News
April 2008 – Midland Creative Projects Limited are awarded the tender to develop a business plan and funding programme for Nottingham Writers’ Studio.
April 2008 – the Library + Information Show is one of the most successful in recent years, with increased visitors and a 90% capacity for the presentation programme managed by Midland Creative Projects Limited.
March 2008 – the Birmingham Book Festival through its Write On! -Adventures in Writing programme hosts the first national meeting of managers of writers in schools programme.
March 2008 – the Birmingham Book Festival through its Write On! Adventures in Writing programme run a four day creative writing project for Solihull Primary Schools called One Extraordinary Day (well, four actually), working with the writers Mil Millington, Brenda Read-Brown and Sue Brown and with the graphic artist Jo Roberts.
February 2008 – Our Mediabox funded talk radio project is completed, with twenty young people making two half hour talk radio programmes for broadcast on New Style Radio. The work is so successful that six of the participants are asked to present their own radio shows on New Style Radio.
January 2008 – Jonathan Davidson’s adaptation of the novel Precious Bane by Mary Webb will be produced by Interplay Theatre, Leeds, to tour to special schools in late spring and then as a family show to arts centres in Autumn 2008.
Wednesday 9th January 2008 – We were very sorry to hear of the death of poet and writer Roi Kwabena. Roi was a unique writer and performer and one who brought enormous creativity to the West Midlands. He was a Poet Laureate for Birmingham Libraries and over the years worked with the Birmingham Book Festival and many writers and organisations in the West Midlands.
December 2007 – Midland Creative Projects Limited are successful in their GFA bid to Arts Council England for funds to research Literature Development in the West Midlands. The research will be completed by March 2008 and will include proposals for future Literature Development in the region.
November 2007 – The Birmingham Book Festival is successful in its Mediabox application to run a talk radio project with two teams of young people in February 2008. The project is supported by South Birmingham College and New Style Radio.
November 2007 – Midland Creative Projects Limited are appointed to create a Framework for Literature Development for Poole and Bournemouth Borough Councils. The Framework will be completed by March 2008 and will include the setting up of a Literature Development Steering Group across the two Boroughs.
October 2007 – Record advance bookings for the 2007 Birmingham Book Festival with over one thousand tickets sold by the end of September. The Festival itself is our most successful to-date, with excellent ticket sales and a series of wonderful events and activities. Highlights include the Night Writer all night writing workshop (ten writers, one mini-bus, lots of coffee) and a performance of John Cage’s Notes for a Lecture at Ikon Eastside.
October 2007 – Five writers (Will Buckingham, Helen Cross, Lindsey Davis, Mil Millington, Nicola Monaghan) have been commissioned to produce short stories for five readers’ groups in the West Midlands. These are to be recorded at the Birmingham Book Festival for broadcast by BBC Radio Four. The readers’ groups are in Much Wenlock, Solihull, Walsall, Leominster and Claverley, Nr Wolverhampton and the project is managed by the West Midlands Readers’ Network.
October 2007 – Changing Lives – a touring contemporary poetry performance being co-produced with Warwick Arts Centre (Coventry) and Bloodaxe Books – opens on 3rd October before a short UK tour. It will also tour in March/April 2008.
September 2007 – Warwickshire Libraries and Compton Verney’s ‘Wild About…’ weekend of events for readers and writers (programmed by Midland Creative Projects Limited) attracts record levels of visitors.
September 2007 – Bluecoat Arts Centre’s Grants for the Arts application to Arts Council England (written by Midland Creative Projects Limited) is successful, allowing the appointment of a part-time post to manage literature activities.