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Listings
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WE ARE EASTSIDE
BIRMINGHAM'S CREATIVE PLAYGROUND
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We Are Eastside
Friday 26 March – Sunday 28 March
Eastside, Birmingham
Free
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www.weareeastside.org

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WE ARE EASTIDE: 7 INCH CINEMA / FLATPACK FESTIVAL – BIRMINGHAM JAZZ – CAPSULE –
CRAFTSPACE – THE CUSTARD FACTORY – EASTSIDE PROJECTS – GRAND UNION – IKON
EASTSIDE – PROJECT PIGEON – PUNCH – RHUBARB RHUBARB – THE EDGE – TINDAL STREET
PRESS – THE LOMBARD METHOD – VIVID - VRU
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Events may be subject to change – visit www.weareeastside.org for information

Friday 26 March

UNPACKED
10:30am - 4:30pm
The Bond, Fazeley Street
Free

Show-and-tell day for artists and film-makers

RHUBARB EAST OPENING - The Uses of Enchantment, The Jackson Twins and Vee Speers
11am – 5.30pm
Rhubarb East, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Opening exhibition displaying the playful and darker sides of enchantment

CURTAIN SHOW
12.00pm – 5.00pm
Eastside Projects, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Works by international artists, inspired by Lily Reich's 1927 Silk and Velvet Cafe exhibition, all soundtracked
by Erik Satie

THE CINEMATIC
12pm – 5pm
The Lombard Method, Lombard St
Free

Residency and exhibition focussing on themes of 'The Cinematic'

DEMI-PAS
6pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Performance by media artist Julien Maire using a modified slide projector

MONUMENTS
6:30pm
IKON Eastside, Fazeley Street
Free

Short film programme built around a new film by Redmond Entwistle, which explores the margins of the city
and how urban planning influenced minimal art in the 1970s

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN

8:30pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Rare live footage of the legendary qawaali singer performing his first concert outside South Asia, at the
Luxor, Balsall Heath in 1979

SYNTH EASTWOOD: FAST FORWARD

8pm til late
The Rainbow Warehouse, Adderley Street
Free

A night of audio-visual antics put together by artists from Dublin and Birmingham, with special guests Clark
(Warp), Gangpol & Mit (Pictoplasma) and YouTube renegade Hugh Cooney.

SATURDAY 27th MARCH

RHUBARB EAST OPENING - The Uses of Enchantment, The Jackson Twins and Vee Speers
11am – 5.30pm
Rhubarb East, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Opening exhibition displaying the playful and darker sides of enchantment

CURTAIN SHOW
12.00pm – 5.00pm
Eastside Projects, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Works by international artists, inspired by Lily Reich's 1927 Silk and Velvet Cafe exhibition, all soundtracked
by Erik Satie

THE CINEMATIC
12pm – 5pm
The Lombard Method, Lombard St
Free

Residency and exhibition focussing on themes of 'The Cinematic'

BARRY PURVES - Animation Forum West Midlands

2pm
The Bond, Fazeley Street
Free

Talk on puppet film-making by animator and teacher

MATT STOKES FILM - Vivid

3pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

LANTERNA MAGICKA
3pm
IKON Eastside, Fazeley Street
Free

New documentary about film-maker Bill Douglas and his love of pre-cinema devices. Followed by a magic
lantern show presented by Mike Simkin.

DEMI-PAS
6pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Performance by media artist Julien Maire using a modified slide projector

BURNING in association with Capsule

8:30pm
IKON Eastside, Fazeley Street
Free

New concert film featuring Mogwai live in Brooklyn

EASTSIDE PARTY A Plasticine Party - Flatpack, Birmingham Jazz, Capsule, Eastside Projects
9pm -
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Psychedelic claymation by Bruce Bickford accompanied live by ZappaJazz, and guest DJs including Stuart
Braithwaite (Mogwai)

SUNDAY 28th MARCH

THE CINEMATIC
12pm – 5pm
The Lombard Method, Lombard St
Free

Residency and exhibition focussing on themes of 'The Cinematic'

PAUL SHARITS
1pm
IKON Eastside, Fazeley Street
Free

New York artist famous for his 70s flicker films

MODULATE
2-4pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Short film selection and live three-screen AV performance

BELBURY YOUTH CLUB

5pm
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Ghost Box records present an evening of haunted audio and creepy telly, including Moon Wiring Club live
and 1974 drama Penda's Fen

TAKASHI ITO
6pm
IKON Eastside, Fazeley Street
Free

Dazzling and disorienting 16mm work by pioneering structural filmmaker

ONGOING

PROJECT PIGEON
12pm – 4pm, every day
Rea Gardens, Floodgate St
Free

Open days at the Project Pigeon loft where you can feed the birds and watch them fly

LIVE PIGEON FEED

Daytimes
VIVID, Heath Mill Lane
Free

Streaming footage from the loft of the new 'squeekers' (baby birds).

New exhibition resulting from a two-week residency

http://www.thebondco.net/location/
http://www.vivid.org.uk/contact.php
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/about/visiting/location/
http://www.therainbowvenues.com/the-warehouse-and-garden/show-text/
http://www.eastsideprojects.org/index.php?/contact-details/
http://thelombardmethod.wordpress.com/contact-us/
http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/