When: Today! Friday 17th May, from 17:00
Where: Various locations in Digbeth

Digbeth is home to a growing number of galleries, art projects, studio groups and artists, hosting a fantastic range of exhibitions, talks, workshops and events.

This evening, the spaces, organisations and groups based in our little part of the city will open their doors for the first Art After Hours event, following the fashion of Art After Dark events at major galleries around the world. Taking part are:

• Grand Union
• Eastside Projects
• The Lombard Method
• VIVID Projects
• Stryx
• Vinyl at Edible Eastside
• MSFAC at The Edge

The full programme of events is included below. Enjoy!

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When: 10th–14th October 2012
Where: Regent’s Park, London

Digbeth creatives will be invading London’s Frieze Art Fair this week, selling food from their stall in Yangjiang Group’s large scale ‘Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion’.

Eastside Projects is working with Loaf in Stirchley to create ‘artist’s bread’: artists have been invited to design stencilled texts and images, such as ‘Steal This’, which are then cooked onto sourdough loaves and sold at the gallery. For Frieze, a local London bakery will be taking over to provide fresh artist-stamped loaves for the stall.

A series of fortune cookies inspired by the Yangjiang Group’s calligraphy has also been created; useful words of wisdom (‘One Day In Mountain Is Worth One Thousand Years In The World’), directives, warnings and suggestions are contained within the sealed cookies, also available from the stall.

Digbeth-based The Lombard Method will be keeping Eastside Projects company on the stall, selling ‘Frieze Floss’, freshly made candy floss for the fair. Edible Eastside will also be present with their ‘Warwick Bar’ – a fudge bar named after the canal basin in Digbeth where they are based.

But that’s not all that’s happening at Eastside Projects this month; the full listings for events in Digbeth in October are given below.

Eastside Projects October Events 2012

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There is plenty to keep everyone entertained in Digbeth this weekend.

We’ve already informed our residents of lots of these goings-on, but here are some more to prove that there’s something for everyone happening in Digbeth!

Friday 28th September

It’s been roughly a month since the launch of Digbeth Dining Club, and from tomorrow, Friday night street food becomes a weekly extravaganza! Get down to Upper Trinity Street from 5pm tomorrow for street food from…

• The Hungry Toad – Serving Wraps, Burritos and more
• The Original Patty Men – Burger specialists
• Las Paelleras – Spanish Tapas

…and beats from the Jukes of Hazard, supplying a mixture of funk, soul and disco. Food stops at 10pm (unless it runs out first!), when the music is handed over to Grey Area, taking you into the small hours with a selection of fantastic DJs. Click here for more information on Facebook.

Other events:
Cupcake Cinema – Chocolat
Play Poland Film Festival

Saturday 29th September

Msfac Radical Arts invites you to the closing event of their residency/open space at Edible Eastside from 19:00 on Saturday. Join in to see the culmination of a month of site specific interventions, but also for scrumped cider, and dialogue and music from…

• Scrotum
• Birmingham International Transient Camp
• Rich McMahon

…more information on the Facebook event page.

Other events:
PROVIDE Grand Opening
Virtuous Vintage Fair
Get Super Self-Confident Fast!

Sunday 30th September

Head down to the Adam & Eve from 16:00 on Sunday for the latest installment of the Sunday Xpress Open Mic afternoon.

With a mix of spoken word (poets, storytellers, fiction and non-fiction writers are welcomed), drama, one-person-shows, stand up comedy, even people talking about their artwork and on some occasions – interpretive dance, you’re likely to be surpised and entertained in equal measure.

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When: Saturday, 8th September 2012
Where: Edible Eastside, 122 Fazeley Street, Digbeth (through the black wooden gate)

The Rootless Forest is a mini-forest made of real trees and soil planted on a boat that will travel at walking pace along Birmingham’s canal network. Conceived by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) fellow Beth Derbyshire, the boat will travel along Digbeth’s famous waterways and moor at Edible Eastside on Saturday 8th September.

To walk along with the forest on it’s journey to Digbeth, join the throngs at 16:30 at Curzon Street Canal (opposite Millennium Point – look for the big orange flags). The project will be launched with a party at 18:30 at Edible Eastside.

For more information, please visit the project’s website, by clicking the image below.

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Warwick Bar held their first Summer Fete last Saturday to celebrate their first birthday. Digbeth Residents Association were there, of course, along with tenants of Warwick Bar, including Edible Eastside, Ikon’s Slow Boat and Grand Union.

In an act of defiance against the current trend of wet weather, the sun shone all day long, and plenty of fun was had by all. Chair of DRA, Rosie Pocklington, had this to say:

“I spent a lovely afternoon at the Warwick Bar Fete. Food, art, music, friends and no rain.
Well done to Sue Ball for organising the event”

Indeed, well done to everyone who played a part in organising the event, and thank you to everyone who attended. There are plentry of photos from Summer Fete below; if you’d like to keep in touch with Warwick Bar, please visit the website or follow them on Twitter (hashtag #B5fete).

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