Last year’s Kids Gig featured Islaja and Flower/Corsano Duo

As part of Bring To Light, there’ll be a very special Kids Gig, a fantastic introduction to
experimental music, for children and their families on Saturday 26th October at 2pm at the Symphony Hall. This free event is aimed at the under 7s and features the inimitable Richard Dawson. There’s more family friendly activity on Saturday with a free performance by Shangaan Electro -the dance phenomenon from South Africa, this takes place in the Library of Birminghams’ amphitheatre at 3pm.

No need to book, just drop in.

Experimental visual artist Dinos Chapman chats to Stuart Maconie on the Freak Zone about his departure into creating music, his influences and plans for the future. You can listen to the show all week on the BBC website, in preparation for his performance at Bring To Light this Friday 25th October.

Dinos Chapman will be joined on the bill by Josephine Foster, Shangaan Electro, Richard Dawson, Sleaford Mods and many more.

Limited are available via theticketsellers.co.uk and Milque & Muhle records in the Custard Factory.

Noise rap trio clipping

The next Discover New Music event is Bring To Light 25-27 October – a Supersonic Festival inspired weekend featuring adventurous new music.

Friday’s programme will see performances in the industrial space of the Rainbow Warehouse in Digbeth, for the rest of the weekend dynamic new music will invade the new Library of Birmingham.

Hordes feature members of Mistress, Bargepole, I Am Colossus and Anaal Nathrakh

Friday 25th October / 8pm-late/ Rainbow Warehouse, Digbeth
Shangaan Electro + Dinos Chapman + Sleaford Mods + Deafheaven + Hordes

Also on Friday, Shangaan Electro will lead FREE dance workshops, giving people of all ages and abilities the chance to learn the wildest Shangaan dance moves step by step.
Two workshops will take at place 1pm and 3pm. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in taking part.

Kogumaza – essential for fans of Lungfish, Bardo Pond

Saturday 26th October / 3pm – midnight /Library of Birmingham
Kogumaza + Josephine Foster + Robedoor + High Wolf + Richard Dawson + Grumbling Fur

Kids Gig – 2pm at the Symphony Hall – Free
This free event is aimed at the under 7s and features the inimitable Richard Dawson. Symphony Hall is situated very near to the Library of Birmingham, in Chamberlain Square. No need to book, just drop in.

Shangaan Electro – 3pm Amphitheatre Library of Birmingham – Free
A free outdoor performance by Shangaan Electro, the high-speed dance phenomenon from South Africa.

Masaki Batoh will be demonstrating his brain pulse music

Sunday 27th October / 2pm – 11pm / Library of Birmingham
Evil Blizzard + Clipping + Masaki Batoh + Sarah Angliss + Laurence Hunt + Delia Darlings

Sunday will begin with a series of events celebrating the pioneering composer Delia Derbyshire, including a screening of the award winning documentary ‘The Delian Mode’.

Weekend and day tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

DINOS CHAPMAN LUV2H8 from thevinylfactory on Vimeo.

Image by Cathy Wade

All this week the Pavilion houses Carousel – Slide/Tape by Cathy Wade. She has created an immersive environment that explores ownership, time, sound and image. Come and meet Cathy and work with the carousels, original slides and mementos, to create ever changing projected environments. This residency is open til Sunday 20th October.

Image by Katja Ogrin

On Saturday 19th October, there’s another chance to catch the Birder’s Paradise workshop. Nestled around the library are 12 bird sculptures inspired by birds that feature in the content of the library’s collection. The tour is free, just meet at the Pavilion at 11am or reserve a place online at www.birmingham-box.co.uk

The next in our Sunday Film Club series an archive travel compilation of shorts with a focus on Birmingham on Sunday 20th October at 2pm. Amazing footage has been sourced from BFI and MACE (Media Archive for Central England). Tickets are £5 and kids go free. www.birmingham-box.co.uk

Masaki Batoh will be demonstrating his brain pulse music at Bring To Light

The next Discover New Music event is Bring To Light 25-27 October – a Supersonic Festival inspired weekend featuring adventurous new music. The event features the internationally renowned artist Dinos Chapman performing his new sonic work, South African dance phenomenon Shangaan Electro, the roboticist and theremin player Sarah Angliss, the ‘brain pulse’ music of Japan’s Masaki Batoh and many more. Weekend and day tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

DINOS CHAPMAN LUV2H8 from thevinylfactory on Vimeo.

Also that weekend, Flatpack Festival are celebrating early cinema with Box of Light. There’ll be performances, screenings and workshops. Bookings are open for very intimate performances of The Icebook. Thoroughly recommended, it uses miniature projects and delicate paper cut outs to create an extraordinary visual effect.Tickets are £5 www.birmingham-box.co.uk

We’re sad to have to announce that Zomes have cancelled their tour and will no longer be at Bring To Light. In happier news, the excellent Grumbling Fur have been added to the bill. They got a great reaction at the St Paul’s church show this April, so it’s great to have them back. Featuring Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver, Miasma and The Carousel of Headless Horses, Guapo, Mothlite), they concoct a potent brew of doomy psychedelia, interspersed with blissful krautrock, Grumbling Fur will play Bring To Light on Saturday 26th October.

Day and weekend tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Characters from the Festival of the Rea – part of the House of Beorma archive of the city’s lost origins

Six weeks into the Discovery season and we’re getting great feedback on our celebration of the new library. The Discovery Trail is open for you to explore throughout the season. And each week there are one off events and workshops to get involved in.

This week the Outcrowd Collective are in residency. They present the House of Beorma archive, a selection of artefacts from lost local history. Come visit them til Sunday 13th October in the Pavilion, and make your own offerings in honour of Birmingham’s lost customs and festivals.

Reference Works is an exhibition featuring new works by photographers Brian Griffin, Andrew Lacon, Michael Collins and Stuart Whipps. Each artist diplays their creative responses to the new Library of Birmingham, the ‘old’ Central Library building and the build, transition and relocation. Stuart Whipps will be giving a free exhibition tour this Saturday 12th October at 11am.

There’s still time to sign up for the Shangaan Electro dance workshops. Your chance to be part of the South African dance craze that became a youtube sensation – workshops are 1pm or 3pm on Friday 25th October at Dancexchange, Thorp Street. Workshops are totally free, you just need to sign up via [email protected]

Shangaan Electro will also perform as part of the Bring To Light weekend of adventurous music, 25-27 October. The next in the Discover New Music series, this event features the artist Dinos Chapman, roboticist Sarah Angliss, the Brain Pulse Music of Masaki Batoh and many more. Day and weekend tickets are available viawww.theticketsellers.co.uk

A composer, multi-instrumentalist, roboticist and sound historian, Sarah Angliss‘ work explores her obsessions with defunct machinery, faded variety acts and European folklore. Awarded Most Groundbreaking Act of Brighton Festival and Fringe 2013, Sarah will perform at Bring To Light on Sunday 26th October at the Library of Birmingham.

Sarah’s music mixes her own software patches with samples, field recordings and live performance on theremin, saw, recorder, waterphone, keyboard, handbells and other instruments.

Sarah is currently researching a book about sound, is sound designing an exhibition on a 1940s submarine, composing tracks for a solo album and working on a 7” record for Ghost Box.

Tickets for Bring To Light are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Performing as part of Bring To Light on Friday 25th October, the mighty Deafheaven have a very urban take on black metal- making them a perfect soundtrack for a night in an industrial warehouse in Birmingham! The San Francisco-based group began as a two-piece with George Clarke and Kerry McCoy who recorded and self-released a demo album together. After a warm reception, Deafheaven recruited three new members and began to tour, and this is their first trip to the UK. www.deafheaven.com

Terrorizer have previewed Bring To Light with an interview with lead singer George Clarke

“what we do on stage is nothing but a physical manifestation of how we feel when we hear our songs.” Read the full interview

Tickets for Bring To Light are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk