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Finding the Finance; a practical workshop for the independent and creative business sector or ‘how to side-step the banana-skin’

October 8, 2012 by MAAP

[ October 25, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] a FREE networking workshop for the small and micro-business, social entrepreneurs, or cultural sector agencies

Thursday 25th October 18.00-20.00 Unit 11, Minerva Works @Warwick Bar, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS.

How do you locate and successfully retrieve external funding to accelerate your growth, extend premises, invest in new capital or reach new markets?

This tips-and-hints workshop will [...]

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OPEN DOORS: BANANA WAREHOUSE 2nd October

September 23, 2012 by MAAP

We are holding an Open Doors event for the Banana Warehouse building for you to come and view, and to gather your interest and thoughts for its future, post 2013.
Tuesday 2nd October 12-13.30 or 16-17.30
Banana Warehouse is a vacant building of 4089 sq ft, with direct access to the Grand Union canal and moorings under [...]

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Summer Fete – pictures and thanks

July 23, 2012 by MAAP

Just to thank everyone who got behind the fete by being a stallholder, performer, workshop leader or who came along to enjoy the event. And the sun shone for a couple of hours on Warwick Bar and Digbeth.
For a gallery of images of the Summer Fete, please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/warwickbarb5/
Minerva Works

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: art, canalside, digbeth residents association, edible park, events, exhibition; grand union; visual art, festival, food, Grand Union, IKON, live art, MAAP, Printbots, walking, waterways, workshop

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Summer Fete Programme, Sat 14th June 12-5pm

July 11, 2012 by MAAP

[ July 14, 2012; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] We are in preparation for Warwick Bar’s Summer Fete which will be stacked with food and culture. The bunting going up in Minerva Works!

The fete is over two sites, Minerva Works and Edible Eastside, which are 2 minutes walk apart on Fazeley Street. All the workshops and performances are FREE unless stated.

For map and directions [...]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: art, canalside, edible park, events, exhibition; grand union; visual art, IKON, K4, live art, Printbots, urban grain, walking, warwick bar, workshop

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Summer Fete 14th July – how to find us easily

July 4, 2012 by MAAP

We are here!
Warwick Bar is only 10 minutes walk from Digbeth High Street and Moor Street Station. This map will help you arrive safely, as it gives key landmarks in the vicinity, along with transport links and carparks. We are within easy striking distance from city centre.

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Warwick Bar Summer Fete – Sat 14th July – for your diaries

June 27, 2012 by MAAP

[ July 14, 2012; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: canalside, digbeth residents association, events, Grand Union, IKON, urban grain, warwick bar, waterways

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Ikon’s Slow Boat looking for volunteers for Canal Clear-up

June 19, 2012 by MAAP

[ June 23, 2012; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_716" align="alignleft" width="150"] Lets go a-dredging[/caption]

The Grand Union Canal clean-up – Saturday 23 June 2012, 10am–3pm – FREE

Join members of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS) as we clean-up towpaths near the mooring for Slow Boat. If you would like to take part in the clean-up please wear comfortable clothing that you don’t mind [...]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: IKON, Slow Boat, urban grain

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Summer Fete 14th July – Fliers ready to go

June 15, 2012 by MAAP

We are still looking for stallholders for the Summer Fete, 14th July (see posting below). All the print looks great – big thanks to Printbots who came in as Event Sponsors. If you can distribute fliers to your colleagues, clients, family or friends, let David, WB Site Manager, know. We will also tweeting ourselves silly [...]

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Warwick Bar Summer Fete 14 July – invitation to participate

May 28, 2012 by MAAP

[ July 14, 2012; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] WARWICK BAR SUMMER FETE SATURDAY 14 JULY 12.00-17.00

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE AS A STALLHOLDER, PERFORMER OR VOLUNTEER

2012 celebrates our first year of activities at Warwick Bar. To mark this occasion and encourage the sun to keep shining, we are holding a fete aimed at attracting families and friends to enjoy a FREE afternoon of arts, music [...]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: art, canalside, digbeth residents association, events, exhibition; grand union; visual art, food

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Dutch delegation chose Warwick Bar

March 31, 2012 by MAAP

Impressed by the studios spaces at Grand Union
A delegation from the Netherlands, organised by the urban design magazine Vitale Stad www.vitalestad.nl, selected to visit Warwick Bar last Thursday as an example of ‘organic architecture’. After meeting with senior officers in Birmingham City Council and Marketing Birmingham, the twenty six strong group spend time with Clifton Steel’s [...]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: delegation, edible park, events, exhibition; grand union; visual art, Grand Union, international

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Fierce Live Art Festival launches with events at Grand Union and Edible Eastside

March 27, 2012 by MAAP

[ April 1, 2012 12:00 pm to April 8, 2012 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_539" align="alignleft" width="300"] 29 March – 8 April [/caption]

Artist Eloise Fornieles will be presenting her performance installation The Message on the Edible Eastside site on the launch weekend of the highly acclaimed Fierce Festival, whilst Grand Union are hosting Reynir Hutber’s interactive work Stay Behind the Line in their exhibition space.

Birmingham’s international festival of live [...]

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Edible Eastside: Birmingham’s first Pop-Up Park opens on Warwick Bar

March 26, 2012 by MAAP

[ April 1, 2012 12:00 pm to August 30, 2012 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_527" align="alignnone" width="150"] Come one, come all…Edible Eastside opening for its summer programme of public events[/caption]

Everyone at Warwick Bar is thrilled to bits with the opening of the Edible Eastside urban garden. It is an inspired project situated on a derelict industrial canal side space which was a former propane gas-filling depot. The site [...]

Categories: Blog, Events • Tags: art, canalside, edible park, events, food production, urban garden

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Site manager at Warwick Bar

March 14, 2012 by MAAP

A new manager, David Chatten, will be on-site from the 26th March and be based at Minerva Works each weekday morning. He will be a main point of contact for any property maintenance and leasing enquiry you might have and play a more active role in supporting and promoting tenants’ events and activities across the [...]

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Flatpack Festival 14-18 March, with free Slow Boat screenings

March 12, 2012 by MAAP

[ March 16, 2012 7:00 pm to March 17, 2012 3:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_509" align="alignleft" width="226"] “the country’s most creatively curated film festival” – The Independent[/caption]

A big congratulations to the Flatpack Festival for their truly diverse programme of films that is set to hit Birmingham from this Thursday until Sunday. This is the festival’s 6th outing and looks to cover a lot of ground, with international independant [...]

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Digbeth sound walk as part of Still Walking Festival

March 7, 2012 by MAAP

[ March 30, 2012; 12:00 am; ] Check out David Prior’s (of artist/architect partnership Liminal) sound walk around Digbeth on the 30th March as part of Still Walking, a first-of-its-kind walking festival in Birmingham by artist and historian Ben Waddington. Still Walking brings you a celebration of all that walking experiences are and can be.

Still Walking looks great and takes place between [...]

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Happy St Patrick’s Day – Festival Parade 11th March

March 7, 2012 by MAAP

[ March 9, 2012 7:30 pm to March 11, 2012 12:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_477" align="alignleft" width="259"] could this be an idea for St Patricks Day celebration on Warwick Bar 2013?[/caption]

The St Patrick’ Day Launch Party will be held this Friday, 9th March, from 19:30 in the Irish Centre on Digbeth High Street. Anne Tighe of the Spotted Dog pub has donated ten tickets for the St Patrick’s [...]

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Waterways National Arts Strategy

March 2, 2012 by MAAP

Have hunted down the national strategy “Contemporary Art on the Waterways’, commissioned by Arts Council England, British Waterways and The Waterways Trust. The Ikon Youth Programme’s Slow Boat is highlighted as one of their five key project nationally – well done to Ikon and great that you are on-site.
Please find at Contemporary Art Project (final document)
The [...]

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Hedge Enquiry at Edible Eastside – Open Call

February 29, 2012 by MAAP

[ March 10, 2012; 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] To indicate your interest: Please send a weblink or low res jpegs (up to 5), a paragraph on your practice and why you are interested in attending to: hedgeenquiry@gmail.com by 4.00pm on Friday the 2nd of March

Hedge Enquiry at Edible Eastside is an interdisciplinary space for art research, making, interventions, cultural initiatives, projects and new works that will respond [...]

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