Hall Green Art Works

Volunteer Roles - Art Works Social Media Assistant Events Assistant Blogger Advert Art Works is the Local Arts Forum for the Hall Green area which includes Moseley, Hall Green, Sparkbrook , Springfield, Balsall Heath and Kings Heath. We work with artists and organisations to develop art and artists in the area. We are currently looking for volunteers to increase our work within the area including Social Media Assistant, Events Assistant and Volunteer Bloggers. 30th November - Midnight Please email a CV and covering letter to artworkshallgreen@gmail.com outlining which role you are applying for and how you meet the Personal Specification.   All are roles are voluntary. Social Media Assistant Tasks To work with local arts coordinator to increase engagement of social media on Twitter and Facebook To provide content for Facebook Group and Twitter profile To schedule relevant, interesting and engaging content on Twitter profile. Com...

This year The Springfield Project are focusing on the idea of Curiosity for their Creative Families festival.  It was so successful last year that we are extending it to FOUR days over the October half term this time – 30 th October – 2 nd  November 10 – 3.00pm.    The motivation for this year will be around  Curiosity – why how what?  When really wow!  What wakes curiosity and wants to make you find out more?  I would like to involve art, light and shadow, drama, roleplay, dance, song and making in this collaboration and invite your expressions of interest by 5.00pm 21 st  September.

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Ort Gallery are pleased to present ‘Beloved (The Somerset House Conference)’ a new commission by British-Pakistani artist Kashif Nadim Chaudry. Chaudry is Nottingham-based and received a BA in Textiles from Goldsmiths College.  For ‘Beloved’ the artist draws inspiration from two places; firstly from the poetry of Rumi, the 13 th  century Sufi mystic and secondly from the 17 th  century painting ‘The Somerset House Conference’. Rumi refers to the beloved frequently within his poetry and there is a lot of debate as to whether this beloved is in fact his male lover Shams or else a term for the Divine or, perhaps, both.  ‘The Somerset House Conference’ is a painting Chaudry has been obsessed with for a long time: “It’s quite an odd composition, populated with a group of very austere looking men, surrounded by a very rich and opulent interior; it’s full of contrast and heavily symbolic, which I love.” The exhibition takes over the gallery through large conical f...

  'The Spice of Life'. In November and December of 2017 Art Works took part in the SPARK Festival of South Asian Art. SPARK was part of Utsav - Birmingham City Council’s Year of South Asian Arts The Festival was two weeks of films, music, arts, crafts, street art, theatre, poetry, food provided by a mixture of Six Birmingham community and  arts organisations either based in and/or working with a range of communities from Sparkhill or Sparkbrook areas. The Festival offered a number of events designed with and by local people, that give a flavour of the rich diversity of arts activities influenced by South Asian Arts in this bustling part of Birmingham. Over a period of ten weeks we worked with a variety of groups from the Springfield Project, Creative and Welcome groups Friends of Sparkhill Park  The Forest School and St John’s School   Azadi Glue All groups contributed towards the building of the ‘Spice Cart’, a piece of processional art...