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The Magic City: Birmingham represented at the Liverpool Biennial http://t.co/EoKfROJW #tpwm #tpn

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:25 AM PDT

The Magic City: Birmingham represented at the Liverpool Biennial http://t.co/EoKfROJW #tpwm #tpn

The Magic City: Birmingham represented at the Liverpool Biennial  @BAZbreakingnews @weareeastside @Biennial http://t.co/iezskYoc

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:23 AM PDT

The Magic City: Birmingham represented at the Liverpool Biennial  @BAZbreakingnews @weareeastside @Biennial http://t.co/iezskYoc

The Magic City: Birmingham represented at the Liverpool Biennial

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT

Image courtesy of BAZ
Artists: BAZ, Helen Brown, Home of Metal, Napalm Death, plan b, David Rowan, Bedwyr Williams

We Are Eastside presents Birmingham The Magic City as part of 'City States' at the 7th Liverpool Biennial – welcome to the hidden undergrounds, blushing civic pride and future visions of our 'magic' city.

'The Magic City' is borrowed from a proposed artwork by BAZ, inspired by the sign that originally welcomed visitors to Birmingham, Alabama, USA. BAZ want to build a new version of the sign next to the planned hi-speed rail station destined for Eastside, Birmingham, UK. BAZ believe everything Birmingham does is magic.

Eastside and Digbeth are the oldest parts of Birmingham. Birmingham's reputation as an industrial city started here, with foundries, metal workshops and tanneries dating back to medieval times. The area's factories and warehouses now contain galleries, studios and creative organisations producing a visionary programme.

Birmingham: The Magic City is a snapshot of overlapping perceptions, an exploration of the unknown underground sub-infrastructure of the city, a collage of 1980s Grindcore fanzines from the birthplace of heavy metal, a day in the life of walkers of Birmingham, an orgy of civic boosterism and a reconstruction of a 'creepy' wooden lath wall.

Welcome to Birmingham. The 7th Liverpool Biennial runs from 15 September - 15 November 2012.

We Are Eastside is a consortium leading independent arts in Birmingham formed of Capsule, Eastside Projects, Flatpack Festival, Fierce Festival, Grand Union and Ikon Gallery.

www.weareeastside.org

Organised by Capsule, Eastside Projects, Fierce Festival, Flatpack Festival, Grand Union, Ikon Gallery. Kindly supported by Birmingham City University.

writingwestmids: Does anybody fancy being involved in a top-secret performance-ish project this Saturday?! Email sian@writingwestmidlands.org for more info.

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 08:22 AM PDT

writingwestmids: Does anybody fancy being involved in a top-secret performance-ish project this Saturday?! Email sian@writingwestmidlands.org for more info.

Kiwi and Cosford experts unite to bring "critical" planes to Royal Air Force Museum

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Aviation fans will get to see three amazing pre and post-war planes after an apprentice from the RAF Museum Cosford spent two months learning his trade in New Zealand.

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Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:42 AM PDT

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