Archive
April Digbeth First Friday: Spring Open Studios
Grand Union5 April 20246–8pm
Discussion and Q&A: ‘in the house of names’ by Sulaïman Majali
Grand Union6 March 20246–7.30pm
Film Screening: ‘Citizen Jane: Battle for the City’
Grand Union1 March 20242–4.30pm; 6–8pm
Screening and Discussion Event: ‘A Bedroom for Everyone’ by Ed Webb-Ingall
Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street23 February 20241–4pm
Ed Webb-IngallA Bedroom for Everyone
Grand Union 15 September – 9 December 2023
October Digbeth First Friday: ‘Umbilical Stories, Navel Sensualities and Reproductive Desires’ by Niya B
The Bothy6 October 20236–7.30pm
October Digbeth First Friday: ‘Listening to the Environment, from a Queer Perspective’ with The Hildegard Von Bingen Society
6 October 20234.30 - 5.45 pm
Sistren Theatre Collective x Victoria Adukwei BulleySweet Sugar Rage
Online 21–27 August 2023
Histories of Women's Place-making in BirminghamWomen in the Centre Walk and Exhibition
Grand Union August 202311.30am-3pm
RESOLVE CollectiveAugust Digbeth First Friday Event
4 August 20237-11pm
There Has To Be Somewhere
9–24 June 2023
June Digbeth First Friday: Open Studios & The Growing Project Sale
2 June 20236-8pm
Writing Workshop with Cindy Sissokho
27 May 202310am-12pm
Beverley BennettSimon Says/Dadda
Grand Union 8 April – 27 May 2023
The Field Commission: Asad Raza – Reabsorption
4 March 2022 – 30 April 2023
Beverley BennettQ&A with Beverley Bennett and Simon Says/Dadda cast & crew
Online27 April 20236-7pm
Growing Project – Spring Plant Swap
Minerva Apothecary Garden22 April 202310am–12pm
April Digbeth First Friday: ‘Simon Says/Dadda’ Exhibition Launch
Grand Union 7 April 20236-8pm
FIELD COMMISSION: Past, Present, & Future In-Conversation
8 March 20235.30-6.30pm
Alberta Whittle We gather and dream of new congregations
Grand Union Gallery 2 September – 10 December 2022
Thomas Abercromby and Invited GuestsSchool of Abolition
25–26 November 2022
Book Launch: ‘Learning & Growing’ by Mrs Eunice McGhie-Belgrave
St. Philip's Cathedral23 November 20222pm - 4pm
melissandre varinWho's gonna clean the mess in/of your garden?
Grand Union5 November 202212pm - 3pm
Warwick Bar Walking Tours
25–18 October 20223pm - 4.30pm
Ed Webb-Ingall Housing for All/A Bedroom for Everyone
Grand Union 29 September 20225pm - 7pm
Alberta WhittleAlberta Whittle Congregation (creating dangerously) Film Launch
1 August 20225pm - 7pm
Write me up: a workshop evidencing queerness through photography & poetry with De’Anne Crooks
10 July 202212pm – 4pmFilm Screening: Sistren Theatre Collective Sweet Sugar Rage (1985)
1–9 July 2022
Illustrating Your Own World: An Illustration Workshop with Ellis Miles Stewart
26 June 202212pm - 4pm
Grand Union x UoB MA Art History & Curating StudentsThe Age of Dreamers is Over
3–25 June 2022
Laura WilsonTrained on Veda
2020 – 2022
Cooking SectionsThe Empire Remains Shop Franchise Agreement
2019 – 2022
Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003
4 March 20226.30 - 8.30pm
Phyllis ChristopherHeads and Tails
Grand Union GallerySeptember 2021 – March 2022
OPEN CALL: EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITYGrand Union x UoB MA Art History and Curating
Grand Union9 September – 18 October 2021
Ecology & Art Talks1: Community Gardening
Online30 September 20214pm - 5.30pm
Breakfast OpeningPhyllis Christopher, Heads and Tails
30 September 20218.30 - 10.30
On Tropism: Grand Union x University of Birmingham Art History & Curating
2021
Exhibition OpeningPhyllis Christopher, Heads and Tails
24 September 20216 - 8pm
Tunings - performance by Benny Nemer
Stryx24 September 20215.30pm - 6.30pm
A simultaneity of stories-so-far
May – July 2021
Lucy ReynoldsA Feminist Chorus / A Tender Map: Outdoor Performance
Minerva Works Garden30 July 20216.30 - 7.00pm
Guerrilla GirlsArt Night 2021: The Male Graze
Grand Union18 June – 18 July 2021
Online Premiere - The Growing Project Mini Documentary: Growing Inclusive Communities
Online16–17 July 20215pm
Art Night 2021 Marathon
Online15 July 20218pm - 11pm
Instituting with Care: Codes of Practice
Online9 July 20216pm - 7.30pmFollow the link at the bottom of the page to book you place.
Holly ArgentAlone & Together
Online29 June 202111am - 12.30pm
Navi KaurChopping Club with Human Libraries
Online12 April 20215.30pm - 7pm
Grand UnionLet's Talk - Virtual One-to-One Sessions
Online18–31 January 2021
Benny Nemerofsky RamsayÉtudes
23 September 2020 – 1 January 2021
CALL OUTForming a Resident’s Association: Research Group
23 September – 19 October 2020
Alberta WhittleNo Mudder Country Here
Junction Works2020
The Growing Project Online
24 March – 1 August 2020
The Natural Home of Unruly Outsiders
November 2019 – July 2020
Open Call: BCU Graduate Residency 2019
5 June 2019 – 14 July 2020
THINKING FUTURES
6 March – 29 May 2020
How She Survived: a YouTube playlist by Jamie Crewe, with an introduction by Kim McAleese
16 April 20206–8pm
Laura Onions Corresponding Notes
1 March – 13 April 2020
Sudanese Kitchen, Omer Eltigani
1–31 March 2020
American Export
6 December 2019 – 31 March 2020
CineQ x GU: Tongues Untied with Curated Dining Experience
28 March 20206 - 8pm
American Export: Hetain Patel / Emma Smith
15 February – 28 March 2020
American Export: A Tall Tale by Tito & Tita
18–25 March 2020WE: I and I–a workshop with Alberta Whittle
21 March 2020
Love & Solidarity: Queer Conditions Reading Group
12 March 20206-8pm
Love & Solidarity: Exhibition Tour with Kim McAleese and John Heffernan
6 March 20206-7pm
Cooking SectionsThe Empire Remains Christmas Pudding
Junction Works18 October – 25 December 2019
Light Works
8 September – 25 December 2019
Digbeth First Friday: Modern Clay Winter Fair and The Growing Project Sale at Modern Clay
6 December 2019
A School for Tourists: Online with Emma Smith
26 November 20196–8pm
Stir Up Sunday
24 November 2019
Mystical Poetry & Love: Nisha Ramayya and Sarah Shin in conversation
15 November 20196.30–8pm
That’s When Good Neighbours Become Good Friends: Helen Nisbet
9 November 20191–5pm
And What It Became Is Not What It Is Now, – Public Programme
7 September – 9 November 2019
And what it became is not what it is now,
Gallery6 September – 9 November 2019
Queering The Sector: Meaningful Care, Meaningful Change
8 November 201910-5pm
Birmingham Hippodrome
Hurst Street, Southside, B5 4TB
Digbeth First Friday: Screening of Dyfodiaith + Q&A with Paul Eastwood
1 November 20196–7pm
Open Call Artists ‘In-Residence’ Bruntwood Cornwall Buildings
6 September – 25 October 2019The Empire Remains Christmas Pudding + Light Works discussion with Cooking Sections, Kim McAleese & Jo Capper
18 October 20196–8pm
Grand Union Gallery Space (158 Fazeley Street)
Memory as a contestatory force, a talk with Dr Lorraine Ryan
17 October 20196pm
The Forest Does Not Own Me Anymore, Forager Collective, Cooking Sections
8 September – 17 October 2019
We are both invisible – Language between the self and other, with Sophie J Williamson
12 October 20193–5pm
Creative Translation Workshop with Jen Calleja
28 September 20191–4pm
Birmingham Heritage Week: Junction Works & Banana Warehouse Hard Hat Tours
15 September 201911am-12pm
Screening of Snuff 1976 + Q&A with Joaquin Aras at the Electric Cinema
11 September 20196 – 9pm
Digbeth First Friday: And what it became is not what it is now, Evening Opening & Publication Launch
6 September 20196 – 9pm
Digbeth First Friday: 55 Gallon BBQ (Blue Curry)
2 August 20196–8pm
Summer Studio Sale
2 August 20196 - 8pm
55 Gallon, Blue Curry
2 August 2019
Joyce Treasure: Hymns
6 June – 7 July 2019
Digbeth First Friday: Hard Hat Tour
5 July 20195–5.30pm and 6–6.30pm
Cooking Sections: The Empire Remains Shop – Birmingham launch
14 June 20197–10pm
Digbeth First Friday: Artist Roundtable – Residencies
7 June 20195–7pm
Open Call: Simon Says/Dadda by Beverley Bennett
18 April – 6 June 2019
Betsy Bradley, Gareth Proskourine-Barnett and Rafal ZajkoOn the Subject of Precarity
Gallery3–18 May 2019
Ways of Learning at BALTIC 39
16 February – 12 May 2019
Besse: Part 3, Rye
10 May 2019
Ways of Learning at BALTIC 39: (I get) So Emotional, programmed with Seán Elder
26 April 201912–4.15pm
Lauren Gault: closing tour and discussion
13 April 20191–3pm
Laura OnionsCorresponding Notes
Gallery1 March – 13 April 2019
Lauren Gaultdrye eyes
Gallery1 February – 13 April 2019
Besse: Part 2, Hops
12 April 2019
Digbeth First Friday: Late opening of drye eyes by Lauren Gault
5 April 20196–8pm
Ways of Learning at BALTIC 39: TO CARE FROM THE PLACE YOU’RE FROM, programmed with Teresa Cisneros & Andrea Francke
30 March 20191 - 5pm
Besse: Part 1, Water
8 March 2019
Infinite Opera Performance for drye eyes
1 March 2019
Ways of Learning at BALTIC 39: Structures that Cooperate programmed by Louise Shelley
17 February 201910.30am–12pm Public Session
1–4pm: Public Session with lunch
Grand Union Annual Christmas Party
7–8 December 20187pm – late
Burning House Books at Grand Union
November – December 2018
Ways of Learning, programmed with Lucy Lopez
7 September – 1 December 2018
Joanne Masding: Bruntwood Cornerblock Commission Launch
29 November 20185.30 - 8.30pm
Juliet Jacques & Huw Lemmey in conversation (live podcast)
23 November 201810am–midday
Cooking Sections: The Empire Remains Shop book launch
17 November 20186–8pm
Grey, Green, Gold (and Red), a performance by Uriel Orlow
8 November 20186–8pm
In The Pink (Sean Burns) : Launch Party – SHOUT 18
2 November 20186pm–late
Queer Conditions Reading Group
1 November 20186–8pm
Birmingham Alternative Food Networks
23 October 20186.30 - 8.30pm
Digbeth Calm & Balm: Herbalm & Tea Making Workshop
13 October 201811am - 3pm
Cooking Sections in residence – Coffee at Grand Union
11 October 20182–3pm
BROTH: Soup Exchange
5 October 20186-8pm
Queering Culture, Fermenting Trouble by Kirsty Clarke
2 October 20186.30 - 8.30pm
Yu-Chen Wang: Unlocking Canal History
16 September 20181pm to 6pm
GU Women at Modern Clay
3–4 August 2018Friday 3rd, 6-8pm
Saturday 4th, 12-5pm
Rami George and Tako TaalInherited Premises
Gallery25 May – 3 August 2018
Yu-Chen WangJunction Works Residency
Junction Works21 May – 29 June 2018
Three Models for Change
9–16 June 2018Stryx, 13 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RT
Performance: Rainbow Flag / Trojan Horse by Ian Giles
9 June 20185-6pm
Creating A Limited Edition Print Portfolio: Bharti Parmar Artist Talk
9 May 20183–4.30pm
Melanie JacksonDeeper in the Pyramid
Gallery2 February – 21 April 2018
unRequired Reading: Melanie Jackson
14 April 20181–4pm
Platonic Solids* Family Workshop
7 April 20181–3pm
“Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Cheese”
6 April 20186-8pm
Melanie Jackson artist’s talk
15 March 20186.30–8pm
Curatorial Curriculum 2017 online publication
Online2018
Susie GreenPleasure is a Weapon
Gallery1 September – 18 November 2017
Splash Addict performance: Fierce Festival
18 October 20177–7.30pm
Curating as Activism, led by Morgan Quaintance
13–14 October 2017
Digbeth First Friday: Late opening
6 October 20176–8pm
Film screening: Mano Destra
5 October 20176–8pm
Pleasure is a Weapon: Gallery tour with Susie Green
21 September 20176–7.30pm
Pleasure is a Weapon: The Brilliant State performance
1 September 20179pm
Curating as a form of resilience, led by Övül Ö. Durmusoglu
21–22 July 2017
Seecum CheungThe Dutch Window
Gallery5 May – 22 July 2017
Friday Lunchtime Discussions – The Dutch Window
19 May – 7 July 20171–2.30pm
Roundtable Discussion with Seecum Cheung & Morgan Quaintance
30 June 20171 - 2.30pm
Free lunch provided
Vox Pop Map Workshop, led by Keith Dodds
29 June 20176 - 8pm
Room With A View: General Election Party & Live Discussion
2 June 201718:00–21:00
Curating as Publishing led by Tom Clark
26–27 May 2017
Curating Performance, led by Susan Gibb
28–29 April 2017
Digbeth First Friday: Artist Super Market
7–9 April 2017
Alex Cecchetti, Liz Magic Laser, Hanne Lippard, Jesper List Thomsen and Hagar TenenbaumHand and Mind
Gallery3 February – 1 April 2017
Liz Magic Laser Political Therapy Workshop 3
30 March 20176–7.30pm
Jesper List Thomsen, Hanne Lippard, Bodies Saying Words
16 March 20176.30pm
Liz Magic Laser, Political Therapy Workshop 2
11 March 201710.30am – 12pm
Digbeth First Friday: Hand Me A Drink
3 March 20176 - 8PM
Liz Magic Laser, Political Therapy Workshop 1
18 February 201710.30am-12.30pm
Hand and Mind: opening night performances
3 February 20176.30pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm
Unite Against Dividers: communal lunch at Grand Union
15 January 201712–2pm
End of Year party: Artists Behind Bars with Fierce
2 December 2016
Queerzone3000In residence at Grand Union
Gallery15–18 November 2016
Mathew Parkinslope-tend-big
Gallery11–18 November 2016
Will You Dance With Me?
18 November 2016
Queer film screenings
17 November 2016
Mathew Parkin in conversation with Kim McAleese
12 November 2016
Going Hard: Digbeth First Friday Film Screenings
4 November 2016
Mitra SabouryPulling Walls
Gallery2 September – 4 November 2016
Art Bus
28 October 2016
Mitra Saboury, Pulling Walls Curator’s Tour
8 October 2016
Mitra Saboury, Family Workshop
11 September 2016
Laura Oldfield Ford, Closing event: Walk
5 August 2016
Laura Oldfield FordChthonic Reverb
Gallery17 June – 5 August 2016
Warwick Bar Summer Fete & Crisis Arts Festival
23 July 2016
Laura Oldfield Ford in conversation
7 July 2016
Prem Sahib presents ‘Bijou’
3 June 2016
Prem SahibGrand Union
Gallery22 April – 3 June 2016
Prem Sahib in conversation with Kim McAleese
19 May 2016This is Now : Film and Video After Punk
6 May 2016
Eric Moschopedis and Mia RushtonIn Residence
Studios8 February – 26 March 2016Precarity Centre, Bread and Stew Meeting
23 March 2016
They Are HerePrecarity Centre
Gallery5 February – 23 March 2016The Edge of Experience, the Edge of Society | Discussion hosted by Dr Khaldoon Ahmed
12 March 2016Work In Progress II
4–24 January 2016Grand Union Studios Record/Print/Book Sale
4 December 2015
Cristobal Gracia and Katharina LudwigIn Residence
Studios1–28 November 2015Yoshua Okón and Cristóbal Gracia in conversation
10 November 2015Nømad Tapas and Cocktails at Grand Union
6 November 2015
Emma Hartbig MOUTH
Gallery5 September – 31 October 2015Opening Friday 4 September 2015, 6–8pm
Emma Hart in Conversation
28 October 2015Emma Hart film screenings at Fierce
10–11 October 2015big MOUTH, Digbeth First Friday
2 October 2015
Andrew LaconIn Mexico City
SOMA1–30 September 2015
Alice Theobald and ‘The Bear Pit’
20 July – 8 August 2015
Fay NicolsonOVER AND OVER PURE FORM
Gallery26 June – 8 August 2015
Mitra SabouryIn Residence
Studios20 July – 3 August 2015
Aideen DoranIm Bau
Gallery18 April – 14 June 2015
Aideen Doran and Laura Oldfield Ford, Artists’ talk
4 June 2015
Laura Oldfield FordIn Residence
13 April – 22 May 2015
Mat JennerDreams Time Free
21 February – 3 April 2015Opening Friday 20 February, 6–8pm
Phil Hession
1 February – 3 March 2015
Marcia FarquharLarger than Life
Gallery6 September – 7 November 2014
Anna SchimkatArtist in residence at LPAP and Grand Union
1 September – 31 October 2014
Marcia FarquharIn Residence at Grand Union
10–11 October 2014
Grand Union at The Manchester Contemporary
26–28 September 2014
Holly AntrumA Diffuse Citizen
7 June – 26 July 2014
The Panj Piare ASSEMBLE
16 May 2014
Maia ConranHere is the Yard
29 March – 10 May 2014
New Art West Midlands 2014
14 February – 15 March 2014
AND PublishingThe Piracy Project
Gallery6 December 2013 – 8 February 2014Opening event 5–7pm Friday 6 December
Ruth BealeLindgren & Langlois: The Archive Paradox
Gallery7–30 November 2013Performance Thursday 28 November 7–8pm
And The Heavens CriedBob Parks
Gallery6 September – 27 October 2013Opened Friday 6 September 6pm, with a special gig by Bob Parks and The Recreationals at 8pm
Magic Eye
Gallery13 July – 10 August 2013Goodiepal, Luke McCreadie, Plastique Fantastique, Alexander Stevenson, Jennet Thomas
A Small Hiccup
25 May – 5 July 2013
Kjersti G. Andvig & Lars Laumann999321
Gallery29 March – 4 May 2013
Simon FaithfullWindow
Gallery21 October 2011 – 1 May 2013
New Art West Midlands
Gallery15 February – 16 March 2013
(On) Accordance
Gallery and Online1 December 2012 – 19 January 2013at Grand Union and online at www.or-bits.com
Blue FirthHatton
The Canal & River Trust, Hatton8 November – 20 December 2012
Hashfail
14 December 20127pm
Birmingham The Magic City
City States, Liverpool Biennial15 September – 25 November 2012
Necrospective
Gallery22 September – 27 October 2012
Bring Out Your Dead
Gallery19 October 20127–8.30pm
Film Club: OUTPOST Open Film 2012
3 September 20126.30–8pm
One Applination under a Groove
31 August – 1 September 20128pm–8am
The Possibility of an Island
Gallery14 July – 18 August 2012
The Reading Room
Gallery19 May – 23 June 2012
Reynir HutberStay Behind the Line
Gallery17 March – 22 April 2012
Torsten LauschmannBefore the Revolution
Gallery20 January – 3 March 2012Virtual Space/Digital Trace
8 December 20117–9pm
Site/Non-site OR How many quarters does Birmingham have?
3 December 2011Pavilion: Screening 23/11/11
23–26 November 2011Echoes (disambiguation)
18 November 2011
Which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together?
Gallery21–30 October 2011Bring Out Your Dead
30 September 20117pm–late
Amen Brother
Gallery28 May – 30 July 2011
Search Engine
Gallery21 March – 30 April 2011
Jamie ShovlinHiker Meat
Gallery25 September – 13 November 2010Opening night 24 September with a live performance by Lustfaust
Meanwhile in Manchester
12–20 June 2010
Video Progetto
Gallery and 26cc9–16 May 2010