Between 12-4pm in the Book Rotunda Feng-Ru Lee will be making ‘Secret Dumplings’ and invites you to write a secret on edible paper which will then be made into delicious dumplings for you to eat.

We’re delighted to welcome National Storytelling Laureate Katrice Horsley to perform Spiced Tales of Brum (2-3pm in the Studio Theatre). This hour-long performance will weave together tales, stories and recipes collected at the ‘Harvesting Stories’ workshops that took place in community centres and libraries throughout Birmingham during summer 2013. It’s completely free, you can book in advance at www.birmingham-box.co.uk

From 12-4pm, our food-artist in residence Lizzy Bean will be erecting her Serbian cooking range on the  3^rd Floor Terrace – join her for mulled spiced apple juice and some delicious gingerbread for you to decorate (and eat).

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Part of the Harvesting Stories project, celebrating the cultural diversity of 21st century Birmingham through its food.

Part of the Discovery season

ESP (Extra Special People) will create their own trading show. The residency will look at themes of public space, learning, exchange and value. ESP members will use the Pavilion to exhibit new work, sell editions, organise trading events and lead public discussions and reading groups.

Come along to the Pavilion and make your offer. Dog walking for art? Haircuts for art? Baking for art?

ESP is Eastside Projects’ associate members scheme. It supports a membership of artists, designers, curators and art writers through a range of opportunties and commissions.

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The Pavilion will host a rolling programme of Creative Residencies. Artists, film makers, book makers and a range of other creatives will set up home in The Pavilion for a week, making new work and offering a variety of free activities for Library visitors.

Each week, visitors entering the space will be treated to a different experience, ranging from interactive pieces such as audience inspired theatre and film workshops to exhibitions of sci-fi sculptures made from junk and artefacts honouring lost mythical deities. The Library’s collections and literary resources inspired much of the programme, and each residency will encourage audiences to discover something new in the Library of Birmingham.

Part of the Discovery season.

A celebration of the very best in independent publishing, this event will include speakers, panel discussions, workshops and a fair. There’s tons going on, read the details below.

Thursday 5th December 1pm £3

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An Endless Supply presents In Conversation with Peter Bilak – discussing his new design magazine and models of social distribution. 3pm FREE
Letterpress workshop led by Leicester Print Workshop. All day, FREE

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Saturday 7th December

Grand Union presents Copy Rights – exploring the concept of originality and the politics of copyright. 11am FREE

Writing West Midlands presents: Roads to Market – Examining The Publishing Economy featuring Tindal Street Press, Alma Books, Nine Arches Press and Inpress Books. 1pm FREE

Birmingham Zine Festival presents: Make It Then Tell Everybody – how emerging artists can promote and distribute what they do. 3pm FREE

Eastside Projects presents The Paperless Stack – featuring figures from Library of Birmingham and the British Library. 3pm FREE
Zine in a Day led by Footprint Workers Co-operative

Roller Printing workshop led by Stephen Fowler

Artist Book Surgeries with the Centre for Fine Print Research

Introduction to Reduction Lino Printing with Birmingham Printmakers. 10am – 5pm £3 tickets via www.birmingham-box.co.uk

Panels are free but advance booking is essential 
Box Office: 0121 245 4455 www.birmingham-box.co.uk

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The Baskerville Society presents a John Baskerville radio play reading. 2pm FREE

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Friday/Saturday – Free
The Fair – showcasing books, prints and artworks for sale from an international selection of independent publishers, printworks, artists and organisations including Werkplaats Typographie,  Dent-De-Leone, Exitstencil and Imprint Press

In residence Haworth + Hayhoe –  The Library Project in the Discovery Pavilion
Haworth + Hayhoe will be installing a miniature interactive library, running daily bookbinding workshops.

Building on the activities of Birmingham 2022, part of the Discovery season, young people will be encouraged to participate in a day of live provocations at the Library of Birmingham.Students from further education colleges including Joseph Chamberlian and Birmingham Metropolitan will explore the future of the arts in the Birmingham.

A platform for young people to showcase their unique and original ideas, these events put the thoughts and feelings of young people centre stage, allowing them to voice their opinions on contentious creative issues. Birmingham 2022 creates a platform for young people to lead the future of their city, shining a light on the thinkers that will shape the culture of tomorrow.

An end of year party invited young people for a variety of youth arts programmes to celebrate a successful year, making a distinct mark on the regional arts scene.

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Birmingham 2022 was supported by mac, Ideas Tap, Birmingham Metropolitan College

Haworth + Hayhoe are installing a miniature interactive library and hosting daily bookbinding workshops. Your completed book will be shelved and catalogued as part of our library, after which your book will join a growing collection that will travel the world as part of The Library Project.

You can book yourself onto a special book binding workshop every day this week, they’re totally free but advance booking is definitely recommended. There’ll also be other free, drop in activity in the Pavilion throughout their residency.

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The Pavilion will host a rolling programme of Creative Residencies. Artists, film makers, book makers and a range of other creatives will set up home in The Pavilion for a week, making new work and offering a variety of free activities for Library visitors.

Each week, visitors entering the space will be treated to a different experience, ranging from interactive pieces such as audience inspired theatre and film workshops to exhibitions of sci-fi sculptures made from junk and artefacts honouring lost mythical deities. The Library’s collections and literary resources inspired much of the programme, and each residency will encourage audiences to discover something new in the Library of Birmingham.

Part of the Discovery season.

Jennifer Collier – Papercraft workshop
Saturday 30th November
2-4.30pm
Heritage learning Room – Library of Birmingham
FREE
Ages 16+

Join Discovery Trail artist Jennifer Collier in creating your own Story Book Gloves. Bring along your favorite story book to be upcycled into a pair of beautiful handmade gloves – you will have a choice of three styles
of gloves to choose from and will use Jennifer’s trade mark experimental techniques to create these.

Materials will be provided but please bring your own books/paper for personalising.

Places are free and likely to be oversubscribed. Please book in advance and notify us if you are subsequently unable to attend.

OM is a duo from San Francisco, California, United States, formed in 2003 by the rhythm section of the disbanded stoner metal band Sleep. The band’s first three albums feature Al Cisneros on vocals and bass and Chris Hakius on drums.
The band’s music is similar in structure to Tibetan and Byzantine chant and is rich in rhythm and melody. Their music and lyrics lift off at the beginning and slowly mutate giving a feeling of evolution inside each song. The vocals have a monotone quality, producing, on some tracks, a noticeable hypnotic effect of the sort that tends to be appealing to the devotees of the many various genres of druggishly-bent, “space” music – but which not all music calling itself stoner rock necessarily is able to cause.
On January 2008, Hakius left the band and was replaced by drummer Emil Amos, of Grails. In 2011 Robert Lowe (Lichens) joined the group.

Members:
Al Cisneros – bass guitar, vocals
Emil Amos – drums
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Vocal, Keyboards, Percussion, Tambura

www.omvibratory.com

Just three years into their dual-tuba project, Birmingham’s ORE continue to evolve rapidly. From early drone/doom beginnings their music has lately drawn inspiration from Indian classical music and other improvisational influences to become something much more difficult to define.

Autumn 2013 sees them celebrating the release of their new double A side 7″ in collaboration with Japanese noise master KK Null on Endtyme Records (a record born from their Supersonic 2012 collaboration), and for this performance they will be joined on drums by regular live collaborator and jazz percussionist Lydia Glanville.

www.soundofore.com

Craftspace’s residency in the Discovery Pavilion invites you to add your story to a new artwork in the library celebrating the contribution migration has made to the success of Birmingham.

Craftspace, along with lead-artist Jivan Astfalck, Shelanu: Women’s Craft Collective and MA students from the School of Jewellery are inviting visitors to contribute to an artwork which acknowledges the contribution of migration to Birmingham. Part of the library’s Discovery Season, the project will evolve over a week into a visual metaphor encompassing diverse experiences of migration to Birmingham.

Visitors will be invited to take a moment of reflection to write their experience of coming to, or being in, Birmingham on a piece of paper, in their first language. The paper will then be made into an origami flower which will become part of the ‘Story Meadow’. The stories will be shared on digital screens in the library and through social networking raising awareness of the positive contribution of migration to the city. As the week goes on the Pavilion will become home to a meadow of stories which reflect the diversity of the city.

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The Pavilion will host a rolling programme of Creative Residencies. Artists, film makers, book makers and a range of other creatives will set up home in The Pavilion for a week, making new work and offering a variety of free activities for Library visitors.

Each week, visitors entering the space will be treated to a different experience, ranging from interactive pieces such as audience inspired theatre and film workshops to exhibitions of sci-fi sculptures made from junk and artefacts honouring lost mythical deities. The Library’s collections and literary resources inspired much of the programme, and each residency will encourage audiences to discover something new in the Library of Birmingham.

Part of the Discovery season.