Map of Wolverhampton concerts

Useful site that lists concerts local to Wolverhampton.
View it via gruvr.com

Open West Midlands 08

Open is a biennial collaboration with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
5 July – 5 September 2008
Family Open Day: Saturday 5 July, 10am – 5pm. Presentations 1pm
The first opportunity to see fantastic work from artists working in the West Midlands, selected by an independent panel, Richard Billingham, Dr Rachel Garfield and Alistair Robinson.
Open Evening: Wednesday 16 [...]

Out of Hours: Animation

Monday 7 July 6pm – 9pm
Out of Hours is teaming up with Animation Forum WM in July for Out of Hours: Animation! Share an after work drink with fellow local animators, find funding and support and experience YouTube Jukebox.
Amongst others, the evening will include short talks from Helen Clare Cromarty (Producer at Christmas Time Productions) [...]

Virgin’s green fund gets first $199m

Full article via FT.com
“Wolverhampton City Council and Calpers, the influential Californian pension fund, have emerged as some of the maiden investors in Virgin Group’s first green investment fund.
Sir Richard Branson, Virgin’s founder, pledged to invest $3bn in alternative energy projects over a decade in September 2006 and last year set up the Virgin Green Fund [...]

CW blog update

We’ve updated the blog with a new look and header graphic, we hope that you’ll find the site easier to use. We’ll be introducing new sections in the coming weeks, such as a resource section to provide as much information as possible for the Wolverhampton Creative Industries.
If you have any news, articles or are launching a product/company/website, [...]

Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute

Matthew Revell hostes ‘Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute’ on WCR – Wolverhampton’s City Radio, 101.8FM.
The show is on Friday evenings and each week Matthew showcases a Creative Commons musician as well as having live musicians in the studio.
There’s more information, including access to the podcast here!

Advertising agencies, marketing & PR: Round up

Wolverhampton has a growing selection of companies offering advertising, marketing & PR services. These companies cater for varing local, national and international clients within the private and public sector.
Below are a selection of our favourites:
Connect Group: Brand solutions agency
Greenwell West: Marketing & design
Jon Oliver Communications Limited: Marketing
début: marketing commnications
- have we missed you out? let [...]

Goodbye to the Goodyear tower

Full article via Express & Star.
[ Update2: View the tower falling via revver. ]
[ Update: The Goodyear Tower will be demolished on Sunday 29th June at 11am. Anyone who wants to spectate needs to get to the site between 9.30 and 10.30... ]
“The 150ft landmark will be razed to the ground at the end of [...]