Events
Speaking Back - Flatpack Festival
'We've done a bit of match-making here, putting spoken word and film together in the same room. We hope it will be a beautiful, enduring romance rather than a shotgun wedding, but there's only one way to find out...'
Join spoken-word poet and writer Polarbear along with special guests as they dig out short films from the Flatpack vault and share their creative response.
Bertz Associates is honoured to have our short film Rolling Out Brum selected as one of the films to be screened.
Previous Events
Ladywood Arts Forum
Tuesday 23 April
YA Creates
Join us for the next Ladywood Arts Forum at YA Creates in Jewellery Quarter. At the meeting, there will be introduction and networking time, as well as hearing from a number of speakers.
We will be joined by Simeon Shtebunaev who will be presenting on Urban Rooms. An Urban Room is a space where people can come together to help create a future for their local area.
We will also hear from our host Yejide Adeoye, founder of YACreates, a contemporary design business creating modern homewares, jewellery and more.
At the close of the meeting anyone who has any projects/local info they’d like to share will also have an opportunity to do so.
Everything to Everybody Film Online Screening
Wednedsay 3 April
Online
Everything to Everybody?" is a cinematic exploration responding to a wider project connected to Birmingham Library's Shakespeare collection.
This poetic documentary delves into Birmingham's soul, weaving a narrative tapestry that threads through the civic gospel, a cherished Shakespearean collection and the future of Birmingham's Civic Infrastructure. It attempts to capture the city's heartbeat pulsating through time.
Join us for an online screening of the film, along with a Q&A with some of the cast and crew.
Once registered, you will be emailed the link to the event.
Rolling Out Brum
Sunday 31 March
Rapport Festival
Rolling Out Brum is celebration of Birmingham's longstanding roller skating community, which breaks boundaries in terms of culture, age and gender - a true grass roots community tethered to the inner city location of Cannon Hill Park.
Learn more about the project and view the trailer here.
Screening at Rapport Festival on Sunday 31 March.
About Rapport Festival:
Rapport Festival is about creating an African diaspora arts movement, is a call to action, and an invitation to not only ‘take a seat at the table’, but to be integral to building the house that the table is in. To be part of the movement as an artist, arts practitioner, administrator, participator, volunteer, or audience member sign up to our mailing list.
Founded by Lara Samuels (a theatre practitioner frustrated with the lack of diversity and opportunities for African diaspora artists and practitioners), Rapport Festival has been created to redefine the artistic and cultural landscape of the UK.
By placing the spotlight on arts created by African diaspora practitioners and artists from multiple genres and art disciplines, Rapport Festival offers a unique platform that celebrates and elevates African diaspora artistic expression from across the international diaspora.