Edgbaston Arts Forum requests Birmingham City Council to meaningfully engage with Edgbaston Reservoir users about its future.

We call for Birmingham City Council to openly and meaningfully engage with Reservoir users about developments on and around Edgbaston Reservoir. To date, Birmingham City Council has engaged in tokenistic ‘consultation’ with Reservoir stakeholders and decisions about the Reservoir’s future are being made without the community’s genuine involvement. Some decisions being made risk the reservoir’s …

HomeMadeArts

HomeMade Arts

COVID19 has been hard on us all (some harder than others) and it is great to see everyone coming together to help and support. Being stuck at home is driving a lot of people a bit crazy with running out of things to do, especially families with children. Artscoop and Edgbaston Arts Forum have come …

Drawing sessions

Drawing Sessions at Lightwood House

For those artists amongst us who enjoy drawing the human figure we are starting the Drawing Sessions again at Lightwoods House in Bearwood It is £10 a session and these are drop in sessions so there’s no joining fee or minimum sessions booked in advance. Find the venue here: All are welcome – just bring …

Light Up B16

Light Up B16

Light Up B16. Edgbaston Arts Forum has been working with residents of the B16 area of Birmingham in a project to create a window display tour. Workshops for this have now finished and the residents have been asked to light up their windows from 6 February until 9 February 2020. Below are a few examples …

Artscoop Central

Artscoop meeting – Wed Oct 16 2019 7.30 – 9.30

Notes from Artscoop Meeting Wed Oct 16 2019 7.30 – 9.30 Slug & Lettuce, Harborne Present:  Shirley Speight, Tom Jones, Eva Bennett, Alisha Hutchins, Alison Reed,  Ruth Carless, Mikey Ball, Sally Harper-Kenn, Mike Riley, Christine Hardy, Sue Guthrie, IldikóNagy, Naziah Angel. ARTSMILE 2019 SS opened a well-attended and positive meeting with her report and Artsmile …

ArtsMile 2019

Arts:)Mile 2019

That’s it for another year. ArtsMile 2019 was our biggest yet and we plan to be bigger next year. We are proud of what we achieved together and are happy to see so many people having fun on the day and enjoying themselves. Here are a few highlights of the day: A big thanks to …