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30+ photos of Brummies gearing up for Birmingham Pride 2018
With Birmingham Pride taking place this Bank Holiday weekend, the city is well and truly stoked for planned fun and festivities; with the rainbow flag firmly in place across Brum ahead of the UK’s largest two-day LGBT+ celebration. Retailers, bars, community groups and leisure venues have adopted the iconic colour palette in anticipation of the queer culture…
60 photos of Brummies enjoying the sizzling April sunshine
Thursday has been the hottest April 21 in recent British history, with temperatures across Birmingham hitting an impressive 23°C; replacing the cold, rain and snow with an ‘Indian Summer’ glow. With warm weather set to continue throughout the week, here’s some photographs of Brummies enjoying the sunshine across the city:
12 photos of the ghost streets of 1960s Birmingham
In 1968, American photographers Janet Mendelsohn and Richard P. Rogers documented the suburbs of Birmingham, fraught with poverty and poor housing conditions. Their photographs are currently being exhibited as part of the Flatpack Film Festival.
5 things you need to know about Birmingham 2022 poet Amerah Saleh
Birmingham based spoken-word artist Amerah Saleh is one of five main city artists taking part in the official Birmingham 2022 handover ceremony on Sunday 15 April 2018, which will see young people and artists from the city perform as part of the Closing Ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. 25-year-old Amerah joins film maker Daniel Alexander, rapper Lady…
20 photos of Brummies standing against racism and hate as FLA descend on city
As a few thousand mostly white men who claim to be “the football family against extremism” descended on Birmingham over the weekend to demonstrate their anti-extremist credentials, merging with several other self-proclaimed “non-racist” groups, regular Brummies who also happen to be football fans (but not so much into racism) decided to stand together to remind everyone that…
20 stars attending this weekend’s Comic Con in Birmingham
Hot on the heels of news last month that Hollywood stars Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn – of Guardians of the Galaxy fame – are attending this year’s first Comic Con event in Birmingham, a whole host of special guests have seen been announced. MCM Comic Con, the UK’s largest organiser of pop culture events, is kicking off the…
15 photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Birmingham
Royal couple Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were in Birmingham on Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, visiting the Millennium Point in Eastside and community projects in Nechells. The engaged couple were at the venue to encourage female students to pursue careers in subjects like science and maths, and inspire young women pursuing STEM careers. During the…
6 female creatives from Birmingham on why Channel 4 would be good for the city
There’s been much talk of broadcast giant Channel 4 relocating to Birmingham from its current home in London, and much of it from the Brum’s creative community. With all the discourse about the media giant potentially moving to the Midlands city (who wouldn’t want to? We are lovely here!) and with it being International Women’s Month, we decided to…
8 inspiring reads from local female authors for International Women’s Day
It is currently International Women’s Month, with International Women’s Day (IWD) taking place on Thursday 8th March. Both annual events are celebrated to highlight the contributions of women in history and contemporary society.
20+ photos of Birmingham’s canals all frozen over!
As temperatures plunge across Birmingham, canals and lakes have frozen over! From the labyrinth of canals interchanging within Birmingham city centre to lakes and water features in parks across the city, temperatures well into minus degrees have created extremely ice cold environments for members of the public and local wildlife.