Fierce, Shout & Birmingham Hippodrome present Come on, Vogue!

Fierce have curated Brian Lobel, Harold Offeh and Rock-a-Hula to do turns on the catwalk…YEAH!

Come on, Vogue from Birmingham Hippodrome on Vimeo.

See you there!

A look back at what happened on Thursday 15th 3pm…Fierce Start Party @AE Harris…

What is the Fierce Start Party? Hear Laura talk about it below:

The afternoon and evening celebrated the practice of the Fierce Festival Caravan of Artists 2010 – 2011, including live performances, interventions, and spaces to allow us to pick your brains. We had audiovisual delights from biTjAM then later some party music from mama feel good!

EXYZT @AE Harris for the Fierce Start Party

We had live blogging from this is tomorrow and photography by Briony Campbell. Here is some of Kira O’Reilly’s performance from the afternoon captured by James Smith from this is tomorrow:

Kira O’Reilly from this is tomorrow on Vimeo.

Everyone was invited – so thanks to all those who came along and those who stayed until the very end! We hope you picked up a Fierce Loyalty Card (it’s not too late to get one) and your fortune cookie.

Following the Fierce Start Party Lyn Gardner talked about the Fierce Festival Caravan of Artists 2010 – 2011 and our new approach to the festival model – a little snippet below:

Lots of festivals simply programme from the work that is available,” Morrison explains. “We’ve not gone shopping for artists who will just turn up on the night. We’ve looked for people whose work we really like, but who are prepared to have an ongoing and in-depth 10-month engagement with us and with local people. By the time Fierce happens, we’ll all know each other really well.” Even the timing – late February – is a break with the arts festival summer tradition. Was that dictated by the current May to September logjam? “It’s because the light is better,” says McDermott. “It makes you look at things differently – it makes you look twice.”

For the full article click here.

We hope to see you all very soon at Fierce Interrobang 1: Regeneration (24th – 26th June).

Were you at the Fierce Start Party? If so let’s hear your impressions of the event…

Joint Artistic Directors of Fierce Festival, Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison invite you to Fierce Start Party!!! |||| What’s a Start Party? It’s the beginning of an exciting journey. What will be there? Fierce Festival artists sharing tasters of their work. When’s the next festival? We’ll tell you the shape of Fierce’s next year |||| A.E Harris Building,128 Northwood Street, Birmingham, Jewellery Quarter, B3 1SZ |||| Save the Date!!! |||| Thursday 15^th April |||| visit our new blog at www.wearefierce.org for additional details about the Start Party|||| Doors open from 3pm. Words at 7pm. Party from 9pm.||||

• names and places I’ve never been or heard of
• Kingsheath or Moseley?
• Too much shopping
• beautiful-ugly
• mistaken for a woman by blokes outside the British Legion pub while walking with Laura
• what’s the front door you imagine when asked to imagine home?
• Eagle-tattooed front man: head-crashing, ear-pulsing, knee-jerking, gentle-whispering
• Looking for Auden and Tolkien in the landscape
• Recognized by staff of London Midlands trains
• Wild speculation that the flat beneath us was occupied by Banksy on hide out. Clues: recycled box of New Balance trainers, empty graffiti cans, in and out at odd hours of the night.
• Berlin or Birmingham? Berlinham
• Kira O’Reilly lives in Birmingham
• A beautiful eighteenth century dovecote
• AE Harris building singing with potential
• A flat transforming into a home parallel to the establishment of a collection of household items destroyed by guests
• ‘M.S.’ melted our kettle and burnt the oven gloves
• Nicholas made soup
• Inspiration walks
• And what about my per diems? It all over – It all over!?
• Stan’s Cafe live in Birmingham
• Met the occupant of the flat beneath us. He is a graf artist, not Bansky. Disappointed.
• Baskerville is currently my favorite font
• Staggering towards the terrifyingly named ‘Bear Grease’ – actually a Wetherspoons called The Pear Tree
• The coming insurrection
• ducks and swans cracking ice on the water in front of the MAC
• a drawing of a giant snowman in the car park
• “We are now approaching Birmingham New St. our final destination”