The Colmore Food Festival 2019 dates have been released! We will be back in Victoria Square celebrating our District venues on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2019, 11am-7pm. The Festival will be full of food, drink, music and entertainment! As always we will have many District favourites returning serving their taster portion dishes but this year dishes will be up to £4! We hope to be joined with some of the new venues that have come into the District…

Colmore Chorus is the Colmore BID’s District Choir. They rehearse on Monday’s between 1-2pm at Livery Place, 35 Livery Street, B3 2PB. So if you would like to join, please come along to a rehearsal or contact Katy Paddock at katy.paddock@colmorebid.co.uk   NO REHEARSALS ON 22nd APRIL, 6th MAY and 27th MAY AS THESE AREBANK HOLIDAYS.          

All abilities are very welcome. Route consists of canal paths, city running and the occasional geese, and the route is approximately two miles. Our Meeting point is at Up and Running The Grand, 29 Colmore Row, Every Tuesday. 12:15 – Warmup 12:30 – Start Time 13:10 – Finish Time If you are interested in attending the Tuesday running group please get in touch with Katy who will connect you with the group leader.

Colmore Chorus is the Colmore BID’s District Choir. They rehearse on Monday’s between 1-2pm at Livery Place, 35 Livery Street, B3 2PB. So if you would like to join, please come along to a rehearsal or contact Katy Paddock at katy.paddock@colmorebid.co.uk   NO REHEARSALS ON 22nd APRIL, 6th MAY and 27th MAY AS THESE AREBANK HOLIDAYS.          

All abilities are very welcome. Route consists of canal paths, city running and the occasional geese, and the route is approximately two miles. Our Meeting point is at Up and Running The Grand, 29 Colmore Row, Every Tuesday. 12:15 – Warmup 12:30 – Start Time 13:10 – Finish Time If you are interested in attending the Tuesday running group please get in touch with Katy who will connect you with the group leader.

All abilities are very welcome. Route consists of canal paths, city running and the occasional geese, and the route is approximately two miles. Our Meeting point is at Up and Running The Grand, 29 Colmore Row, Every Tuesday. 12:15 – Warmup 12:30 – Start Time 13:10 – Finish Time If you are interested in attending the Tuesday running group please get in touch with Katy who will connect you with the group leader.

Join us from 12.30pm in Church Street Square for a free lunchtime Jazz performance from Chase Jazzmen. This talented Shropshire-based band is made up of musicians with long-standing experience in popular traditional jazz. The Chase Jazzmen with more music from the period between 1900 and 1950, all dispensed with a touch of humour. The band’s main repertoire is traditional in style, but the programme also includes Sinatra-style swing compositions. This performance is part of the Birmingham, Sandwell and Westside Jazz…

Join us from 12.30pm in Church Street Square for a free lunchtime Jazz performance from Eureka Jazz Band. Birmingham-based, the Eureka Jazz Band offers a flexible approach – in terms of numbers and presentation style – to traditional Dixieland jazz. What remains constant, apart from the entertainment value, is the band’s devotion to the great popular songs of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. This performance is part of the Birmingham, Sandwell and Westside Jazz Festival 2019.  

Join us from 12.30pm in Church Street Square for a free lunchtime Jazz performance from Sauce City Jazz Band. Formed in 1992, the Worcestershire-based six piece is making its fourth appearance at the Festival. Sauce City’s brand of traditional Dixieland has long proved popular throughout the Midlands. This performance is part of the Birmingham, Sandwell and Westside Jazz Festival 2019.

Join us from 12.30pm in the Cathedral Grounds for a free lunchtime Jazz performance from Tenement Jazz Band. Since the band’s formation in Edinburgh in January 2018 the Tenement Jazz Band has built an instant reputation for old-style New Orleans jazz played with youthful verve. Initially a six-piece, the band has now settled down to a five-piece, with the band’s founder, trombonist Patrick Darley, joined in the front line by fellow-alumni of Edinburgh University, Charles ‘Chuck’ Deerness and soprano saxist…

All abilities are very welcome. Route consists of canal paths, city running and the occasional geese, and the route is approximately two miles. Our Meeting point is at Up and Running The Grand, 29 Colmore Row, Every Tuesday. 12:15 – Warmup 12:30 – Start Time 13:10 – Finish Time If you are interested in attending the Tuesday running group please get in touch with Katy who will connect you with the group leader.

During the past year, a staggering 41,436 three-day emergency food supplies were given out by Birmingham’s foodbanks. That’s a massive 23% increase on the previous year, and 5% more than the national average. That’s why BirminghamLive has launched its #BrumFeeds campaign for another year, in partnership with the Trussell Trust – the UK’s largest foodbank charity. On Friday, August 16, the #BrumFeeds Big Drop event is taking place in Victoria Square and businesses across the District are invited to come by and make a donation. Whether a whole…