Arts Council funds Flip
FLIP Festival and Light House Media Centre have been successfully awarded Grants for the Arts funding
Comedy Festival returns with another stellar line-up
Birmingham Comedy Festival returns this October with yet another great line-up of top comedy talent. Acts include John Bishop, Hairy Bikers, Seann Walsh,
The Midnight Beast, Charlie Murphy and punk poet John Cooper Clarke
Brindleyplace reveals films for its first-ever outdoor film festival
Next week Brindleyplace will be hosting its first ever outdoor film festival, looking to attract hundreds of visitors to the ‘childhood favourites’ themed event.
City’s cuisine celebrated at Birmingham Food Fest
The second Birmingham Food Fest cooked up a culinary treat for visitors with a fantastic week of food and drink themed events and restaurant promotions across the city earlier this month.
Celebrity chefs love food and hate waste
Top chefs Glynn Purnell and David Colcombe will be joining forces with Birmingham City Council and Visit Birmingham to bring the Love Food Hate Waste campaign to Birmingham Food Fest
Top Birmingham restaurant is banning mobile phones from the dinner table
A top Birmingham restaurant is banning mobile phones from the dinner table during Birmingham Food Fest, following the results of an etiquette survey, which was published this week.
Hunt is on for chilli champ
Brindleyplace is challenging visitors to take part in a chilli-eating competition as part of the second annual Birmingham Chilli Festival, which returns to the city on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th July.
28th Birmingham Jazz and Blues festival starts today
With the Great British Summer just around the corner, Birmingham is readying itself for the annual invasion of jazz bands and jazz fans from all over the UK and from abroad.
Celebrate Birmingham’s culinary brilliance at the Food Fest
An eclectic programme of food and drink themed events are set to tempt the taste buds as part of this year’s Birmingham Food Fest, which runs from 13-19 July
BE Festival 2012
Annual Festival of European Theatre across three Birmingham venues: Various Times, 2nd to 8th July 2012
Judgestock returns to arts centre
West Bromwich students to take centre stage at Black Country music festival
City’s economy set for huge boost over Pride weekend
Business owners in and around Birmingham’s Southside are bracing themselves for a bumper weekend as tens of thousands of visitors flock to celebrate Pride 2012.
From Shakespeare to Seventeenth Century cider: Birmingham comes to Hay
Why do theatregoers enjoy watching people die? How did cider knock French wine and the Dutch navy into a cocked hat in the 17th Century?
Hills come alive with the sound of poetry
The Andrew Logan Arts Festival draws on both local and incoming creative and artistic talent to stage a series of workshops, events and performances for the whole community to enjoy.
Storytelling Festival Coming to Edgbaston
Community Garden Martineau Gardens and Arts Agency the Traditional Arts Team have joined forces to create the Martineau Gardens Storytelling Festival.
Birmingham Pride goes ‘speedgay’ thanks to new sponsor
Pride turns ‘speedgay’ this year thanks to the Selco Birmingham Brummies Speedway team who are gearing up to take part in the spectacular carnival parade.
Coventry University students tackle the emotive issue of dementia through dance
Coventry University students Memories in Motion will be presenting their original dance piece looking at dementia and its affects, to coincide with the start of Dementia Awareness Week (May 20th – 26th).
Local talent takes centre stage at Big Session Festival
West Midlands acts to support chart topping names at major music festival
The Lunar Festival
A new family orientated camping festival – The Lunar Festival – has been announced.
Young Runaways playing the Now We Are Weekender festival
A local band will be joining an exciting line-up for a new music festival heading to the West Midlands.
Flatpack Festival celebrates Birmingham
Film festival celebrates Laurel & Hardy’s Brummie screen-mate, Digbeth B-movie and one of Birmingham’s unsung musical heroes.
Fierce Festival are seeking participants
Fierce Festival are seeking participants for the performance/installation, ‘Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing’ by live artist, Ron Athey.
Mostly Jazz Line-Ups Announced
The countdown has begun to one of the country’s most promising new festivals of recent years.
The Big Session Festival moves to Catton Park
The long-established midlands event The Big Session Festival is moving to a new home at Catton Park, South Derbyshire
Oooh! I could bless a fruit tree
‘Wassailing’ is not a question asked of one showing signs of excess cider intake.
Detroit Jazz Festival
The London Jazz Festival may well be fully throbbing this weekend, but across the Atlantic in Detroit, there’s a gargantuan (and completely free-admission) alternative. All we have to do is pay the airfare, says Martin Longley…
FLIP in Wolverhampton
FLIP International Animation Festival is proud to announce that Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton will be showcasing some of his award winning films
Birmingham celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival for the first time
Birmingham Mid-Autumn Festival will take place on Tuesday 13th September
Birmingham to get a good laugh
Birmingham Comedy Festival returns this October with another cracking line-up of comedic talent!
V Festival Travel Information
Going to V? Here’s how to get there quicker, and beat the queues.