The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A popular Birmingham street culture and art festival is taking place this month to showcase arts and dance performances, including workshops, with some of the best street food in the Midlands on offer throughout the day. The High-Vis Festival is coming to Digbeth for its fifth year (on Saturday 24th September) with a major spotlight…
Perry the Brummie mascot has been having a brilliant time at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, reaching a milestone of 100 appearances across the Games already. You may have spotted him cheering on athletes, meeting fans, ‘high fiving’ volunteers and dancing at official festival sites.
International singer-songwriter Raye and British singer Becky Hill will both perform at the Birmingham 2022 Beach Volleyball this week. Ray will be performing at the Smithfield site on Thursday 4 August with a live set which will be available exclusively to Beach Volleyball ticket holders.
The historic Gala Pool inside Birmingham’s iconic Moseley Road Baths is hosting a special audio spatial journey called BOSA which throws a spotlight on the journey of a migrant woman. The story concentrates on a woman’s journey from the Balkans to Birmingham in search of a new home.
A photography project is calling on Brummies to send in family pictures, or to be photographed, to celebrate the diversity of Midlands individuals and families. Organisers of the project are inviting everyone from across the region to share stories of their family and histories through their own family photographs, and also inviting families from different generations to be…
With preparations well underway to welcome the Commonwealth Games to the city this summer (in just over 110 days), Selfridges is inviting Brummies to hand-make gifts for the 4600 athletes competing in the Birmingham 2022 games. Together with the charity Craftspace, the department store is this weekend hosting special workshops where visitors can turn a simple blank gift template into…
Centenary Square was transformed into a grand stage for Wondrous Stories, a spectacular open-air show to kick-off the Birmingham 2022 Festival this evening. The one-hour live experience had everything from stunning visual displays, groups of dancers from across the region representing the very best of Birmingham’s diversity, a huge neon-lit globe rising from the ground with acrobats…
Over 100 community groups across Birmingham are to stage their own festival events and projects as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival, thanks to funding from Birmingham City Council. The Creative City programme will see 107 community groups and artists get creative over the six months of the Birmingham 2022 Festival which accompanies the Birmingham…
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.