Lovely job… Coventry University wants a Senior Lecturer in Games Art, at up to £52k full-time. Ref: REQ005098.
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1000 volunteer mentors needed
The new elected Mayor of the inner West Midlands is seeking 1000 volunteer mentors to help guide unemployed young people into the world of work. Sounds good. Though so far as I can tell it only covers the inner ‘Greater Birmingham’ bit of the West Midlands, not the real West Midlands.
Comics at Leeds
Not local, but an excellent opportunity: currently wanted is a Course Leader for B.A. (Hons.) Comic and Concept Art at Leeds College of Art.
Museum of Science Fiction
03 Dec 2016 at 23:27
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Entertainment
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There’s a Museum of Science Fiction, near Worcester (UK).
Dull Brum
24 Nov 2016 at 08:09
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Creative industries, Stoke-on-Trent
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A stunning level of boring uniformity and dullness was on show to the press yesterday, as Birmingham’s bosses officially backed the Coventry bid for City of Culture. Expect better odds on the gritty bid from Stoke-on-Trent as the winner of City of Culture, from today.
A Midlands Engine mis-fire
18 Nov 2016 at 06:28
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Stoke-on-Trent
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Midlands Engine chairman Sir John Peace appears to favour Coventry for City of Culture, while forgetting about the equally major bid by the West Midlands city of Stoke-on-Trent… “Sir John said the Midlands is readying itself for a “golden decade” which will include the arrival of HS2 in 2026. Birmingham has also put its name […]
Postgrad student loans
24 Jul 2016 at 21:38
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Teaching
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The government’s new postgrad student loans are here. If you plan to take a Masters course from 1st August 2016, you can apply for a loan of up to £10,000 to help with course fees and living costs. All types of courses are eligible, including media and the arts. Payback only starts when you start […]
Shock news: suggestion algorithms still crap
24 Jul 2016 at 17:07
David Haden
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The Silly Season is here. So here’s an amusing 20 minute pinpointing of just how rubbish Facebook’s “Discover Groups” function is. Facebook’s suggestions for me are:— Friends: “Momentum North Staffordshire” (extreme-left Labour Party members) and similar. Er, no, definitely not. Location: “Shell Island, North Wales”. Probably lovely, but never heard of it and can’t afford […]
Glass making lives on in South Staffordshire – new £5.5m glass museum, studios, maker network website
20 Jul 2016 at 21:00
David Haden
Arts cuts, Birmingham, Creative industries, Regeneration
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I’m pleased to see there’s a new £5.5m glass museum in South Staffordshire (*) which is having open days and which is only a few months away from fully opening in 2017. To be more precise the new museum is in Wordsley, which is my ancestral village and also where my ancestors engraved glass in […]
Karen Bradley, new Culture Secretary
14 Jul 2016 at 19:29
David Haden
Artist(s), Creative industries, Stoke-on-Trent
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Very good news that a local West Midlands MP, Karen Bradley MP (Staffordshire Moorlands), has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. She’s based in the north of the West Midlands, just north-east of Stoke-on-Trent. Here’s my quick 60-minute ‘instant analysis’, for what it’s worth… Bradley grew up seeing […]
Community Media Conference 2016
03 Jun 2016 at 14:34
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries
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10th September 2016.The Community Media Conference 2016, Birmingham city centre.
SkilledAfricans
15 Apr 2016 at 07:55
David Haden
Birmingham, Cool sites, Creative industries, Techie, Zeitgeist
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A Coventry man has started a very promising service for remote recruitment and networking of bona fide African talent… “SkilledAfricans, a pan-continental social network that boasts 750,000 members, aims to […] “increase knowledge, and prove knowledge,” says CEO and co-founder Dr. Nicolas Bussard. The website and app — which launches this week — are designed […]
Arts funding and local government – new report
13 Apr 2016 at 11:49
David Haden
Arts cuts, Birmingham, Creative industries, Regeneration
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Just released, a new PDF report from the Arts Council and the New Local Government Network. It covers topics such as: the dip in funding that comes via local councils (a 19% cut in the West Midlands, since 2010); the ongoing pressure on small museums; the move toward trusts, home-brewed fundraising and commercial ventures; and […]
Gi’ It Some ‘Ommer
The new academic book Regional Aesthetics: Mapping UK Media Cultures has a chapter on ITV’s screen representations of some aspects of Black Country traditions and ways-of-life. ITV’s regional programming in the early 1970s reflected that particular moment in our history when there was an emerging awareness of the enormity of what was being lost in […]
The new White Paper on Culture
23 Mar 2016 at 17:32
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Creative industries, Stoke-on-Trent
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The government’s new Culture White Paper has just been published. Here’s my quick summary of points which seem relevant to the West Midlands, and which were not raised in the recent budget speech… * “A new cultural citizens programme [to] be led by Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund [which] will reach across […]
Budget round-up for creatives
16 Mar 2016 at 18:37
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Stoke-on-Trent
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A round-up some of the key points from today’s Budget speech in Parliament, likely to be of interest to creatives and small businesses… * There will be tax-breaks for museums and galleries which devise and tour major new touring exhibitions. No details, but presumably it will work in the same way as existing help for […]
BBC iPlayer and the TV licence fee
09 Mar 2016 at 22:00
David Haden
Creative industries, Entertainment
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A forthcoming new law will mean that “Those who watch catch-up BBC iPlayer on tablets will be forced to pay [the TV] licence fee”… “One option being considered is to make users sign in with a password linked in with a television licence before they can watch live or catch-up programmes.” Well, that’s up to […]
State magazine
05 Mar 2016 at 18:34
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Reading
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State magazine, a new Birmingham magazine for… “insight into the lives of creative individuals within the music industry”
Social Media in an English Village
03 Mar 2016 at 12:10
David Haden
Creative industries, Mapping, Regeneration
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A new open ebook, based on detailed grassroots research, “Social Media in an English Village”… “Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village [less than one hour from Central London by train, so perhaps not that typical…], tracking their use of the different social media platforms. […] […]
Society of Indexers comes to Birmingham
21 Feb 2016 at 13:09
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Reading, Teaching
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The Society of Indexers has chosen Birmingham for their 2016 national one-day conference. The venue will be The Studio, on the edge of Birmingham city centre, on Tuesday 13th September 2016.