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Birmingham’s Aston Hall is preparing to host art and dance events, including a panel discussion, to mark South Asian Heritage Month. The special Mughal Miniatures cultural sessions, which includes a panel discussion about Mughal art with experts, will require booking and due to take place on Saturday 29th July at Aston Hall.
A landmark city centre pub, where pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath performed their first ever gig, has received a £300,000 grant to transform it into a music venue. The Crown pub, which is situated at the junction of Station Street and Hill Street, is in need of repairs after being left shuttered and derelict for…
The Midlands region is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush into Tilbury Docks with a series of events spread across the summer. The events to mark the milestone include dance and music workshops, history talks, art exhibitions, storytelling sessions and performances at various venues.
Respected Birmingham photographer Vanley Burke is due to give a talk this week as part of events to mark Windrush 75. The free ‘in conversation’ session will take place at The Black Country Living Museum on Thursday 22 June at 2pm to celebrate the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush arriving in Britain in June 1948.
Birmingham’s first and only sculpture celebrating Black history and heritage has been defaced with racist graffiti, in an incident described by a city MP as “sickening vandalism”. Earlier today, local residents in Winson Green were shocked to discover the ‘Black British History is British History’ artwork – launched less than two weeks ago – had been…
Titanic the Musical sails into Birmingham in a spectacular and epic production featuring a colossal cast. The lavishly detailed musical set on an ocean liner is currently playing at The Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 22 April.
A special cultural event, which is part of the annual Vaisakhi celebrations in the Black Country, will be held in Walsall which also explores Sikh history. The free community event will be hosted at The New Art Gallery Walsall on Saturday 15 April at 12pm-4pm.
Network Rail has been swamped with thousands of eager applications from people hoping for one of 60 free tickets to tour the Birmingham New Street signal box, which closed down last year. The ballot for the rare tickets has attracted around 7,500 people by the time the ballot closed on Friday (17 March).
Lucky ticket holders will get a rare chance to tour the landmark Birmingham New Street signal box which was decommissioned last Christmas. A ticket ballot has now opened for people to enter their names and see if they can win one of the 60 rare tour tickets.
Betty Boothroyd, who made political history in 1993 when she became the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons, has died aged 93. Boothroyd, a working-class northerner from Yorkshire, had a remarkable and varied career as a Tiller Girls dancer, an MP for West Bromwich and serving as a baroness in the House of…