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More fun and games planned for Thursday at the Moseley Festival!
Us gingers had a great time at the Ginger Fest, with over 30 redheads in attendance - as well as gardening redhead Alys Fowler and representatives from BBC West Midlands and the Birmingham Mail. Much ale was had and friendships formed as we were treated to a ginger quiz, a song in the honour of ginge, heroes and zeroes (winners and losers being the proclaimers and mick hucknall respectively, although there was some hucknall love going on), and a beauty pageant - where gingers gave us a brief manifesto of what being ginger means to them. The deserved winner was Rowena, who gave us a G-I-N-G-E-R rundown of the great things about owning the rarest form of hair known to the world. It was another great event taking part during this year’s festival, and it was a real pleasure to be part of it. Now go out and do your own ginger things!
Meditation, tango and tug of war make the line up for Wednesday’s Moseley Festival - as well as Ginger Fest and the excellent Music by Candlelight.
Check out some of the great events happening today as part of the Moseley Festival.
Whilst many were enjoying the sunshine and owl day in Moseley Park, a crowd of webby types got together upstairs at The Cross to hear some great stories from the heart of Birmingham’s vibrant social media scene at the Moseley Barcamp. The brainchild of WXWM and @graphiquillan and friends, the Barcamp featured presentations including Pete Ashton (co-working), MC Jon Bounds (psychogeography - don’t ask), Chris Unitt (the award-winning Created in Birmingham blog) and Andy Mabbett (tagging). A packed audience played along as Nikki Pugh took us outside for an inpromptu game of people, porcupine, panther (like rock paper scissors but with more animated hand signs) on the village ‘green’ - much to the bemusement of passers by. But we were in Moseley, after all, so no surprise that something unusual was going on! Tom Martin gave us some top tips in twenty seconds on why your blog is slow; and Multipack got the audience going with a debate around Brum’s web credibility. For more details of who was on, visit Moseley Barcamp website. And all of this was broadcast live by community legends Rhubarb Radio, who did another excellent job of covering such a great social event. An audio archive of the event should be available soon. The barcamp was a fantastic opportunity for a lot of (somewhat hungover, in certain cases) people to find out more about the Birmingham social media scene. Thanks to The Cross, the crew, and all those people who took part - including Aquila TV, who laid on the bacon butties at half time. If you’re interested in finding out more about social media, look out for meetings such as WXWM, the Birmingham Social Media Cafe, the social media surgeries, Birmingham Bloggers, Likemind… there is quite a lot of stuff out there. Pics and that Sketches of the panellists and crew by Alex Hughes Wordsa above by Rob, @elbunglio Here’s a good way to dispose of your secondhand books. Next Sunday, 5th July, there’s a fundraising event to raise money for the Tsunami Children’s Rehabilitation Project. It’s an Open Garden at 30 Chantry Road, one of the best gardens for many miles. (This event is not to be confused with the Open Day at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, which takes place today, Sunday 28th, 2pm -5pm. See this and all Festival events in the listing!) Cor Blimey - what a great Street Fair day for sunshine, it was glorious! I started off with erecting a Gazebo in the front garden at 1 Warren Avenue as a shelter for art trail visitors in case it rained. Then I dropped off the art trail maps to the newsagents Select & Save (where maps will now be available - also the art trail map is online) fingers crossed there will be enough for both weekends! I was on the radio from 10:20am, BBCWM, chatting to Janice Long about the art trail which was loads of fun everyone should try getting on the radio at least once. The day just ran away from me after this…my shift on the festival information stall flew by as did some of the helium balloons we were churning out. I managed to check on some of the art exhibitions and people seemed to be enjoying visiting the different venues - please continue to travel to meet the artists especially the places that you may not have had a chance to visit today they really love to chat about their work. I rounded off my day with tapas and wine at Deolali which felt like a great treat. |
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Some more great events in line for today.
