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.
Archive for February, 2016
Society of Indexers comes to Birmingham
21 Feb 2016 at 13:09
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Reading, Teaching
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23rd June: better off out
20 Feb 2016 at 14:32
David Haden
Birmingham, Regeneration, Zeitgeist
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So the EU Referendum date has been set, Thursday 23rd June, and the race is on. June is still a long way away, and I might change my mind by then. But, based on all that I’ve read so far, I think we’d be better off out of the EU. And that’s especially true for […]
West Mids events listing 2016
12 Feb 2016 at 14:28
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Creative industries
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Slightly later than usual, this year, the D’log West Mids events 2016 forward events listing. Just the fab stuff, as usual, mostly Birmingham. Highlights include: Music Interaction Design (MiXD) 2016. Develop3D live. Rhythm Changes (conference on jazz music). Comics Uncovered.
Future Shock!: The Story Of 2000 A.D.
07 Feb 2016 at 22:59
David Haden
Comic art, Creative industries, Entertainment
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I’m a fan of documentaries on creatives and the creative process, especially those rare feature-length documentaries on comics and cartooning. I recently enjoyed the excellent new one on the cartoonists of The New Yorker. Now it’s super to hear about a new feature-length documentary on one of the greatest British weekly comics, the science-fiction comic […]
Graven images
I had thought that news stories about ridiculous bans on photography in public places were a thing of the New Labour past. But now it seems that Birmingham City Council wants to ban photography of public gravestones… “Council bans amateur historians from taking photos of heritage graves”. The Council obviously doesn’t have a clue about […]