Join us this weekend for the next Sunday Film Club, programmed by

Kino 10, where we delve into archival footage documenting Great British holidays (before we were calling them ‘staycations’).

Before there were package holidays and budget airlines, us Brits used to be more than happy jumping on a train and holidaying right here in good old blighty. For this special film screening, we’ll be looking back at those traditional English holidays and transporting you back to a bygone age with a selection of shorts from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We’ll be reminiscing about summer holidays on the east coast in We Chose Skegness (1961), taking a high speed cab ride from Paddington to Snow Hill in the classic Let’s Go to Birmingham (1962), and coaching it up to the Peak District (1952). Part travelogue, part comedy, and part propaganda, these films, from both the British Film Institute and the Media Archive for Central England are a fascinating insight into how we once used to travel. They’re sure to make you smile and get you thinking about summer 2014. Expect deck chairs, tea ladies, and some tasty picnic treats.

Birmingham and Beyond is at 2pm on Sunday 20th October at Library of Birmingham Studio Theatre. Tickets are £5 and kids go free www.birmingham-box.co.uk

Thanks to all who came to visit The Outcrowd Collective in residency last week, with the House of Beorma Archive. A beautiful homage to the lost customs of Birmingham. Images by Katja Ogrin.

Creating offerings to the House of Beorma

One of the lost relics resdiscovered by the Outcrowd Collective

Carousel. Image by Keith Dodds

In partnership with Vivid Projects, the next Discovery season is Carousel. All this week the Pavilion will house Cathy Wade’s residency, she is creating an immersive environment that explores ownership, time, sound and image. Come and meet Cathy artist and work with hand held projectors or carousels, with original slides and mementos, to create ever changing projected environments. Catch this residency from Tuesday 15th October til Sunday 20th.

We’re sad to have to announce that Zomes have cancelled their tour and will no longer be at Bring To Light. In happier news, the excellent Grumbling Fur have been added to the bill. They got a great reaction at the St Paul’s church show this April, so it’s great to have them back. Featuring Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver, Miasma and The Carousel of Headless Horses, Guapo, Mothlite), they concoct a potent brew of doomy psychedelia, interspersed with blissful krautrock, Grumbling Fur will play Bring To Light on Saturday 26th October.

Day and weekend tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

A playlist of some of the sounds coming from the Capsule office, featuring Evil Blizzard, Grumbling Fur, Sarah Angliss and more.

Characters from the Festival of the Rea – part of the House of Beorma archive of the city’s lost origins

Six weeks into the Discovery season and we’re getting great feedback on our celebration of the new library. The Discovery Trail is open for you to explore throughout the season. And each week there are one off events and workshops to get involved in.

This week the Outcrowd Collective are in residency. They present the House of Beorma archive, a selection of artefacts from lost local history. Come visit them til Sunday 13th October in the Pavilion, and make your own offerings in honour of Birmingham’s lost customs and festivals.

Reference Works is an exhibition featuring new works by photographers Brian Griffin, Andrew Lacon, Michael Collins and Stuart Whipps. Each artist diplays their creative responses to the new Library of Birmingham, the ‘old’ Central Library building and the build, transition and relocation. Stuart Whipps will be giving a free exhibition tour this Saturday 12th October at 11am.

There’s still time to sign up for the Shangaan Electro dance workshops. Your chance to be part of the South African dance craze that became a youtube sensation – workshops are 1pm or 3pm on Friday 25th October at Dancexchange, Thorp Street. Workshops are totally free, you just need to sign up via [email protected]

Shangaan Electro will also perform as part of the Bring To Light weekend of adventurous music, 25-27 October. The next in the Discover New Music series, this event features the artist Dinos Chapman, roboticist Sarah Angliss, the Brain Pulse Music of Masaki Batoh and many more. Day and weekend tickets are available viawww.theticketsellers.co.uk

A composer, multi-instrumentalist, roboticist and sound historian, Sarah Angliss‘ work explores her obsessions with defunct machinery, faded variety acts and European folklore. Awarded Most Groundbreaking Act of Brighton Festival and Fringe 2013, Sarah will perform at Bring To Light on Sunday 26th October at the Library of Birmingham.

Sarah’s music mixes her own software patches with samples, field recordings and live performance on theremin, saw, recorder, waterphone, keyboard, handbells and other instruments.

Sarah is currently researching a book about sound, is sound designing an exhibition on a 1940s submarine, composing tracks for a solo album and working on a 7” record for Ghost Box.

Tickets for Bring To Light are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Building on their project The Festival of The Rea that took place at Supersonic Festival 2012, The Outcrowd Collective will turn the Pavilion into a museum of fictional and real archival material around ‘Beorma’ the chieftan of the Beormingas clan who are the first known Anglo-Saxon settlers and founders of Birmingham. Drawing on Benjamin Stone’s photographs of rural procession and folk celebrations – held in the Library of Birmingham’s archives – The Outcrowd will also present re-imagined celebrations and rituals to Beorma.

Visit The House of Beorma Archive at Library of Birmingham from Tuesday 8th October til Sunday 13th October.

Festival of the Rea from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

dance of the dun cow from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Thanks to all who came to the Rise of Birmingham show at the library last Wednesday. Such a great crowd, and four brilliant performances. Photos by Katja Ogrin.

Free School

Free School were joined on stage by three different vocalists, Greg Bird, Sigmund Frued and Tomlin Mystic

Victories at Sea

Victor

Youth Man

This is Tmrw DJ set

HTF Media created this video of the night…

The next music event at the library is Bring To Light 25-27 October- think of it as a mini Supersonic and a real celebration of new and adventurous music. Weekend and day tickets are available via theticketsellers.co.uk and at Milque and Muhle record shop, Custard Factory, Birmingham.