a short film celebrating the place of heritage in our city. The Making of Milton Keynes And introducing The Milton Keynes Collection - a new partnership of trusted organisations working for heritage in Milton Keynes. Tuesday 8 May 2012, 5.30-7.00pm The Cruck Barn, City Discovery Centre, Bradwell Abbey MK13 9AP Light refreshments Film and speeches 6pm-6.30pm The partners gratefully acknowledge the support of Milton Keynes Arts and Heritage Alliance and Milton Keynes Community Foundation in supporting the film's production. RSVP to Jane Matthews: jane56@waitrose.com&nbsp; or Tel: 077910 65362 &nbsp;

Ping It, Ring It, Roll It, Write it at AE Harris Posted: 03 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT A day of musical fun and games presented by Birmingham Conservatoire Dip in between 12:00 & 17:00 on 6th May, 2012 Tickets: £6 (£4 cons) on-line or on-door. featuring performances of: Ping! By Joe Cutler Ping! is a collaboration between composer Joe Cutler, the Coull String Quartet and Fusion Table Tennis Club which explores the distinct sounds and rhythms that table tennis players can create. The piece will create intricate cross-rhythms between table tennis players and the string quartet, with film by international visual artist Tom Dale. Five Rings Triples by Howard Skempton 'Five Rings Triples' is Howard Skempton's Olympian twist on the English Change Ringing tradition – a heady combination of music, sport-like skill, and maths for the world's heaviest instruments. During the day you can hear the piece being rung at St Paul's Church by the Coventry Diocesan Guild of Bellringers, visit the bell tower, discover the art of bell ringing and much more. The Voyage by Michael Wolters & Stan's Cafe The Voyage is a playful opera for a voice, a double bass and eight recorders in which the audience travel on a journey with a young hero seeking to become an immortal in a fateful trial of speed. Hold onto your seats. plus video screening of Twenty Seven Heavens by Richard Causton. Timetable: The Voyage 12:00 Ping! 12:40 The Voyage 13:00 Twenty-Seven Heavens (screening) 13:20 Ping! 13:40 The Voyage 14:00 Twenty-Seven Heavens (screening) 14:20 Five Rings Triples (St.Paul's Church) 14:40 The Voyage 15:00 Five Rings Triples (St.Paul's Church) 15:40 Twenty-Seven Heavens (screening) 16:00 The Voyage 16:00 Ping! 16:20 Five Rings Triples (St.Paul's Church) 16:40 The Voyage 17:00 plus Table Tennis Robot, wii-games, Badge Making, Belfry Visit, Face Painting plus Cafe. Throughout the day there will be chances to play games, make your own art and enjoy refreshments indoors or out. Arrive when you want, stay as long as you want, It's the chance for a family adventure into amazing new music.   More Information HERE Share this: Email Like this: Be the first to like this post.

Birmingham Theatre School – A Clockwork Orange Posted: 03 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT Birmingham Theatre School  are staging a performance of A Clockwork Orange at The Old Fire Station, 285-287 Moseley Road, Highgate, Birmingham, B12 0DX. The dates and times for the performances are Wednesday 2nd at 7.30pm, Thursday 3rd at 7.30pm and Friday 4th of May at 2.00pm and 7.30pm. The performance is being put on by the BTEC National Diploma 2nd year students for their final major production. Share this: Email Like this: Be the first to like this post.

TV DRAMA SHOOT DEMO – May 24 Posted: 03 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT 24 May 2012, 1pm-4pm Deloitte Room, mac Making great TV drama is a lot harder than it looks!  Come along and see how it's done on Thursday 24thMay as part of Capital Theatre Festival. Birmingham City University students will team up with the Screenwriters' Forum to demonstrate a TV Shoot.   We'll be filming a short dramatic script to demonstrate how different styles of direction and acting can change the way a TV Drama scene looks and feels. Join us in the Deloitte Room at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham 1-4pm Thursday 24th May 2012.  Free entry. More info at www.capitalplays.co.uk Share this: Email Like this: Be the first to like this post.

Equity talk – Richard G.Jones, Lighting Designer Posted: 03 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT EQUITY CENTRAL ENGLAND GENERAL BRANCH invites interested actors and others to a short talk by our guest speaker 7.30 – 8.15pm Monday 14th May 2012 at The Old Joint Stock Theatre [Function Room] "Trip the LIGHT fantastic! A short trip through a lighting designers approach to lighting a show plus experiences of people and places over the years." RICHARD G. JONES LIGHTING DESIGNER Richard lit the actor musician Broadway Production of Sweeney Todd at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, for which he was nominated for an Outer Circle Critics Award and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. He was also nominated for a TMA Theatre Award for best lighting design for The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum and a DORA for the Toronto production. Richard's West End work includes actor musician productions of Sunset Boulevard Sweeney Todd, The Gondoliers and Mack and Mabel, also productions of When Pigs Fly, Steptoe and Son, Female Parts, Carmen as well as The Railway Children at the old Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo. UK National tours include Beautiful Thing, Wuthering Heights, Rasputin, Candide, The Hot Mikado, Canterbury Tales, Accidental death of an Anarchist, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Diary of Anne Frank. Richard has recently lit Strictly Come Dancing Arena Tour 2012 for Phil McIntyre Productions and Stage Entertainment and A Bedroom Farce for New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich. He is currently working on designs for The York Mystery Plays to be staged in York Museum Gardens, Breaking The Code for The English speaking theatre of Frankfurt, and Celebrating Christmas with the Salvation Army 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall. For any queries please contact Jenny Stokes at jennystokes@blueyonder.co.uk Share this: Email Like this: Be the first to like this post.

Writing for the stage with Chris O’Connell Posted: 03 May 2012 06:37 AM PDT How do playwrights connect with audiences, invite them into their world, and bring the stage alive with possibility? Looking at the choices Chris and others have made in their work, explore how the information on the page translates to the stage. Chris O'Connell is a writer and the Artistic Director of Theatre Absolute, founded in 1992 and based in Coventry. Since 1999, all of the company's work has been written by Chris and Theatre Absolute has earned a growing reputation for its work, most notably through the making of Street Trilogy which thrilled audiences at the Edinburgh Festival and toured both the UK an Europe to huge critical acclaim. There are spaces available for this workshop on writing for the stage. To book, please visit our online box office: www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3137605663 or visit the Writing Workshop Day event page: www.writingwestmidlands.org/2012/03/12/writing-workshop-day/ Writing for the Stage with Chris O'Connell, Saturday 12th May, 10am – 12.30pm South Birmingham College (Main Digbeth campus), Deritend High Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU. Tickets are £25/ £20 (concessionary price)

Getting to where you want to be with Andrew Burton Posted: 03 May 2012 07:20 AM PDT Asses where you are, identify where you would like to be and develop an action plan to turn your writing ambitions into reality. Andrew Burton is a Freelance Art Consultant, Project Manager and accredited coach specialising in literature projects, freelance writing and marketing & audience development. Getting to where you want to be is delivered in association with The Writer's Compass which is NAWE's (National Association of Writers in Education) professional development service for writers. This workshop has featured at Writers' Centre Norwich and the Essex Book Festival 2012. To book places on this workshop, please visit our online box office: www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3137842371 or visit the Writing Workshop Day event page: www.writingwestmidlands.org/2012/03/12/writing-workshop-day/ Getting to where you want to be with Andrew Burton, Saturday 12th May, 1pm – 3.30pm. South Birmingham College (Main Digbeth campus), Deritend High Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU. Tickets are £25/ £20 (concessionary price)

Writing for Children with Juliet Clare Bell Posted: 03 May 2012 07:04 AM PDT Children's author Juliet Clare Bell will be leading a workshop next Saturday 12th May as part of our Writing Workshop Day at South Birmingham College. At the end of this practical session, you should have a better idea of how to write for children, some of your writing strengths (with tips for improving), what you'd like to write and for whom, and your motivations. And we'll be looking at where to go from here. Juliet Clare Bell has been writing since 2003 and she lives in Birmingham. Her book The Kite Princess, illustrated by Laura-Kate Chapman is out later this year and is accompanied by a CD of the story read by Oscar nominated actress, Imelda Staunton. There are places available for this workshop, to book please visit our online box office: www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3137707969 or visit the Writing Workshop Day event page: www.writingwestmidlands.org/2012/03/12/writing-workshop-day/ Writing for Children with Juliet Clare Bell, Saturday 12th May, 10am – 12.30pm South Birmingham College (Main Digbeth campus), Deritend High Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU. Tickets are £25/ £20 (concessionary price)

Writing Crime & Thriller with Chris McCabe Posted: 03 May 2012 04:27 AM PDT Chris McCabe will be joining us next Saturday 12th May to run a writing workshop on writing crime and thriller at South Birmingham College, 10am – 12.30pm. Chris is a Professor of Molecular Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham. He is also a novelist writing forensic thrillers under the name of John Macken (previously John McCabe). His series featuring Dr. Reuben Maitland have included Dirty Little Lies, Trial by Blood, Breaking Point and Control. Places are still available for this workshop in which Chris will be leading to get to the dark heart of writing crime and thrillers.   To book, please visit our online box office: www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3137505363%20 or visit the Writing Workshop Day page on our website: www.writingwestmidlands.org/2012/03/12/writing-workshop-day/ Writing Crime & Thriller with Chris McCabe, Saturday 12th May, 10am – 12.30pm South Birmingham College (Main Digbeth campus), Deritend High Street, Birmingham, B5 5SU. Tickets are £25/ £20 (concessionary price)

Carina Schneider posted an event Posted: 03 May 2012 03:30 AM PDT Carina Schneider posted an event Additional CPD: Ecology, Planning and Development at BMI June 13, 2012 from 2:30pm to 5pm As part of this CPD seminar, our speaker Dr Penelope Angold CEnv, MIEEM, CBiol, MSB will cover:How the presence of plants and animals at or near a site may place constraints or requirements on potential development in both urban and rural settingsThe relevant pieces of legislation which prevent certain plants, animals or habitats from being disturbedThe requirement on planning authorities to both conserve and enhance biodiversity. Published professional guidance, including the environmental triggers for ecological surveys for planning applicationsHow different planning authorities interpret the guidance differently How this may be affected by the proposed new British Standard for Biodiversity and Planning.Use case studies to show how time of year constrains the ecological surveys that can be undertaken, and how this can delay planning applications to the extent that they may need to be withdrawn. Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM (the commercial equivalent) to show that ecology can be used to gain credits relatively cheaply and easily, and can enhance a larger developmentFees:RIBA/CIAT Members - £55 + VAT Others - £80 + VATRIBA Student Members - £15 + VAT CPD Club Members - 20% discount on additional CPD EventsContact:RIBA West Midlands0121 233 2321riba.westmidlands@riba.org See More

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