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The Bull Ring April '62 (by geoff7918)

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There's Something Funny in the Honey

Tuesday 23rd October -

Bee numbers in Britain have fallen dramatically in recent years, but we intend to save them with a little help from a few very funny people! Bees are essential in pollinating our favourite food and for our economy, without them it would cost UK farmers 1.8 billion a year to pollinate our crops, and for our gardens and parks. All good enough reasons for Birmingham Friends of the Earth to organise this fundraising comedy night with some of the finest comedians. (More: There's Something Funny in the Honey - Birmingham Friends of the Earth)

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The Beatles outside the Hippodrome

(by West Midlands Police)

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Forest Road Signhacking

(Photo by Nikki Pugh)

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Play The Old Railway boardgame.

Based on the rock and roll happenings at the little pub that Millenium Point replaced.

Via Midge, who spotted it here.

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Stan Laurel at Birmingham Hippodrome

from Flatpack Festival

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Birmingham Town Centre, 1964

An 8mm home movie from 1964, showing the Bull Ring, New Street and Corporation Street as they were then.

(by km6nab)

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Pre-planning application 'consultation' on Paradise Circus

(via Paradise Circus)

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Birmingham music in the 60s… Untold Stories Part 1

(by BMHMusic)

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A short film of photos taken around/under Birmingham Central Library - brutal sound (by eightbaII1955)

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Nirvana - Lithium - Birmingham Hummingbird  1991 (by Curmodgeon)

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'Ain't no revolution without women' graffiti spotted on Birmingham Horsefair

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Radio Birmingham audio slideshow

This audio slideshow was produced by Pete Simpkin, and used when he gave talks about the work of Radio Birmingham in the 1970s. It dates from the time when Pete presented the Breakfast programme, and illustrates the daily routine of the Station, which was based at BBC Pebble Mill. (via Radio Birmingham audio slideshow – Pete Simpkin | What Was Pebble Mill?)

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The Boat That OxjamBrum Rocked

OxjamBrum is gaining quite a reputation for gigs with a difference. Remember the bus? Well this year we are going one better – an evening of music and entertainment on a barge. Come and join us as we navigate Brum’s canals starting at the mooring opposite the Canalside Café and travelling along Birmingham’s waterways. We will be making stops and collecting artists along the way. Tickets are £15 which includes a pre-sail BBQ. Starting at 5pm and finishing back in Brum city centre at 9pm. (via The Boat That OxjamBrum Rocked! | OxjamBrum 2011 )

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Keep calm & candy on

"Staff at CyberCandy in good spirits, love what they've painted on the boards from #BirminghamRiots aftermath" /via @lauracreaven

(via http://yfrog.com/h0tw0smoj)

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Freecode Hexagon, Hexagon Theatre, MAC 19th Aug 7pm

Realtime, generative Audio Visual performance presented in the MAC's best kept secret - a gem of 1960s architecture - the HEXAGON theatre, originally the Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre. Featuring stunning work from the most experienced and freshest face, alike: SCREE are DJ Sir Real (www.myspace.com/djsirreal) from the House of God and VJ Catweasel (www.colour-burst.com) who does visuals for artists like Stevie Wonder.  Modulate (www.modulate.org.uk/) are an AV collective who grew out of electronic ambient pioneers Higher Intelligence Agency. FREECODE are an AV collective of tweakers featuring: Chromatouch (www.chromatouch.wordpress.com), Minuek (www.myspace.com/minuek), Laternist (www.laternist.posterous.com)  Hellocatfood (www.hellocatfood.com) Node based programming artists have risen to the fore over the last few years as graphical programming becomes more accesible and capable of harnessing computer functions more easily. Support networks like 'hackspaces' and festivals like the Maker Faire mean that girls and boys alike have been sharing knowledge and indeed creating their own canon in digital art. The upshot of this tweakery is that people can make the most unique of digital creations from a fundamental level, no longer limited to what a piece of software has in it's palette of filters and effects, you can now make your own software patches fairly simply... On a Friday night in August at the Midland Arts Centre, the Midlands finest node artists will be generating music and graphics live for your entertainment. The most wonderful Hexagon Theatre, situated next to the Bridges café bar, and there will be breaks between artists to refresh.

Showcasing at the Pixel Visions evening at this year's Flatpack Festival, Scree are Chris Plant & Neil Spragg. Chris, aka VJ Catweasel has been showing visuals in Birmingham since the late 80s when he used to use 16mm projectors (and occasionally still does). He has had his work used as backdrops for TV shows like Top of the Pops, X Factor and for touring artists as big as Stevie Wonder... Neil, aka DJ Sir Real one of the founding members of Birmingham's (and one of the UK's) longest running techno night, the House of God, writes arcade machine tunes, drums in plasmic rock band, Omnia Opera, owns his own record label and DJs every Thursday night well into the wee hours with his Mouth of God radio show on www.musicworldradio.com, essential listening... Modulate are a collective who formed in 2001 though a shared interest in electronic music, abstract art, and the work of early sonic visualists. In between working individually as musicians, film makers, graphic designers and sound installation artists, they enjoy coming together sporadically to create audio visual artworks and realtime live AV performances, as well as to produce and curate events. Working on a pared down 'less is more' aesthetic, their works are finely honed, slowly unfolding journeys into abstract spacial realms. Other AV and 'Live Cinema' artists whom Modulate have brought to perform in Birmingham include Mia Makela aka Solu (Finland), SKIFF++ (NL/USA), and Frank Bretscnieder (DL). Chromatouch makes mashup visual performances from a pool of loops, both sonic and seen. Feeding various VJ and music softwares into one another as well as using spoken word and modified instruments, he creates challenging environments and fuses media into constant streams. Minuek visualises "the sound of Dying Machinery". Laternist uses open source software tools in the creation of works exploring relationships between sound, colour and shape. Hellocatfood explores the aesthetic qualities of errors and glitches that occur when using software.

Kid Friendly: Yes!Dog Friendly: NoNon-Smoking: Yes!Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

(via Freecode Hexagon)

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Birmingham Co-operative Film Society Presents: ‘Debtocracy’ A compelling film about Greek's financial crisis makes the case that the entire euro system was rotten from the start 74 min. Cert 15 7pm, Thursday 11th August (Doors open at 6.30pm) Midlands Co-operative Member Relations Centre Birmingham & Midlands Institute, Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS Tickets: £2.50 (members) / £4.50 (non-members) (Membership costs £10 a year for individuals - first film free) All Welcome!