Billboard: Online Narratives

New Generation Arts Festival is committed to building audiences and encouraging participation.

What’s happening?
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. Led by Betty Trask award winning novelist Nicola Monaghan and written by Creative Writing MA Student Gabrielle Bulmer, text entries and emails from the general public will be fashioned to produce unpredictable and wonderfully hybrid stories.

How do I get involved?
Get involved in the festival and finish the story, you can text your entries to 88890, start your text with ‘STORY’ and then enter your suggested storylines or email
info@newgenerationarts.co.uk. These entries will be fashioned to produce unpredictable and wonderfully hybrid stories.

Finish the story, the three opening sentences are:

Story 1
I THORT YOU STUD ME UP MY PC SAYS 7.35 UR L8 ITS MENT TO BE A D8…..

Story 2
THE WORLD IN TIMES NEW ROMAN IS HOW THEY DESCRIBED IT…..

Story 3
IF YOU DONT PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE IN YOUR INBOX….

NGA 2008’s Online Narrative Billboards can be found at various locations around the city of Birmingham from Monday 2nd June – Monday 16th June.

Sites can be found at:

A453 – Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, Polytech Birmingham B42 2TS

Bromford Lane, Corner of Canal Road, Facing Tyburn Road, Birmingham B24 8DD

222 Soho Hill, Handsworth Birmingham B19 1AT

Leebank Middleway Birmingham B15 2BW

Lancaster Street, Near 63-68 Principle Street, City Centre, Birmingham B4 6LN

Constitution Hill, Corner of New Bond Street Birmingham B19 3LG

Newtown Row, Corner of Miller Street, Newtown, Birmingham B6 4NF

A38 Kingsbury Road, Minworth Birmingham B24 8QQ

A38 Bristol Road, EMB Adjacent to Selly Oak Station, Birmingham B29 6AU

St Chads Circus Great Charles Street B3 1AG