In collaboration with Skate Buddies, Bertz Associates hosted six roller skating taster sessions at Brasshouse Community Centre.

Sessions to be lead by Empress and Arron from Skate Buddies.

About Skate Buddies: Skate Buddies enable individuals to repair, maintain, and manage their mental health and fitness through roller skating and other creative mediums.

"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.

Event Info

Film Trailer

Join us for the next Ladywood Arts Forum at Stryx Community Art Cafe in Jewellery Quarter. 

There'll be time for networking, discussing creative projects and upcoming plans, and a presentation by the Stryx team about their new JQ base. 

About Stryx: 

Stryx is an female artist led residency, studios and exhibition space in Digbeth, Birmingham. They recently opened a new community cafe space in jewellery quarter. they host a programme of exciting events, activities, family fun workshops and exhibitions. Stryx JQ site is also an independent gallery, artist led studio, project and exhibition space showcasing work from local and international artists.

As part of our Rolling Out project, we hosted three roller skating taster sessions in collaboration with Skate Buddies. 

These sessions provided a great way for complete beginners to try out skating, and for more experienced skates to find a community.

About Skate Buddies: Skate Buddies enable individuals to repair, maintain, and manage their mental health and fitness through roller skating and other creative mediums.

This exhibition has been led by a group of sixth formers at George Dixon Academy in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Inspired by the Civic Gospel and conversation about attitudes surrounding Brum. The aim of the exhibition is to encompass our vivid communities and celebrate the figures and collectives that create our community and culture.

Featuring new work by Poet Simone Word Smith & Designer Sharonjit Kaur Sutton in collaboration with students of the schools.

Discover an architectural style in the centre of Brum which reflects the new modern age of the inter-war years.

The walk was lead by Art Historian Christiane Worth & contributing writer to Brutiful Birmingham John Bell to explore the often overlooked gems of the Art Deco in Birmingham. Both are passionate about the architectural heritage of the much maligned city

As part of our Rolling Out project, we hosted several events at MAC's Big Green Weekender:

Sticker Making Workshop

T-Shirt Screenprinting with designs by Skate Buddies

Rolling Out Brum Film Screening and Q&A

Roller Skating Performance by Skate Buddies

Come and join us for an evening to celebrate the screening of the Sporting Tower Films & Podcast "Amplifying Voices". The result of a project with young people of Ladywood and Birmingham responding to the Sports History of the Tower Ballroom Birmingham, at the Edgbaston Reservoir. 

There will be a panel discussion with the director Yonatan Tiruneh, Facilitator Janeel Brown & project lead Iris Bertz, chaired by Sarah Ali. Sarah is a British-Pakistani Photographer whose work has been exhibited widely in the UK. Her portraiture focusses on highlighting community voices from both near and far through the medium of film throughout her time at CIVIC SQUARE where she heads up the film club. 

Skate Buddies enable individuals to repair, maintain, and manage their mental health and fitness through roller skating and other creative mediums.

Rolling Out Brum attempts to capture the essence of Birmingham's longstanding roller skating community. The film was created as a celebration of this group 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. 

Sporting Tower is a eulogy to the Tower Ballroom that has hosted so many important sport events of people of all backgrounds. Working with a group of young people, the film celebrates the history of almost 200 years in a mediation of what the place could have been dreamed into with young people’s imagination. 

Join us for a short film and discussion with the artists, followed by a Skating Performance by the Birmingham Rollerskating Community.

Led by Christiane Worth , MA Art History

Christiane makes it her mission to share her passion for Art & Architecture and make it accessible to everyone.

The idea is rather simple, what happens when we look up? What do we see? This is something we don’t do very often, especially not in a city we know well. We have our familiar routes, there is no need to notice anything. There are many other distractions, mainly our phones. The walk is an invitation to look and see new things in the city.

We are working with Eastside projects on screening three films as part of a Micro Film Tour Festival: The Same Track, Sporting Tower & Tower of Dreams - 3 exclusive films on sports and Birmingham's heritage.

Words & Walks presents, ‘Women Between The Lines’ a guided walking tour celebrating the untold stories of women in Birmingham. Explore the city through a new lens, as Words & Walks take you on an interactive tour, shining a light on the hidden voices of local real women, both past and present.

Words & Walks presents, ‘Women Between The Lines’ a guided walking tour and poetry event celebrating the untold stories of women in Birmingham. Explore the city through a new lens, as Words & Walks take you on an interactive tour, shining a light on the hidden voices of local real women, both past and present.

Join this panel discussion about the experiences of women navigating and living in the city. When cities are planned, safe environments for women are not being considered and inadvertently public spaces are created that are unsafe. With this event we want to investigate how a more inclusive approach to creating city spaces can be found and how we could make that happen.

Planning, or lack of it, impacts on urban spaces. We will explore whether female artistic responses to living, working and being in the city are uniquely different and how women who have found refuge in the city experience the city.

The event will be at the exhibition “Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City” curated by Lubaina Himid and there will be time to view and reflect on the work on display.

Join us for an evening of debate and exchange of thought on the female experience of the urban environment. Host for the evening will be Danni Ebanks-Ingram who will joined by panellists Deborah Broomfield, Katy Hawkins and Anna Fawcett.

Words & Walks presents, ‘Women Between The Lines: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery'  a guided walking tour celebrating the untold stories of women in Birmingham. Explore the city through a new lens, as Words & Walks take you on an interactive tour, shining a light on the hidden voices of women, both past and present.