Community

Free Performances

The GAP is proud to announce its Spring 2019 production of a new play based in Birmingham funded by the Arts Council of England – The Silence.

Based partly in 1970’s Birmingham and partly in contemporary times, this bold and unflinching piece of writing by playwright Chris Cooper, draws forward one Irish girl’s experience of a shameful, largely hidden period in the city’s history – the mass blame of the Irish after the Birmingham Pub Bombings – into an exploration of the impact of contemporary terrorist atrocities on a young boy from the Muslim community – today’s ‘suspect community’.

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#SaveOurFarm meeting

Many of you will be aware that Balsall Heath City Farm, managed by St Pauls Trust, is due to close in March unless funding can be found. Please read about the upcoming meeting to find out how you can get involved in attempts to ensure that the farm can be saved.

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Into The Water

Women and Theatre in partnership with Moseley Road Baths are producing an ambitious, site-specific community production that examines women’s relationship with swimming and water; presenting diverse stories of women in Balsall Health and celebrating the area’s historic swimming baths.

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Learn to Prune Fruit Trees

Here’s some more free, lovely workshops from Balsall Heath is Our Planet

Learn to Prune Fruit Trees. You can learn this practical craft in a morning; pruning to help fruit trees to ensure crops of large, disease-free fruit next summer.  Date; Tuesday 11th December Ladies only. 9.30 start at Balsall Heath City Farm, Clifton Road, B12 8NN .  With an experienced tutor.

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Seeking a Portrait of BH

A Portrait of Balsall Heath in Images or Words

We are looking for pictures and stories of Balsall Heath and Sparkbrook to be included in our upcoming print newsletter which will be delivered to residents.

Send submissions to ed********@***il.com