Area Culture Guide – MAY edition

Check out the latest edition of AREA CULTURE GUIDE featuring art, music, fashion & shopping, comedy plus the opportunity to win tickets to over 30 festivals. Click here to see the digital edition or pick up your copy from outlets around the West Midlands.

David Hancock: Cosplay until 1st June @WolvArtGallery

The work of Manchester based artist David Hancock focuses on youth subcultures and in this latest solo exhibition he focuses on the world of ‘Cosplay’. Short for ‘costume play’ the relative recent craze is one that people have adopted to dress up as characters from various computer games, comic books and films.

Zed Nelson: ‘Love Me,’ Until 8 June @WolvArtGallery

Beauty. It’s a big brassy world. It’s a 53.7 billion dollar world and it’s a world which is extensively and cross-culturally explored by Zed Nelson in his latest exhibition  Love Me.  

Area Culture Guide – March/April edition

Check out the all-new sparkly edition of Area Culture Guide for March and April. Take a look inside for Art, Music, Comedy, Theatre and listings…

The Bronx, Slade Rooms, 15 Feb @Wolvescivic

The Bronx exploded onto the scene a decade ago with a sound reminiscent of L.A. punk’s heyday, heavy percussion and artillery-fire guitars alongside anguished lyrics about society’s dysfunction and the perils of street life. Ten years on, the band’s sound has evolved tremendously, thanks to an act of defiance in 2006. Being asked to do an acoustic performance did not sit well with the punk rockers, and they stormed the stage donning sombreros and performing a mariachi version of their hit ‘Dirty Leaves’. What was intended to be an angry ‘two fingers up’ had an unforeseen result however, and alter ego ‘El Bronx’ took on a life of its own, offering a fresh and infectious take on the genre and winning them fans worldwide.

GASTRONOMIC GIFTS

Options for fine dining in Midlands this Christmas are endless. But what about regional foodie treats for underneath the Christmas tree? Here are some alternative edible gift ideas with a distinctively Birmingham and Black Country twist. There’s not a tired old jar of chutney or jumbo tin of Quality Street in sight…

Area Culture Guide December Issue

Welcome to the December edition of Area Culture Guide, which you can read online here, featuring…

The Grand Slam of Darts kicks off this weekend @wolvescivic

For us November doesn’t mean bonfire nights and fireworks or early Christmas shopping – oh no! We’re all about the GRAND SLAM at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton when, for a full nail-biting 9 days, we’re hooked to the arrows.

OPEN WEST MIDLANDS at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

It is the turn of Wolverhampton to host this year’s biannual West Midlands Open exhibition and having received works from over 150 artists across a range of mediums it’s set to be a great one.

Check out the new Edition

Check out the latest edition of AREA CULTURE GUIDE here. This month we dedicate the issue to the amazing cultural events taking place across the West Midlands during the summer.