Nice short interview with Chris who took over CiB from me in the Spring. Gives me a chance to say how pleased I am with how well he's found his voice on the site and has made it his own over the last few months.

James Hunt interviews little old me.

Flickr user Jon Iles reports on a chat he had with Tom from the museums photo library about how they might adapt their policy of letting people take photos to the digital age.

If all goes according to plan the new station hopes to be on air in time for the Kings Heath Carnival in July. It could then continue broadcasting on the internet, but hopes to apply for a permanent FM frequency as soon as one becomes available.

Monday, February 18, 2008. 7pm. Somewhere in central Brum with wifi and space.

Black Galaxy presents a night of avant garde short films as part of their ongoing 'Photon Hex' series. Experimental image meets live sound by a 6-piece musical ensemble in an exploration of the meeting between image and sound, and representation and abstr

Town Hall, 18th Feb, £5. Sunand Prasad, President of the RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects, will discuss his vision for cities and explore relationships between architecture, cities and the diverse communities who live and work in them.

Birmingham’s Chinese community will be celebrating the start of Chinese New Year on Sunday 10th February with an afternoon of free entertainment which marks the start of a year of Chinese activities in the City.

This seminar is a simple, snappy and easy to follow guide to copyright law for images. Picture licenses and model release forms will be explained.

Sunday 10th Feb at 12.00pm in Coffee Lounge, then off for a walk around town.

Russ L's monthly guide. "mostly gigs, but there seems to be a decent chunk of theatre too."

Terry Grimley enjoys a peep through the keyhole at some of Birmingham's private art collections.

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Three programmes of animation made over the past two years will be screened in 28 venues, and 3 of which are based in the West Midlands, over February. The special screenings will allow audiences to vote for up to 3 award winners for the annual British An

"You want the useful, fun and intelligent arts and nerd events — not basket-weaving, bland local carnivals or aggressive music nights? You want events that are local or really easy to travel to for the day? Well, here they are…"

Between 2004 and 2006, programme hours created by independent firms dropped 72 per cent to 52.5 hours. Programme hours by broadcasters in the region also dipped from 348 in 2004, to 322.9 in 2006.

Acclaimed Australian artist Tim Maguire has taken the printing process to the core of his work as a painter, making both figurative and abstract paintings using the layering of colour according to the conventional method of commercial colour printing.

This exhibition will be Ryan Gander’s first since taking 2007 as a ‘year out’ in which to travel and develop new work. Arranged in collaboration with South London Gallery and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, it constitutes a much anticipate

BiNS on the new Birmingham Mail website, launched today.

The folk behind the Fierce Festival and the Metapod training sessions have a weblog.

25 January – 27 April 2008 at the Barber Institute. "Over the past two years the organizers of this show have visited in excess of one hundred private art collections within the Birmingham postal district. Now, almost 40 paintings, watercolours, dra

has a weblog

Post-Crimble blues well and truly set in? Feeling a bit mardy? Need something to make shopping more of a pleasure? Then get thy botties down to the Vintage Fair at Moseley Community Centre this Saturday for some top notch retro goodness.

Walsall's New Art Gallery is open on Valentine's Night for singles looking for a more refined partner. £12 a head.

MBE, Bhangra and a BASS competition

Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed German artist Jürgen Partenheimer, his first in the UK, comprising new and recent painting, works on paper and sculpture, revealing the interconnectivity of his essentially Modernist

Moves to have Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter designated as a ‘World Heritage Site’ will step up next Thursday (24th January) when the city council’s planning committee is asked to give its approval to the campaign.

Ah well, at least Catherine O'Flynn got the First Novel prize.

The Gallery at The Custard Factory, Birmingham, B9 4AA. 4th - 9th March 2008.