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Battle of the Bands
23 March 2007Organisers believe that GBOB will supersede the Eurovision Song Contest for excitement and originality by focusing on artistes playing real music and performing original material – and could...... Continue reading
Kids Eat Free This Easter At Bank!
23 March 2007An eggs-tra delicious Easter Sunday is on the menu for both parents and their children at Bank in Brindleyplace this Bank Holiday. On Sunday 8th April adults can choose from an especially created...... Continue reading
Robert Groves First Light
23 March 2007Until 13th May 2007 Ikon Gallery presents First Light, an exhibition of new work by Robert Groves, one of its founders. Taking place at the National Trust’s Packwood House, it consists of a...... Continue reading
Marie Lorenz - Icknield Port Loop
23 March 2007Ikon is preparing its first Offsite project for 2007, with American artist Marie Lorenz, from 1st April – 31st May. The artist, whose practice encompasses elements of engineering, social...... Continue reading
Beware Those Ruthless Romans And Awful Egyptians
23 March 2007Following their huge success with Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians last year Birmingham Stage Company have now adapted two more of Scholastic’s best selling Horrible Histories books for the...... Continue reading
Beat The Boredom At Thinktank
23 March 2007This Easter holiday, families are invited to come and find out what’s happening at Thinktank, Birmingham science museum, and see some extraordinary goings-on at another museum over at the IMAX...... Continue reading
Grow, Innovate, Taste & Excel at Region’s Biggest Food Trade Event
22 March 2007The most anticipated food and drink industry event in the West Midlands will be taking place at The Renewal Conference Centre, Solihull on Thursday 17th May 2007. Food, Information, Networking, Drink...... Continue reading
Gardeners' Question Time Visits Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
20 March 2007On Monday 4 June 2007 the Birmingham Botanical Gardens will be hosting BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time here in Westbourne Road, Edgbaston at 6.30pm. Gardeners' Question Time is celebrating 60...... Continue reading
High Days and Holidays
20 March 2007Coventry Transport Museum has pleasure in introducing an innovative touring exhibition from the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu - High Days and Holidays. Supported by the Museums, Libraries and...... Continue reading
India Dance Wales: Natya Kala - The Art of Dance
20 March 2007As part of sampad's dance rich spring season we present India Dance Wales with their new production Natya Kala - The Art of Dance, choreographed by Kiran Ratna. The performance, which has been...... Continue reading
Comic Relief BBC Midlands Team Breaks World Record
20 March 2007Over 500 budding dancers strutted their stuff in Birmingham on Friday 16th March to break the record for the world’s largest dance class.The record for the world's largest dance class previously...... Continue reading
Monster Week At Thinktank
20 March 2007Last week 11,000 people visited Thinktank to see the 200+ exhibits, and help complete a monster world record! With thousands of bags bought in by museum visitors and school groups, Thinktank attempted...... Continue reading
Birmingham Music Hub Set To Thrive With £750,000 Award From Arts Council England
20 March 2007Birmingham’s leading music organisations have united to begin a two-year programme of work to develop the delivery of music in the city, thanks to a major funding award from Arts Council...... Continue reading
New Generation Arts Festival 2007 Puts Regional Arts On The National Map
20 March 2007Following the successful launch of the inaugural New Generation Arts festival last year, the 2007 festival returns with an ambitious and diverse line up. Providing the stars of tomorrow with a voice...... Continue reading
Birmingham City Council’s Urban Fusion Programme
20 March 2007Birmingham City Council has announced the ten outstanding and thought provoking arts projects that have been commissioned to provide a programme of must see events and inspirational entertainment...... Continue reading
Biffy Clyro at Warwick University
19 March 2007Biffy Clyro are one of the UK's most respected rock bands. Since their debut album Blackened Sky emerged in 2002 they have doggedly pursued one aim with ruthless persistence: to become their own...... Continue reading
City Businesses Gather to Support Ethnic Mentoring Scheme
19 March 2007Representatives from food and drink businesses across the West Midlands lent their support to a new mentoring scheme launched by HEART of ENGLAND fine foods (HEFF) on Wednesday 14th April at Lasans...... Continue reading
Channel 4 Inspiration Sessions
16 March 20074Talent are offering you the chance to work with your creative heroes, with six full-day events exploring key creative industries. They're called Inspiration Sessions for a reason. Each event will...... Continue reading
Spring Exhibitions At Mac
16 March 2007There are four intriguing exhibitions taking place at mac this spring, each giving its own interpretation of notions of space and time: - Vacant Space by Janek Schaefer- Silent Monuments by Maggy...... Continue reading
What’s on at Thinktank and IMAX Cinema Easter 2007
14 March 2007Where can you explore deepest space, find out how doctors perform life-saving surgery and travel back in time to Birmingham’s amazing industrial past, all under one roof? Thinktank,...... Continue reading
City Cleans Up In Tidiness Award
13 March 2007Birmingham has been named the cleanest place in the country.The city took the crown from last year's winner, the City of London, at the Clean Britain Awards organised by the British Cleaning Council...... Continue reading
Isabel Estate Wine Dinner - Wednesday, May 23rd, 7.00pm
13 March 2007Opus is delighted that Mike Tiller, of Isabel Estate in New Zealand, is conducting a tasting of his wines in the Opus private room over a four course dinner, as part of the ‘Opus Dinner...... Continue reading
BIA Is Gateway For Regional Investment
13 March 2007This year, Birmingham International Airport is delighted to support Birmingham and the region as it’s public and private sector ‘big guns’ look to sell the benefits of doing business...... Continue reading
BIA Embarks on a Treemendous New Initiative
12 March 2007Birmingham International Airport has embarked on a new tree-planting initiative to help mitigate its environmental impact on its surroundings. In support of the ‘Birmingham Trees for Life’...... Continue reading
40% Reduction In Broad Street Crime Is Recognised By Prestigious Award
12 March 2007A partnership, which has seen a reduction of 40% in overall crime on Broad Street since its formation, has won a prestigious national award.The City Centre Partnership and Retail Crime Operation...... Continue reading
What A Year For NEC Group Arenas!
12 March 2007The NEC Group arenas team are celebrating the best year of business for live entertainment events on record. The arenas resounding success has resulted in The NIA being nominated for the best venue...... Continue reading
UKTV Food The People’s Cookbook
09 March 2007UKTV Food has launched a campaign and TV series to celebrate the diversity of contemporary British cooking through the food we love to cook. From home cooks to catering students, restaurant chefs to...... Continue reading
FIERCE! 10 Lights Up The Sky
09 March 2007The 2007 Fierce! International Festival of Live Art Presents Controversial Performance, Thought Provoking Installations & Newly Commissioned Works from Major UK and International Arts...... Continue reading
CBYV Perform For The Queen
08 March 2007The City of Birmingham Young Voices (CBYV) hits the road on Monday 12 March when they perform at Westminster Abbey for Her Majesty The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and an audience of over 2000 guests....... Continue reading
Birmingham International Airport February Passenger Figures
08 March 2007Birmingham International Airport (BIA) handled 581,248 passengers during February, including 472,875 scheduled passengers and 108,373 charter passengers spread across the two passenger terminals; a...... Continue reading
Norwegian Announces New Route from Poland to Birmingham International Airport
08 March 2007Norwegian, Scandinavia’s largest low cost carrier, has announced a new route from Warsaw, Poland, to Birmingham International Airport. The new route commences on Tuesday 17 April and will be...... Continue reading
Rhubarb Farm ‘For Sale’
07 March 2007Fine art photographers go out onto the streets for a month in Birmingham, from 14 March, in a unique exhibition which is made in the form of ‘For Sale’ boards. Up to 16 boards will be...... Continue reading
Uncle Vanya By Anton Chekhov at Birmingham Rep
06 March 2007Rachel Kavanaugh directs a brand new adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya starring Jill Halfpenny, as part of her first season as Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Friday 23 March to...... Continue reading
£7m World-Class Sporting Facility To Be Built In Perry Barr
06 March 2007A £7m Olympic specification training facility for gymnastics and martial arts will be built in Birmingham by summer 2008 following Cabinet approval last week.The new facility, which will be...... Continue reading
Ludovic Morlot To Make His UK Debut
06 March 2007Talented French Conductor Ludovic Morlot will be making his UK debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday 15 May, 7.30 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in what promises to be a truly...... Continue reading
Bull's Eye View
06 March 2007Birmingham’s iconic Bull sculpture has inspired a new opera song cycle, written by young people living in the city with support from Welsh National Opera.What connections do young people make...... Continue reading
Gala Homecoming for ‘Long Lost’ Severn Valley Engine
05 March 2007IN THE early days of the Severn Valley Railway, ‘preservation’ was characterised by small groups of steam enthusiasts working quietly and diligently over many years, to restore rescued...... Continue reading
Raymond Blanc Back At The Helm
05 March 2007Brasserie Blanc (9, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS) is a French Brasserie located in Brindleyplace just a stone's throw away from the bustling city centre. The Brasserie has recently undergone a...... Continue reading
The Wedding Show, Sunday 15th April at the Living Room
05 March 2007Start Your Married Life At Home! The Living Room Birmingham, in association with Everything Organised, is proud to present a wedding show for the discerning bride to be. An exclusive collection of...... Continue reading
Would You Like To See Your ‘NAME IN LIGHTS’?
05 March 2007Conceptual Artist Joshua Sofaer has continued to provoke thought among his peers and public with the unveiling of his latest project, Name in Lights. Sofaer, most recently noted for his 2005 Tate...... Continue reading
Get On Your Bike, Get Fit and Do Your Bit For The Planet!!
05 March 2007For the first time ever The National Bike Show will be taking place at the prestigious NEC & NEC Arena in Birmingham over the weekend of the 28th -29th of April 2007. The National Bike Show...... Continue reading
The Wedding Dance - Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 13 - 17 March
05 March 2007West Side Story meets Dangerous Liaisons with a dash of Tarrantino in The Wedding Dance at Birmingham Repertory Theatre this March. A passionate new love story of aspiration and betrayal driven by the...... Continue reading
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