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20Feb

Winterbourne House and Garden - What's on

Dates
Monday 20 February 2023 (16:07) - Thursday 20 February 2025 (16:07)
Location
Winterbourne House and Garden
Description
Find out what's on at Winterbourne House and Garden.
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30Apr

Case Study: Africanize

Dates
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (08:30) - Saturday 11 January 2025 (16:30)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
This is a community-driven project exploring the University of Birmingham's African Collection, this new display introduces the project and responses to the collection by artist-in-residence, Sipho Eric Ndlovu.
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1Jul

Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins: Writing, Performance, Image

Dates
Monday 1 July 2024 (09:00) - Sunday 12 January 2025 (18:00)
Location
Main Library Atrium
Description
Exhibition in Main Library atrium curated by Dr Caroline Radcliffe about the authors Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, showcasing original manuscripts and rare books from the Cadbury Research Library. All welcome.
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11Oct

Exhibition | Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

Dates
Friday 11 October 2024 (10:00) - Sunday 26 January 2025 (17:00)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Ever wondered what a painting smells like? For the first time ever, experience the unseen scents of Pre-Raphaelite art in this groundbreaking exhibition on campus.
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16Nov

Display | Peace and Noise: The Sounds of the Landscape

Dates
Saturday 16 November 2024 (10:00) - Sunday 26 January 2025 (17:00)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Peace and Noise will introduce visitors to the implied sound evident in landscapes from the Barber's prints and drawings collection, encouraging the visitor to explore exciting multisensory avenues of interpretation.
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16Nov

Display | Reclaiming Narratives: Voices from the College of Medicine and Health

Dates
Saturday 16 November 2024 (10:00) - Sunday 26 January 2025 (17:00)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
This display is the culmination of a project between the Barber Institute and the College of Medicine and Health, where students used creativity to reflect on, challenge and change the voices represented in the college.
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7Dec

Heritage building tours

Dates
Saturday 7 December 2024 (11:00) - Saturday 1 February 2025 (16:00)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Join our friendly guides on a heritage tour of The Exchange and discover its hidden history and fascinating stories.
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16Dec

Our City

Dates
Monday 16 December 2024 (09:00) - Sunday 16 February 2025 (17:55)
Location
The Exchange 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
To mark the University of Birmingham's 125th anniversary, The Exchange invites you to discover some of our research through a series of installations, talks, workshops, and family friendly activities.
July 2024
6Jan

Museum Tours

Dates
Monday 6 January 2025 (12:00-13:00)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for Tours of the Museum
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11Jan

Barber family workshop with Michael D. Kennedy

Dates
Saturday 11 January 2025 (11:00-14:00)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Collaborate with artists and create as a family. Perfect for 4-10 year olds, these activities are designed investigate ideas in our current exhibitions, prompt collaboration and fun!
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15Jan

Lunchtime talk | Dr Maddie Hewitson

Dates
Wednesday 15 January 2025 (13:00-13:30)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Join Dr Maddie Hewitson to explore Simeon Solomon's 'A Saint of the Eastern Church'. In this painting, the artist approaches Orthodox Christianity as a multi-sensory engagement with faith and displays of belief.
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16Jan

Unlocking the Vaults: Step into History Taster Day

Dates
Thursday 16 January 2025 (10:00-13:00)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Join us for an engaging and informal morning packed with activities as we unveil the fascinating Unlocking the Vaults project, proudly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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16Jan

Barber Baby with Musical Picnic

Dates
Thursday 16 January 2025 (11:00-12:00)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Experience the magic of live music in the galleries every third Thursday of the month. Ideal for ages 0-4 and their grown-ups.
17Jan

King Edwards Schools

Dates
Friday 17 January 2025 (13:10-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Join King Edward's and King Edward VI High School for Girls for their annual Barber Lunchtime Concert.
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21Jan

Student workshop | Drop in and draw

Dates
Tuesday 21 January 2025 (13:15-13:45)
Location
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Description
Come to the Barber Institute, your art gallery on campus, for a relaxed lunchtime drawing session. Take notice, look deeper and learn new techniques.
22Jan

Medici Enterprise Training Programme 2025

Dates
Wednesday 22 January (09:00) - Wednesday 2 April 2025 (17:00)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS
Description
The Medici programme will give you the business skills, knowledge and confidence you need to engage with business and industry in an impactful and professional way.
24Jan

Will Duerden - double bass | Svitlana Kosenko - piano

Dates
Friday 24 January 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Double bassist Will Duerden is joined by pianist Svitlana Kosenko to present a mesmerising programme.
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24Jan

The MeToo movement in India and human rights and punitivism in Colombia

Dates
Friday 24 January 2025 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Birmingham Law School Senior Common Room
Description
Birmingham Law School's Global Legal Studies and Equality, Gender, and Feminist Legal Studies research seminar with two invited speakers, Dr Mónica Arango-Oyala (Oxford) and Dr Valeria Luis Pérez (LSE).
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29Jan

Introduction to Fruit Pruning

Dates
Wednesday 29 January 2025 (10:30-15:00)
Location
Winterbourne House & Garden
Description
Introduction to Fruit Pruning Workshop at Winterbourne House and Garden.
29Jan

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Heather Flowe

Dates
Wednesday 29 January 2025 (16:00-18:00)
Location
Aston Webb - Main Lecture Hall - Block C - University of Birmingham - Edgbaston - B15 2TT - Birmingham
Description
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Heather Flowe.
31Jan

Jason Lewis - trumpet | James Keefe - piano

Dates
Friday 31 January 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
CBSO principal trumpet player Jason Lewis makes his Barber Concerts debut with duo partner James Keefe.
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3Feb

Museum Tours

Dates
Monday 3 February 2025 (12:00-13:00)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for Tours of the Museum
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5Feb

Quiz Night at the Lapworth Museum

Dates
Wednesday 5 February 2025 (19:00-20:30)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for a quiz night at the Lapworth Museum.
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7Feb

Songs of Love and Dances of Death - Lecture Recital

Dates
Friday 7 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Kenneth Hamilton returns to the Elgar Concert Hall to offer another instalment of his perennially popular lecture-recitals.
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12Feb

James Ehnes Piano Quartet

Dates
Wednesday 12 February 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
A Barber Evening Concert featuring world-class chamber music from Canadian violinist James Ehnes, alongside Inon Barnatan (piano), Raphael Bell (cello), and Jonathan Vinocour (viola).
14Feb

The Queen's Six - Mapping the Stars

Dates
Friday 14 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The Queen's Six will be performing their new programme, Mapping the Stars.
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15Feb

BEASTdome: IKO concert with Gerriet Sharma

Dates
Saturday 15 February 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
Gerriet Sharma will present a workshop and concert on the ground breaking IKO icosahedral loudspeaker.
21Feb

Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano

Dates
Friday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Bass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself.
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22Feb

New Music Ensemble

Dates
Saturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University New Music Ensemble welcomes Suzie Purkis as reciter for this performance of William Walton's Façade.
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23Feb

Baroque-Classical Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Baroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach.
26Feb

My Iris

Dates
Wednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)
Location
The Foyer, Bramall Music Building
Description
Dedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay.
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27Feb

Unlocking the Vaults: Step into History Taster Day #2

Dates
Thursday 27 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Join us on 27 February for an engaging and informal morning packed with activities as we unveil the fascinating Unlocking the Vaults project, proudly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
28Feb

The Well Gardened Mind

Dates
Friday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'.
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1Mar

Trueform Projects Archives Live

Dates
Saturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
A night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life.
Oct 2024
3Mar

Museum Tours

Dates
Monday 3 March 2025 (12:00-13:00)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for Tours of the Museum
Quiz Night March
5Mar

Quiz Night at the Lapworth Museum

Dates
Wednesday 5 March 2025 (19:00-20:30)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for a quiz night at the Lapworth Museum.
7Mar

Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain

Dates
Friday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Award-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick.
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8Mar

University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir

Dates
Saturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)
Location
Lichfield Cathedral
Description
Join the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral.
14Mar

Chaos String Quartet

Dates
Friday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists.
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15Mar

BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers

Dates
Saturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
We welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers.
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16Mar

Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir

Dates
Sunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment.
21Mar

Adam Heron - piano

Dates
Friday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
A Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron.
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21Mar

University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs

Dates
Friday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall.
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22Mar

Wind Band and Saxophone Choir

Dates
Saturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert.
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23Mar

Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music.
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26Mar

Britten Sinfonia

Dates
Wednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
We welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works.
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27Mar

University Vocal Consort

Dates
Thursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
Talented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital.
28Mar

Heartstrings

Dates
Friday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi.
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28Mar

The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra

Dates
Friday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall.
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29Mar

Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices

Dates
Saturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America.
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30Mar

The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony.
Quiz Night April
2Apr

Quiz Night at the Lapworth Museum

Dates
Wednesday 2 April 2025 (19:00-20:30)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for a quiz night at the Lapworth Museum.
4Apr

Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano

Dates
Friday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'.
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4Apr

University Camerata

Dates
Friday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort.
Dec 2024
7Apr

Museum Tours

Dates
Monday 7 April 2025 (12:00-13:00)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for Tours of the Museum
1May

Global Alumni Gatherings 2025

Dates
Thursday 1 May (00:00) - Saturday 31 May 2025 (23:59)
Description
To commemorate the anniversary of the University receiving Royal Assent in 1900, Birmingham alumni worldwide host meet-ups during May to celebrate their connection with the University.
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7May

Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio

Dates
Wednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season.
Quiz Night May
14May

Quiz Night at the Lapworth Museum

Dates
Wednesday 14 May 2025 (19:00-20:30)
Location
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)
Description
Join us for a quiz night at the Lapworth Museum.
21Jun

125 Anniversary Concert

Dates
Saturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)
Location
Green Heart
Description
Join us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.
21Jun

125 Anniversary Concert

Dates
Saturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)
Location
Green Heart
Description
Join us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.
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21Jun

Come to Campus Community Festival

Dates
Saturday 21 June (11:00) - Sunday 22 June 2025 (17:00)
Location
The University of Birmingham
Description
To mark the University of Birmingham's 125th anniversary, the University invites you to a campus community festival weekend of free events, talks, campus tours, live performances, and family-friendly activities.
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1Jul

Youth and Horror: An International Conference

Dates
Tuesday 1 July (00:00) - Wednesday 2 July 2025 (00:00)
Location
University of Birmingham
Description
The Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference.
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1Jul

Katherine Mansfield Conference 2025

Dates
Tuesday 1 July (00:00) - Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00)
Location
Old Gym
Description
The 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield's writings.