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Artist Suriya Aisha

Fun Palaces bring people together for a tiny revolution

This weekend, get together with your local community, neighbours and the online community, for a tiny revolution…

Emma Talbot, When Screens Break

Future worlds and strange matter in Birmingham

Are you ready to step into future worlds and discover strange matter this autumn? Then head over to the innovative public art gallery, Eastside Projects…

Bald Black Girl(s) logo (above image), courtesy of Ruth Sutoyé

Thought-provoking photo exhibition opens at Ort Gallery

This autumn, catch an interesting and thought-provoking exhibition at Birmingham’s Ort Gallery, as Bald Black Girl(s) opens…

Big Dog Walk - World Big Dog Walk 2020

Take part in the World Big Dog Walk challenge

This September, the World Big Dog Walk is encouraging people around the globe to join together (virtually) on their walkies…

Eastside Projects talk with artist Lindsey Mendick

Who cares for the people who care for people?

Join artist Lindsey Mendick, Mendick’s parents Anthony and Jenny Mendick and curator Harriet Cooper at Eastside Projects for a candid discussion…

Olney Pancake Race, Shrove Tuesday, Olney Buckinghamshire

Competitors get ready to batter one another this Pancake Day

Shrove Tuesday (aka Pancake Day) for most people means pigging out on pancakes, but there is so much more to the day, from local customs to wacky races…

The Last Quiz Night On Earth, UK tour Spring 2020

Don’t miss The Last Quiz Night on Earth

This spring, get quizzical with an immersive and innovative new play which is touring to theatres, villages and pubs…

Hull Adelphi Lamacq Life Bus Bar (Photographer credit Ian Rook)

Celebrate your local live music venue

Returning for the seventh consecutive year, Independent Venue Week is a seven day celebration of independent music venues around the UK…

Bite Size Festival 2020

Take a bite of Midlands theatre festival

Bite Size Festival features new and award-winning shows, offering a vibrant snapshot of the inventive and diverse theatre-making culture in the Midlands…

Lyth Valley Wassail and Mummers Play - Contrary Life

Old Twelfth Night is the time to go wassailing

On the old Twelfth Night (17th January) a traditional ceremony known as a wassail takes place in villages and orchards across England…

A Christmas Carol tour 2019

Step into Dickens’ study for A Christmas Carol

This festive season, audiences can experience A Christmas Carol as Dickens himself performed it more than 150 years ago. ..

Mr Brunel poses with Victorian reenactors at the ss Great Britain during their Victorian Christmas weekend, 8 December 2018.

A taste of Christmas past with Dickens, knights and street urchins

Take a trip to Christmas past, in a more pleasant way than Scrooge did, by visiting one of the many Dickens, Victorian and medieval themed events taking place this winter…

Being Human festival - I am human badge - credit - Being Human festival

Discoveries and secrets at this year’s Being Human festival

From trawling for treasures in archives to discovering secret lives and overlooked histories, the annual Being Human festival is back this month…

Ink drawing by Birmingham based artist Ahmed Magare

Modern day nomads the subject of Birmingham exhibition

Vessels, an exhibition giving an insight into the perspectives and experiences of a young generation of Somalis living in the diaspora, is now showing in Birmingham.

Neal Pike Five Years

An exploration of adolescence in Five Years

Based on memories of life at a special educational needs school, Five Years uses poetry, storytelling and direct address to explore an adolescence…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

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Fakes, forgeries and misinformation at Royal Society Late
Dragon Fish - The Royal Society Lates in March

Next month, the Royal Society’s Late event mixes tomfoolery with science as it tackles fake news and hoaxes…

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