At the Edge

I was going to start this post with the word ‘busy’ – until I remembered that we’ve banned the use of the word – i.e. ‘How are you?’, answer ‘Busy’.  I think we should all take that as read and then we can get on with the rest of the conversation.

So, there’s a lot going on right now, last weekend FizzPOP hackspace group held a whole weekend of workshops at the Edge, we popped in to meet Mitch Altman on Sunday and the place was literally buzzing. And whizzing, and bleeping and making all kinds of electronic sounds – I’ve never seen so many soldering irons in one place before.  I had a go on one of the brain machines which was like a good acupuncture session, I felt well relaxed after, Nikki told me of the joy of walking through the Bullring with Mitch, randomly turning off TVs in the shops with a TV-B-Gone, loads of fun.

This Saturday, West Midlands Film Makers for Haiti are holding a fundraising night at the Edge for Haiti (and possibly Chile as well).  There’s a couple of hours of great short films to enjoy(on our super big screen), followed by a disco and cake!  Sounds like a good night out to me.

And next week, a reminder that we are hosting Jonathan Kay and the Nomadic Academy of Fools.  They’ll be around right up until the Flatpack Festival weekend, hosting workshops in the art of fooling during the day and performances during the evenings including scratch cabarets, performances of Richard II (not like the RSC, one bit – well worth a look) and some solo performances by Jonathan Kay – if you’ve ever been to one of his amazing Glastonbury shows, you’ll know this is absolutely not to be missed.  I remember five hundred of us, led by Mr Kay, surrounding an unsuspecting sleeper and gently waking him up by singing Bohemian Rhapsody to him, before using lines of portaloos as the starting gates for a very muddy, human version of the Grand National – so its not exactly theatre.  saw him perform at the MAC once and the whole audience ended up invading the cinema and treating the film audience to a performance of middle eastern dancing.  So not like normal theatre, then.  I reiterate – DO NOT MISS THIS!