Festival Calendar
Rush Hour Blues
As part of the regular Rush Hour Blues sessions, held in the ground floor bar area of Symphony Hall foyer and presented by Birmingham Jazz, this performance features the winners of the Dave Holland Conservatoire Jazz Ensemble Award, to be chosen by Dave himself at a special event on 28th April. ...
Department of Media and Communication Graduate Show
Opening Times and Dates:Thurs 12th June – Fri 13th June, 10am – 6pmSat 14th June, 10am – 4pmFri 20th June, 10am – 6pmSat 21st June, 10am – 4pm Tel: 0121 331 5719
Graduate Shows - Department of Fashion, Textiles and Three Dimensional Design
Graduates of the Department of Fashion, Textile and Three Dimensional Design present their work reflecting contemporary practice in fashion and design industries.
Graduate Shows -School of Jewellery
NGA 2008 will showcase some of the region’s most talented new jewellers. The University’s School of Jewellery is an award winning institution based in the heart of Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter since 1890.
School of Architecture Graduate Show
The range of visual art talent emerging fromBirmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD),part of Birmingham City University, in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes is overwhelming
West Side Story
Bernstein’s ‘West Side Story’, an updated version of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, is performed by students from the School of Vocal and Operatic Studies and relocates the star-crossed lovers from Verona to New York, from feuding families to rival gangs. This a...
New Photography on Screen
Our Digital theme is an opportunity to challenge the conventional photographic exhibition with a selection of superlative works seen not as analogue, paper-based objects but as electronic data on LCD screens. Each photographer will have their own array of LCD screens of different sizes, to reveal...
Project B:Sebilj
Artists Françoise Dupré, Myfanwy Johns in collaboration with architect Sabina Fazlic and the Bosnian Cultural Centre-Midlands (BCCM) will present their design for sebilj a Bosnian influenced public art structure. Project B is an architecture, Arts & Crafts community collaboratio...
Visual Arts Graduate Show
The range of visual art talent emerging from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD),part of Birmingham City University, in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmesis overwhelming. The University is proud of the range and depth of provision offered in art, arteducation, craft and desi...
Mixed Media Installation: Mona Casey Selection
The exhibition looks at the work of artists who engage with performance and use themselves, actors or communities to participate in the process.
Mixed Media Installation: Rachel Bradley Selection
‘Close Encounters’ is a site-specific mixed media exhibition developed for the second floor of the decaying grandeur that is the former Methodist Central Hall on Corporation Street.
The Workmanship of Certainty - The influence of technology on Design
This exhibition will feature five exhibitors of national significance: Miranda Sharpe, Rita Patel, Sian Hughes, Anthony Roussel and Karina Thompson who use Rapid Prototyping facilities to formulate their work. Curated by Susan McNally, the exhibition will provide a compelling story of the digital...
Digital Utopia or Chinese Whispers
‘Digital Utopia – connectivity or lost content?’. This animation piece will provoke responses through online media including blogging discussion forums and viral networks, nurtured with the support of master bloggers primed to orchestrate debate, to create a modern form of Chin...
Jane Prophet Solo Exhibition
Birmingham-born award winning artist Jane Prophet works with video and digital media. This solo show represents Prophets’ first showcase in Birmingham.
Billboard: Online Narratives
New Generation Arts is committed to building audiences and encouraging participation. Three billboards around the city centre produced by final year typography student Toni Kim will carry three opening sentences of a potential online story to be written during the festival by members of the public.
One Day Comic
There will be four huge billboards featuring graphics from the One Day Comic as a starting point from which the public are invited to continue the comic online.
You and Your Friends Pixellated?
Join in with the festival’s huge mobile phone ‘Portrait of the City’ competition. Upload your instant photos of you and your friends in city settings through the New Generation Arts website.
Play a Mixed Reality Puzzle
Developed by Nikki Pugh, this project takes a participatory arts approach to designing a mixed reality game: the game's name, rules and objectives will be arrived at through a series of interactions and collaborations taking place both online and in the real world.
