Items of interest found around the Internets

• New Birmingham Studios to offer homes to creative firms. - Lots of information in this Birmingham Post article about Fazeley Studios.
• City councillor wants Birmingham to celebrate creative communities - Birmingham Post - With the Creative City Awards coming up Councilor Neville Summerfield bigs up the creative industries:

  “As a civic leader Birmingham City Council has to establish and nurture progressive partnerships with all sectors of industry, within its city walls and outside them. It is our duty and our proud responsibility to create a culture of communication, recognition and mutual respect from which a healthy marriage of the private and the public sectors can be free to build the roads to future successes.”

• Plus+ Roundup - Who said what about the design festival.
• Birmingham Creative City Awards finalists - The contenders for the council’s annual awards are up featuring a number of Custard Factory and Big Peg tenants. The ceremony is on Saturday November 29th.
• Time for Birmingham to support the independent arts - Helga Henry of Fierce Earth and Creative Republic, calls on Birmingham to extend the support given to the CBSO et al to smaller independent outfits. It does sound like she’s talking about Digbeth here…