Category Archives: Arts

Arts Faces

Face of Library of Birmingham, Carol Pemberton, interviewed by BBC UK black

December 6, 2012 – 12:42 pm
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Carol Pemberton, one of the Faces of the Library of Birmingham, is the founder of the UK’s leading female a capella quintet, Black Voices. This year, Black Voices celebrate their 25th anniversary, and Carol was interviewed by Karen Gabay from BBC Manchester’s The People on November 24. They discussed the success of the group, their read more »

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Arts Books and Reading

Birmingham Book Festival Talk – 9 October 2012

October 23, 2012 – 11:40 am

The Birmingham Book Festival is a Writing West Midlands project, which ran from 4 – 13 October. The aim of the Festival was to promote excellent writing, and events included conversations, book readings, book launches, performances, poetry slams, quizzes, writing workshops, reading days and much more. From 2013, the Birmingham Book Festival will partner with read more »

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Arts Collections

Birmingham Library’s photography collections

September 21, 2012 – 3:52 pm
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Birmingham Library is loaning two sets of important photographs from its nationally and internationally significant collections to a major exhibition in Birmingham’s Sister City of Guangzhou. The exhibition, The Unseen, to be shown at the Guangdong Museum of Art, forms part of the Guangzhou Triennial Festival. The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, one of the biggest art read more »

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Arts Books and Reading

The Library of Lost Books

July 25, 2012 – 5:16 pm
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If you love books and libraries and art (and we think you do!) you might be interested in a fascinating new project called The Library of Lost Books. The Library of Lost Books is a collection of old, discarded and damaged library books which we have rescued from certain death-by-pulping…because life is pretty hard for read more »

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Arts

Chasing an idea

May 5, 2012 – 10:27 am
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And so it began – that is as soon as I found out about the Birmingham Silent Movies Animation Competition, it began in earnest, the frenetic culling of a million ideas flying around in my head in order to fulfil the brief given.  To produce an animation using either the letters of the word, ‘Birmingham,’ read more »

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Arts Building Transition

Reference Works: a major photography commission

April 3, 2012 – 5:24 pm
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Today the Library of Birmingham will publicly launch Reference Works: a major photography commission in which four leading photographers will make visual responses to the current Central Library building and to the build, transition and relocation to the new Library of Birmingham. Established by Birmingham City Council to reflect and record this momentous event in read more »

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Arts Collections

Animators challenged to bring life back into Silent Movie music

March 14, 2012 – 10:31 am
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Animators everywhere are being challenged to bring to life a unique collection of silent movie scores that have been recorded by the City of Birmingham  Symphony Orchestra and form part of Birmingham’s world-class archive and special collections, which will be housed at the new Library of Birmingham (opening 2013). The Silent Movies Animation Challenge is read more »

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Arts Events

Send a postcard to the Library of Birmingham

January 11, 2012 – 9:26 am
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Birmingham City Council is asking the city’s residents to help shape the public art programme for the Library of Birmingham. All are encouraged to stop by to create a ‘Postcard to the Library of Birmingham’ with a short message and drawing to describe their journey to, and relationship with, the Library. A series of drop-in read more »

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