There’s a range of individual arts and music events coming up in Bournville this weekend so we thought it worth listing a few here.

Bournville Jazz, from 2pm, 17th July: The 26th Birmingham International Jazz Festival starts this week across Birmingham. Bournville is playing its part by co-hosting a ‘Jazz on Bournville Green’ event on Saturday afternoon. For the full programme and more details take a look at Bournville Village Council’s blog:
Link: Bournville Green Jazz Festival

Art talk, 17th July, 3pm: Also on Saturday, and also located next to the Village Green, is a talk at International Project Space by artist Lucy Clout who will be in conversation with Alice Channer, accompanied by film and video selected by Lucy Clout. According to the gallery: “the new works on display employ a variety of media to engage with ideas of conjecture and emptiness, adopting and adapting a range of pedagogical models that have been developed from a historical understanding of gendered performance work.” Work by the photographer Keith Arnatt is also on display.
Link: Press release on Lucy Clout exhibition (PDF file)

Sinfonia concert, 17th July, 8pm: The South Birmingham Sinfonia which is based in Bournville has a concert on Saturday evening in St Francis’ Church, Bournville. The Sinfonia are: “are a relaxed and friendly orchestra offering adult players of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to take part in amateur orchestral music making. We perform a broad range of music from major symphonic works and concertos with professional soloists to shorter classical and light pieces.” They will be playing peices by Bruvkner and Elgar.
Link: Concert details and programme.

Purple Gallery Summer Show: It’s also worth noting that the Purple Gallery on Maryvale road is continuing with its summer show, exhibiting, and selling, a range of work by 28 artists working in a variety of forms. Their website has biographies and examples of many of the works. The gallery also has a sculpture garden and serves teas and coffees. It is open Saturdays 10.00 am – 4.00 pm and Sundays 2.15 pm – 5.15 pm
Link: Purple Gallery Summer Show

Finally: For those of you who missed the special Carillon performance by Charlemagne Palestine on the 26th June there’s an excerpt below courtesy of attendee Julia Gilbert.

Pic by Pete Ashton