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Follow the latest what’s on in Birmingham news. Supplied by our guest writers, and press release contributors. From food & drink to live music, arts and culture to reviews and events.

Team behind Taste and Liquor & 21 Milk Street launch new venue!

The “new hub for global street food, diverse arts and culture” is located in Digbeth Opening later this month, the team behind Taste and Liquor with the… Read more »

Join The Botanist for Gin Sense Tasting with a Difference

The Botanist Birmingham is offering something a little different this Wednesday! Gin Sense is gin tasting with a difference- gin tasting playing on all the senses. Guests… Read more »

Foodies in for a treat with upcoming events at Town Hall

In Partnership with the bookselling mini-chain Foyles, Town Hall Symphony Hall has already hosted several successful events at the iconic Town Hall, including Graham Norton and Alan… Read more »

Oscar Winning Producer Praises New Birmingham Women’s Film Festival

The inaugural edition of 6 of the Best Fest is a celebration of new films by 6 UK women filmmakers at the Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham, UK on… Read more »

Brumbeat Live Music Guide Jan 2017

Our Brumbeat live music guide for Birmingham offers more original and alternative nightlife, gigs, parties and music listings than anywhere else online. We work with local promoters… Read more »

Birmingham Whisky Club Goes Big On Burns’ This January

The Birmingham Whisky Club are beating the January blues this month by raising a dram (or several) to Rabbie Burns’. Burns’ Night is the annual celebration in… Read more »

Marina Medvetskaya’s Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet Interview

A fantastic show is coming to Symphony Hall. Marina Medvetskaya’s Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet will be performing Tchaikovsky’s classic Swan Lake on Saturday 7th January accompanied by… Read more »

Dream Theater European 25th anniversary tour at Symphony Hall!

Dream Theater European 25th anniversary tour at Birmingham’s iconic Symphony Hall! Birmingham date announced for April 2017 Pioneering progressive metal group Dream-Theatre have added new dates to… Read more »

NYE 2016 Events at Bitters N’ Twisted

NYE 2016 Events at Bitters N’ Twisted

Island Bar & The Victoria  Early Bird Ticket £12 – After Xmas day £15 – Book Via Design My Night They are joining forces to bring you floors… Read more »

Smartphone Quiz – Every Wednesday at The Vic

Smartphone Quiz – Every Wednesday at The Vic

SMARTPHONE QUIZ – Every Wednesday at The Vic, hosted by Stoo with bar tab prizes up for grabs! From Nov 16th, Wednesday is our new quiz nights… Read more »

Miss Moneypenny’s Marks 25 Years with Symphony Hall Orchestral Event

LEGENDARY CLUB BRAND MISS MONEYPENNY’S RETURNS AND MARKS 25 YEARS WITH SPECATCULAR ORCHESTRA EVENT AT SYMPHONY HALL EVENT: MISS MONEYPENNY’S PRESENTS A NIGHT AT THE PROMS It… Read more »

Grand Central has Festive Fundraising All Wrapped Up!

If you’re desperate to avoid getting tangled in sellotape and torn paper this Christmas, head down to Grand Central on 10th and 11th December, when festive shoppers… Read more »

Enjoy this Christmas with Bitters N’ Twisted!

Enjoy this Christmas with Bitters N’ Twisted!

The Victoria December Events Festive speed quizzes on Weds 7th, 14th and 28th ! How much do you know about Christmas? £3 to enter, £2 for prize… Read more »

Deck The Halls at THSH This Christmas Season!

The Tallis Scholars join us for a Renaissance Christmas and a tiny Ladybird visits Town Hall this festive season; here are our pick of Christmas highlights guaranteed… Read more »

Brumbeat Music Guide Xmas & NYE 2016

Our Brumbeat live music guide for Birmingham offers more original and alternative nightlife, gigs, parties and music listings than anywhere else online. We work with local promoters… Read more »

Pick up some gorgeous handmade Christmas presents at the Etsy market

Pick up some gorgeous handmade Christmas presents at the Etsy market. The Etsy Made Local Christmas Market returns for its second year at the Custard Factory on… Read more »

The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music: Number Two

The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music: Number Two

Second Electronic Music Festival comes to Birmingham! In March of 2017 the second ‘The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music’ takes place across four days and across… Read more »

Swingamajig festival returns to Birmingham on April 30th, 2017

Swingamajig festival returns to Birmingham on April 30th, 2017 Take a stroll under Digbeth’s atmospheric railway arches and discover an industrial wonderland of visual installations, provocative street… Read more »

Flatpack Film Festival 2017: Submissions for short films now open!

Flatpack are are now accepting submissions for short films for their eleventh edition of the festival. Last April Flatpack celebrated a decade of transforming Birmingham venues into… Read more »

Cathedral art project lights up communities

 Birmingham Cathedral celebrates common values, making new connections through city-wide creative conversation. Project to celebrate common values, bring people together and create moments of reflection and wonder…. Read more »

Mike Skinner & Murkage presents Birmingham Tonga Resdiency

Mike Skinner & Murkage presents Birmingham Tonga Resdiency

The Tonga Balloon Gang have found a new home and it is in Kings Heath. Mike always wanted to perform at the Hare and Hounds when he… Read more »

What The Ladybird Heard – Live On Stage!

See Julia Donaldson’s farmyard adventure brought to life at Town Hall Birmingham this Christmas! Based on the award winning children’s book, What the Ladybird Heard will be… Read more »

Where to get Black Pasta this Black Friday!

Where to get Black Pasta this Black Friday!

November 2016 – Escape the hustle and bustle of Birmingham city centre this Friday, and head into the Jewellery Quarter for a black pasta dish, to celebrate… Read more »

Art Music and Bubbles at BM&AG in Twilight

BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & ART GALLERY OPENS ITS DOORS IN THE TWILIGHT HOURS FOR AN EVENING OF ART, MUSIC AND BUBBLES THIS DECEMBER Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery… Read more »

HOUSE PARTY Presented by Flatpack and Project Birmingham

Hip-hop duo Kid ‘n Play feature as two high school students hoping to throw the ultimate house party, which will guarantee them popularity, fame and (of course)… Read more »

Punch Records’ BASS festival returns to Birmingham with HipHop360

Punch Records’ BASS festival returns to Birmingham with HipHop360. A series of events throughout the city featuring legendary artists who shaped the sound of a generation. HipHop360… Read more »

Reggae Legends UB40 to play Charity Gig for Children’s Hospital Charity

UB40 will perform a special concert in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity’s Star Appeal, as part of The Superhero Challenge. Thursday, November 17 at 7pm, Birmingham’s… Read more »

Homeless Choirs Bring Festive Cheer to Birmingham this Christmas

People don’t realise that anybody can find themselves homeless for all sorts of reasons. I was lost and didn’t know how to find any direction. Quite simply,… Read more »

New Birmingham Based Record Label Launch

Brand new record label, EQ Recordings, are hosting a musical showcase to celebrate the best of Birmingham’s home-grown talents. Taking place from 8pm on Thursday 17 November… Read more »

Merry #Digmas: Brum’s favourite independent Christmas fair and family day out returns to the Custard Factory!

Merry #Digmas: Brum’s favourite independent Christmas fair and family day out returns to the Custard Factory!

Kick off the festive season in style at #Digmas, Birmingham’s favourite independent Christmas fair and family day out. The fun-filled event will return to the Custard Factory… Read more »

Premiere of BBC documentary White Vs Blacks How Football Changed A Nation

As part of the BBC Black and British Season, and BFI Black Star season, mac birmingham will host a premiere screening of Whites Vs Blacks: How Football… Read more »

Eastside Projects Winter Art Fair

Eastside Projects are thrilled to invite you to the 2016 Winter Art Fair. This lively two-day event will see the gallery filled with affordable artworks, artist books… Read more »

Bierkeller in Brum for Christmas Lillian Keen

Bierkeller in Brum for Christmas Lillian Keen

The Bierkeller is set to open in Birmingham in just over a month making its arrival in time for Christmas. The Bierkeller is a unique German Bavarian… Read more »

Brumbeat Live Music Guide Nov 2016

Our Brumbeat live music guide for Birmingham offers more original and alternative nightlife, gigs, parties and music listings than anywhere else online. We work with local promoters… Read more »

Christmas Hamper Digbeth

Christmas Hamper Digbeth

After our sell out first year Digbeth Christmas Hamper is back! Birmingham’s oldest boozer is taking all the best bits of crimbo and rolling them into one…. Read more »

DJ Jazzy Jeff plays Lab11 for BASS ’16 Fest!

BASS festival returns to Birmingham with HipHop360. A series of events throughout the city featuring legendary artists who shaped the sound of a generation. HipHop360 celebrates every… Read more »

A Sparkling Switch On in Edgbaston Village

Calthorpe Estates is getting the festive season off to a sparkling start with this year’s Edgbaston Village Christmas lights switch on. It’s set to take place on… Read more »

Get your robes, Moseley Road Baths are open…

Moseley Road Baths are an incredible space to visit, the air inside is tinged with nostalgia, loss and hope – you could bottle it and call it… Read more »

DJ Jazzy Jeff and many more announced for Bass Festival 2016

BASS Festival is returning to Birmingham with a celebration of Hip Hop – the UK’s only Black Arts commissioning festival. BASS festival returns to Birmingham for its 11th year this… Read more »

Fifty Shades of Grey Fine Art Collection Launches in Brum

Author E. L. James collaborates with world-famous photographer and artist Raphael Mazzucco on new fine art limited edition collection Collection launches at Birmingham’s two Castle Fine Art… Read more »

Very Disco – Frontiers at Digbeth First Fridays

For the first time, Frontiers is presenting a programme as part of Digbeth First Fridays, which has become a key event in Birmingham’s arts calendar over the… Read more »

Spook-tacular Halloween 90’s Night at Dares Bar!

This Saturday is a Spook-tacular Halloween 90’s Night. That’s right, they’re back for one night only this Saturday at Dares Bar in Amusement 13 (formerly DV8). Are… Read more »

The Old Crown Presents Trick and Treat!

Birmingham’s oldest haunt is celebrating Halloween the only way they know how, with one helluva FREE party. Cut up your bedsheets (ask your mum first obvs), plaster… Read more »

Strange Things are afoot this Halloween at The Night Owl

Everyone has fallen in love with 80s homage ‘Stranger Things’ the eerie show set in 1983 Indiana follows the disappearance of a young boy and stars Winona… Read more »

Mockingbird Bar to open dedicated Cinema following major reinvestment

Mockingbird Bar to open dedicated Cinema following major reinvestment

The Mockingbird Cinema and Kitchen, based in the Custard Factory, will become a full-time cinema from November 18 – officially launching with the Warner Bros’ mega-release Fantastic… Read more »

Birmingham’s musical heritage commemorated with two new murals for the city

Birmingham’s musical heritage commemorated with two new murals for the city

City of Colours – a Birmingham based urban arts company that hosts the city’s largest celebration of street art – is to unveil two new murals and… Read more »

Halloween High Spirits at Bitters n Twisted Venues!

Halloween High Spirits at Bitters n Twisted Venues!

There’s a whole line up of spooky events at Bitters n Twisted venues this Halloween, details of the various goings on are listed below: The Victoria Friday… Read more »

Comedy Night for the UK Sepsis Trust

Comedy Night for the UK Sepsis Trust

COMEDY NIGHT FOR THE UK SEPSIS TRUST £15pp WITH A MASSIVE £12 DONATED TO CHARITY ON FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER AT 19:30 THE COMEDY LOFT, BROAD STREET In… Read more »

Digbeth Mela Launches in Birmingham!

Digbeth Mela Launches in Birmingham!

Digbeth Mela Launches in Birmingham: A modern celebration of South-Asian Arts, Music, Food & Culture! Presented by the people who produced The Eastern Electronic Festival, Holi Rave… Read more »

Midlands Biggest Halloween Show Returns to Brum

WILKINSON (feat. AD-APT) // DJ TARGET // THE HEATWAVE // LEE WALKER // SAM DIVINE // TOUCAN // DJ HAUS / APPLEBUM // TOM SHORTERZ The Arena… Read more »