8–18 Sept 2016 Event guide 2016 8–18 Sept 2016 We have over 170 events taking place to help you discover the city. From Thursday 8th through to Sunday 18th September, you can explore venues that are rarely open to the public, enjoy interactive storytelling, take part in workshops and discover Birmingham’s hidden gems on guided tours. There are events for all ages and interests with plenty suitable for the whole family. birminghamheritageweek.co.uk 2016 Sept 8–18 Ikon Gallery Professor Carl Chinn, MBE Jonathan Berg / www.positivelybirmingham.co.uk Flying Scotsman at National Railway Museum Sarehole Mill 08 Sept Date Event Location Website Time Booking required | Cost 8 Sept Open Day at Spring Hill Library Spring Hill Library, http://bit.ly/2avUrYZ 12pm-7pm Booking required: No (Display and Exhibition) Spring Hill, Hockley Cost: Free B18 7BH 8 Sept Positively Birmingham Library of Birmingham, www.positivelybirmingham.co.uk 1.30pm Booking Required: Yes Walking Tour Centenary Square (lasting up to 90/ Cost: Adults £9.60, B1 2ND 120 Minutes) Children £5.00 8 Sept In:Site - A Festival of Birmingham Cathedral www.craftspace.co.uk/ 11am-6pm Booking Required: No Graduate Creativity - Square, Colmore Row insite-festival/ Cost: Free Drop in to take part or B3 2QB see artists at work 8 Sept Open Church Days Church of St Alban the www.saintalban.co.uk 1pm–5pm Booking Required: No Martyr, Conybere Street, Cost: Free Highgate B12 0YH 8 Sept Tour of Birmingham Oratory Birmingham Oratory www.birminghamoratory.org.uk Church Open Day Booking Required: No Church Church, 141 Hagley Road, 9am-4pm Cost: Free B16 8UE Guided Tour 1am & 2.15pm 8 Sept Ashram Moseley 106 Alcester Road, www.ashrammoseleyha.org.uk 10am–1pm Booking Required: No Housing Association Moseley B13 8EF Cost: Free 8 Sept My Route Stratford Road Starting point: www.myroute.org.uk Anytime - Booking required: No Heritage Trail The Bordesley Centre, Self led tour Cost: Free Stratford Road, www.sampad.org.uk Birmingham B11 1AR Ends: China Garden Restaurant, 2 Robin Hood Ln, Birmingham B28 0LN 8 Sept Underneath Snow Hill Birmingham Snow Hill www.hidden-spaces.co.uk 13.00 - 14.00, Booking Required: Yes station, Colmore Row, 25 people on the Cost: Free B3 2BJ tour, tickets to be released via Hidden Spaces Website 8 Sept Visit the Pen Museum The Pen Museum, www.penmuseum.org.uk 11am–4pm Booking required: No 60 Frederick Street, Unit 0121 236 9834 3, The Argent Centre Cost: Adults £5.00 (£5.50 B1 3HS Gift Aid) Concession £4.00 (£4.40 Gift Aid) Under 16s Free 8 Sept Shakespeare re-fashioned Level 4, Selfridges, www.selfridges.com/shakespeare 10am-9pm Booking Required: No at Selfridges Upper Mall East, Cost: Free The Bullring B5 4BP 8 Sept The formative historical 1000 Trades, www.1000trades.org.uk 4pm–midnight Booking Required: No moments of the contemporary 16 Frederick Street Cost: Free Brummie mind mural B1 3HE 8 Sept Buz, Buildings and a Beer Tour Big Brum Buz, Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/2axi2Z0 6pm-8pm Booking Required: Yes Victoria Square B1 1BD www.birminghamcivicsociety.org.uk Cost: £10.00 for BCS and RIBA West Midlands members and £12.50 for non-members plus usual online booking fees Date Event Location Website Time Booking required | Cost 8 Sept The Perfect Flower Birmingham Cathedral, www.birminghamcathedral.com 5.20pm–5.40pm Booking required: No An Introduction to Evensong Colmore Row B3 2QB 0121 262 1840 Cost: Free by The Dean 8 Sept Heritage Lottery Fund workshop Soho House Museum, www.hlf.org.uk/WestMidsEvents 2pm-4.30pm Booking Required: No Soho Avenue B18 5LB Cost: Free 8 Sept Open Days at Spring Hill Library Spring Hill Library, http://bit.ly/2avUrYZ 10am-1pm and Booking Required: No (Display and Exhibition) Spring Hill, Hockley 2pm-5pm Cost: Free B18 7BH 8 Sept "Boulton would be proud" Assay Office http://bit.ly/2brXKif 2-4pm Booking required: Yes Silver Talk - a glittering Birmingham Cost: £15 stroll down Assay Office Icknield Street Birmingham's memory lane B18 6RZ 8 Sept Birmingham People and Birmingham Museum http://bit.ly/2brT3Ud 10am - 5pm daily Booking required: Yes Change in the Inner City and Art Gallery, (apart from Cost: Free Chamberlain Square Friday’s 10.30-5pm) Birmingham B3 3DH 8 Sept Birmingham's Film Knight BCU Parkside http://flatpackfestival.org.uk All day Booking required: Yes 5 Cardigan Street Cost: Free B4 7BD 8 Sept Mitchell & Kenyon in mac birmingham www.macbirmingham.co.uk Screenings Booking required: Yes Birmingham Cannon Hill Park repeated all day Cost: Free Edgbaston, B12 9QH 09 Sept 9 Sept Shakespeare re-fashioned Level 4, Selfridges, www.selfridges.com/shakespeare 10am-9pm Booking required: No at Selfridges Upper Mall East, Cost: Free The Bullring B5 4BP 9 Sept Making Tracks: A Journey great Western Arcade, www.greatwesternarcade.co.uk 10am-6pm Booking required: No Through GWA Colmore Row B2 5HU 0121 236 5417 Cost: Free 9 Sept History of Kingswood Chapel Kingswood Unitarian www.kwunitarians.co.uk 10am–4pm Booking required: No and locality Chapel, Packhorse Lane, 01564 823 278 Cost: Free Hollywood B47 5DQ 9 Sept 'Beryl of the Baths'; interactive Stirchley Baths, www.stirchleybaths.org 1pm-2pm Booking required: No storytelling for tots and their Bournville Lane, 0121 464 9072 Cost: Free families at Stirchley Baths Stirchley, B30 2JT 9 Sept Open day at St Mary’s Sisters of Mercy www.sistersofmercyunion.org.uk 10am-4pm Booking required: No Convent of Mercy St Mary’s Convent of Cost: Free Mercy 98 Hunter’s Road Handsworth B19 1EB 9 Sept Open Church Day Church of St Alban the www.saintalban.co.uk 1pm-5pm Booking required: No Martyr, Conybere Street, Cost: Free Highgate B12 0YH 9 Sept The formative historical 1000 Trades, www.1000trades.org.uk 4pm–midnight Booking Required: No moments of the contemporary 16 Frederick Street, Cost: Free Brummie mind mural B1 3HE 9 Sept Visit the Pen Museum The Pen Museum, www.penmuseum.org.uk 11am–4pm Booking required: No 60 Frederick Street, 0121 236 9834 Unit 3, The Argent Centre Cost: Adults £5.00 (£5.50 B1 3HS Gift Aid) Concession £4.00 (£4.40 Gift Aid) Under 16s Free 9 Sept Heritage Open Day at Birmingham Cathedral, www.birminghamcathedral.com 11am-2.00pm Booking Required: No Birmingham Cathedral Colmore Row B3 2QB 0121 262 1840 Cost: Free 9 Sept Lost Arts and Crafts in the city: Birmingham Cathedral, www.birminghamcathedral.com/events 11am-12.30pm Booking Required: No a walking tour by Colmore Row B3 2QB 0121 262 1840 Cost: Free Ben Waddington 9 Sept Ashram Moseley 106 Alcester Road, www.ashrammoseleyha.org.uk 10am–4pm Booking Required: No Housing Association Moseley B13 8EF Cost: Free 9 Sept Tour of Birmingham Oratory Birmingham Oratory www.birminghamoratory.org.uk Church Open Day Booking Required: No Church Church, 141 Hagley Road, 9am-6.30pm Cost: Free B16 8UE Guided Tour 11am & 2.15pm Date Event Location Website Time Booking required | Cost 9 Sept In:Site - A Festival of Birmingham Cathedral http://bit.ly/2ahGmt8 11am-6pm Booking Required: No Graduate Creativity - Square, Colmore Row Cost: Free Drop in to take part or B3 2QB see artists at work 9 Sept Positively Birmingham Library of Birmingham, www.positivelybirmingham.co.uk 1.30pm Booking Required: Yes Walking Tour Centenary Square (lasting up to 90/ Cost: Adults £9.60, B1 2ND 120 Minutes) Children £5.00 9 Sept My Route Stratford Road Starting point: www.myroute.org.uk Anytime - Booking required: No Heritage Trail The Bordesley Centre, Self led tour Cost: Free Stratford Road, www.sampad.org.uk Birmingham B11 1AR Ends: China Garden Restaurant, 2 Robin Hood Ln, Birmingham B28 0LN 9 Sept Birmingham Lost Communities John Lewis, Grand www.midlandactorstheatre.com 10am–5pm Booking Required: No Exhibition Central, 2 Station Street, 0121 608 7144 Cost: Free B2 4AU 9 Sept Christopher Wray building and 7-12 Bartholomew Row, www.savingbartholomewrow.com 1am-1pm Booking Required: No the Woodman B5 5JU Cost: Free 9 Sept The Barber: The Barber Institute of www.barber.org.uk 11am-12.30pm Booking required: No A Potted History Fine Arts, University of Cost: Free Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS 9 Sept MG / Pride of Longbridge MG Longbridge, Lowhill [email protected] 12.30pm-5pm Booking Required: Yes, Heritage day Lane, B31 2BQ for Slideshow Cost: Free 9 Sept Toys were Us! Birmingham Assay www.theassayoffice.co.uk 4pm-6pm Booking required: Yes Office, Icknield Street, Cost: Free B18 6RZ 9 Sept Digbeth Walking Tour Curzon Street Station, http://bit.ly/1Q0RYUB 2pm-3.30pm Booking required: Yes New Canal Street Cost: Free B2 4ND 9 Sept Birmingham People and Birmingham Museum http://bit.ly/2brT3Ud 10am - 5pm daily Booking required: Yes Change in the Inner City and Art Gallery, (apart from Cost: Free Chamberlain Square Friday’s 10.30-5pm) Birmingham B3 3DH 9 Sept Birmingham's Film Knight BCU Parkside http://flatpackfestival.org.uk All day Booking required: Yes 5 Cardigan Street Cost: Free B4 7BD 9 Sept Mitchell & Kenyon in mac birmingham www.macbirmingham.co.uk Screenings Booking required: Yes Birmingham Cannon Hill Park repeated all day Cost: Free Edgbaston, B12 9QH 10 Sept Date Event Location Website Time Booking required | Cost 10 Sept Shakespeare re-fashioned Level 4, Selfridges, www.selfridges.com/shakespeare 9am-9pm Booking required: No at Selfridges Upper Mall East, Cost: Free The Bullring B5 4BP 10 Sept Open Day at Spring Hill Library Spring Hill Library, www.libraryofbirmingham. 9am-1pm and Booking Required: Only (Display and Exhibition) Spring Hill, Hockley com/1318249551313 2pm-5pm for the talk and tours at B18 7BH 10am and 2.30pm Talk and tour