Category Archives: Faces

Arts Faces

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

December 6, 2012 – 12:42 pm
Carol Pemberton

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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Faces take tour of construction site

August 9, 2012 – 9:15 am
gursh

Yesterday the Faces of the Library of Birmingham met with deputy leader of Birmingham City Council Ian Ward and were given an exclusive tour of the inside of the building site by contractor Carillion. The Faces saw for themselves how work has been progressing on some of the Library’s most striking  features, including the impressive read more »

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Birmingham and the Olympics

July 18, 2012 – 9:49 am
Matt olympics

The final countdown has begun! The Games of the XXX Olympiad will begin in London next week and although the bulk of the Olympic events will take place down south, Birmingham and the Midlands will still play a large part in their success.  This also includes a staff member from Library of Birmingham!  Paramjit Hans,  read more »

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New Faces of the Library of Birmingham visit the site

January 25, 2012 – 9:35 am
CITIZENSHIP

The ‘Faces’ of the Library of Birmingham were today given a tour of the site of the new Library, and met the Leader of Birmingham City Council, Councillor Mike Whitby. The ‘Faces’ were able to see how work on the £188.8 million site is progressing, and met other ‘Faces’ and Councillor Whitby, for the first read more »

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New faces of the Library of Birmingham announced!

December 28, 2011 – 2:27 pm
Steven and Trevor

The Leader of Birmingham City Council, Mike Whitby, has announced the names of the six new Faces of the Library of Birmingham. They include a salsa-dancing linguist, a new media entrepreneur and a veteran of community work, and will join 11 previously announced Faces as honorary representatives of the Library of Birmingham. Councillor Mike Whitby, read more »

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Library of Birmingham – Meet The Faces (Frank Sidney Smith)

November 29, 2011 – 3:11 pm
frank1

We are in the process of selecting 26 Faces for the Library of Birmingham, who are being selected from the many applicants that applied when the Rewriting the Book campaign was launched in May 2010. These 26 inspirational people and their stories reflect the diverse ways in which libraries can change lives. Over the coming read more »

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Library of Birmingham – Meet The Faces (Jayn Winslade)

November 28, 2011 – 2:29 pm
Satellitejayn

We are in the process of selecting 26 Faces for the Library of Birmingham, who are being selected from the many applicants that applied when the Rewriting the Book campaign was launched in May 2010. These 26 inspirational people and their stories reflect the diverse ways in which libraries can change lives. Over the coming read more »

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Library of Birmingham – Meet The Faces (Andrew Keen)

October 31, 2011 – 12:47 pm
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We are in the process of selecting 26 Faces for the Library of Birmingham, who are being selected from the many applicants that applied when the Rewriting the Book campaign was launched in May 2010. These 26 inspirational people and their stories reflect the diverse ways in which libraries can change lives. Over the coming read more »

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Meet our ‘Faces’ – from cakes to boxing and poetry!

January 13, 2011 – 10:16 pm
Iain McColl

From six-year-old Samuel to 82-year-old Frank, our soon-to-be-famous faces are passionate about their libraries and their own personal areas of interest.  They’ve been selected from dozens of applicants who applied when the ‘Rewriting the Book’ campaign was launched in May 2010 with the aim of finding 26 people over the next three years whose inspirational read more »

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Become a face of the Library of Birmingham

May 13, 2010 – 10:11 pm
Faces

Our ‘Rewriting the Book’ campaign was launched in May 2010 with the aim of finding 26 people over the next three years whose inspirational stories reflect the diverse ways in which libraries can change lives. We’ve had dozens of applications and so far chosen 11 ‘Faces’ of the Library of Birmingham. Our ‘Faces’ feature in read more »

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