Paradise Circus

We’ve been hanging on confirming this month’s venue, so as to be near the Social Media Surgery (taking place in Fazeley Studios from 5:30 to 7) the meet-up will be a  visit to the lovely Spotted Dog. 2007 Brummie of The Year, landlord John Tighe, will make you very welcome.

It’s on the corner of Alcester St and Warwick St, and has a dalmatian stained glass window (beware if googling, there is another Spotted Dog in Digbeth:

Spotted Dog window by Albert S. Bite on Flickr

Here’s the upcoming event.

Here’s the facebook event.

Here’s what it looks like.

Here’s beerintheevening for the ‘dog.

Here’s a googly map

Nothing more than a repost from Interactive Cultures, but I’m sure they won’t mind:

This coming Tuesday will see an informal get together in Birmingham aimed at producing a response to the interim Digital Britain report. The Birmingham event is one of a number of events being held around the country under the umbrella of the Digital Britain Unconference. It will be held at BCU’s Margaret Street Building on Tuesday 12th May 2009 from 10am – 1:30pm.

The event will not keep to a strict unconference format (we prefer to see an unconference as being informal rather than unstructured). A call has been put out for people to chair a number of different strands of the day. Each strand will aim to explore one of the five key points of the report.

Digital Britain Unconference West Midlands has been convened by Interactive Cultures and Aquila TV. We would like to thank Margaret Street for the use of the room, and also our colleagues Clare Peters and Elizabeth Short who have put this event together in less than a week.

• To book a place at the table, please go to the EventBright sign up page.
• For general information on Digital Britain, refer to the main Digital Britain Unconference site.
• For spcific information on the Birmingham event refer to the Digital Britain Unconference West Midlands website.

Some things that may or may not intersect with the venn diagram of interests of Paradise Circus visitors:

BARG – Wide Open Space — This Saturday  —a day of gaming around Curzon Street Station

Digital Britain Unconference — Tuesday 12th May (daytime) —a chance for people to debate and produce a response to the Digital Britian Interim Report.

Eccentric City issue 3 launch & Eccentric Auction — Tuesday 12th May (evening)  at The Anchor — the World’s First Eccentric Newspaper launches issue three with drinks and larks.

Brum Bloggers Meet — Wednesday 13th May (evening) — still awaiting venue confirmation but it’ll be next Wednesday in a pub in town.

And in the longer term:

FlashCamp – Tuesday 16th June (afternoon- evening) at Central Library Theatre — for web people that dig that Flash stuff.

Moseley BarCamp — Sunday 28th June (day) at The Cross Moseley — a day of interwebs talks and fun, registration open now.