If you’re struggling to find lots of interesting things to do with kids over the Christmas holls. take a look at this leaflet. Gives a whole variety of events and activities – mostly free.
Birmingham’s Festivals and Initiatives Team are seeking to commission six new projects which will deliver bold and inspiring public participatory programmes as part of Say Hello for 2010/2011.
The projects will celebrate Birmingham’s digital and technological achievements by developing new collaborations to increase the presence of digital content and widen the engagement with online and offline users. It is intended that the commissions will create ground-breaking initiatives, using digital media along with other artforms or technology such as Dance, Music, Film, Visual Arts, Animation, Open Data, Gaming etc to assist in developing a more meaningful and sustainable engagement with new audiences.
If you have had experience of developing and delivering participatory work and engaging with a wide range of communities and young people, this is an excellent opportunity to provide high quality digital initiatives in the heart of neighbourhoods and communities; creating dialogue and interest in the arts from new audiences through creative digital interventions and improving visitor perceptions more..
Note, applications should arrive no later than 10am on Wednesday 9th December 2010.
For successful applicants interviews will take place on Wednesday 15th December 2010. The contract will commence in December and run between December 2010 and March 2011.
SOS – Hackers urgently needed for trans-global ‘Hackathon’ – Birmingham in collaboration with Edmonton (Canada) and Seoul (Korea)!!
When? Wednesday 20th October 2010 – 14:00 to Thursday 21st October 14:00. We know this announcement comes at short notice but you don’t get notice in a real emergency!
Where? Birmingham Science Park Aston Faraday Wharf, Holt Street.
What will our hackathon be like? It will be slightly different from most hackathons. As we work on our project, we will be sharing what we’re working on with Edmonton [Canada] and Seoul [Korea] as we ‘follow the sun’.
We’re going to spend 24 hours trying to create the blueprint for an app design that can be used in cities all over the world. This will be an application that will help families prepare during a disaster and will list emergency muster points, emergency info, alerts during disasters, and what to do. It will cater for different scenarios: although floods or a Buncefield type explosion are both emergency situations, you don’t handle them the same way. The aim of this app is to keep people safe, and we hope to come up with a guideline for how it should look – so that app designers around the world can pick up the guideline and run with it.
For more information and to book a place, please click here.
I received a fab little video this morning from LGTV in which Martha Lane Fox was being interviewed on the benefits of being digitally included, as part of her ‘Race Online’ campaign. Its great to see someone so close to Central Government sending out such powerful messages. Take a look at the full interview here
The dates for the Birmingham Open Weekend 2010, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, have been confirmed as 23 – 25 July 2010.
As part of Cultural Olympiad, Say Hello, Aston Pride, the BBC and Digital Birmingham will be on hand to showcase the Digital Time Capsule where you, the people of Birmingham, will be able to record and upload your memorable moment in the form of a video, an image and/or audio file etc.
Come and join the team in Victoria Square on Friday 23 July 2010 from 10am – 4pm and be a part of Birmimgham’s digital journey!
The Aston Community Festival 2010 is a free for all event taking place on Sunday 27 June 2010 at Aston Villa Football Club, Witton Lane, Birmingham. B6 from 12pm – 7pm.
The event will host live music, a fun fair, food, face painters and much more.
For more information, please click here.
Silver Surfers’ Day is the biggest, national campaign to promote use of digital technologies by older people. It is run by Digital Unite and was started in 2002, this is the ninth annual event.
On Silver Surfers’ Day Digital Unite support people and organisations all over the UK to open their doors and give local older people a taste of what the digital world has to offer them at a Silver Surfers’ Day Event.
Anyone can become an Event Holder – if you’re already working with older people, if you are passionate about supporting them to be digitally literate, then this is an event for you!
For more information and to find an event near you, please go to the Digital Unite webpage.
We invite event management companies to tender for the Beyond 2010 event on 20-21 October, at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The full invitation is below with all the contact details you need.
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If you want us to pick up on a digital news story of your own, please contact us on digital@birmingham.gov.uk and put NEWS in the subject title.
Recent news stories include:
National Digital Inclusion Champion in Birmingham
Majestic SEO secures investment partner
New rail hub exterior designed
The link to our news site is http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/news. Happy reading!
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