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Kings Heath Art Market
We are excited to collaborate with United Artists of South Birmingham to bring local artists and local art to the community. Launched in Spring 2024, this vibrant market is a celebration of local talent and a platform for artists to showcase their unique work, be it visual, sculptural, or beyond. In 2025 it moved to a new venue at All Saints Centre, and will run from noon to 4pm on the third Saturday of every month. Latest news, information and link for artists to book a stall
Barn Dances and Ceilidhs
Social events for all the family and all ages. If you don’t know how to do English Country dancing, you will soon learn, as the caller will explain the steps before the music starts and will then remind you what to do next. It’s great fun, even if you go wrong! Although we don’t organise dance events on a regular basis, there’s usually one in the pipeline – sign up for our newsletter to make sure you don’t miss out. And if you want to learn to dance, here’s a list of opportunities.
LEARN THE ART OF STORYTELLING
Graham Langley, storyteller and teacher has been delivering storytelling training with the Trad Arts Team since it’s inception. This has included running group training with Storytelling Gymnasium and other events. These are no longer running on a regular basis but we continue to offer one to one or small group training. Contact Graham for more information or to arrange a session. There will be no fixed fee, just a donation to the Trad Arts Team through our TipJar.
Sing Political: singers and songwriters used to get together once a month at the Prince of Wales in Moseley to share songs and discuss left-wing approaches to using songs in a political context. During the lockdown we held our sessions on Zoom but relaunching has proved difficult. However, the Political Songster, our occasional booklet of songs is now online and many new songs can also be found online at the Song Depot. There are indexes to both the Songster and to the Song Depot. News about political songs and events can be found on the Sing Political facebook page.
Scandi Music Sessions: inspired by a polska weekend workshop run by the Third Beat Dance Collective, we set up a series of Sunday afternoon sessions to share tunes from Sweden and other Nordic traditions in November 2018. During the lockdown we kept the Scandi sessions going by using Zoom, but relaunching has proved difficult. However, we’ll let you know about Scandi-related events elsewhere – sign up to our newsletter or join the Scandibrum facebook group to be kept up to date or download the tunebook.
Arter Barter
The Trad Arts Team’s Art group was launched online during Covid. It is a casual grouping of artists from different parts of the country taking part in collaborations both live and online or a combination of both. In addition to creating work together they run training workshops, participate in markets and exhibit at public events.
Tales and Ales at the Prince of Wales: a storytelling session on the first Wednesday of each month has now been discontinued. Thanks to all who took part over the years, and especially to Kit Bathgate for holding the fort.
Trad Arts Team 