Melinda’s Visit
Artist Melinda Scwakhofer visited over the weekend as planned, and it was grand. One of the great things about having her here was the brilliantly positive way people reacted to her. When she explained...
View ArticleBen Waddington’s Digbeth tour this Sunday
Just a quick reminder that Ben Waddington is giving me and my Flip an extra special Digbeth tour this Sunday. We start from The Old Cown Pub at midday Sunday 21 December – so sod the Christmas...
View ArticleOpen Studio at Eastside Studios this Sat 10th October at 12pm-5pm
Eastside Studio (the workshop type space next to The Old Crown, where you often find people hammering bits of metal or rock) are holding an Open Studio this Saturday afternoon at 12pm-5pm to ‘celebrate...
View ArticleA notice for fans of Irish film, literature and that
Those of you who missed the special screening of the Philip Donnellan piece on BBC1′s Inside Out on 8th March, which featured interviews with Filum fans at the Spotted Dog who’d just watched his...
View ArticleSt Patrick’s Festival Irish literarure event
This year’s Irish literature event at Tuesday, which was part of the St Patrick’s Festival Birmingham Fringe, was as Kent Davis described – ‘great little event that we can build for the future’. It...
View ArticleA Saturday East Stride with We Are Eastside
There was a definite chill in the air last Saturday afternoon but that didn’t stop a good crowd braving the great outdoors for We Are Eastside’s East Stride, a tour of some of the area’s key arts...
View ArticleCelebrate Halloween with Tales of Terror at The Old Crown
There’s ‘spine-tingling theatre’ at The Old Crown from 8pm on Halloween with Tales of Terror. Tickets are £8 each and on sale now at the pub.
View ArticleThe Digbeth Cup
When: Saturday 11th August, 11:00 Where: Cooksey Lane Playing Fields, 127 Cooksey Lane, B44 9QS Tomorrow sees the return of the Digbeth Cup. Four pub teams will be thrashing it out at Cooksey Lane,...
View ArticleDRA AGM 2013
When: Monday 11th February, from 18:00 Where: Restaurant, Old Crown, High Street Digbeth The Annual General Meeting of Digbeth Residents Association will take place on Monday at 6pm in the Old Crown...
View ArticleDigbeth Speaks – Gangs of Digbeth Tour
When: Sunday 12th May, 2pm onwards Where: Meet at the Custard Factory, Gibb Street Digbeth Everyone is welcome to join DRA and Digbeth Speaks at the Old Crown afterwards to discuss Digbeth old and new...
View ArticleOktoberfest Digbeth
When: Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd October 2015 Where: The Old Crown, High Street, Digbeth, B12 0LD It’s about stein! Over the first weekend in October, The Old Crown’s Beer Garden will be transformed...
View ArticleNYE 2015 in Digbeth
Crimbo Limbo is well and truly upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you may have neglected to plan for NYE… Never fear! There is a whole smorgasbord of events taking place in our fair Digbeth,...
View ArticlePositively Birmingham
After a break of 12 years, and 21 years since it was first published, the contemporary photographic ode to our city, Positively Birmingham, returns for a fifth edition. Positively Birmingham is a...
View ArticleDigbeth Christmas Hamper
When: Friday 9th – Saturday 10th December, and Friday 16th – Saturday 17th December, 17:00-00:00 Where: The Old Crown, 188 High Street, Digbeth, B12 0LD Tickets: from £10 (available online here) After...
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