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Culture Club, Week 3: Landscapes!
Landscapes! And is there a better place to start than with our city itself? In Week Two, Culture Club created landscapes featuring Birmingham architecture. Last week, members focused instead on famous artists. We began last week’s session by learning about two Birmingham artists: first was Santhanha Nguyen, whose depiction of the Birmingham Wholesale […]
Culture Club, Week 2: Architecture!
It was all about Architecture last week for our Culture Clubbers! Birmingham is filled with amazing buildings, spanning centuries – from the 17th Century ‘Sarehole Mill’ to the 21st Century ‘Bullring’ and, even closer to Culture Club, our very own ‘The Edge’. Architecture surrounds us, and the Club had the opportunity to share their own […]
Culture Club, Week 1: Intros and Music
As Culture Club launches, we hear from Lead Artist Sarah Kaur who tells us what happened in the first week…
Home on International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2021. In 2019/2020, we had the privilege of meeting and hearing the stories of 11 women from African-Caribbean communities talking about ‘home’ and their relationship with ‘back home’. Photographer Vanley Burke took beautiful portraits of these women in their homes. We recorded some of their stories and using Augmented Reality, created […]
Job opportunity – Culture Club Support Artist (Now closed for applications)
Friction Arts is seeking a support artist who can help deliver a new and ambitious programme of work for young people. The series of twenty workshops – funded by Birmingham City Council – are part of a pilot project to support young people outside of the formal education system in exploring their cultural backgrounds through […]
Drop-in Fridays
Join us for Drop In Fridays on Zoom. In December 2020, we decided to reignite one of our favourite traditions: Drop In Fridays. You used to pop into The Edge, catch us up on what you’d been up to, share with us an idea you’d had, a funding bid you’d been working on, or to […]
Announcement: Friction Arts is Shortlisted for Civic Arts Award
We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Award for Civic Arts Organisations. The Award ‘highlights and celebrates civic arts organisations and their response to the pandemic’ and will ‘shine a spotlight on the vital role that arts organisations play in sustaining a thrilling, creative, and connected society, particularly during challenging times.’ […]
Announcement: Culture Club and New Partner, Sarah Kaur
We’re adding a new community club for young people: Culture Club. It will celebrate and share the cultural identities of Birmingham’s diverse young people using a wide range of arts techniques, artists and art from around the world. What makes Culture Club different is that the curriculum will be co-designed by the participants themselves, shaped […]
It Gets Lighter from Here: Friction Arts Joins Other Arts Organisations to Bring Hope for 2021
We’re joining up with Culture Central to celebrate the Winter Solstice. But this year’s shortest day is like no other: the hope it symbolically represents has been overshadowed by strict lockdown measures with dancing naked at Stonehenge being ruled out altogether. In response, and alongside lots of arts organisations across the region, we’ve worked with […]
Art Club Halloween event
The virus has meant that we have had to suspend our in-person clubs. While this was a necessary step to take to protect the health of Friction Arts’ staff and our clubs’ parents, carers, and participants, we realise that it’s nobody’s first choice. As a reprieve, we’ve decided to host a special, one-off event for […]