Bodies Revealed

Featuring real human specimens Bodies Revealed tells the fascinating story of the human body in all its glory.

Brilliantly Birmingham 2009

Brilliantly Birmingham, the celebration of contemporary jewellery, will be marking it’s 10th Anniversary this year. The annual event, which launches on 21 November, has grown into an international festival which draws people from all over the world.

PartyPoker.com Grand Slam of Darts

At AREA we are always excited when the gods of the Dart world invade Wolverhampton! So lucky for us the PDC have chosen the Civic as their venue once again to hold the televised Grand Slam 2009.

More Than Two Tones Exhibition

Celebrating Coventry’s rich musical heritage, from Frank Ifield to The Enemy More Than Two Tones brings together for the first time a fantastic selection of music memorabilia highlighting the vibrancy and creativity of the scene.

Halloween Fun

Celebrate Halloween with killer style this year at The Flapper in Birmingham, in all it’s ghoulish glory!

The Event

Early November sees Birmingham’s Eastside transformed and taken over by 100 artists. The Event is the second contemporary arts festival organised by the Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum and features a number of artist led projects at a variety of spaces throughout Digbeth.

Shout Festival

Birmingham’s first ever festival dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is launching on Friday 30 October.

Brummy Mo Bro

Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache. It highlights men’s health issues, in particular prostate cancer.

Trademarking The Balti

Every country has its national cuisines, every city a speciality. However much Britain prides itself on its fry up breakfasts and Sunday roast dinners, times are a-changin’ and the curry has upped and settled in the stomach of every Birmingham local on a Friday night. Yes, we have stolen the national cuisine of India and now the city council of Birmingham are having the cheek to say no one else in Britain is allowed it. Well, not all of the curry menu, just the balti dish-so called after the flat bottomed wok it was first cooked in.

Birmingham Film

If you look at a map of the West Midlands you’ll notice we have our own Hollywood. The similarities of that and the hilly California district known as such are few and far between, but about five miles North from Hollywood, UK Digbeth’s Fullrange Productions are making a film they hope to prove Hollywood, CA is not the be all and end all of the film world.