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Light House November/December Highlights

The festive season is fast approaching and Light House has a great selection of classic films and new releases in the forthcoming cinema programme as well as new photography exhibitions and 3 exciting festivals; Flip Animation Festival, Short Film Expo and Deaffest 2007, coming up this winter. Below are just a few highlights of what’s [...]

BBC Innovation Labs 2008 launch days

The Innovation Labs are a fantastic way of developing your brilliant ideas, your theories and solutions, with BBC Commissioners. This is your chance to get the very latest thinking straight from the heart of the BBC, and to help develop innovative services for their audiences.The BBC worked hard to improve the already celebrated Innovation Labs, [...]

The Innocents: 31/10, 2pm & 8pm

A special Halloween screening of Jack Clayton’s wonderfully sinister adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, is being held at the Light House Cinema on Wednesday 31st November.
A brilliant exercise in psychological horror, The Innocents tells the story of an impressionable and repressed governess, Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), who becomes convinced that the [...]

Robin 2 Charity Gig

The Robin2 are holding a charity gig with an auction of music memorabilia at The Robin, Bilston on Sunday 28th October ‘07 from 6.30pm onwards. Admission is free.
The event is in aid of Kex Gorin, who was formally the drummer with Magnum, and now has cancer & the NHS are refusing to fund his [...]

October – November: Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Falling by Neeta Madahar: 20 October – 24 November
See this dreamlike film which reflects upon feelings of wonder and beauty when in contact with the natural world, captured by the innocent and childlike ‘helicopter’ or sycamore seeds falling to the ground.
Freianlage by Andrew Bracey
Positioned in covert and surprising places around the gallery, one visit is [...]

The Silke Collective Returns

The Silke Collective is holding an exhibition of art, acoustic music, film, comedy and crafts on Saturday afternoon, 13th October 2007 – the ground floor of the Little Civic.
Full article via: www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry

Exhibition for University student

A University of Wolverhampton student will be showcasing her work at a top museum in Stockholm after scooping a high profile award.
Rachel Workman, from Redditch, won second prize in the Graphic Design category for the Science 2007 Student Design competition.
The 24-year-old, who is studying for a BA (Hons) in Graphic Communication at the School of [...]

Flip Festival 1-3 November: update

Flip is delighted to welcome contemporary master of puppet animation Barry Purves.
Barry has been animating for nearly 30 years and has worked on films for children, including the recent Rupert Bear series; commercials; pop videos; [...]