I grew up in Mosley and Balsall Heath. Underage I saw the Beat
Don’t do the McCartney thing please. Write songs about justice (again) please, double please.
Author: Nick Booth
Podcast: Solving a Stinking Mess in Bordesley Green
If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant (NPRG) – a £10,000 pilot programme – to allow residents groups more control over money. This youtube video shows you briefly what happened in Margaret’s neighbourhood and the audio podcast expands on what was done and what was learnt.
The NPRG was created by the Birmingham Community Safety Partnership and is currently being evaluated by the Digbeth Trust.
Blogging Plant Arrives on Twitter.
A Birmingham Artist has released the source code to allow plants to blog.
More accurately it tweets. So I’m following it. No, that’s right.
No I’ve looked too and I still don’t understand.
Via D’Log – who probably does.
Update Tower Bridger Twitters! This I can understand. Thanks Antonio.
Stan's Cafe Cleansing of Constance Brown
7 PERFORMERS
73 CHARACTERS
70 MINUTES
6 WORDS
10 TONS OF KIT
A SET 2M WIDE AND 14M DEEP
45 AUDIENCE MEMBERS…
…WILL YOU BE ONE OF THEM?
I’m off topic with this post and off to the theatre on Sunday to see one of the most extraordinary shows conceived by one of the country’s finest companies: Stan’s Cafe. I work for Stan from time to time and was very excited when I first saw the set for The Cleansing of Constance Brown during rehearsals in an old factory in Digbeth. The company is lauded all over the world (I do not exaggerate – they’ve won export awards) but the chance to see them in Birmingham is quite rare.
Constance Brown is the final production for the Mac’s longstanding festival Moving Parts.
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This Youtube film give you an idea and this link takes you to the explanation of the show. Tickets can be bought through this link (the performance is at 38 Floodgate Street not the Mac). 7 Performances. Go. Please.