CancerFest 6th December @Subside Bar

5 amazing bands, santa, raffle, cheep drinks and all proceeds to Cancer research
Featuring When Autumn Falls, Pray For Divinity, They Came With Weapons, The Benwahs, The Reason & Jonny Hands.
Starts 5pm, ends late
Contact The Benwahs for £2 advanced tickets at thebenwahs@hotmail.co.uk or
Tickets £3 on the door.
Venue: Subside Bar, Fletchers Walk, Paradise Place, B3 3HJ – [...]

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Christmas Concert

Bourneville Amnesty are staging, together with The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, another Christmas Concert for Human Rights. Last year’s concert was a great success and it would be great to fill the Cathedral again this year. There will be a Steel Band, Gospel Choir, Tradional Choir and Pianist [Rich Batsford -son of Bourneville Treasurer Vernon] [...]

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The Big Thank You

Now that we’ve all calmed down from what was some pretty awesome music, it’s time to say a big, big thank you to our Rock for Rights sponsors who gave the evening that extra fizz.
First up was the Co-op, immediately offering us what turned out to be an enormous hamper of Co-op’s finest goodies. The [...]

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Tuesday is change the world day (for musical tarts)…

Our Chair is asking what you usually do on Tuesday nights, bit of ironing? Watch telly? Or you could be out seeing four great bands for a mere £4 in advance.
We’ve got Wiarwan, the only band who can rage atmospherically, followed by upbeat melancholia from Rich Mc Mahon. (Who, incidentally, has had a cartoon done [...]

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“Daratt”/ “Saison seche” /”Dry Season”

We’ve had a film recommendation from Meg, I don’t think it’s out at cinemas but if you’re on Lovefilm or something similar, rent “Daratt”/ “Saison seche” /”Dry Season”, by a director from Tchad and in collaboration with Belgian and French film companies, you may find it of interest – it explores the theme of revenge, [...]

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Casa Alianza 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert – July 12th

Casa Alianza is an international, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defence of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico.
Internationally acclaimed New York singer songwriter Suzanne Vega a long-standing supporter of Casa Alianza will be headlining their special benefit concert to raise funds for their field programmes.  More here.
Birmingham Town Hall – 7.30 [...]

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Ben Okafor

I know what you’re thinking, ‘Aren’t you supposed to be on sabbatical?’
Yes I am but it’s actually kind of nice to be blogging again, plus a few things have come into my inbox which I would like to share.
If you attended the ‘Rights Without Borders’ event back in December, you’ll remember that Ben Okafor performed [...]

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World Premiere of ‘Obama’s People’ here in Birmingham

‘Rhubarb-Rhubarb’ call themselves “the internationally renowned West Midlands based Development Agency for photographic artists” and they’ve won the World Premiere of ‘Obama’s People’, a series of portraits by Nadav Kander. 
The show opens on 18 April and runs until 30th August 2009 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery – and the Rhubarb-Rhubarb people will be in [...]

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New drama highlights poverty and homelessness

A Birmingham church is to host a special performance of Voices from the Edge, a powerful new drama based on the words and experiences of people who have been homeless and living in poverty. The event is part of Poverty & Homelessness Action Week (31 January to 8 February). Churches and community groups throughout the [...]

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Of All The People In All The World

Click here to view Pete Ashton’s set

Charlotte from Stan’s Cafe recently contacted us about their performance Of All The People In All The World.  She felt that this show would be of particular interest to members of Amnesty as it encourages the audience to think about their place in the world and their communities, and [...]

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