Arts, crafts and such in Birmingham, West Midlands*

Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.

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• Arts, craft shop by oasis. library gives good info on all of that. Museum art gallery cadburys.. bournville. custard factory ikon gallery - arturo herraro.. good stuff gotta go see soon! MAC
• the art gallery in the ICC is actually quite cool
• braincellcollective.com art market in Brindleyplace on the first Sat of every month... The best place for local talent!!!
• Oh my god, 7 inch cinema is incredible. Every 4 or so weeks the Rainbow in Digbeth puts on a load of Short films mainly by Midlands based artists/film makers/students. Real good atmosphere, real nice people, £2 in and it goes to charity. www.7inch.org.uk
• Beadesaurus in the Oasis market by Argos is a great place to buy beads and jewellery makings. Also sells funky jewellery (nothing like Accessorize!), body jewellery and bags. The manager is very knowledgable and they play some great music in there too. If you're into art/fashion magazines, the Ikon Bookshop, in the Ikon Gallery, Brindleyplace (just off Broad Street) is a great place to look - a wide range of mags you just won't get in high street shops.
• the Custard factory is an up and coming arts centre,sprucing up the Digbeth area with hip galleries and studios
• Ah.... the custard factory.
• ikon gallery is appalling, situated in poncy brindley place. for those who pretend to know something about art and think its cool to visit a crap gallery.
• Rhubarb Rhubarb...can I have a job there please?
• ikon
• Ikon Gallery Brindley Place
• THE CUSTARD FACTORY
• Crafty Jungle in Moseley has some good furniture and throws etc. Good art dealer in the centre of Halesowen (only good thing in Halesowen), but I can't remember the name.
• Oasis sells cool little beads and home made style necklaces, but if you want somehting really weird them walk along the main high street in town and visit the little sheds, they sell weird jewellry. Also Shared Earth is great for recycled jewellrey and wind chimes and stuff.
• i know its quite a while away but malvern town has sum sweeet lil crafty,second-handy and vintagey shops- its worth the lil treck- while yer ther u can check out the malver hills 2! (its up malver high street!)
• There's the MAC just out of town (head towards Edgbaston cricket ground). A bit arty farty, but worth a laugh at the mom's and their knitted scarves a la Tom Baker stylee
• Ikon gallery is very very good.
• The icon gallery rocks. Cool, unusual stuff there.
• Ikon Gallery The Mac (Midlands Arts centre set in Canon Hill Park )
• Ikon gallery,recently converted from Oozells Street School (off Broad Street), an absolutley amazing building. Some of the best modern/conceptual/multimedia art anywhere! Look out for occasional sonic interpretations to exhibitions (excellent for horizintal style chilling) and its FREE go there! Any event by B.E.A.S.T.
• Everyman is no longer behind Rackhams - I think it's in Corporation Street. James the Second closed down ages ago
• custard factory
• Everyman in the street behind Rackhams. Can be expensive but its one of the only places to go to get Art materials.
• The Ikon Gallery in John Bright Street has the best cutting-edge modern art outside London. Check out The Bond Gallery in Fazeley Street, Digbeth and nearby The Custard Factory, a much respected conversion into bars and arts space characterised by beautiful people and a bustle of creativity; a surprise find here and a great asset to the city. Also: mac, at Cannon Hill Park. Top arts centre.
• The Big Peg Gallery in Vyse Street, Hockley - contemporary art and a cafe bar, similarly contemporary.
• check the arcadian centre(chinese qtr)for irregular exhibitions in unused shop units
• Shared Earth in New Street is good for reasonably priced, origional, largish presents. James the second, behind Rackhams, does good parent and other oldie presents.
• Smithsonia in Picadilly Arcade - lovely ear-rings/clocks/cards - THE place to go when a girlfriend has a birthday.
• birmingham museums and art gallery with its central location in Chamberlain Square is a designated museum and a must for any visitor to the City: European historic and contemporary art collections, science, natural history, social and local history and much more. Major exhibition on Edward Burne Jones opening at the Gas Hall on 17 October 1998.

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