Flatpack Festival is well under way and a whole host of exciting events are planned for the weekend. We’re particularly excited about:

Friday 26th March / 8pm til late / Rainbow Warehouse, Digbeth

Synth Eastwood: Fast Forward – a night of audio visual revelry

Live sets from:

CLARK (Warp)
performing a one-off set using sounds recorded around Birmingham;
GANGPOL & MIT (Pictoplasma)
Manic French AV duo
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY
Digbeth-born psych six-piece
Plus the Synth Eastwood band, a man in a box responding to your art requests and a lineup of Dublin and Birmingham DJs into the wee hours.

Tickets: £8

http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fast-forward-with-synth-eastwood

Saturday 27th March / 8pm / IKON Eastside

Capsule & Flatpack Festival present a screening of Mogwai film ‘Burning’,  featuring a Q & A with Stuart Braithwaite

Tickets: £6

http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/burning

Saturday 27th March / 10pm til late / VIVID

A Plasticine Party – an Eastside knees up celebrating the beginning of the end of Flatpack. As well as various guest DJs, punk-dub multi-media threesome Jackdaw with Crowbar and Zappa-infused ten-piece outfit Moon Unit will be performing, plus there will be a DJ set from Stuart ‘Mogwai’ Braithwaite. Presented in association with We Are Eastside.

Tickets: £4

http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/a-plasticine-party

As part of Flatpack Festival and the launch of We Are Eastside, local historian Ben Waddington will be conducting walking tours of Eastside. Explore hidden gems, learn more of its industrial heritage and discover the creative explorations in this creative playground.

Saturday 27th March 12pm
Sunday 28th March 12pm
Sunday 28th March 3pm

Meet outside the Old Crown pub.

The tour is FREE, places are limited though so book ahead by emailing admin@capsule.org.uk with ‘East Stride’ in the title.

We Are Eastside; your guide to the organisations that host and produce bold new work across film, digital media, crafts, music, visual arts, literature and photography all based in Eastside, Birmingham, UK.

We are:
7 INCH CINEMA / FLATPACK FESTIVAL – BIRMINGHAM JAZZ – CAPSULE –CRAFTSPACE – THE CUSTARD FACTORY – EASTSIDE PROJECTS – GRAND UNION – IKON EASTSIDE – PROJECT PIGEON – PUNCH – RHUBARB RHUBARB – THE EDGE – TINDAL STREET PRESS – THE LOMBARD METHOD – VIVID – VRU