Sunday, 27th June
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Venue: Hare and HoundsBack at the Hare with chiptunes, pixelated animation and live gaming. The evening kicks off with High Score (dir: Jeremy Mack, 2006), a portrait of one man’s crusade to achieve the all-time high score on the arcade version of classic Atari game Missile Command - a feat which involves two days of solid gaming on one quarter, with no pause button.
Other attractions:
» guest DJ Mike Johnston (Mike in Mono, ZX Spectrum Orchestra) will transport us to an electro world hand-built from chunks of code;» 8bit Lounge will provide additional music and some games you can try out;
» and we’ll bring a bagful of shorts too, including some highlights from the recently-wrapped 2 Weeks 2 Make It challenge. Four quid on the door.
Saturday 19th June - http://www.kingsheathcentrepartnership.org/ for info it suggests
Here’s an interesting thing: a bit of shopfront that may well be 100 yeas old, uncovered, perhaps briefly, and probably unintentionally, as a reminder of what once was probably pretty standard for the street.
Gorgeous
Lots of lovely plants for sale at bargain prices on a driveway in Portman Rd. Just pop cash through letterbox!
“ Council concedes that Birmingham charitable estate will be run partly by local advisory body A charitable estate in Birmingham is once more to be used for charitable activities after local organisations won more say in running it. Highbury Hall and its gardens were bequeathed in 1932 to the citizens of Birmingham by its former mayor, Joseph Chamberlain. The local council became the sole trustee. The council has used the hall as a banqueting facility and other buildings in the grounds to house social services staff for the past 20 years. But after a long campaign by local charities and community groups, the council is to pass some of the running of the estate to an advisory group of local representatives. The exact responsibilities of the group are still to be decided. Tony Thapar, coordinator of the Moseley Community Development Trust, one of the charities involved in the campaign, said: “We’re now talking to some groups that want to use the grounds, and we hope to start charitable activity on the site soon.
“ The next time we turned round, we found the salesman quietly filling in a load of other ‘yes’ boxes on the form, that quite patently didn’t apply to us - but that would have been covered by Dave’s signature. I asked for the form back and changed all the ‘yes’ ticks to ‘no’. I then turned the form over. In small print on the back, it said ‘by signing this form you are agreeing to let us contact you for marketing and research purposes, and to let us sell on your details to related companies and other businesses for marketing purposes’ or words to that effect. On a form that was supposed to be ‘nothing’ and ‘just for internal stuff’. Needless to say we walked out of the shop without buying a phone, and the whole experience left us feeling grubby and used.… I very rarely ‘name and shame’, but Carphone Warehouse Kings Heath branch, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
“ All Saints Community Development Company will be using the funds to create an open village square off a busy High Street in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
