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Art Club: A Year After Lockdown
Art Club has moved to online lessons during the pandemic, and we have continued to deliver classes virtually until we know it is safe to return to our usual home at The Edge. We still have lots of Art Clubbers turn up each week and we are glad that they still want to join us and […]
Culture Club, Week 4: Animals and Nature
Get ready to read up on this week’s Culture Club in which we focused on animals and nature! Our members got to create drawings of different animals and learn about the tragedies that have led to them being extinct or endangered. We began the session by discussing what extinct animals our members already knew about. […]
Culture Club, Week 3: Landscapes!
Landscapes! And is there a better place to start than with our city itself? In Week Two, Culture Club created landscapes featuring Birmingham architecture. Last week, members focused instead on famous artists. We began last week’s session by learning about two Birmingham artists: first was Santhanha Nguyen, whose depiction of the Birmingham Wholesale […]
Culture Club, Week 2: Architecture!
It was all about Architecture last week for our Culture Clubbers! Birmingham is filled with amazing buildings, spanning centuries – from the 17th Century ‘Sarehole Mill’ to the 21st Century ‘Bullring’ and, even closer to Culture Club, our very own ‘The Edge’. Architecture surrounds us, and the Club had the opportunity to share their own […]
Culture Club, Week 1: Intros and Music
As Culture Club launches, we hear from Lead Artist Sarah Kaur who tells us what happened in the first week…
Home on International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2021. In 2019/2020, we had the privilege of meeting and hearing the stories of 11 women from African-Caribbean communities talking about ‘home’ and their relationship with ‘back home’. Photographer Vanley Burke took beautiful portraits of these women in their homes. We recorded some of their stories and using Augmented Reality, created […]
Job opportunity – Culture Club Support Artist (Now closed for applications)
Friction Arts is seeking a support artist who can help deliver a new and ambitious programme of work for young people. The series of twenty workshops – funded by Birmingham City Council – are part of a pilot project to support young people outside of the formal education system in exploring their cultural backgrounds through […]
Drop-in Fridays
Join us for Drop In Fridays on Zoom. In December 2020, we decided to reignite one of our favourite traditions: Drop In Fridays. You used to pop into The Edge, catch us up on what you’d been up to, share with us an idea you’d had, a funding bid you’d been working on, or to […]
Announcement: Friction Arts is Shortlisted for Civic Arts Award
We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Award for Civic Arts Organisations. The Award ‘highlights and celebrates civic arts organisations and their response to the pandemic’ and will ‘shine a spotlight on the vital role that arts organisations play in sustaining a thrilling, creative, and connected society, particularly during challenging times.’ […]
Announcement: Culture Club and New Partner, Sarah Kaur
We’re adding a new community club for young people: Culture Club. It will celebrate and share the cultural identities of Birmingham’s diverse young people using a wide range of arts techniques, artists and art from around the world. What makes Culture Club different is that the curriculum will be co-designed by the participants themselves, shaped […]