Summer Holiday's 2012

Summer Programme 2012 May - AugPerformance . Visual Arts . Families . Learning & Participation

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Course Start Date Time Level/Age Duration Page

Introduction to Screenprinting

Sat 11 & Sun 12 Aug 10am – 4pm Beg-Imp/16+

2 Days 15

Short Takes Tue 14 Aug 10am – 3pm 13-18yrs 1 Day 17

Art Play Tue 14/Wed 15/Thu 16 Aug

10-11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

Street Dance & Breakin’ Wed 15 Aug 1-6pm 13-19yrs 1 Day 17

Dance Fit: Kathak Thu 16 Aug 10am – 12pm Beg/ 18+ 2hrs 13

Jewellery: Open Studio Thu (16/23 Aug) 10am – 4pm Adv/18+ 1 Day 15

The People’s Shop Fri 17, Sat 18, Fri 24 & Sat 25 Aug

10am - 4pm - 1 Day 12

Wheelwork Weekend Sat 18 & Sun 19 Aug 10am – 4pm Beg-Imp/16+

2 Days 15

Jewellery Tue 21 Aug 10am – 3pm 13-18yrs 1 Day 17


10-11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

Make a Music Video Wed 22 Aug 1-6pm 13-19yrs 1 Day 17

Dance Fit: Strictly Ballroom

Thu 23 Aug 10am – 12pm Beg/ 18+ 2hrs 13

Introduction to Jewellery

Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug 10am – 4pm Beg/18+ 2 Days 15

Alexander Technique (A Walker’s Guide)

Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug 10am – 6pm Beg/18+ 2 Days 14

Learning & Participation

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Performance & Visual ArtsDate Event Time Page

Fri 4 May Kill for a Seat: Diane Spencer & Ro Campbell

8pm 4

Sat 5 – Mon 7 May IDFB: Aracaladanza Clouds & Cu-Cuco Various Times 7

Thu 10 – Sat 12 May Heroes 7.30pm 1

Sun 13 May Ben Calvert & The Swifts 7.30pm 5

Tue 15 May Phronesis 8pm 5

Wed 23 May Instinct for Kindness 8pm 1

Thu 24 – Sun 27 May Capital Theatre Festival Various Times 2

Fri 25 May Mark Steel’s in Town 7.30pm 4

Sat 26 May Deep Joy Quartet and Keith Tippett/Julie Tippett Duo

8pm 5

Fri 1 Jun Kill for a Seat: George Ryegold & Marcel Lucont 8pm 4

Fri 8 Jun Unhappy Birthday 8pm 3

Thu 14 & Fri 15 Jun Underrated Birmingham the Musical 6pm & 7.30pm 1

Fri 15 - Sun 17 Jun Icarus 1pm & 7pm 8

Sat 16 Jun Celebrating Sanctuary All Day 7

Sat 23 Jun Walden Day Various Times 6

Mon 2 – Tue 3 Jul BE Festival 8pm 2

Fri 6 Jul Kill for a Seat: Martin “BigPig” Mor & George Egg 4

Sat 7 Jul The Destroyers 7.30pm 5

Sat 7 – Sun 8 Jul The Caravan Show! Various Times 8

Fri 13 & Sat 14 Jul We Dance Various Times 11

Fri 20 & Sat 21 Jul(Matinee Sat 21 Jul)

A l o c l a s p 7.30pm (2.30pm) 2

Sun 22 Jul One Beat Sunday 3-10pm 18

Mon 23 Jul AMUSEMENTS 8pm 3

Tue 24 – Wed 25 Jul UNMYTHABLE 8pm 3

Fri 3 Aug Kill for a Seat: Bruce Morton supported by Dan Bland & MC Tudur Owen

8pm 4

Sat 11 – Sun 12 Aug The Terrible Topsy Turvy Tales of mac Needless Allies

11.30am & 2.30pm 8

Visual Arts

Now – Sun 9 Sep ALLOTMENT 9am – 11pm 9

Sat 21 Apr – Sun 10 Jun

Tom Price: Sentinels 12-8pm (Tue – Sat) 11am – 4pm (Sun)

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Sat 21 Apr – Sun 10 Jun

Mahtab Hussain: Building Desires 9am – 11pm 9

Sat 16 Jun – Sun 24 Jun

Tom Dale; I Infinite 12-8pm (Tue – Sat) 11am – 4pm (Sun)

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Thu 7 Jul – Sun 9 Sep Kosgue 1-16: THE PLAYMAKERS 12-8pm (Tue – Sat) 11am – 4pm (Sun)

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Course Satrt Date Time Level / Age Duration Page

Writing Our Lives Sat (21 Jul,18 Aug) 10am - 4pm - 1 Day 15

Zumba ® Mon 23 Jul 6.15-7.15pm Beg/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Art Explorers Mon (23/30 Jul, 6/13/20 Aug)

10am-3pm 6-11yrs 1 Day 16

Hatha Yoga Tue 24 Jul 7-8.30pm All/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Nature Explorers Tue (24/31 Jul, 7/14/21 Aug)

10am-3pm 6-11yrs 1 Day 16

Art Play Tue 24/Wed 25/Thu 26 Jul

10-11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

Hatha Yoga Thu 26 Jul 10-11.30am All/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Astanga Yoga Thu 26 Jul 5.30-7pm All/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Astanga Yoga Fri 27 Jul 6.30-8pm All/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Tai Chi Qi Gong Fri 27 Jul 10-11.30am Beg/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Song Writing Immersion Day Fri 27 Jul 10am -9.30pm Beg/Imp /16+

1 Day 15

Tai Chi Sat 28 Jul 2-4pm Beg/18+ 6 Weeks 14

Photosocial 31 Jul/ 10am-3pm 13-18yrs 1 Day 17


10-11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

Ceramics: Open Studio Tue (31 Jul, 7/14 /21/28 Aug)

10am – 4pm Beg-Imp/16+

1 Day 15

Urban Street Art Wed 1 Aug 1-6pm 13-19yrs 1 Day 17

Dance Fit: Adult Dance Fitness Thu 2 Aug 10am – 12pm Beg/18+ 2hrs 13

Textiles: Open Studio Thu (2/9 Aug) 10am – 4pm Beg-Imp/16+

1 Day 15

The Art of Short Film Making Fri 3 Aug 10am-4pm Beg/ 18+ 1 Day 14

Future Poets Festival Sat 4 Aug 12-6pm 16-19yrs 1 Day 17

Introduction to Jewellery Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug 10am – 4pm Beg/18+ 2 Days 15


10-11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

The Drama of Fiction Tue (7/14/21 Aug) 10am - 4pm Beg/Imp 3 Days 15

Devise, Improvise, Perform Tue 7 Aug 10am – 3pm 13-18yrs 1 Day 17

Beats & Breaks Wed 8 Aug 1-6pm 13-19yrs 1 Day 17

Dance Fit: Flamenco Thu 9 Aug 10am -12pm Beg/ 18+ 2hrs 13

Photosocial Fri 10 Aug 10am – 4pm Beg/18+ 1 Day 14

Life Drawing & Painting: Open Studio

Sun (12/19/26 Aug) 10am – 4pm Imp-Adv/ 16+

1 Day 15

Wonderful Wednesdays Wed (1/8/15 Aug) 10am - 3pm 6-11yrs 1 Day 16

Story Making Mon (13/20/27 Aug) 10am - 11am 2-5yrs 1 Day 16

Story Making + Mon (13/20/27 Aug) 11am-12pm 6-8yrs 1 Day 16

Learning & ParticipationTimetable

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Summer 2012Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232Theatre & Spoken Word

Kindle Theatre, TAPP and Birmingham Conservatoire in association with mac birmingham

a l o c l a s p

Fri 20 & Sat 21 Jul, 7.30pm | Matinee Sat 21 Jul, 2pm Post show discussion Fri 20 Jul Tickets £7 (£5) Age 12+

With an ensemble of performers and musicians a l o c l a s p explores the terrifying vastness of outer-space; our curiosity as a species to peer deeper into the dark vacuum around us; and how Man’s probing can raise challenging questions about our relationship with faith and the nature of reality.

As the flames rose we danced to the sirens, the sirens Sleepwalk Collective (UK/Spain)

In an hour of troubling intimacy, Sleepwalk Collective chop up and replay the iconography of B movies and early cinema in a joyous and desperate attempt to re-work cinematic and cultural clichés into something heartfelt and profound.

“An unsettlingly languid but hauntingly touching display of live-art tragi-comic stand-up” **** THE HERALD

Winner of 1st Prize and Best Actress at BE Festival Birmingham 2011, Best Actress at SKENA UP Kosovo 2011, Best Direction at Festival ACT Bilbao 2010, and nominated for a Total Theatre Award 2011.

Heroes Thu 10 – Sat 12 May, 7.30pm | Tickets: £12.50 (£10)

This poignant comedy which won the 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy is now revived by theatre veter-ans of comedy: DUCKbrothers Producktions. Three French veterans live in a home for old soldiers and pass their time grumbling, dreaming about young women and arguing over whether a statue of a dog is alive. They decide to escape and run away to Indo China, or at least as far as the poplar trees in the hill.By Gérald Sibleyras

Directed by Murray Andrews

Instinct for Kindness

Wed 23 May, 8pm |Tickets £12 (£9)

Chris Larner’s acclaimed and award-winning true story about accompanying his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic. The play covers both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical issues that surround the contentious topic through Chris Larner’s experiences.

Capital Theatre Festival Thu 24 - Sun 27 May, various times

Capital Theatre Festival is designed to celebrate and promote new writers and theatre-makers in Birmingham and beyond. Featuring performances, discussions, workshops, networking events and readings, the festival will provide an informal platform for writers to showcase new work, explore new ideas and develop new skills.

www.capitalplays.co.uk

Capital is supported by The National

BE Festival 2012 Grand Opening Mon 2 – Tue 3 Jul, 8pm | Tickets £15 (£12) Plus public space music from 7pm

BE FESTIVAL brings together the most daring and delightful theatre from across Europe. mac birmingham is proud to present the BE 2012 Grand Opening, featuring a full-length version of last year’s 1st Prize-winning show (details below) by the multi-award winning Basque company Sleepwalk Collective, plus a unique line-up of international music and entertainment.

Theatre & Spoken Word

#NEXTGEN

Women & Theatre presents

Underrated: Birmingham The MusicalThu 14 & Fri 15 Jun, 6pm & 7.30pm | Tickets £7 (£5)

More miles of canal than Venice? Unlikely. A tree for every person? Doubtful. Underrated? Definitely.

Underrated: Birmingham The Musical is a multi-voiced theatrical extravaganza celebrating the best bits of Brum through the eyes of its young people. Beyond the Bullring and the Balti Triangle, what our city means to our most dynamic residents – the next generation who will shape its future.

This project has been funded by BCC Next Generation, The Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Charitable Trust, The Eveson Trust, The Ernest Cook Trust, The Harry Payne Trust, and supported by mac birmingham.

www.befestival.org |t: @befestival

In association with mac birmingham

Translated by Tom Stoppard

Summer 2012Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232 Edinburgh Picks

Amy Lamé: Unhappy Birthday

Fri 8 Jun, 8pm | Tickets £10 (£7)

Amy Lamé invites you share her birthday. Morrissey - icon for the bookish, bespectacled weirdos of the world - is invited too. A seat is reserved for him...will he arrive clutching a bunch of flowers and a gift? Will he turn up at all?

www.unhappybirthday.net @amylame #unhappybirthday

Created and performed by Amy Lamé Devised with and directed by Scottee

Temple Theatre: UNMYTHABLE

Tue 24 & Wed 25 Jul, 8pm | Tickets £10 (£7)

Fast-paced, funny, daring and delightful, UNMYTHABLE is a whistle-stop tour through the greatest Greek myths ever told. Join the young hero Jason on board the Argo as he sets off on his biggest mission yet - the quest for the Golden Fleece.

www.templetheatre.co.uk

Directed by Mike TweddleDevised and written by the company

Sleepwalk Collective AMUSEMENTS(UK/Spain)

Mon 23 Jul, 8pm| Tickets £10 (£7)

Like some backroom carnival ride / lo-fi sci-fi pleasure machine, AMUSEMENTS is an intensely sensorial and unsettlingly voyeuristic one - woman headphone-theatre spectacular from multi-award winning UK/Spanish live - art group Sleepwalk Collective. www.sleepwalkcollective.com

Developed with the support of Factoría de Fuegos Vitoria-Gasteiz, mac birmingham and BE Festival.

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Summer 2012Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232 Comedy

Mark Steel’s in Town Fri 25 May, 7.30pm | Tickets £14 (£11)

Following his highly acclaimed, Sony Award-winning and Writers Guild Award-winning Radio 4 comedy show Mark Steel’s In Town, and the publication of a book of the same title, writer and stand-up comedian Mark Steel is back on the road. Bringing an element of Mark Steel’s In Town to each live performance, Mark will write material shedding light on the quirkiness and interesting aspects of every town and city he visits.

“Steel’s rapier wit cuts to the chase.” The Observer

Kill for a Seat Comedy Club First Friday of every month | Tickets £11 (£8)

Our regular Kill for a Seat comedy nights return hosted by Silky.

Fri 4 May, 8pmDiane Spencer & Ro Campbell

Fri 1 Jun, 8pmGeorge Ryegold & Marcel Lucont

Fri 6 Jul, 8pmMartin “BigPig” Mor & George Egg

Fri 3 Aug, 8pmBruce Morton supported by Dan Bland & MC Tudur Owen

C o m e d yFOOD offer

Try out a selected main meal and side for £5. This offer is available to pre-book at Sales and Information alongside your ticket. Please call Sales & Info on 0121 446 3232

KILL FOR A SEAT

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Catch the shows before they head off to the Edinburgh Festival 2012

(Bárbara Sánchez for Kubik Fabrik)

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Heiner Goebbels’ Walden

Tickets: £15 (£10, £8 students)Performances at 7pm & 9pm

Narrator/Vocalist: Keir Neuringer Performers: Ensemble Klang (Netherlands) & Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

“One of the great theatrical innovators of our time” (The Telegraph), Heiner Goebbels is one of the world’s most sought after composers and creative artists. Drawing inspiration from everyday pop motifs, the expansiveness of orchestral music and utilising unusual and invented instruments, Walden creates a unique sound world befitting texts by 19th century writer Henry David Thoreau, creating an hour-long work full of evocative sound, theatre, and rich imagery.

Walden is part of the UK-wide London 2012 Festival (the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad), which runs from 21 June to 9 September and features leading artists from around the world.

Breakfast at the Old Suburban Canteen

Performances at 5pm & 7pm | Tickets £3

Experience the results of a collaboration between students of the visual, sonic and text-based arts. Together they have explored the theme of ‘Suburbia’ focusing on the collaborative aspect: How do you create something with people from other disciplines who use different artistic languages?

Jazzlines presents

Deep Joy Quartet and Keith Tippett/Julie Tippett Duo

Sat 26 May, 7.30pm |Tickets £10 (£7 BJ members and concessions)

After performing in the tribute for the late Tony Levin at mac birmingham in June 2011, The Deep Joy Quartet come together again for this concert and a short tour. The quartet are joined by the imaginative duo, pianist Keith Tippett and vocalist Julie Tippett.

Ben Calvert & The Swifts

Sun 13 May, 7.30pm |Tickets £10 (£7)

A rare home town show from this post-folk band showcasing the release of their second single Valpolicella Girl, from their acclaimed debut album Festive Road.

www.bencalvert.com

Jazzlines and mac birmingham present:

Phronesis

Tue 15 May, 8pm |Tickets £10 (£7 BJ members and concessions)

This wonderfully interactive trio perform music from their first live album, entitled simply Alive.“The most exciting and imaginative piano trio since EST” Jon Newey, Editor, Jazzwise

The Destroyers

Sat 7 Jul, 7.30pm |Tickets £13 (£10)

A collection of rogues and misfits from the Birmingham Conservatoire, conceived in 2006 at the legendary Balkan Basement jam sessions in Moseley. The Destroyers quickly burst free from the confines of the ‘Balkan Brass’ genre and emerged as an anarchic orchestra of blaz-ing passion and breathtaking originality. Front-ed by songwriter/beat-poet Paul Murphy they tell modern tales of acute relevance - tales of love, death, humour, chaos and catastrophe.

Walden Day Sat 23 Jun

mac birmingham will be alive with films, talks, music and performances throughout the day, that amplify Henry Thoreau’s aim to ‘live deep and suck out all the marrow of life’. His message of simple living and self-sufficiency inspired the ecology movement.

Check www.macarts.co.uk for full details.

Walden : Responses In Writing WR89

Attend the performance with writer and poet Jo Skelt and take part in a day of writing and creative development exploring the key themes. Combined Ticket Price (Walden performance & workshop) £25 (£20)

Sat 23 Jun – Performance 7pm & 9pmSun 24 Jun - Workshop 10am – 4pm (inc. 1 hr for lunch)

Birmingham Conservatoire and mac birmingham present

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Summer 2012Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232Children & Families

Aracaladanza Cu-cuco

Sat 5 & Sun 6 May | 11am & 12noon | Age 6 mths-4yrs

Cu-cuco, for babies and toddlers, combines music and dance with umbrellas, spinning chairs, puppets and balloons in a treat for all the senses that will captivate and delight!

Aracaladanza Clouds

Sat 5 – Mon 7 May | 3pm (Sat, Sun) & 11am (Mon) | Age 4yrs+

Clouds is an enchanting show full of energy and imagination, where dancers create a magical world of moving objects and dream-like imagery that will fascinate children and adults alike.

International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012, supported by mac birmingham presents

Family Weekend

The Bone Ensemble presents

The Caravan Show!

Sat 21 Jul, 11am & 2pm Sat 28 Jul, 11am, 12noon, 1.30pm, 2.15pmTickets £7.50 for 1 child and 1 adultTickets £15 for 2 adults and 2 children

Join Jill in her real-life caravan for an enchanting experience just for you, where the loos are chemical and make everything turn blue! You become part of the show too, as we go on a caravan adventure together, finding secrets in cupboards, try out the fold down beds, and discover what lies behind the fridge door…Maximum four spectators at a time. Running time: approx 20 minutes.

Icarus

Fri 15 & Sat 16 Jun, 1pm & 7pm & Sun 17 Jun, 7pm| Tickets £5 | Age 4+ Icarus brings a theatrical experience for the whole family. A new piece of work which re-tells the fate of Icarus through storytelling, song, music dance, physical theatre and visuals. Devised and Performed by BA Community & Applied Theatre / Dance Students, Birmingham School of Acting / Birmingham City University in association with mac birmingham. Devised and Directed by Hannah Phillips. Composition by Nik Haley. Art Directed by We Make Art working in collaboration with Birmingham Metropolitan College FEED Creative Arts Students. Choreography by Ruth Jacombs.

The Terribly Topsy Turvy Tales of mac Needless Allies

Sat 11 - Sun 12 Aug | 11.30am & 2.30pm |Tickets £8 (£6)

Join us for a trail style performance where children under 10 and their families will rediscover the public spaces of mac birmingham and natural surroundings of Cannon Hill Park. Using storytelling, performance and play they will meet a host of terribly topsy turvy fairytale characters, who will enlist their help in an adventure through magical woodland, both ordinary and extraordinary. Places are limited on the trails so you’re advised to book in advance!

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Sat 5 – Mon 7 May | Performance Tickets: Cu-cuco £4 Clouds £9 (£7) - Family Ticket £28 (4 tickets)Workshop Tickets: Cu-cuco £3 / Clouds £4 (Workshop half price if bought with performance ticket)

Bring your family to Cannon Hill Park for the day and, from 10.00am until 4.30pm, we’ll entertain you with a jam-packed programme of stunning dance performances & workshops. Kids will love it, grown-ups will love it too!

Celebrating SanctuarySat 16 Jun | All day | Free Activities & Events Refugee Week Celebration Day will see mac birmingham erupt with sound, colour and life. Please check our website for the full line up at: www.macarts.co.uk

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Movement & Dance workshops will accompany both productions, please see www.idfb.co.uk/familyweekend for details. Also in Cannon Hill Park during IDFB 2012 Family Weekend: Spill - a playground of dance; a brand new free outdoor production combining dance with high energy street gymnastics using playground equipment.

International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012 takes place from 23 Apr - 19 May

Commissioned by mac birmingham for summer 2012. Originally commissioned by Worcestershire County Council. With support from Arts Council England and Wyre Forest District Council.

Summer 2012

Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232Visual Arts


Visual Arts

Tom Price: Sentinels

Sat 21 Apr – Sun 10 Jun | First Floor GalleryOpen Tue - Sat 12 – 8pm | Sun 11am – 4pm.(Closed Mon exc. Bank Hol) | Free Entry

mac birmingham presents a major solo exhibition of animated works by London-based sculptor Tom Price. With an interest in the minutiae of body language and facial expression, Price crafts and animates a series of clay models which are projected as colossal blinking heads gazing directly past the viewer.

The exhibition features an accompanyingpublication available to purchase from Sales and Information. Join us at a publication launch event on Tuesday 27 May, 6-8pm. Refreshments provided.

Tom Dale Company presents

I Infinite

Exhibition Opening Times: Sat 16 Jun – Sun 24 Jun |Open Tue - Sat12pm-5pm | Sun 11am – 4pm. (Closed Mon) | Free Entry | First Floor Gallery

Set in a white, digitally animated environment, I Infinite is an interactive installation inspired by the digital world’s quest to re-create life: graphic patterns slice through the space, glowing cubes fracture into a myriad of miniscule squares and pools of light hover in the air like oil on water.

Performance Times:Fri 15 - Sat 23 Jun, 6.30 & 8.00pm (exc. Mon)Sun 17 Jun, 6.30pm | Tickets £10 (£7)

An immersive dance experience in which the audience is free to roam. The captivating imagery and refined movement draw you within centimetres of our performer who moves between robotic isolation and liquid fluidity. Existing somewhere between the digital and organic worlds our character embarks on a captivating journey to the infinite. lmmerse yourself in I lnfinite – a fascinating integration of live dance and digital technology and the everyday melts away into a bravura haze of cosmic imponderables. Mary Brennan, The Herald

Created by Tom Dale/ Barret Hodgson/ Maria Olga Palliani.A

Dance4 production, developed with support from the National

Lottery through Arts Council England and mac birmingham.

Interactive Media Artist, Noel Murphy

www.tomdale.org.uk

KOSUGE1-16: THE PLAYMAKERS

Sat 7 Jul – Sun 9 Sep| First Floor Gallery | Open Tue - Sat 12 – 8pm | Sun 11am – 4pm (Closed Mon ex. Bank Hol) | Free Entry

For their first UK exhibition, Japanese artists, KOSUGE1-16 will create a playful installation at mac birmingham, leading from the ground floor to the first floor gallery space. This family friendly work will draw on mac birmingham’s history as both an arts and sports centre, and as a theatre for experimental puppetry. Part sculpture, part puppet THE PLAYMAKERS will be produced with local children to present an artwork activated by its audience.

KOSUGE1-16 is comprised of artists Chishino Kurumada and Takashi Tsuchiya. They will be in residence throughout June during which time they will work with local children to make components of the exhibition.

Curated by Debbie Kermode and Kaye Winwood.

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Supported by Trevor Pitt and Max Khandola

Mahtab Hussain: Building Desires

Sat 21 Apr – Sun 10 Jun | Terrace GalleryOpen Mon - Sun, 9am -10pm | Free Entry

What does it mean to be a British Pakistani male living in contemporary British society? Birmingham artist, Mahtab Hussain, has spent three years photo-graphing his own community, exploring the important relationship between identity and masculinity. His portraits reveal men who consider and present themselves as both Pakistani men, but whose lives have existed wholly in the UK.

A mac birmingham production with Charlie Levine

Allotment

NOW - Sun 9 Sep | Arena Gallery | Mon-Sun, 9am-10pm | Free Entry

ALLOTMENT, an innovative programme which sees our Arena Gallery divided into plots and tended by independent curators. By extending the opportunity to curate to a wider community, the ALLOTMENT plots are imagined as a space to identify, profile and nurture the region’s new and emerging visual art talent.

“KAKIKAKI KIKOKIKO DADADADADA”2011

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This truly exciting exhibition will launch mac birmingham’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

A mac birmingham commission.

5Anniversary

In association with Hales Gallery

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Summer 2012Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232Dance

WE DANCE Festival | Fri 13 & Sat 14 Jul | On Sale Wed 11 Apr

Mencap. Birmingham Royal Ballet, mac birmingham, Fox Hollies school and performing arts college and Midland Mencap have combined forces to run an exciting DANCING FOR THE GAMES project. WE DANCE will culminate in a two day festival at mac birmingham featuring performances, fun workshops for people with a learning disability, an exhibition including new dance for camera films and more. It will include:

Make & Create

Make and create...stylish sewing workshops for you and your home...

Take inspiration from the People Shop and their love of fashion and all that is gorgeous and hand-made. These 4 full day workshops with Allison Sadler will show you how to sew this season’s ‘must have’ fashion pieces to update your summer wardrobe and beautiful accessories to decorate and adorn your home... Complete with pom poms, afternoon tea and cake.

Fifties vintage style summer skirt

Fri 17 Aug, 10am-4pm (inc. lunch)Tickets £55 (£50)

Join in the vintage vibe and make yourself that little bit of retro glamour. This simple and stylish wardrobe classic is guaranteed to become your favourite skirt ever. Just perfect for those lazy summer days.

Ditsy floral summer bag

Sat 18 Aug,10am-4pm (inc. lunch)Tickets £55 (£50)

A handmade fashion accessory to be proud of. Carry all of your crafty treasures and trinkets, your knitting or your favourite magazines around in this nifty floral messenger bag. Decorate with pretty ribbons and lace for some added girly loveliness.

Cute and quirky apron

Fri 24 Aug, 10am-4pm (inc. lunch)Tickets £45 (£40)

Unleash the inner domestic goddess within and celebrate your fun and flirty side with this cutesy apron workshop. We’re talking big frills and bows and serious kitchen glamour here! Unashamedly show off how fabulous you really are... Cupcake anyone?

Bunting’tastic

Sat 25 Aug, 10am-4pm (inc. lunch)Tickets £45 (£40)

A house isn’t a home without some handmade bunting. Spots, stripes and gingham too. Or how about a little up-cycling?... Transform granny’s curtains or a pretty charity shop find into something to treasure forever... Drape it in the bedroom or hang it in the garden, this workshop promises to be ‘sew’ much fun.

WORKSHOPS

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17 - 25 Aug Taster Days

FREE

Sun 3 Jun

PerformancesFri 13 & Sat 14 July, 7.30pm Tickets £5Featuring a new Olympic themed commission from Freefall, a performance led by Chitraleka dance company and local learning disabled community groups. Free Outdoor Performances of “Spun Productions” by StopGAPFri 13 Jul, 6pmSat 14 Jul, 1.30pm & 4pm WorkshopsSat 14 Jul, times belowFree workshops for people with a learning disability 10 -11.30am - Bhangra (for family groups) and Line Dancing 2.15 - 3.45pm - Bhangra and Ballroom dancing (over 18s)

We Dance is part of Dancing for the Games and the Cultural Olympiad in the West Midlands. It is funded by Legacy Trust UK, which funds ideas and local talent to inspire people to be creative across the UK and to leave a lasting impact from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is also funded by the Arts Council England and Advantage West Midlands.

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Digital MediaThe Art of Short Film Making

SM01 Fri 3 Aug, 10am-4pm | Tickets £35 (£30) |Level Beg | Age 18+

Develop a film idea or set up film projects from scratch and receive input from Bafta Award-winner Michael Clifford. The course will offer an introduction to directing, editing and the art of film making.

Photosocial

SM02 Fri 10 Aug, 10am – 4pm | Tickets £35 (£30) | Level Beg | Age 18+

Explore everything photography, from camera phones to DSLRs, lighting and composition, editing and post-production, building a portfolio, an introduction to free book-making software (blurb.co.uk) and sharing images.

Wellbeing

Alexander Technique – A Walker’s GuideTake part in a mixture of talks and practical activities to demonstrate how the principles of the Alexander Technique can be applied to walking.

WB22 | Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug | 10am-6pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Age 18+ | Beg | Tickets £55 (£48) Zumba®

Party yourself into shape with this exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance.

WB02| Mon 6.15 – 7.15pm | Duration 6 weeks | Start Date Mon 23 July | Beg | Age 18+ | Tickets £28 (£23)or £5.50 (£4.50) pay per session

Tai Chi Qi Gong

Through a low-impact mind/body series of movements you will learn relaxation techniques to keep fit and improve your wellbeing.

WB04 | Fri 10-11.30am | Duration 6 weeks | Start Date: Fri 27 Jul | Beg | Age 18+ | Tickets £35 (£27) Note for Wellbeing Classes:Please bring your own Yoga mat & block if required.

Tai Chi

Explore the basics of Tai Chi and increase flexibil-ity and suppleness whilst exercising the muscles. Tai Chi is practised for both defence training and its health benefits.

WB20| Sat 2pm - 4pm | Duration 6 weeks | Start date: Sat 28 Jul | Beg| Age 18+| Tickets £35 (£27) Hatha Yoga

Practise and explore meditation, develop asana practice (postures) and utilise pranayamas (breathing exercise).

WB10 | Start Date Tue 24 Jul | 7-8.30pm WB12 | Start Date Thu 26 Jul | 10-11.30am

Duration 6 weeks | Age 18+ | All levels | Tickets £35 (£27) or £7 (£5) pay per session Astanga Yoga

Seen as a meditation through movement, Astanga yoga is a great cardiovascular exercise that builds strength, flexibility, stamina and body tone.

WB15 | Start date: Thu 26 Jul | 5.30 – 7pm WB16 | Start date: Fri 27 Jul | 6.30 – 8pm Duration 6 weeks | Age 18+ | All levels | Tickets £35 (£27)

Performing ArtsAdult Dance FitnessThu 2 AugIn these lively sessions dance yourself into shape while having fun.

DF01 Time 10am – 12pm | Tickets £7.50 | Level Beg | Age 18+

Flamenco Thu 9 Aug

In this day long workshop learn the basics of Flamenco including technique, posture, footwork, arms, hands and choreography.


Kathak Thu 16 Aug

Learn the basic of this richly diverse north Indian dance style.

DF02 Time 10am – 12pm | Tickets £7.50 | Level Beg | Age 18+ Strictly Ballroom Thu 23 Aug

Learn the basic techniques of ballroom. Come alone or with a partner.


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Art Play

Join in the creative fun with a series of art workshops that encourage families to look at art in a new way together. Explore a different visual art form each day and learn different techniques and imaginative ways to use 2D and 3D materials.

APS01 Tue 24 Jul APS02 Wed 25 Jul APS03 Thu 26 Jul APS04 Tue 31JulAPS05 Wed 1 Aug APS06 Thu 2 AugAPS07 Tue 7 Aug APS08 Wed 8 AugAPS09 Thu 9 Aug APS10 Tue 14 AugAPS11 Wed 15 Aug APS12 Thu 16 AugAPS13 Tue 21 Aug APS14 Wed 22 AugAPS15 Thu 23 Aug

Time: 10am – 11am | Age: 2-5 yrs plus accompanying adult|Tickets: £7 (£5.50 additional child)

Story Making Age: 2-5yrs (plus accom adult)

Encourage your child and expand their imagination and maybe your own while exploring creativity, laughter and play.

SM01 Mon 13 Aug SM02 Mon 20 AugSM03 Mon 27 Aug

Time: 10am-11am| Tickets £7.50 (£5.50 for additional child)

Story Making + Age: 6-8yrs (plus accom adult)

SM04 Mon 13 Aug SM05 Mon 20 Aug SM06 Mon 27 Aug

Time: 11am-12am| Tickets £7.50 (£5.50 for additional child)

Families

As a family take part in a variety of workshops throughout the summer. With a different workshop each week you could choose to do all or simply dip into your favourites.

Wonderful Wednesdays: Textiles

WW01 Wed 1 Aug | 10am - 3pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Age: 6-11ys + accompanying adult

Wonderful Wednesdays: Pottery

WW02 Wed 8 Aug | 10am - 3pm (inc 1hr lunch) |Age: 6-11ys + accompanying adult

Wonderful Wednesdays: Drawing & Painting

WW03 Wed 15 Aug| 10am - 3pm (inc 1hr lunch) |Age: 6-11ys + accompanying adult

Tickets: £12.50, 1 child + 1 adult, (£7.50 additional person)

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Art Explorers

AEX01 Mon 23 Jul AEX02 Mon 30 Jul AEX03 Mon 6 AugAEX04 Mon 13 AugAEX05 Mon 20 Aug

Time: 10am - 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)| Beg | Age 6-11yrs| Tickets: £10 per session | Duration 1 day

Nature Explorers

NEX01 Tue 24 Jul NEX02 Tue 31 Jul NEX03 Tue 7 Aug NEX04 Tue 14 AugNEX05 Tue 21 Aug

Time: 10am - 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)| Beg | Age 6-11yrs| Tickets: £10 per session | Duration 1 day

Costume Explorers

CEX01 Wed 25 Jul CEX02 Wed 1 Aug CEX03 Wed 8 Aug CEX04 Wed 15 AugCEX05 Wed 22 Aug

Time: 10am - 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)| Beg | Age 6-11yrs| Tickets: £10 | Duration 1 day

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Explorers at mac birmingham Explore mac birmingham, our artists, exhibitions and the surrounding environment to learn techniques, expand your imagination and make artwork to take home.

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Open Studio: Life Drawing & Painting

VA96 Sun 12 Aug | VA95 Sun 19 Aug | VA94 Sun 26 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 1 Day | Age 16+ | Imp/Adv | Tickets £18 (£12)

Ceramics: Open Studio

Artist Tutor Sue Dyer will be onhand to offer help and guidance.

CE97 Tue 31 Jul | CE97 Tue 7 Aug | CE97 Tue 14 Aug CE97 Tue 21 Aug | CE97 Tue 28 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 1 Day | Age 16+ | Beg/Imp | Tickets £18 (£12)

Wheelwork Weekend

This intensive weekend introduces learners to the art of throwing on the potter’s wheel. CE96 Sat 18 & Sun 19 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 2 Days | Age 16+ | Beg/Imp | Tickets £40 (£32)

Introduction to Screenprinting

Explore the process of creating screenprint designs, fusing stencils, direct freeform drawing and mono printing techniques.

TE94 Sat 11 & Sun 12 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 2 Days | Age 16+ | Beg/Imp | Tickets £40 (£32)

Textiles: Open Studio

Work on individual projects, extend and develop your existing skills or simply spend a relaxing day being creative. Artist Tutor, Emma Jackson, will be on hand to offer help & guidance, this is an untutored session and you will need some experience.

TE95 Thu 2 Aug |TE96 Thu 9 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 1 Day | Age 16+ | Beg/Imp | Tickets £18 (£12)

Jewellery: Open Studio

Great for those who have an existing knowledge of jewellery. Work alone or expand skills with assistance from the Artist Tutor.

JE99 Thu 16 Aug |JE98 Thu 23 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 1 Day | Age 18+ | Adv | Tickets £18 (£12)

Introduction to Jewellery

Cover basic techniques, including soldering, saw piercing and filing and learn how to make your own jewellery designs.

JE97 Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug | JE96 Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug

Time 10am–4pm (inc 1hr lunch) | Duration 2 Days | Age 18+ | Beg|Tickets £55 (£48)

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Learning & Participation

Song Writing Immersion Day

This day is broken into two parts and is designed to stimulate creativity. In the first part you will spend the morning pulling together ideas and raw material by developing techniques and working with Artist Tutor Dan Whitehouse.You will then go away and develop your ideas and come back together in the evening to share and further develop in a ‘Song writing Circle’

MU99 Fri 27 Jul | Age 16+ | Beg/Imp | £10 (£7)

Session 1: 10.00am – 12.00pm – Workshop and writing development

Session 2: 7.30pm – 9.30pm – Song writing Circle

Writing

Writing Our Lives: Creative Journaling

Writing a creative journal can bring personal insight, heightened awareness and everyday joy – and help other projects to flow. We’ll be exploring fresh, adventurous ways to write our lives.

SC28 Sat 21 Jul | SC29 Sat 18 Aug Time10.00am – 4.00pm (inc. 1 hr for lunch) | Duration 1 Day | Tickets £26 (£22)

The Drama of Fiction

Polly Wright will lead three Creative Writing days where she will be using drama exercises to trigger the production of stories. No previous acting or writing experience required.

WR95 Tue 7, Tue 14, Tue 21 Aug |Time 10.00am – 4pm (inc. 1hr for lunch) | Duration 3 Days|Tickets £60 (£50) |Beg/Imp


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Future Poets Festival

Sat 4 Aug, 12 - 6pm. Admission Free Young People (aged 16-19yrs) from the West Midlands, will be engaged to read, write and explore the full swing of future poetry by curating and creating their own Future Poets Festival over five months from April - August 2012.

Future Poets Festival is funded by Clore Duffield Foundation Literature and Poetry Awards produced by Amy Rozel Martin, Writing West Midlands and delivered in partnership with mac birmingham and Ideas Tap. For more info: http://futurepoets-festival.com/

Photosocial *Tue 31 Jul|10am – 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)

Short Takes *Tue 14 Aug | 10am – 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)

Devise, Improvise, Perform YP99 | Tue 7 Aug | 10am – 3pm (inc 1 hr lunch)

JewelleryYP98 | Tue 21 Aug | 10am – 3pm (inc 1hr lunch)

A celebration of urban culture at mac birmingham for the next generation, featuring chances to have a go at breakin’, streetdance, music video production, MCing & DJing skills, graffiti, street art and more......

Breakin’ Out

Totally tuesdays

Urban Street Arts

Wed 1 Aug, 1- 6pm

Learn about the story of graffiti and street art, create designs then spray paint or use pens on giant boards to bring your creations to life.

Beats & Breaks

Wed 8 Aug 1- 6pm

Make your own music track to be added to mac birmingham’s Celestial Jukebox. Working with MC & DJ Feva, explore sampling and develop your rhyming and lyric writing.

Streetdance/Breakin’

Wed 15 Aug 1- 6pm

Discover the foundations of Hip Hop Dance. Create a choreography based around Jacking, Stomping, Skating, Footwork and Lofting.

Make a Music Video

Wed 22 Aug 1- 6pm

Work with an independent music video director to create your own promo video. Plan and shoot using HDV cameras, editing the results on Final Cut Pro Express.

Tickets: £12.50 | Age: 13 – 18yrs

Forget being bored our totally Tuesday sessions will leave you will some exciting skills to work on in your own time. *A digital camera, of any type or format is required.

A season of festivals, shows, workshops and creative career opportunities, made by, with and for the next generation of young makers and shakers from the West Midlands.

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Tickets: £15 | Age: 13 – 19yrs

one beat //sunday

22 JUL 2012 ONE BEAT // sunday

One Beat Records and Birmingham Promoters in association with mac birmingham

Sun 22 Jul, 3-10pm | Tickets £10 | All ages

One Beat Records and Birmingham Promoters are taking over mac birmingham’s outdoor Arena for a one day festival. See some of Birmingham’s brightest bands including The Carpels, Swim Deep, Tempting Rosie, JAWS, Not by Design & some very special guests tba. Plus DJ sets, spoken word, vintage clothing, outdoor bar & BBQ.

Follow us @mac_birmingham for opportunities to get involved.

Picture credit: Matthew Westley @TheArchtist

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