Week THREE Mon 13 to Sun 19 Oct Thu 16 Oct
Fri 17 Oct
Untangling the Politics of Black Hair
Rainforest Symphony
7pm - 9pm
10am & 2:30pm
When it comes to blackness and hair, there are as many issues as there are styling products. Has it ever been ‘just hair’, or are the politics around Black hair a matter of social and economic justice? FREE ADMISSION The Drum 144 Potters Lane / Aston Birmingham B6 4UU Box Office: 0121 333 2444 For more information email kadianpow@gmail.com
Language Alive present Rainforest Symphony, an exciting musical journey into the rainforest to help Acapella the frog find her way home after she accidently arrived in Birmingham on a delivery of fruit.
10am
FREE ADMISSION AGES 4 - 6 years old Frankley Library Frankley Community High School New Street / Birmingham B45 0EU For more information email kevin.duffy@birmingham.gov.uk
Fri 17 Oct 10pm
SANCHEZ
2:30pm
FREE ADMISSION AGES 4 - 6 years old Kings Heath Library High Street / Birmingham B14 7SW For more information email kevin.duffy@birmingham.gov.uk
Etana
Sanchez - Reggae Superstar
The internationally acclaimed Reggae Superstar Sanchez returns to Birmingham’s Bingley Hall, after five years to headline this concert in celebration of The Drum’s 20th Anniversary. Special headliner will be the stunning Jamaican Reggae vocalist Etana. Plus music on the night is supplied by Birmingham’s finest DJ’s including Countryman, Ranking from Gatecrash, G6T9 and Mikey Bups from Manchester. As well as, Sanchez and Etana, there will be support on the night by singer-songwriter Aysha Loren. TICKETS: £35, £40 OTD The New Bingley Hall 1 Hockley Circus / Hockley Birmingham B18 5PP
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Aysha
Week THREE Mon 13 to Sun 19 Oct Fri 17 Oct
Sat 18 Oct
Tie Dyeing African and Caribbean Fabrics
World War 1 Story Telling session
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Learn the craft of tie-dyeing at this hands-on workshop by Khamlyn FREE ADMISSION Handsworth Library Soho Road / Birmingham B21 9DP For more information email handsworth.library@birmingham.gov.uk or ring 0121 464 1185
Fri 17 Oct 8pm
Holy & Horny - national tour
Back by popular demand, Holy & Horny is a “Hilarious, powerful and deeply moving” sell-out show celebrating women’s sensuality and spirituality. In this extraordinary play, Actress & Author Tonya Joy Bolton explores one woman’s struggle to remain holy despite being as horny as hell!
2pm - 3pm
Bloomsbury Library will be commemorating the contribution of men and women from the Commonwealth countries to the WW1 effort. Children and adults are invited to listen to and share stories of bravery and heroism in the face of grave danger to their own lives to protect our freedom.
FREE ADMISSION Bloomsbury Library The POD / Oliver Street / Nechells / Birmingham B7 4NX For more information email Manmohan.s.bains@birmingham.gov.uk or Zulfiqar.ali@birmingham.gov.uk www.birmingham.gov.uk/bloomsburylibrary HOLY & HORNY
TICKETS: £12.50/ £10 AGES 15+ Contains strong language mac Birmingham Cannon Hill Park / Birmingham / West Midlands B12 9QH Box Office: 0121 446 3232 For more information email tonyaj@tonyajoybolton.com www.macbirmingham.co.uk / www.holyandhorny.com
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