The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
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.
The Tony award-winning Broadway musical The Color Purple arrives in Birmingham in an exciting new production. The highly anticipated show, based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is now playing at The Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 17 September.
A rally of around 500 women has taken place in Birmingham, campaigning in defence of abortion rights in Poland. The pro-choice protest was held in response to Poland’s constitutional tribunal declaring that abortions in instances where a foetus is diagnosed with a serious and irreversible birth defect were unconstitutional.
Digbeth became a Peaky Blinders capitol as a major festival took place across several streets and venues last weekend. The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival took over a number of buildings, units, warehouses, and compounds around the Custard Factory and turned the place into an immersive Peaky Blinders experience. This was the launch of the first-ever…
Timelapse footage has captured the moment a giant mosaic portrait of suffragette Hilda Burkitt was put together at Birmingham New Street station. Made up from more than 3,700 individual photos, the “Peoples Picture” featuring a #faceofsuffrage mosaic has been installed at New Street Station in Birmingham today.
Poet and activist Hussain Manawer has released the video for his recent work ‘Mamma’s Kitchen’, the third piece in his ‘Homemade’ poetry cycle. ‘Mamma’s Kitchen’ explores Hussain finding the everyday paraphernalia of his home and recalling memories of his mother, as he deals with the grief of her loss.
International Women’s Day is held on March 8 each year, a part of International Women’s Month which is observed in most countries around the world. Both annual events are celebrated to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society.
A day of workshops, entertainment, physical training, demonstrations, refreshment and conversations to empower women is set to take place this weekend as part of International Women’s Day related events. Described as “a small but mighty celebration of womxn and non binary people in Birmingham”, P.M.T – which stands for ‘Powering the Matriarchy Together’ – will…
Birmingham City University students have created a life-size paper tribute to Suffragette icons, celebrating 100 years of women’s right to vote. Trailblazing women who successfully fought for the right to vote have been honoured in a life-size paper tribute handcrafted to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage.