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The Eve Brook Scholarship Fund celebrates the achievements of young people who have been in care in Birmingham by giving them help to go to college or university. At 19:00 […]

We’re trying to set up a version of The Steps Series for Birmingham’s Parks, as a result today I met with Lee Southall who manages 100 of Birmingham’s 500 parks […]

Today I was invited to the launch of Birmingham’s “Creative City” initiative. A light buffet had been laid on but I knew it would be bad to eat any of […]

A somewhat plaintive email came through today, the last message from Brightspace – Birmingham’s agents for Creative Partnerships. It’s sad because Brightspace were behind a huge number of inspirational projects […]

Sandwell Steps was supposed to have closed on Monday, but The Public are keen for it to stay, so stay it does, for an indeterminate time. Maybe we can describe […]

We had a fantastic day in Egremont on Saturday. The Commentators saw and commentated upon the full gamut of what the town’s Crab Fair had to offer. Over-all they delivered […]

Lunch break for commentators. Dancing, sprint, vintage cars, greasy pole, apple cart commentaries all streamed live. There’s an archive if you missed them – just follow the diary links. Now […]

Raining in Egremont. Quiet on Main Street but the commentators are ready for 10. Fingers crossed for the web access.

This morning I was up at 05:45 for interviews at 06:00, a series of three phone interviews with Australian journalists prior to our forthcoming gig in Adelaide. They were back […]

Ikon Gallery in Birmingham runs an occasional series called These are a few of my favourite things in which notable cultural figures in the City/Region share eight of their favourite […]

Charlotte and I are off up to Edinburgh this time next week to try and meet up with some promoters and persuade them to book some Stan’s Cafe shows. It […]

I love the Birmingham Markets, they make me happy. I’ve been shopping there for 20 years. The traders are friendly, they remember you, you get banter from them, they have […]

Today 5,000 people gathered in Summerfield Park, two streets from my home, for a peace rally. Last week three young men were murdered two further streets away, run down by […]

If Theory #1 wasn’t flattered by the name Theory then Theory #2 certainly is.

Whilst on holiday I visited the ruined Maillezais Abbey and was pleased to find that in the 16th Century it had housed Françoise Rabelais, the French writer who wrote extravagantly […]

We’re variously trying to claim holiday / claw back time owed in the next couple of weeks but Action Stations will be resumed for 11th August when we curate and […]

Tip of the Day: If buying milk to take home always lock your bike up and place keys on top of milk in fridge. This way you always remember the […]

For those of you planning to visit The Public to take on Sandwell Steps there is now a program available. It should be given to you in the venue, but […]

The venue here is beautiful, an old ice rink that is now a gallery. The teaming up of a charity and Rice Producer as promoter and sponsor has meant an […]

Having recently read Fergal Keene’s account of how he was transported around Lebanon as a hostage in the 1980s it would be churlish to describe our journey here to Buenos […]

After four hours with our lovely vinyl cutting machine last night all the footsteps, hand prints, flowers, butterflies, speech bubbles, balloons, snowballs, picture frames, school desks, vegtables Etc. Etc. Etc. […]

Open Space closed after a second day far more dynamic than the first. There was a gearing up, people were primed for action. You could hear plans sizzling around the […]

Presumably back in the day “Easy Canal Access” carried the same attraction as the contemporary industrial site’s “Easy Motorway Access”. Though Jake Oldershaw is the only person I know who […]

When the Constance Brown lorry rolls up for unloading it’s always a good idea to have an urgent meeting booked elsewhere. Today, once the heavy lifting looked like it was […]

On Tuesday, fresh back from Potsdam I was invited to meet a cultural delegation from the City of Malmö. A group of delegates from their top cultural institutions were spending […]

The ash cloud is shaping up badly for our flights to Berlin tomorrow… the train… the coach… taxi!?!

Today was our last day performing Of All The People In All The World at theNo Strings Attached Festival in Mainz. We came to the same festival 18 months ago […]

We are pleased to announce that bifurcation is taking place. An @ A.E. Harris website is now live living a separate life from this site. From now on the plan […]

Today Craig and Jack were in Robin Hood Primary School working with the students on final arrangements before a big Scalextric track is built in the school hall on Wednesday. […]

On near and more distant horizons we have the chance to see. Pilot Night, hosted by Talking Birds in Coventry on 21st April, these are always enjoyable evenings. Then between […]