What's On

What role can creativity in music play in supporting young people today? This panel explores how the arts can support young people’s mental health, confidence and sense of belonging. Bringing together practitioners and organisations working directly with young people, the conversation will reflect on current challenges, emerging approaches and the importance of creative spaces for expression and connection.

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Keneish Dance presents SHE: Through the Wild - a contemporary African-Jamaican music and dance experience celebrating women as nurturers, providers and life-force. A reclaiming of freedom, connection and resilience.

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Try out our dance and social class for older adults who want to start dancing and moving for improved health and wellbeing.

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One of the greatest joys of a good book is sharing it! As part of Healing Arts Birmingham, we’re inviting everyone to take part in a shared Book Exchange. A simple and enjoyable way to connect through stories and recommendations.

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Join us for a morning practice set within the beautiful surroundings of Genevieve Robertson's exhibition Under the Orange Sticks of the Sun. With stunning floor to ceiling artworks, all created with natural materials, this unique setting will encourage us to connect with nature, breath and body in a supportive, nourishing environment.

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Gain an insight into the practice with this taser session where you will learn Yang Tai Chi, a smooth, gentle exercise coordinating calm breathing movements and inner concentration.

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The morning will begin with a gallery tour by artist Clare Hewitt of her exhibition ‘Everything in the forest is the forest’. Responding to a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK, acclaimed photographer Clare’s exhibition celebrates trees and their remarkable ability to nurture and communicate.

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Spend ten minutes or so in a shared act of making with Tina Francis. Using her stitching tool, Connect More, add to the artwork with your own stitches as we share our thoughts on health, craft or what we are going to cook for tea. After adding to the artwork you will leave with a small stitch kit to complete when you next have ten minutes free.

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Join us for an evening of live music in the Outdoor Theatre as part of Healing Arts Birmingham, celebrating emerging talent from across the city. This special edition of MAC’s Brum Rising series brings together some of the most exciting emerging artists from Birmingham’s music scene.

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Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human is an ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving. To the kindness of strangers, to the heartbreak of loss and missing and finding joy in the most unlikely places. These stories are for old ravers and fun makers, for anyone who has had a best friend. This is a love letter to the people we meet along the way and the sticky floors that we have danced on for all these years.

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A community research project led by the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and the Community Interest Research Centre (CIRC-CIC) explores maternity care in diverse healthcare settings, highlighting how women in the city of Birmingham, UK, often face barriers during pregnancy and childbirth, including language challenges, unfamiliarity with the healthcare system, and social isolation.

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Ikon presents Agder Kunstakademi: TV Pain (2022–23), an installation by Zubair, a former student of an independent art school based within Agder Prison, a high-security facility in Froland, Norway, housing approximately 300 male prisoners. Zubair repurposes flat-screen monitors taken from prison cells, which are frequently smashed by inmates in moments of frustration.

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