In my experience the week following a festival tends to involve lots of sleeping, eating, clearing up, looking for things that have got lost, paying bills and gazing into space. There’s also a fair bit of googling for festival writeups. Although this is mainly narcissism, it’s also curiosity about what kind of festival experience people had while we were running around town shunting gear and barking into phones. Gathered here are some of the results of our self-googling…
Look out for the nice Flatpack writeup in t’Guardian Guide today. One small error we should point out: Moon Unit and Jackdaw with Crowbar are actually playing on Saturday night at the Plasticine Party, not as part of the opening.
Although, people in glass houses… There are are a couple of minor changes to our published brochure. The main ones to mention are:
- The Matt Stokes screening on Saturday 27th March at VIVID is taking place at 3pm, not 1pm.
– Tickets for Until The Light Takes Us are £6, not £4/£3 as advertised in some places.
– David Hurley’s installation won’t be open until Monday Tuesday.
– Sacred Places is now showing with Ben Rivers’ wonderful I Know Where I’m Going as well as Facts About Projection, so the screening will end at around 8:20.
That’s pretty much it. Any other last-minute updates or additions will be posted here.
Thanks to the very helpful people at The Ticketsellers, booking for Flatpack is a breeze. As you probably know many of our venues are pretty intimate, so if you want to be sure of seeing something – or take advantage of the 4 screenings for £20 deal – then sort your tickets in advance. Things which are selling particularly well include…
– If you’re planning to see the latter, you might like to know that there will be a pre-screening black metal warm-up session at Scruffy Murphy’s in Dale End beforehand. (Details for facebookites here.)
– The Odeon bus tour got a mention on radio 4 this afternoon when the Film Programme took a tour of the Electric; should be on iPlayer soon.
– As noted by Created in Birmingham, colourful stripes are appearing all over various festival shops and venues. David Hurley is also in the CiB shop over the weekend installing his strange family of mannequins.
– Finally, we end this disjointed and maybe slightly frazzled blog post with a doffed cap to our hero of the week – Adam at Aquila TV, who has been holed up in their edit suite all week compiling the shorts programmes.
Have a lovely weekend, and we’ll see you next week….
As you may have noticed, this little blog has suddenly become surrounded by a bulging programme of goodies. There is a fair bit to digest on the website, but once again we have to say a big thank you to Dave Gaskarth (Cyrk, design) and Jacob Masters (Gabba, build) for making it so digestible. The Flatpack brochure is also on its way and will be hitting the streets in about a week. Last night we paraded our wares and handed out stickers at the newly opened Created in Birmingham shop in the Bullring – a really nice do, and we’re looking forward to camping out in the shop over the course of the festival.
After the recent copy-writing marathon it’s time to take a break from words, but we’ll be back next week to start flagging up some of the treats in store.
