Well, despite all the doom and gloom, the cold and the tupperware sky (it’s getting me down, the relentless grey), things are brightening up at the Edge right now.  We’ve got lots of logo-free action coming up, with events almost every week from now until the end of March.  We’re in the process of putting a new website together, dedicated to all the activities going on and planned for the Edge – we want you to feed in to what goes on, too.  That’s a few weeks away, so I’ll be putting an events page up here soon, where you can find find out what’s on now and what’s coming up.  In brief:

18th Feb, 4.30 – 6pm Postcards from South Africa – a seminar about our recent residency in Johannesburg, that’s next Thursday, please let us know if you want to come as we’re running out of chairs. There’s a launch, or possibly a dive, on at Moseley Swimming Baths in Ballsall Heath straight after – we’re just off the 50 route, so you could make it a double bill!

26th Feb- Happy Artist Social Club – a place to hang out with other artists without ignoring someone else’s art in the process, with dancing and having fun and lots of smiling and stuff – artists and their mates only (if you don’t have an artist mate, we’ll find you one)

27th Feb – Artists seminar by Diana Ivanova (Bulgaria) and Babak Salari (Iran/Canada/ Wetherspoon’s) launching their new book documenting their My Street project in Cuba – another great cross-cultural project from some great people – recommended

6/7th March – Hacking wonderousnesses from Fizzpop with a whole weekend of circuit torturing and a visit by US hacking guru Mitch Altman, ooooh yes, melt my solder, baby  – fuller details here at Fizzpop

13th March   West Midlands Filmmakers for Haiti are putting on an evening of short films and a disco in aid of the disaster fund, cleverly realising that most people will have forgotten about it by then – more info here.

And last – until we announce the next cavalcade of fun -  and certainly by no means least – from 19th until 28th of March we are hosting a residency by Jonathan Kay and the Nomadic Academy of Fools.  I cnnot stress how foolish you will be to miss some, or indeed any of the workshops and performances, and bad foolish, not good foolish. I’ll be posting more fully soon, but until then, go here and get NAF

All these events are what we know as ‘Off the Edge’ events – this means that they are not curated by the Edge, we are merely their humble hosts.  Of course, however, we endorse all those brave souls who venture to step off into the abyss, happily holding their hands (we have been known to let go on the way down;-) .  Currently all events presented at the Edge are supported by Friction Arts, by donation and your generosity and by volunteer labour throughout the process.  Genuine volunteers always appreciated, massive bequests by eccentric millionaires with an interest in peripheral culture also.

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