22nd Feb 2012 ⁄ A Birmingham design agency’s newest recruit has big plans for the company. Barques Design, based in the Jewellery Quarter, has appointed Kathryn Small as business development manager...
22nd Feb 2012 ⁄ Broadcasting expert Llewela Bailey has joined Birmingham-based Prominent Media and Communications to head up its media training service. Llewela, one of the most familiar faces on regional television, has a wealth of experience in broadcasting, having worked in the industry...
21st Feb 2012 ⁄ A graduate filmmaker is hoping leave his mark on Stoke-on-Trent with the premiere of his vampire drama. Staffordshire University graduate, Chris Stone, will open the Stoke Your Fires Film Festival with Blood and Bone China...
20th Feb 2012 ⁄ Media Production students from Coventry University have set themselves the ultimate movie-making challenge of creating a crowd-funded, full-length feature film to be shot on location in the UK and in California...
20th Feb 2012 ⁄ A one woman operetta about social networking by acclaimed London composer Anne Chmelewsky has raised more than £2,000 for local brain tumour charity The Joseph Foote Trust. The composer chose the Solihull-based charity after learning about the support they had...
17th Feb 2012 ⁄ Turning Point West Midlands (TPWM), the network that works to strengthen the visual arts in the West Midlands, has been awarded funds from Arts Council England to deliver TPWM Projects over the next two years...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ An international film festival celebrating East Asian cinema will see Coventry University’s Ellen Terry Building revert to a picture palace for the first time since the Coventry Odeon closed its doors over 12 years ago...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ One of England's best-loved clarinet players is to perform one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire with Orchestra of the Swan next month. Emma Johnson will be playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the leading UK chamber orchestra at Town Hall Birmingham...
13th Feb 2012 ⁄ Birmingham-based Digital Agency Fast Fwd Multimedia Ltd has completed work on a brief from Ann Summers to develop a new microsite and supporting mobile apps to launch a model competition as part of its consumer brand re-launch in Autumn/Winter 2011...
7th Feb 2012 ⁄ Dice Productions are celebrating their latest award win for their short film All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) after picking up the Best Comedy Short award at the 9th London Short Film Festival. The Birmingham-based animators and writers are also finalists...
3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ A Stoke-based digital firm has been enlisted by one of the nation’s rising reality TV stars to ensure that the ‘desperate scousewife’ gets more than her fifteen minutes of fame. The latest regionalised reality series, Desperate Scousewives...
31st Jan 2012 ⁄ The Joseph Foote Trust received a cash boost from The Company of Master Jewellers when it raised £1,500 for the Solihull-based brain tumour research charity. The organisation, which has some 135 jewellery retail members representing 240 shops across the UK...
21st Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Due to phenomenal public demand, one of the comedy circuit's fastest rising stars is set to return to Nottingham in May. Canadian Tom Stade first came to prominence on the debut series of BBC One's Mi...
