THE BIRMINGHAM
& MIDLAND INSTITUTE
Spring Programme
January - April 2017
SCIENCE ARTS LITERATURE
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New Workshops and
Study Days for 2017
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Located in a Grade II* listed building, the BMI
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exhibitions and concerts. The building is also
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and can be booked for conferences
and meetings.
Friday Lectures
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Literature 6
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Affiliated societies have kindred interests and
include the Birmingham Philatelic Society and
the Birmingham and Midland Society for
Genealogy and Heraldry.
Music 8
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Affiliated Societies and Joint Events
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Calendar of events
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NEW WORKSHOPS
AND STUDY DAYS FOR 2017
The Art and Craft of Writing
with William Gallagher
6-week course starting Wed 25 January
6.30 – 8.30pm
£110/£100 for Members of the BMI
LIMITED PLACES
To book, call 0121 2363591 or
email [email protected]
This is applied writing: develop your art and
learn how to put your craft to work. Learn
such crucial topics as writing characters,
structure – and getting your work ready for
publishers, producers or agents. Explore the
kind of research that gives your writing
authenticity and the kind of research that
gets you commissions. Find out how to get
rejected – and how to use those rejections.
The Art and Craft of Writing is for writers of
novels, scripts and short stories. It’s for writers
who are aiming to be professional and who
are juggling day jobs, deadlines and
even children.
William Gallagher is a scriptwriter, best-selling
author and journalist. He writes Doctor Who
radio dramas and his work has appeared
regularly on BBC News Online, Radio Times
and in both UK and US newspapers. His
books include media titles for the British Film
Institute, he’s lectured in universities, taught in
prisons and often appears on radio and
television. Plus he performs at Literature
Festivals across Britain and is a representative
for the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and
the Royal Television Society.
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William Gallagher
Run in partnership with Writing West Midlands
Day School
The Kingdom of Mercia: People, Places
and Things in Anglo-Saxon England
in partnership with the Centre for West
Midlands History
Saturday 25 February
10.30am – 4pm
John Lee Theatre
£32/£29 for Members of the BMI
and Friends of the Centre for
West Midlands History
(includes lunch and refreshments)
This study day, organised in partnership with
the Centre for West Midlands History, will
focus on the history and culture of AngloSaxon Mercia. Join Dr John Hunt (University of
Birmingham) and others who will be shedding
light on the fascinating Anglo-Saxon kingdom
of central England and upon Mercian life.
Mahler: The Mind and the Music
with Professor Peter Franklin, Emeritus
Fellow, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
in partnership with the Gustav Mahler
Society UK
Saturday 18 March
12 – 4pm
£16/£15 Members of the GMS-UK and
BMI/£12 Students
(includes lunch and refreshments)
This study day explores the events
surrounding the crisis in Mahler’s
marriage during 1910 and his consultation
with Sigmund Freud. Does his music tell us
more? There will be a screening of the film
Mahler on the Couch (German with
English subtitles) followed by a talk
from Professor Peter Franklin. To book,
visit www.bmi1854.eventbrite.com
or telephone 0121 2363591.
History Study Mornings
with Dr Trevor James
Modern African History (since 1900)
10-week course
Mondays from 9 January to 20 March
(no class on 20 February)
10am – 12 noon
£110/£100 for Members of the BMI or
£14/£12.50 for Members of the BMI
(per session)
This course will explore the development
of modern Africa, comprised of largely
independent democracies, from its
generally imperial and colonial history.
Music Study Mornings
with Geoffrey Duggan
The Symphony after Beethoven
10-week course
Mondays from 9 January
(no class on 20 February)
10.15 am - 12 noon
£50 for 10 weeks or £7 per session
This class will again be taken by Geoffrey
Duggan, B. Mus Lond., A.R.C.M. This year will
continue to trace the development of the
orchestral, keyboard and vocal musical forms
throughout the second half of the nineteenth
century. Composers to be considered will
include Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms
and Bruckner. It is not necessary to be able to
read music to attend.
TO BOOK, TELEPHONE 0121 2363591 OR
EMAIL [email protected]
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Friday Lectures
The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall
with Dr Serena Trowbridge
7 April
Few female figures of the nineteenth century
have engaged the popular imagination as
much as that of Elizabeth Siddall. For most
people, their first experience of Siddall is as a
model. Her life seems to be of more interest
than her work, however; she seems to exist
in our consciousness of the Victorian period
as a woman who represents the repressed,
neglected and ‘fallen’ females of the time.
The myths about her abound, yet these views
are stereotypes and barely scratch the surface.
Increasingly her drawing and painting is
seriously studied, but her poetry less so.
Why is it so difficult to take Siddall’s
poems seriously?
1 - 2pm/£5*or FREE for Members of the BMI - drop in, no need to book
Social and Economic Disruption in Britain
after a European Venture 1815-19
with Dr Trevor James
20 January
Dr James will explore the tensions that existed
in Britain after its involvement in the French
and Napoleonic Wars, with special reference
to the Pentrich uprising in 1817.
Debussy Preludes with Marie-Louise Taylor
27 January
Marie-Louise Taylor will perform a selection
of the preludes, discuss their analysis and
reflect on how their titles, chosen by Debussy
himself; but which only appear at the end of
the pieces, inform, if at all, the pianist on their
interpretation.
Pictures from Palaces with Brendan Flynn
3 February
This illustrated talk examines three master
paintings from the Birmingham Museum
and Art Gallery collection which were
commissioned by Queen Mary (of Modena)
for the Chapel Royal at St James’s, Ferdinand
Gonzaga Duke of Mantua for his magnificent
Villa Favorita and Madame de Pompadour,
mistress of King Louis XV for her Chateau de
Bellevue at Meudon. What was the
significance of these three works and what
do they tell us about the people who
commissioned them and the artists who
painted them?
*NEW PRICE!
£5 includes one complimentary tea
or filter coffee per ticket holder from
the BMI Coffee Lounge AFTER 2pm.
Existing BMI Members receive 10%
discount from the Coffee Lounge at all
times. The lecture programme may be
subject to change without notice.
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‘Such Friends’: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
with Kathleen Dixon Donnelly, PhD
3 March
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his ‘flapper’
wife Zelda were the top celebrities of early
1920s America. They drank and danced their
way through New York City and then, when he
published his third novel, The Great Gatsby, in
1925, they moved to Paris. We will take a look
at their relationship and how it affected his
work, and address the question, was she
really crazy?
From Brew’us to Beerhouse: Alcohol and
society in the nineteenth-century Black
Country with Andrew Homer
10 March
Andrew works for the Black Country Living
Museum and his talk will look at the effects of
Wellington’s 1830 Beerhouse Act on the Black
Country. He will touch on social conditions at
the time, and the role beer played particularly
in local industry. Drawing on a number of
contemporary accounts, Andrew paints a
graphic picture of what life was like at this
time for many Black Country working people.
Emmy Bridgwater and the Birmingham
Surrealists with Dr Sabina Stent
17 March
From the 1930s to the 1950s the Birmingham
Surrealists, an informal group of artists and
intellectuals including Emmy Bridgwater,
Conroy Maddox and John Melville would meet
around the city, hosting gatherings and poetry
readings. Founded on Surrealism’s antiestablishment and anarchic traditions,
its members rejected the Pre-Raphaelite
teachings of the Birmingham School of Art in
favour of more subversive, chaotic fare. This
lecture will explore the artwork and history of
this group, their contributions to Surrealism,
and the legacy they played in Birmingham’s
artistic heritage.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882, Elizabeth Siddall, pencil on paper, 1855.
© Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library
This lecture will examine Siddall’s poems,
and suggest some ways in which it might be
possible to take her writing seriously, looking
at her skill as a poet and also ways in which
her style was shaped by those around her.
Although there are few poems extant, there
are enough to give an idea of the kind of
poet she was, and to draw some wider
conclusions about her work in relation to
Pre Raphaelitism, Victorian medievalism and
also the poems of Christina Rossetti.
Dr Serena Trowbridge is Lecturer in English
Literature at Birmingham City University. Her
books include Pre Raphaelite Masculinities
(with Amelia Yeates), Christina Rossetti’s
Gothic, and Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum
in the Nineteenth Century.
For more poetry events at the BMI see
page 7.
Conroy Maddox, Woman Twittering on the Moon, 1935
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Literature at the BMI
Literature Study Days
Study Days run by Keith Parsons and
Dr Pamela Mason have become more
adventurous in recent years. Originally
catering for the needs of the A-Level student,
the programme now offers a wider range of
material appealing both to those who want
to do their homework beforehand and to
those who are simply willing to be interested
in something different.
All courses run from 10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 Members of the BMI (per day)
Simon Armitage (1963- )
Friday 13 January
The current Oxford Professor of Poetry’s range
of achievement encompasses classical and
mediæval literature, the geography of the
North of England and the predicament of
young people in society today.
The films of Ken Loach
Friday 27 January
Scorned by the British right-wing press, yet
sufficiently respected internationally to have
won the Palme d’Or at Cannes twice, Loach
has been resolutely provocative.
Molière, Les Femmes savantes
Friday 10 February
Molière’s penultimate play challenges the
tired, traditional assumptions of
subservience of women and the more
strident manifestations of feminism.
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Giacomo Girolano Cassanova (1725-98)
Friday 24 February
While we may readily understand the
fascination in the 1970s with the hedonism,
dissolute living and moral decadence of the
real-life Don Juan, can we explain a
resurgence of interest in the twentyfirst century?
Sophocles, Jean Anouilh & Bertolt Brecht,
Antigone (441BC, 1944 & 1948)
Friday 10 March
What happens when an irresistible force
meets an immovable object? With whom can
we sympathise?
Poetry @ the BMI
REGULAR MEETINGS
An Evening of A.E. Housman
Friday 3 February
6 - 8pm
John Lee Theatre
£5/£3 for Members of the BMI
(includes wine and refreshments)
A celebration of the life and work of the poet
A.E. Housman, including readings of his work
and a talk.
The Dickens Fellowship Meetings
£1/Free for Members of the
Dickens Fellowship
Drop in, no need to book.
Meetings are held at the BMI on the second
Wednesday of each month at 7pm unless
stated otherwise
Poetry Reading with Alison Brackenbury
Friday 31 March
6.30 - 8.30pm
John Lee Theatre
£8/£5 for Members of the BMI
(includes wine and refreshments)
Neglected but not forgotten?
Friday 24 March
In re-establishing a singular Rose amidst a
clutch of neglected Johns, we shall look at
various poems by John Skelton, plays by John
Whiting and novels by John Masters, John
Wyndham and Rose Macaulay.
Four Women Poets Laureate
Friday 28 April
As Jackie Kay succeeds Liz Lochhead as
Scotland’s makar, we shall also study the
National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and
England’s Carol Ann Duffy.
CALLING ALL BIBLIOPHILES!
VINTAGE BOOK SALE
FRIDAY 24 FEB & FRIDAY 24 MAR
10am- 4pm
Come and grab yourself a bargain
(haggling is permitted) and help us raise
funds for the library at the same time!
To book, email [email protected] or call 0121 2363591
To book, email [email protected] or call 0121 2363591
Poetry @ the BMI is delighted to welcome
Alison Brackenbury to give a reading of her
poems. Alison is a well-known and loved
poet with nine published collections to her
name, who has read at the Cheltenham
Festival and many others. She has been
published in The Guardian and Poetry
Review. Her poetry is rooted in nature, in
domestic, humble things, and in a broad
poetic vision which gives her work both
impact and importance; her use of language
and form make her readings a delight.
Wednesday 8 March
A Tale of Two Cities with Brian Titton
Wednesday 12 April (6.45pm start)
Circumlocution and the Drying Closet
with Andi Roberts
Living Shakespeare
with Shakespeare Birmingham
Tuesdays
6.30 – 9pm
£5/£1 for Members of the BMI
Want to learn more about the plays by the
Bard? These weekly play-reading sessions
foster lively discussion; all scripts are provided
at the session, just turn up with your interest
in Shakespeare, a willingness to discover and
share insights with the rest of the group.
Drop Frank Bramwell an email at
[email protected] if
you’re coming for the first time.
The BMI Reading Group
Third Thursday of the month
2 - 3.30pm
£1.85 (includes refreshments)
The Coffee Lounge
The group is currently full - please call 0121
2363591 to join the waiting list.
TO BOOK FOR POETRY EVENTS:
TEL 0121 2363591
EMAIL [email protected]
WEB WWW.BMI1854.EVENTBRITE.COM
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Friday 27 January
Mozart’s Birthday Celebration
Mozart
Flute Quartets in C K. 285b and A K. 298
‘Il Re Pastore’ for soprano/violin and piano
Soprano Arias from the Opera ‘The Magic Flute’
Piano Trio in C K. 548
Friday 24 February
Mozart String Quintet in E flat K. 614 (2 violas)
Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29
Friday 24 March
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor
Haydn Piano Trio in C H. XV No. 21
Friday 21 April
The Czech Nationalists
Dvorak String Quartet in E Op. 80
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 ‘From my Life’
Wednesdays from 1-2pm
£1/FREE for Members of the BMI
Drop-in, no need to book
> 1 March
Trevor Robinson,
Beethoven Benefit Concert
22 December 1808
> 8 March
John Smith, A Musical Alphabet
Letter ‘U’
> 15 March
Pat Reed, Neville Mariner
> 22 March
Ann Thorp Robinson, Come Dancing Again
> 29 March
David Williams, These you have loved
> 5 April
Bill Hales, TBA
> 12 April
Frank Ryder, Wandering Around Weimar
> 19 April
Ken Harvey, Musical Meanderings
> 26 April
Requests
Art at the BMI
KAROLINE RERRIE
until Friday 27 January
Exhibition in Reception Foyer
Your last chance to see Karoline’s prints,
inspired by folk art, craft and costumes from
around the world and Eastern Europe.
MIKE ALLISON
100 Views of Birmingham
Monday 30 January – Friday 3 March
Exhibition in Reception Foyer
Printmaker Mike Allison specialises in wood
engraving, lino and intaglio collagraph
techniques. He has served as Chair of
Birmingham Printmakers for the past four
years. Mike began the 100 Views project in
December 2015 inspired by Ando Hiroshige’s
100 Views of Edo. This is a marathon of
printmaking, with at least one different print in
an edition of 25 being produced each month.
MIDLAND PAINTING GROUP
Monday 6 - Friday 31 March
Exhibition in Reception Foyer
The Midland Painting Group return to exhibit
paintings and prints by the group’s members.
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WEEKLY
EVENT
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Life Drawing Classes
Monday evenings
6 - 8.45pm
The Institute runs a life drawing and
painting class on Monday evenings under
the tutorship of Terry Mullett. Contact
Terry on 0121 358 1159 for further details.
© Karoline Rerrie, Flower Girl, Screenprint
The Midland Chamber Players
Live at Lunchtime
51st Concert Season 2016/2017
1.10pm - 2.10pm
Lyttelton Theatre
£8/£6.50 Concessions/£3 Students with valid
NUS card
Drop in, no booking required
Concerts of
Recorded Music
© Mike Allison, Flyover Fly Under, linocut and engraving
Music at the BMI
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and the BMI
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original works
of art!
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Friday Morning Club
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members of the BMI
The club offers a selection of musical,
literary and video presentations. The
second Friday of each month is reserved
for informal poetry readings on subjects
chosen by the group’s members. Drop in,
no need to book
13 January
Social Coffee Morning
20 January
Random Readings
WEEKLY
EVENT
27 January
Les Cottrell – Winter Garden Glory
3 February
Greatest Composers I: Beethoven
10 February
Random Readings
17 February
Film Quiz
24 February
Bill Hales – Actors from the Past
3 March
Valerie Tonks - Disaster to Triumph
10 March
Random Readings
17 March
Eugene Schellenberg – Ifakara Update:
Water
24 March
Rita Hales – The Joys of an All-Inclusive
Holiday
31 March
Peter Tonks – The Boys’ Brigade
7 April
Random Readings
21 April
Joe Seager – Thomas Attwood,
A Birmingham Pioneer
28 April
John Smith – An Hour with Royalty
Note that there is no meeting on Good Friday
(14 April). The first meeting of the Summer
10
term will take place on 5 May.
Affiliated Societies
and Joint Events
The Victorian Society AGM
Saturday 11 February
10.30am - 1pm
John Peek Room
The AGM will be followed by presentations
and updates on current Casework issues from
our region. Led by members of the Casework
Committee. All welcome to the presentations.
For more information or to book contact
Nina Hatch: [email protected] or
telephone 01562 887733.
Town to City - The Victorian Streetscape
in Birmingham
Half Day School in partnership with
The Victorian Society
Saturday 11 March
Times TBC
A morning event where our speakers will show
how the evolution from a Midlands town into
a great Victorian city affected the street design
and look of central Birmingham. For more
information or to book contact Nina Hatch:
[email protected] or telephone
01562 887733.
SCIENCE SHORTS
in partnership with the Friends of
Birmingham Museums and Thinktank
‘Birmingham Pioneers’ in Thinktank’s
Medicine Matters Gallery with Prof.
Benjamin Wilcox, Professor of Molecular
Immunology, University of Birmingham
Tuesday 21 March
6 – 7pm
John Lee Theatre
£5/£3 for Members of the BMI and Friends
of Birmingham Museums
Details TBC
>> DON’T MISS
FLATPACK FILM
FESTIVAL 2017:
OPTICAL SOUND
4 - 9 April
Pierre Bastien at the BMI during Flatpack 2016. Photography
© Laura Crouchley
Returning for an eleventh edition in April 2017,
Flatpack Film Festival will be taking over
various spaces all over Birmingham city centre
for their annual moving image jamboree. The
BMI will host the Optical Sound strand once
again, focussing on the sonic side of cinema
featuring artists, filmmakers, and musicians
from all over the world. The full programme
will be available from February 2017, but
expect live musical scores to silent films,
mind-blowing audio-visual performances,
aural installations throughout the building,
master-classes in scoring films, and the very
best in contemporary music documentaries.
Don’t miss Dean Kelland, the BMI’s first artist
in residence, who will be performing during
the festival.
If last year is anything to go by, this will be an
absolute treat for the eyes and the ears so
keep an eye out for brochures making their
way into cafes, pubs, and cultural hubs across
the city in February 2017. More information
can be found at www.flatpackfestival.org.uk
Image credit: James Phillips
M&M Catering at the
BMI Coffee Lounge
Come and join us for tea,
cake or lunch! We also
cater for conferences
and events.
Open Monday to Friday
9am - 3pm (excluding Bank
Holidays)
For catering enquiries, email
[email protected] or telephone
0121 2361233.
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Calendar of events
Mon 9 Jan
Fri 13 Jan
Fri 20 Jan
Study Morning: Modern African History p. 2
Each Monday for 10 weeks except Monday 20 Feburary
10am - 12 noon
Concerts of Recorded Music: Neville Mariner
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 17 Mar
Friday Lecture: Emmy Bridgwater and the Birmingham
Surrealists
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Study Morning: The Symphony after Beethoven p. 2
Each Monday for 10 weeks except Monday 20 Feburary
10.15am - 12
noon
£7/£50 for 10 weeks
Friday Morning Club: Ifakara Update: Water
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Study Day: Simon Armitage
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: Social Coffee Morning
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Sat 18 Mar
Study Day: Mahler: The Mind and the Music
112 - 4pm
£16/£15 for Members
of the BMI and
GMS/£12 for Students
Friday Lecture: Social and Economic Disruption in Britain
after a European Venture 1815-19
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Tue 21 Mar
SCIENCE SHORTS - ‘Birmingham Pioneers’ in Thinktank’s
Medicine Matters Gallery
6 - 7pm
£5/£3 for Members of
the BMI and FBM
Friday Morning Club: Random Readings
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Wed 22 Mar
Concerts of Recorded Music: Come Dancing Again
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
The Midland Chamber Players Live at Lunchtime p. 8
1.10 - 2.10pm
£8/£6.50 for Concs./£3
for Students
Study Day: Neglected but not forgotten?
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: The Joys of an All-Inclusive Holiday
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
The Midland Chamber Players Live at Lunchtime p. 8
1.10 - 2.10pm
£8/£6.50 for Concs./£3
for Students
Wed 29 Mar
Concerts of Recorded Music: These you have loved
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 31 Mar
Friday Morning Club: The Boys’ Brigade
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Wed 25 Jan
The Art and Craft of Writing with William Gallagher p.1
Each Wednesday for 6 weeks
6.30 - 8.30pm
£110/£100 for
Members
Fri 27 Jan
Study Day: The Films of Ken Loach
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: Winter Garden Glory
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Friday Lecture: Debussy Preludes
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
The Midland Chamber Players Live at Lunchtime p. 8
1.10 - 2.10pm
£8/£6.50 Concs./£3 for
Students
Fri 3 Feb
Friday Morning Club: Greatest Composers I - Beethoven
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Friday Lecture: Pictures from Palaces
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Poetry @ the BMI: An Evening of A.E. Housman
Fri 10 Feb
Sat 11 Feb
Fri 17 Feb
Fri 24 Feb
Sat 25 Feb
6 - 8pm
£5/£3 for Members
Study Day: Molière, Les Femmes savantes
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: Random Readings
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
The Victorian Society AGM (plus presentations)
Friday Morning Club: Film Quiz
10.30am - 1pm
11am - 12 noon
TBC
£1/FREE for Members
Study Day: Giacomo Girolano Cassanova
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: Actors from the Past
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
The Midland Chamber Players Live at Lunchtime p. 8
1.10 - 2.10pm
£8/£6.50 Concs./£3 for
Students
Day School: The Kingdom of Mercia: People, Places and
Things in Anglo-Saxon England
10.30am - 4pm
£32/£29 for Members
of the BMI
Wed 1 Mar
Concerts of Recorded Music: Beethoven Benefit Concert 1808
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 3 Mar
Friday Lecture: ‘Such Friends’: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Friday Morning Club: Disaster to Triumph
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Wed 8 Mar
Concerts of Recorded Music: A Musical Alphabet Letter ‘U’
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 10 Mar
Study Day: Sophocles, Jean Anouilh and Bertolt Brecht,
Antigone
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: Random Readings
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Friday Lecture: From Brew’us to Beerhouse: Alcohol and
society in the nineteenth-century Black Country
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Half Day School: Town to City - The Victorian Streetscape in
Birmingham
TBC
TBC
Sat 11 Mar
12
Wed 15 Mar
£14/£12.50 for
Members or £110/£100
for 10 weeks
Fri 24 Mar
Poetry Reading with Alison Brackenbury
6.30 - 8.30pm
£8/£5 for Members
Wed 5 Apr
Concerts of Recorded Music: TBA
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 7 Apr
Friday Lecture: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall
1 - 2pm
£5/FREE for Members
Friday Morning Club: Random Readings
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
Wed 12 Apr
Concerts of Recorded Music: Wandering Around Weimar
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Wed 19 Apr
Concerts of Recorded Music: Musical Meanderings
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 21 Apr
Friday Morning Club: Thomas Attwood, a Birmingham
Pioneer
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
The Midland Chamber Players Live at Lunchtime p. 8
1.10 - 2.10pm
£8/£6.50 for Concs./£3
for Students
Wed 26 Apr
Concerts of Recorded Music: Requests
1 - 2pm
£1/FREE for Members
Fri 28 Apr
Study Day: Four Women Poets Laureate
10.15am - 4pm
£18/£16 for Members
Friday Morning Club: An Hour with Royalty
11am - 12 noon
£1/FREE for Members
The BMI will be closed over the Easter period on from Friday 14 to Monday 17 April. We will resume our activities on Tuesday 18 April.
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THE BIRMINGHAM
& MIDLAND INSTITUTE
9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS
www.bmi.org.uk
0121 236 3591
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Opening hours:
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Most Saturdays 9am - 5pm (please call to check opening dates)
Please note that we are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays
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