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Commonwealth Day celebrated at the Alexander Stadium as Birmingham 2022 countdown continues
To celebrate Commonwealth Day, former, current and future stars of athletics in Birmingham tried out the track at the newly transformed Alexander Stadium and they were joined in the impressive new facility by 72 school children from across Birmingham. Each pupil represented one of the nations and territories that will participate in the Birmingham 2022…
The Queen’s Baton Relay celebrates Commonwealth Day in New Zealand
The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay arrived in New Zealand on 12 March and spent four days travelling the nation, coinciding with Commonwealth Day today. This year, Commonwealth Day (14 March) was a celebration of “Delivering a Common Future” for all nations and territories in the Commonwealth by innovating, connecting, and transforming.
Birmingham 2022 Festival launches with a six-month celebration of creativity
The Birmingham 2022 Festival has announced its six-month long cultural programme taking place across Birmingham and the West Midlands. Organisers have revealed it will be the biggest celebration of creativity ever seen in the region and one of the largest ever cultural programmes to surround the Commonwealth Games.
Major new exhibition showcasing heritage photographs of commonwealth migrants launches in Birmingham
A major new photographic exhibition featuring thousands of images of Birmingham residents will open at the iconic Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square next month. ‘From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey,’ has been created from The Dyche Collection, one of the most important photographic collections within Birmingham Archives and acquired…
Birmingham only UK city selected to join global women’s campaign for gender equality
Birmingham is the only British city selected to join a global women’s campaign for the promotion of international gender equality. Chosen by the Carter Center as 1 of 12 international cities to participate in its Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, which aims to ensure women can access information.
Birmingham’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration to be held at Millennium Point
Birmingham’s annual civic commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day will this year be hosted at Millennium Point. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Cllr Muhammad Afzal, will lead the free public event on next week on Sunday 30 January, which has the theme of ‘One Day’ for 2022.
Hanukkah celebrations begins for city’s Jewish community
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah – also spelt ‘Chanukah’ – has begun for Judaism’s faithful followers across the world, and it’s no different in Birmingham and the West Midlands. The first such annual celebrations since the national lockdown restrictions were eased, the region’s Jewish community are able to mark the eight-day ‘Festival of Light’ making full use of synagogues once again this…
West Mids Mayor Andy Street to deliver green transport message to world leaders at COP26
The single biggest contribution elected mayors can make to cutting global emissions is to focus on transport. This will be the message Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, will deliver to leaders and fellow mayors from around the world at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow today (11 November).
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai gets married to Asser Malik in Birmingham ceremony
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has married her partner during an Islamic ‘nikah’ ceremony in Birmingham. Yousafzai, 24, ‘tied the knot’ with Asser Malik in a nikah ceremony, where the bride and groom formally agree to be married, with parents and family as witnesses.
Over 76,000 support cancer patient Lewin’s campaign to stay in the UK amid deportation threats
A petition campaigning against the deportation of an elderly cancer patient has received more than 76,000 signatures. Lewin Williams, 74, has lived in Birmingham for almost 20 years and has been receiving hospital treatment for myeloma, a type of blood cancer, twice a week.