City Curator Highlights: Week Nine
15 July 2024
100 Days of Creativity: City Curator Highlights
City Curator Highlights: Week 9
July has to be one of the best months in Brum and week 9 of the 100 days of Creativity is another example of the incredible breadth of creativity in this city.
Here are my four recommendation for 15 – 21 July:
The Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival
Across Birmingham
19 – 28 July
Running since 1985, this is England’s longest-established jazz and blues festival and one of Europe’s biggest free jazz parties.
Performances take place in all sorts of venues, from shopping centres and bars to hotels and art galleries! You can find the full programme here: http://www.birminghamjazzfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jazz_Fest_2024_compressed.pdf
Jewellery Quarter Festival
Across the Jewellery Quarter
20 July
My favourite area in the whole city, Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter is a vibrant and charming place to visit at any time of year (and home to some of the city’s best bars and restaurants too!) but it really comes alive during the annual JQ Festival.
Enjoy live music and performances, independent makers markets, demonstrations, arts and heritage tours and even a Jewellery Quarter themed miniature golf course (I’m as curious as you are on that one!!).
You can find the full programme here: https://jewelleryquarter.net/whats-on/jq-festival/
Fierce Festival Programme Launch
Birmingham Black Box Theatre
17 July
I absolutely love Fierce Festival, which returns this year from 15 – 20 October. We’re thrilled to be able to celebrate this amazing event which brings the best contemporary performance art from around the world to Birmingham. Whilst you still have a few months to wait until the actual festival, on 17 July you can find out what’s coming up – knowing the team, no doubt there will be a surprise or two in store.
Midday Mantra: Sampad’s Summer Party
Symphony Hall
20 July
Celebrate the sunshine (I write with great anticipation) with music, dance and more!
Music will be courtesy of Rohan Roy Collective, a band that blends Indian music (classical ragas and folk) with Western contemporary genres such as jazz, featuring musicians from diverse backgrounds. The band is composed of some of the most talented musicians in London, and they perform original compositions that reflect this fusion of sounds.
Sampad promise some fun summer surprises at this event too, who doesn’t love a surprise?!
Alex Nicholson-Evans
12 July 2024
