Redbrick (University of Birmingham)

Redbrick met with curator Sophie Mason to get an exclusive insight into her recent exhibition, Bleeding Out. The multimedia portfolio comprised of artworks from seven Birmingham-based artists, focusing on personal experiences of injustice and mistreatment of women and marginalised people in the healthcare system in the UK.

I was lucky enough to see Daisy Peacock’s first headline show a few weeks ago, and wow was she fun! Daisy’s show was exactly how she described it to me in our interview; it was exciting, flirty and unserious. She had the entire room laughing, dancing and singing – a huge feat for an artist who only began releasing music 3 years ago.

I am sure most of contemporary society would agree that we live in a largely antisocial and predictable climate, where citizens avoid conversation with strangers and only offer help when absolutely necessary. But when empty supermarkets suddenly fill up with employees similar to ants delivering food to their queen, this seemingly utopian life quickly becomes a frightening and hellish fever dream in Apple TV’s, Pluribus.

Life&Style writer Isabel Whitt talks about the genius of Claudia Winkleman. There are television presenters, and there is Claudia Winkleman: a woman who has somehow turned a fringe, a partiality for kohl eyeliner, and an air of conspiratorial mischief into one of the most formidable careers in British broadcasting. Fresh from the velvet-cloaked, 9.6 million-strong success of Series 4 of The Traitors, she now arrives, perhaps inevitably, at television’s most exposed frontier: her own chat show.

It is important to note that these proposals are subject to a public consultation. This means residents, businesses and tourists still have time to voice their opposition to the plans. The consultation remains open until 28 August 2026, and it is vital for Birmingham’s students to tell Midlands Rail Hub exactly what Digbeth means to us. Visit this website to share your thoughts. If you are a student in Birmingham, chances are you have spent a night out in Digbeth.

Born into the humble beginnings of a Mongolian family in the remote Bortala region of northwestern Xinjiang, Yunchaokete Bu faced a far from straightforward path to becoming a professional tennis player. Raised by his paternal grandparents who spoke no Mandarin, he was sent to a charity-run boarding school in his early childhood where he was scouted to play tennis competitively.

Musical theatre is, by nature, a rather melodramatic format. The best—from Les Misérables to Legally Blonde—weaponise this melodrama to tell us stories about who we are, who we’ve been, and who we could be, regardless of premise. It seems unusual, though, that one musical revolves entirely around a small American town’s spelling bee, but the more you think about it the more it makes sense; these kinds of competitions invite the fiercest competitors, with pushy parents and child geniuses galore.

Yellow and purple crocus flowers emerging from the soil are a clear sign of spring returning to campus. As sunrise shifts earlier and days get brighter, why not keep your head up and try to spot some of these campus regulars? Pied Wagtail Lukáš Kadava – Unsplash Despite being only about the length of a smartphone, these little guys won’t shy away from darting around your feet in search of beetles, flies, and meal deal scraps.

In his 1961 short story, ‘Studio 5, The Stars’, science fiction author J. G. Ballard describes a world in which the creation of poetry has been entirely outsourced to machines. So-called writers and editors were now mechanics turning dials to modify metre, rhyme and assonance, looking back on original art as a redundant curiosity. Aren’t we lucky that such a dystopia only exists in the realms of fiction. Alas, in 2020 Google released ‘Verse by Verse’, an alleged ‘AI muse’.

If you haven’t heard the name Jack Antonoff, you’ve almost certainly heard his work. The American producer’s list of collaborators reads like a laundry list of this century’s most influential artists: Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter. It’s easy, then, to get the impression that Antonoff’s band Bleachers is somewhat of a passion project. Many reviews of Bleachers’ work put it that way: “Antonoff’s career is built on giving artists an emotional outlet,” the subtext often brays.