Sigur Ros: Wolves Civic

“Four-piece Icelandic indie rock outfit from Reykjavik described as ‘part Spiritualised and part Enya with the immense epic sonic vistas of God Speed You Black Emperor’. The band play with precision and style, contributing their individual instruments to an overall single sound of pure beauty.”

Tuesday 4th November, Civic Hall: £23.50

Animation: Round Up

Animators based and working in Wolverhampton.                                                  

Screenburn: www.screenburn.co.uk     

Edge Left : www.edge-left.com

Synthetic Dimensions: www.syndime.com

Blueprint for future of Wolverhampton

Article via Express & Star. View the presentation video.

The Wolverhampton Development Company has unveiled the blueprint, which will see 30,000 new jobs created in the city by 2031.

A mixture of new building and regeneration is planned for the city. Along with a technology park next to the M54, creating 6,000 jobs.

An overhaul of the bus and train station and a new link for the Metro are also in the pipeline.

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 July, 5pm - 7.30pm
See the exhibition out of hours, with free refreshments.

More about Open 08

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) who’s on the look out for 3D CGI character animators for her company’s new film project; Lynne Stanford (Screen WM): David Allen (Animation Forum WM) and Peter McLuskie (PLOT).

Alongside the chance to meet other forum members, animators and potential collaborators, we’ll also be featuring YouTube Jukebox. Simply request your favourite clips (or your own film) and it’ll be screened in the Light House courtyard.

Also performing on the evening will be resident VJs, Cinecull, a Wolverhampton-based video production company, who provide the live audio-visual backdrop for Out of Hours.

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 (VGF) as a way of making investments in renewable energy and resource efficiency.”

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, drop us an email: creativewolverhampton (at) gmail (dot) com.

For anyone promoting events, please provide as much information as possible and make sure to include contact details and a url.

- CW