tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14638941308702707992024-02-20T08:41:10.089+00:00Hall Green Arts ForumAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211503373767902514noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-40816054318407662312015-02-01T10:20:00.000+00:002017-02-17T10:20:27.523+00:00THIS BLOG IS AN ARCHIVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-52265108761365751042015-01-13T22:05:00.000+00:002015-01-13T22:09:03.182+00:00Shadow Minister to Launch Equalities Films<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Steve McCabe MP</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, Shadow Minister for Children and Families will present the first screenings of two films championing equalities on Friday 16<sup>th</sup> January at the Midlands Art Centre in Cannon Hill Park Birmingham.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Birmingham based organisations Parks for Play and Dens of Equality, are co hosting this event. where the <b>‘<span style="color: #00b050;">Making the Case for Equal Access to Work’</span></b> and ‘<b><span style="color: #e36c0a;">Inclusive Play in Birmingham</span>’ </b>films will be shown. The occasion marks the launch of two campaigns; one to create equal access to employment across Europe and one to create equal access to play in England.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Parks for Play, a ten year old charity providing affordable, inclusive leisure, play and childcare services to local children in Hall Green is leading on the call for a Europe wide charter. This aims to stop families with disabled children being denied access to work because of a lack of childcare. Parks for Play caters for all children but gives local children with higher individual needs priority access to their services. The charity runs the first specialist afterschool childcare provision in England<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steve McCabe MP said<i> </i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The significant numbers of children with disabilities in Birmingham means that access to employment for parents with a disabled child is a real issue. This situation will only get worse unless we act now to improve provision for this group. The recent All Party Parliamentary Report from the Every Disabled Child Matters enquiry into childcare for disabled children highlighted the fact that 41% of families with a disabled child are unable to access the existing free 15 hours of provision for 3 and 4 year olds because of poor provision and 86% of parents were paying way above the average for child care because of their child’s condition.’<u></u><u></u></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Parks for Play chair, Amanda Bradley, working mother of three children , one of whom has Down’s Syndrome, humorously describes her boomerang journey to find funding for the charity’s specialist childcare service<i> ‘commissioning officers repeatedly pushed my requests back towards one depleted funding pot for disabled children. Our search for childcare is an employment issue being raised by families that are rejecting benefit dependency and requesting the right to contribute. I also want to protect play services that allow all my children to attend together and benefit equally from customized play provision that embraces diversity and stretches their experience’.<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In England play is not a statutory duty and funding for play services has been decimated across the country. In response, Dens of Equality is launching a campaign in recognition of the value of PLAY to produce a motion that will make play a charitable object to attract funding in its own right. The organization has supported twenty family-led groups to raise four million pounds to put disabled children and young people at the centre of new inclusive play and youth services. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steve McCabe MP has said<i> </i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We are all conscious of the loss of provision resulting from the austerity of the last five years. Play is important in building resilience in children and connecting communities.”<u></u><u></u></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="il">Laura</span> Watts of Dens of Equality believes that<i> ‘community play is the most valuable and cost effective resource we have available to grow resilient children, families and communities. If funding is forthcoming and fairly distributed so that play provision reaches out to get it right for those children most at risk of social exclusion, absolutely everyone will reap the benefits.’<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To book your space email <a href="mailto:info@parks4play.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@parks4play.org</a> or call <a href="tel:0121%20441%202207" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+441214412207">0121 441 2207</a></span></b></div>
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-29010183184645205862014-11-26T06:31:00.000+00:002014-11-26T06:31:03.481+00:00Song of Highbury light the parade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tiger Skins of Sunlight, a collection of movers, shakers and magic makers present 'The Song of The Woods'. With a community willow lantern parade and singing from Ark Tindal Primary Academy and King's Heath Primary school choir, we are holding a beautiful winter celebration in local parks Cannon Hill and Highbury, with a live open air film screening of a shadow puppet story featuring the song 'The Woods' by The Phlox of Pink.<br />
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Join us for the last performance Thursday 27th November at 6pm (prompt) -7pm in Highbury Park, King's Heath (meeting by the High Street entrance).<br />
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Our finale evening event will be held at The Old Printworks 06/12/14 with a final screening of our film and live performance by The Phlox of Pinkstarting at 9pm (18+ £3) A full moon, stunning celebration showcasing the work of the community and all of the artists involved!!!<br />
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-5098496714959065032014-10-29T13:27:00.000+00:002014-10-29T13:27:25.952+00:00Art works in unexpected places<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-67446494301119740162014-10-26T23:32:00.002+00:002014-10-26T23:33:24.268+00:00Commemorating World War 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Big Brum Theatre in Education are organising a special event on the evening of 11th November 2014, to mark the centenary of the First World War. The event takes place in the historic setting of Highbury Hall, Moseley, from 6.30 to 9.00 pm. Highbury Hall, historic home of the Chamberlain family,was established as a 140 bed temporary hospital by the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in 1915. <br />
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Big Brum will talk about their <a href="http://www.bigbrum.org.uk/Programmes/hffl.html" target="_blank">5 year World War One project</a> and there will be a performance of 'Home Front - Front Line', Big Brum's first WW1 play that follows a young man who leaves his home & family to serve in the trenches of the Western Front. This is the first in a series of commemorative plays about the First World War and its legacy. Big Brum will also demonstrate some of their workshop practice that is used to engage young people in deep questions about the conflict and its consequences.<br />
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There will also be a contribution from Nikki Thorpe, Education & Outreach Officer from Birmingham Archives & Heritage. We very much hope that you will be able to join us.<br />
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If you are interested in attending please contact Matt Hinks: <a href="mailto:TIE@bigbrum.plus.com">TIE@bigbrum.plus.com</a> or call <a href="tel:0121%20464%204604">0121 464 4604</a></div>
Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-91886168132922719412014-10-19T00:06:00.000+01:002014-10-19T00:35:52.085+01:00Autumn Play at Half term<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-6519350416916276912014-10-16T22:01:00.003+01:002014-10-16T22:05:07.908+01:00Song of the woods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This November and December, Balsall Heath, King’s Heath, Moseley, enchanting local green and woodland areas, come join us to sing The Song of The Woods; our celebration of nature, trees and the planet!<br />
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A collection of artists; film-makers, animators, musicians, technicians, engineers, willow weavers, foragers, fruit-pickers, concocters, hoopers, dancers, fire-starters, instigators, dreamers and believers come together with the local community to create 3 nights of beauty, magic, stories and song. <br />
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A great family activity and opportunity to get involved in The Song of The Woods project. Free Workshops Lantern Making in Kings Heath Library, Saturday 1st November 10-4pm<br />
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All of this will be followed by a stunning finale and live performance by The Phlox of Pink at The Old Printworks, Balsall Heath December 6th (18+)<br />
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-26796577562572385792014-09-23T08:32:00.001+01:002014-09-23T08:34:22.919+01:00Moseley Art School Consultation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-30302706342441696152014-09-21T09:14:00.002+01:002014-09-21T09:19:05.726+01:00Kings Heath brings generations together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
HGA were there for another great Kings Heath Residents Forum event <a href="http://birminghamlives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/generations-meet-in-kings-heath.html" target="_blank">bringing generations together</a>, followed by the last of Parks4Play's fantastic <a href="http://hallgreenarts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/kings-heath-carnival-of-play.html" target="_blank">Carnival of Play</a> at Kings Heath Park, which have been running all summer across Kings Heath, including <a href="http://birminghamlives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/looking-after-your-own.html" target="_blank">playing out on National Playday</a><br />
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For more news and views from Kings Heath, take five minutes to <a href="https://audioboo.fm/boos/2497898-kings-heath-residents-forum-agm-2014" target="_blank">listen to what residents think the most important thing we can do to make things better (audioboo below</a>). Also visit <a href="http://www.kingsheathforum.net/" target="_blank">Kings Heath Residents Forum</a> to keep a closer eye and what they're up to.<br />
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-39150654181971617742014-09-03T09:00:00.000+01:002014-09-21T09:29:42.887+01:00A BIT BIZARRE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You are invited to come along to a new community sale in the garden of 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, on the corner of Woodfield Road. There will be a range of stalls with second hand stuff, arts and crafts, produce etc. There will be some live music and free stuff from people who don't want a stall.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will be very welcome to come along, we hope that it will be successful enough for us to want to repeat it occasionally. We have a lot of cover in case the weather is not that great but the garden is plenty big enough with easy access from Woodfield Road.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We still have space for more stalls so if you have artwork, crafts, junk or garden produce to sell please get in touch by contacting Graham or Pam on 247 7607 or email </span><a href="mailto:graham@storytelling.uk.net" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">graham@storytelling.uk.net</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. If you want other information, just get in touch.</span></div>
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-90013145171653519452014-05-24T17:35:00.000+01:002014-05-24T17:35:04.662+01:00Labyrinth discovery day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-53707065449440813022014-05-13T21:40:00.001+01:002014-05-13T21:40:23.155+01:00Memory Lane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0Birmingham, West Midlands, UK52.434560072650569 -1.856088638305664152.429719572650569 -1.866173638305664 52.43940057265057 -1.8460036383056642tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-74279344866491134912014-05-07T23:08:00.000+01:002014-05-07T23:12:08.933+01:00Archiving the Arts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As part of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGAAIMdEbAGzAUJK49oK3x3oHlWqdo6lgJLCRvr8ovY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Archiving the Arts networking afternoon</a> today at Library of Birmingham I presented on 'Digital Archives: The Hall Green Arts Story'<br />
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Great to be asked to present on digital archives, to see the other great presentations, and to meet so many archiving arts types, from London and the West Midlands.<br />
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-21606489228244272342014-04-25T16:58:00.000+01:002014-04-25T16:58:26.777+01:00Juneau Projects – I Am The Warrior<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-90252351993186449152014-04-10T12:43:00.000+01:002014-04-10T12:43:07.764+01:00DIY Streets Easter Events<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-83784064491649890002014-03-22T19:05:00.001+00:002014-03-22T19:05:45.556+00:00#Artworks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-3767451902107872852014-03-13T19:52:00.001+00:002014-03-13T19:54:12.122+00:00Swan Corner Workshops begin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday (11th March) we began workshops at Swanshurst School with 30 young volunteers eager to improve our environment - making it safer and bringing people together to discuss parking, traffic and other issues, thanks to funding from <a href="http://www.cuf.org.uk/near-neighbours/about" target="_blank">Near Neighbours</a>, as part of Hall Green Arts & <a href="http://khcse.org/" target="_blank">Kings Heath Centre for Space Exploration</a> project.<br />
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Not too surprisingly, young people raised similar concerns to other local residents about what the problems are - here's a summary of the problems they identified:<br />
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The group also had a good grasp of some of the problems local residents have already identified. Here is a summary of what they thought problems residents would have:<br />
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Given the problems have been around for a long time what difference can we make? Well, I suppose that's where a group like Swan Corner Community Group, newly started, could be influential in bringing about the conversations, raising issues with appropriate bodies, and getting out and doing things.<br />
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The Swanshurst Group will be making a big impact straight away in bringing about may of the Community Group objectives over the coming months by:<br />
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There's a lot of other parts to what Swan Corner Community Group will be doing to make a safer, nicer Swan corner for everyone who uses it - our next meeting on 25th March will include Councillors, representatives from the Police and Sustrans, as well as local people and Swanshurst school to discuss parking, traffic and road improvements.</div>
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-14300610147346176952014-02-27T15:52:00.000+00:002014-02-27T15:52:24.672+00:00Cancelled! - Art Works Conference Sat 1st March @ Balsall Heath Church Centre, Edward Road<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Colleagues, due to unforeseen circumstanced the proposed Art Works Conference scheduled for 1st March 2014 has been postponed until the end of March 2014.We will be posting further information shortly about the rescheduled event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime can I draw your attention to the forthcoming Birmingham City Council event:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #932017; font-family: Tahoma, arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">The Cultivating Culture Symposium - Library of Birmingham, March 18th from 12pm – 7pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Symposium will be an opportunity for local arts organisations, and all those involved, to meet and share case studies and discuss issues and challenges that have emerged over the past 3 years. It will also be an opportunity for Local Arts Fora & Arts Champions to reflect on how arts development can overcome barriers to participation and engagement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cultivating Culture Symposium is an afternoon of debates and discussions for local people, arts organisations, policy makers and anyone who is interested in developing amazing arts activities at a grass roots level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The days starts at 12noon with a networking lunch and is kicked off with a Keynote Speech from the Cultural Programmer for Derry Londonderry 2013. There will also be small group discussions and the chance to see performances and presentations of the work done by Birmingham's local Arts Fora and Arts Champions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Culture on Your Doorstep is a key pillar of the City’s Cultural Strategy and has focused particularly on adult engagement (19+); creation of new work presented to the public; promotion and presentation of arts activities to the public and projects which develop adults as creators, participants, audiences and leaders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Arts Champions Scheme has been very successful in fulfilling this area of strategy and case studies from the Scheme will reveal data, models of good practice and clear examples of activities which have been built up over 3 years to leave a legacy with residents in each District – some of whom will be present on the day to present examples of this activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets are free but places are limited. Tickets can be booked at<a href="https://cultivatingcultures.eventbrite.co.uk/" style="color: #882b1f;" target="_blank">https://cultivatingcultures.eventbrite.co.uk</a></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-31713535829653626112013-12-05T12:22:00.001+00:002013-12-05T12:22:53.176+00:00Art Works EventsDear Colleagues, I am writing to invite you all to provide information about any forthcoming arts/community events you are planning to host between Feb 15 & Mar 16, 2014. Birmingham City Council are hosting an end of programme symposium on Tues 19 March to celebrate the Arts Champion and Local Arts Forum schemes.<br /><br />The Drum Arts Centre, as Arts Champion for the Hall Green District in partnership with the Arts Forum Lead, St Paul's Development Trust, we would like to celebrate arts activities delivered across the district.<br /><br />We aim to include all activities under the banner of "Art Works", which we encourage all participating organisations to use as a #Artworks (tag) on twitter etc. promoting the events across the district. There is likely to be additional publicity (brochure/flyers) linking these activities.<br /><br />We are also planning to host an Art Works conference including discussion and performances profiling local arts across the district, on Saturday 1st March at Balsall Heath Church Centre from 10am to 3pm.<br /><br />In the meantime if you could provide me with details of your events, including copy, images, venue, logos and admission fee (free or otherwise), we can put together copy for a brochure.<br /><br />Copy Deadline is Monday 16 December 2013 in order to complete publicity/print and distribute during mid-January 2014.<br /><br />Please send your details or for information contact:<br />Email: <a href="mailto:i.sergeant@the-drum.org.uk">i.sergeant@the-drum.org.uk</a><br />
Tel: 0121 333 2418<br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-65294992743311264472013-12-05T11:43:00.000+00:002013-12-05T11:43:07.154+00:00Art WorksDear Colleagues as part of Hall Green District’s contribution to the city-wide showcase of Arts between February 15th & March 16 2014, we are holding a conference called Art Works on Saturday 1st March, 10am-3pm at the Balsall Heath Church Centre. <br />
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It will be a practical day aimed at giving participants the chance to learn from each other’s endeavours – What has worked? What hasn’t? What would your advice be to someone doing something similar for the first time?<br /><br />If you would like to join the planning group to help shape the day, share ideas and make it a really worthwhile occasion, please do come join us! The first planning meeting will be at St. Paul’s Trust, Balsall Heath Initiative Centre, Balsall Heath, B12 8NJ at 11am on 18th December.<br /><br />RSVP to Ian Edwards (so we know how much cake to provide…)<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:ian.edwards@stpaulstrust.org.uk">ian.edwards@stpaulstrust.org.uk</a><br />
Tel: 0121 464 4376.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-44529613069448168462013-11-14T22:36:00.000+00:002013-11-14T22:36:19.250+00:00Planting trees near Sarehole Mill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marcus Belbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322412333421035936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463894130870270799.post-63688324583439065682013-11-02T10:42:00.000+00:002013-11-02T10:42:22.665+00:00Cleanascene at Ort<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I popped in to see <a href="http://ortgallery.co.uk/?p=988" target="_blank">cleanascene exhibition at Ort Gallery</a> last week, and had a chat with our very own HGA Ian Edwards, also a photographer, and part of the team of people who helped coordinate the event with <a href="http://www.cleanascene.com/" target="_blank">cleanascene</a>.
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