Concerned about Post Office Closures?

Three Post Offices in the Edgbaston Constituency; Genners Lane, Selsey Road and Coart Oak Road Post Office are all earmarked for closure under the new "Network Reorganisation" plan. One Edgbaston is currently making a short film with elders who feel their lives are affected by this, which will be available to view at this site shortly.

If you live near any of these post offices; why not tell us your first name and post code or street name, and we'll put you on our project map. (below) This will help us build up a picture of how far people really might have to travel to post a letter. Email us at downtheroad@oneedgbaston.org or visit www.oneedgbaston.org/downtheroadfor more information.


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We Love Welsh House Farm!

A new website for Welsh House Farm Estate - in fact a very nicely designed blog using wordpress - has gone up today. Good luck to them.

The community project, run by the Lift Youth Trust and residents, ... is an ambitious project inspired by a local Dad and youth worker, Simon Jay. Simon and his team of active citizens want to transform Welsh House Farm estate into a great place to live by reviving community spirit; encouraging residents to help each other through structured volunteering activity, and by increasing the team sports opportunities for young people.

More "2 Parts of Life"

I loved this Quinton history video, made as part of the "2 Parts of Life" project with Town Hall / Symphony Hall and DanceXchange. Some other sequences now online at YouTube are MC Beat and the amazing Light Dance. The project is featured in the summer edition of One Edgbaston magazine.

Friction Arts interviewed on Audiences Central

Friction Arts are the team behind Reality Estate, which was the occasion for the launch of our Art on The Edge project, and the successful relaunch of our quarterly free magazine.

In this interview they describe how the work grew out of the:

..award-winning project "Curio City Shop", over two and a half years. We created over 25 projects with locals young and old, culminating in Reality Estate, an epic adventure where the City of Birmingham Young Voices, Kiss the Ceiling, Birmingham Festival Choral Society and Birmingham Choral Union amongst others, performed. They sang an original score based on stories collected from local people during our time at the Curio City Shop."

Friction's next project will be ‘Echoes from the Edge’ a three year programme of work that will see Sandra Hall and Lee Griffiths, Directors of Friction Arts, collaborate with ‘Touchable Stories’ USA. Together they will undertake creative cultural archaeology of Digbeth and Highgate.

2 Parts of Life

Our local "Arts Champions" DanceXchange and Town Hall / Symphony Hall have just finished some amazing work with The Quinzone Centre and an intergenerational group of local people. Over two and half months, the group learned about making music (both live and computer produced), photography, filming, editing, and dance. The finished film, “2 Parts of Life” premiered at The Electric Cinema on 17th May 2008 to an enthusiastic audience. Here's a sequence: Handbags and Calumn. You should also see Dan's Quinton Rap and Sopie & Sam Dance on YouTube.