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Welcome to March’s Birmingham Bulletin with three great competitions and the latest news and
information from Birmingham City Council.
 Come and enjoy a fun, green
themed day out at Birmingham
GreenFest, Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday 7 March from 10am -
4pm. Adults £2 & kids go free!
This
Girl Can - A series of
events are being held culminating in a big party across the city to coincide
with International
Women’s Day on 8 March.
Join this year’s St Patrick’s Day festivities on
15 March in Digbeth. The theme this year
is the Irish contribution to Birmingham.
Flatpack Film Fest returns to Brum from 19 - 29 March. A mixture of films,
performances, contraptions and surprises, described as “magnificently eclectic”
(Time Out), “joyously inventive” (the Guardian) and “the UK’s most creatively
curated film festival” (the Independent).
Drop of Life - 21 March, Symphony Hall. A Concert for WaterAid featuring choirs from the BBC television series ‘The Choir’ including those from Severn Trent Water and Birmingham City Council.
To find out about free events in
Birmingham Parks this month visit the 'Park Lives' website here or see our ranger events here.
Find out about events at the Library of Birmingham here.
Local
Arts Activity. Find out more about how to get involved in
arts and culture on your doorstep. Discover the city’s local arts
networks here.
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Coming soon…
Grammy nominated RnB Diva Ameriie and her full live band return to The Drum, 28 March.
The Big Hoot An exciting mass-participation public art event, set to take Birmingham by storm in summer 2015. Presented by Wild in Art and Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Council’s Business Plan 2015+. City services need to change radically to achieve the council’s aim of creating a fairer, more prosperous and more democratic city with a drastically reduced budget. The plan will be finalised following full council on 3 March.
Make sure you’re in – your vote
matters. You
won’t have a say on who is running the country or Birmingham on 7 May if you
aren’t on the electoral register! Sign up now – it’s also important for your
credit rating.
Birmingham City Council wants to know what people think
of local democracy, how it is, and how it should be, as part of its Community Governance Review.
More
Brompton Bikes for Hire. The ingenious Brompton
folding bike hire scheme is expanding! To add to the 20 bikes already for hire
from a ‘Brompton dock’ outside Moor Street Station, two new docks are due to be launched in March on New Street and Colmore Row.
Paradise
redevelopment
work has begun. While these major improvements are taking place there will be
some disruption to roads. Plan your journey – use public transport, walk or
cycle wherever possible. For bike hire try www.bromptonbikehire.com.
Birmingham
Exchanging Places. We all want to get around safely – this means
sharing the roads responsibly. Birmingham Exchanging Places events allow
drivers and cyclists to experience travelling from each other’s perspective.
For information email: smarterchoices@birmingham.gov.uk
The Council is switching to
Barclays Bank. If you pay money to the council, you only need to
take action if you pay; Online (via your bank); by Standing Order or by a
Payment Booklet.
 Win two tickets to see Cirque
Éloize at Birmingham Hippodrome on 25
March.
Cirkopolis will transport performers and spectators between dream
and reality in an uninterrupted stream of acrobatics, music, images and
drawings to delight the eye.
Q: When was Cirque Éloize formed?
A: 1998 B: 1993 C:
1994
Send your answer and contact details to bulletin@birmingham.gov.uk by 12
March. Put ‘Eloize’ in the subject field.
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 Win a family ticket for four to see Disney On Ice
presents Magical Ice Festival at Genting Arena (formerly the LG Arena) on 2
April. Enter a world of enchantment this Easter as Mickey Mouse and
Minnie Mouse bring the most magical moments from across the Disney kingdom to
Birmingham.
Q: What
is the name of Kristoff’s loyal reindeer in Disney’s Frozen?
A:
Stefan B: Steven C: Sven
Send your answer and contact details to bulletin@birmingham.gov.uk
by 15 March. Put ‘Disney’ in the subject field.
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 Win four tickets to see I
Believe in Unicorns (age 6+) at mac birmingham on 21 April (6pm) and
meet the actors after the show. Tomas didn’t like
books or stories. That was until the Unicorn Lady came to town and reeled him
in with her irresistible magic tales. But then disaster strikes, putting
everything that matters most in Tomas’s life in terrible danger
Q: Who is the author of ‘I Believe in
Unicorns’?
A: Michael Morpurgo B:
Michael Rosen C:
Michael Crawford
Send your answer and contact details to bulletin@birmingham.gov.uk
by 22 March. Put ‘Unicorns’ in the subject field.
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