CURZON ST STATION

Curzon St, Digbeth, Birmingham B4 7XG
(Over the road from Millennium Point)

As part of this year's Artsfest a number of arts organisations based in the Eastside district, including Ikon, Vivid, 7inch Cinema, Capsule, Craftspace Touring and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, have come together to present a shedload of delightful activities across Digbeth. Venues include Eastside Green, Curzon St Station, Millennium Point, Ikon Eastside and the Custard Factory. The project is supported by Arts Council England, West Midlands, and everything is free.

More history on the building here...

7 Inch Cinema and Capsule have been given the keys to Curzon St Station for the day, and will be laying down some rail-tinged audio-visual entertainment from 2-8pm.

The space will be called Platform 9 and the running order looks something like this...

14:00: Lucky dip 
Some shorts to get you started.

14:30: Artists Valley Super 8 Showreel 
Half an hour of homemade cine film and music, put together by Wolverhamptonites Stephen Wilkinson (aka Bibio, 2nd lp just out on Mush records) and Andrew Harber.

15:00: Train shorts 
Railway heaven, courtesy of British Transport Films. Includes Geoffrey Jones’ Oscar-nominated Snow and a day out with John Betjeman.

16:00: Serafina Steer (live) 
Brilliant singer-songwriter and harpist recently signed up with Static Caravan records.

16:30: Afternoon Tea 
Refreshments, games and nice tunes courtesy of DJ Geoff (Static Caravan).

17:30: YouTube Odyssey 

A journey through the netherworld of internet video with your guide, the intrepid VJ Hooker.

18:00: Slomo Video 

Concentrated blast of slow-motion strangeness, including a selection of one-minute films made for the 7inch Summer Slomo Challenge.

18:30: The Destroyers vs. Mitchell and Kenyon (live) 
The Mitchell and Kenyon Collection comprises over 800 films made for travelling film-shows in the 1900s, discovered in a basement in Blackburn ten years ago and painstakingly restored by the British Film Institute.
Earlier this year the Destroyers were commissioned by the Flatpack Festival to accompany a few of these amazing films live, and this evening they’ll be performing a selection of the resulting scores.

19:30: Mike in Mono (live) 
Exhilarating electro-pop climax courtesy of Birmingham’s own ambidextrous disco diva. Find him on Warm Circuit records.