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EXHIBITION:
IF I WERE THE DEVIL
You know how movie trailers inspired video games trailers and, in turn, book publishers started making trailers for new books? Well, now there's such thing as art exhibition trailers and they are, on the whole, terrible. This one is good. Very good. It features the late American radio commentator Paul Harvey’s prophetic ‘If I Were the Devil’ speech, which was broadcast to a US audience in 1965. From drugs and alcohol to sex and gambling, Harvey’s speech postulated what the devil might do to corrupt society. Decades later, much of it is bob on and the speech is the inspiration for Wolverhampton artist Keith Maiden's brilliant (and free) exhibition of the same name. If I Were the Devil runs March 12 to 20 at Castle Fine Art. More pics, the trailer and a transcript, right here.
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WIN A YEAR'S WORTH OF WAGAMAMA
If you're struggling to call out your katsu from your kimchee, wagamama is giving one wise and worthy subscriber to I Choose Birmingham (that's ALL of you, then) the next twelve months to find out. Get yourself a meal for two, each month, for the next year. That's £360 worth of brothy, rameny, herbaceous goodness to be slurped at wagamama Brindleyplace, Bullring or New Street. To enter, all you need do is be a paid up subscriber of this here (always free) e-mag and tell us who you'd share your spoils with over on Facebook. The fact that wagamama was created by the same man responsible for both Hakkasan and Yauatcha may or may not help your chances. Okay, it won't help your chances at all but in terms of trivia, we're pretty pleased with it.
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SONIC THE HADRON
What do a north African remake of Purple Rain, a picnic in the desert and the Hadron Collider (pictured) have in common? All feature at UoB's Arts and Science Festival, which this year explores memory and forgetting, through free exhibitions, performances and screenings. The pick of the busy bunch arrives in the form of a collaboration including Switzerland's CERN and the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research - which absolutely did not gain its title based on the acronym it creates. The pairing will present a performance involving the sonification of data streams from the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most complex particle accelerator. Experimental data will be the raw material for improvised music and visualisations programmed by the ensemble. BEER: Dark Matter is a happenin' on March 17 at BOM. Nomad is of course involved, and you should expect a physics-inspired menu (we have no idea what you should expect).
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