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29th November
See
The Levellers at
The Academy - very good. The contast between the clothes of the band and the audience is interesting. The audience are wearing what the Levellers wore 5 years ago, whilst the band are wearing the clothes of today. Includes free entry to a club night after.
24th November
See
An Invention For Destruction - a Czech semi-animated film from the 1950's, directed by Karel Zeman and based on some of the works of
Jules Verne, at theMAC.
23rd November
Do action about plans for Birmingham Airport expansion with
Birmingham Friends Of The Earth and local residents. Photo appears on front page of
The Birmingham Post.
Also go to see the
Vivid Labculture event at the UGC, probably the hardest thing to get to see at the film festival. Firstly, there's no venue listed, so you have to ring to find out (they take my name), next, there's no-one on the film festival ticket/info stall, and none of the UGC staff seem to know anything about it (though the guy does let us past without tickets), hang around in the cafe-bar for a while until someone comes and asks us if we're here for the Vivid event, then the guy on the door of the cinema refuses to let us in (it's a free event, but we don't have tickets, even though we rang up) luckily someone behind us claims we're with them. Finally in the cinema. 1st problem - no sound, then the picture is too big for the screen! The only people there are the people who've made the films, and even some of them have trouble finding it! Still, it was quite good in the end!
22nd November
Klub Catusi at
Patrick Kavanagh's.
21st November
See the
Total Balalika Show at the
Electric Cinema, featuring the fantabulous
Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus. Basically just a film of a gig, the music is good and the interactions between the "Cowboys" and the Chorus are fantastic. What a way to end a revolution!
20th November
See
First Cut at the UGC - 4 local short films, Sikh, Rattle & Roll,
Front Line, 420 Seconds of Love, A Matter of Taste. "420 Seconds" was probably my favourite, recounting the various love affairs of a local woman through flash backs, filmed as a documentary with an excellent lead.
19th November
See Baadasssss Cinema - a documentary about blaxploitation films and Superfly (blaxploitation classic) at
The MAC
17th November
Birmingham Film Festival starts. See "Take Care Of Your Scarf, Tatjana" at
The Electric, a Finish road movie featuring a guest appearance from
The Leningrad Cowboys (who also act in it).
16th November 2002
Visit
The Sunflower Lounge for the first time. It's packed for a private party - seems like quite a nice venue.
15th November 2002
See
Capsule And Cake at the
Electric Cinema - DJ's, music including
Floach (who's great), films etc. Excellent!
12th November 2002
Saw A????'s Boy's, a script in hand rendition of a play about racism in the American south at
The Rep.
10th November 2002
Trying out the
Zoe email indexer, and
Converting Outlook Express Email.
9th November 2002
Saw
Papa November at the Icon.
2nd November 2002
Saw
The Glastonbury Play in a marquee at
The Nature Centre.
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