JQNF

Our friends over at the BE FESTIVAL are looking for Hosts and Volunteers to help with their event in July 2013. BE FESTIVAL is a Birmingham-based arts organisation dedicated to bringing high quality European theatre to audiences all around the UK, and offering valuable and innovative development opportunities to artists and young people. The ethos [...]

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The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate.  Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever.  It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter.  Now we have a few being built behind [...]

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A Litter-Strewn Welcome to the JQ     This is a view at a key entry point to the Quarter.  Not exactly glamorous in itself but worsened by the rubbish drifting down the street. Litter is a problem that isn’t restricted to the Jewellery Quarter but we seem to have some hotspots.  The approaches to [...]

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Well, we do for a start.  But it appears that some of its owners don’t. Empty buildings are the curse of the JQ and dilapidated ones are the boil on the witch’s nose.  The Legge Lane area is probably the most blighted part of the JQ and some its landowners don’t seem to be bothered.  [...]

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There’s drama to be enjoyed at local venue @ A E Harris.  According to their website: ‘The Inferno Kid was once professional wrestling’s brightest star – a risk-taking daredevil both inside the ring and out. Today he is disabled, destitute and all but forgotten by the wrestling world. He is only 36. Now the living [...]

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Ladywood ward, which includes the JQ,  has been chosen to receive money from the government’s Community First initiative until March 2015. The funding is aimed at helping communities come together to identify their strengths and local priorities in order to plan for their future and become more resilient. It funds both new and existing community [...]

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This is a call to arms (a little dramatic, but bear with…).  You, we, the JQ residents have a chance here and now to spend a small amount of time commenting on how you would like to see a little corner of the JQ turned into family housing.  Or maybe you think it shouldn’t be [...]

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I’ve been meaning to update you all about recent happenings with a the JQ Neighbourhood Forum committee; in particular I’d like to break with tradition this year and tell you a bit about the people who have (sometimes tentatively) put themselves forward to help run the JQNF.  These people are not super-heroes, they are not [...]

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As some of you may be aware we have been doing some preliminary work around a family housing and self-build design project in the Jewellery Quarter as part of a Design Your Neighbourhood programme after JQNF won funding from Design Council / CABE. Our design partner MADE have teamed up a group of MADEGrads with support from the [...]

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The 24 Carrots Food Market and St. Paul’s Church invite you to join us on for our Jewellery Quarter Christmas market. Situated in the picturesque grounds of St. Paul’s church, St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, West Midlands B3 1QZ. For those of you wanting a change from the German market and a very festive experience, the [...]

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