The Second Saturday of the Month
✨❄️The GAP Winter Craft Market❄️✨ Saturday 9th December, 11am – 4pm
Pop down to on 9th December for a festive fun-filled day out whilst supporting local artists and young people. Expect an exciting array of unique handmade gifts and goodies for sale – all made by local young artists, designers and crafters – in amongst our cosy community cafe and during the bustling – in The GAP
Walking & Cycling Activities @ Second Saturday Balsall Heath
Have Fun • Explore & Connect with Your Local Area • Make Friends • Build Confidence • Learn New Routes
10am – 1pm – Pop by our stand to chat about walking/cycling and route planning + Pick up a FREE 69Wards by Bike or Foot Map
10am-11am – Walk & Talk – Get social, explore the local area by foot and share your thoughts
12-1pm – Led Ride – Explore the local area by bike and build confidence riding as a group
Do you have an unused bike collecting dust? 🚲 Consider donating it to a refugee!
The Bike Project collects secondhand bikes, refurbishes them, and provides them to refugees and people seeking asylum. In the UK, over 230,000 refugees and people seeking asylum face challenging circumstances, having fled persecution and war, often unable to work and reliant on limited allowances. Meanwhile, there are around 38 million unused bikes across the country. Matching the two can offer immediate financial relief and practical benefits.
“When you have to go from charity to charity to feed yourself, a bike becomes very important to your life.” – Adam, Bike Recipient
Join us at the Balsall Heath Second Saturday with a pop-up drop-off point. Donate your bike on Saturday, November 11th, from 10 am to 4 pm at The Old Print Works, 498-506 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12 9AH.
Your unused bike can transform the life of a refugee! Register your bike here: thebikeproject.co.uk/donate-bike
Local artist Julia Frost is holding a very special tattoo flash day in collaboration with our neighborhood women’s charity Anawim.
There will be plenty of pre-drawn, small designs to choose from at set prices. Simple requests such as text and linework designs are also welcome. Walk in anytime between 10am to 6pm on Saturday the 11th Nov.
All net proceeds of the event will go to Anawim, an independent charity dedicated to supporting and empowering women in and around Birmingham.
Stop by to have a look and a chat and find out more about what Anawim does and how you can help.
Check out Julia’s work on Instagram @juliafrosttattoo
September 9th 2023 2 – 5pm Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard entrance
Balsall Heath Repair Cafe is back again at Balsall Heath Second Saturday. Repairers include woodwork ,brass polishing, general repairs, textiles, knife sharpening, bike repair, scrapstore, mechanical electrics, textiles. Check balsallheathrepaircafe.org for repairers closer to the day
From 12pm, all ages welcome
Tapestry and weaving with Art Metallix, in the Upper Gallery at The Old Print Works
All day, from 11am, 12th August, The Old Print Works
Come along to the launch of the True Form Projects ‘Oriental Star Express’ installation at The Old Print Works. In 1970 Mohammed Ayub founded Oriental Start Agencies in Birmingham. This record store and then label became one of the most influential and important parts of South Asian history and diaspora in the UK and world wide, before the store had to close in 2017. Creating a replica of Oriental Star Agencies at Print Works, will allow you to explore records that defined South Asian Culture and the history of one of the most iconic record stores in Birmingham
Image credit – Ian Reynolds
July 8th 2023 2 – 5pm Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard entrance
Balsall Heath Repair Cafe is back again at Balsall Heath Second Saturday. Repairers include woodwork ,brass polishing, general repairs, textiles, knife sharpening, bike repair, scrapstore, mechanical electrics, textiles. Check balsallheathrepaircafe.org for repairers closer to the day
Come and paint together with Art Metallix, in the Upper Gallery at The Old Print Works
During Balsall Heath Second Saturday – afternoon and evening
Join us for a weekend of original theatre devised by third year Applied Theatre students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Get your free tickets now online at:
www.insertfestivaleventbrite.com
Find out more at:
www.NextChapter.com
6Ft Rule
Mee.3Meet Greenie, JJ and Dottie. 3 best friends from different walks of life. They met at a freshers event during their first year of uni and have been inseparable ever since. They laugh together, live together and cry together. They’re trying to navigate their way through the crazy world of dating, it involves what feels like endless swiping left on tinder and too many one time dinner dates. But at least they have each other, for now.
Serpent’s Gaze
Hush Hush
A Serpent’s Gaze is an unconventional twist on the Greek mythological story of Medusa and her tale of misfortune. This piece uses comedic elements such as satire, breaking the fourth wall and melodrama to capture our audiences. We will also be creating original music and exploring themes of injustice and discrimination against women.
Both Sides Now
The Other Shoe
The Other Shoe theatre company welcomes you to Both Sides Now. A story following a young black career and her elderly patient and their turbulent journey of friendship which comes with trials and tribulations of finding common ground.
Escapism
Introspective Productions
Escapism immersively explores the effects on LSD on two impressionable first year students after coming out of lockdown. Through using personal lived experiences and stories, this piece aims to provide a real experience for its audience and to help break the stigmas around LSD and drug usage, whilst also allowing them to make more informed decisions in the future.
TW: Strobe Lighting, Loud Sounds, Drug Use
Through The Dark
Atlas Theatre
Through the dark is a twisted and sometimes familiar tale exploring what happens in the nighttime.
New Visions
Welcome to the community cafe, where the stories are even warmer than the coffee. In this small, immersive play, where, two women whose lives are changing quickly as the world changes around them, they’ll have to rely on their unbreakable bond to get through the challenges ahead. A moving, immersive play that explores the depths of friendship, growth, and the power of connection.
Club Clique
Clique Culture
Club Clique invites you to join us for this, our goodbye bash. To you, our misfits and queerdos alike, we bring you our biggest party to date with a chaotic cast of drag excellence to really let your authentic self-shine under the lights. Trust us, we’re going out with a bang!
12 – 3, The Old Print Works
Fruit tree grafting workshops; Learn how to make, apple, pear and plum trees using traditional techniques.
Take home a tree for your garden or to share with the community
Rolling viewing – from 11am until 4pm, Directors Office tickets available here THE OIL MACHINE and Divest WMPF, Balsall Heath, Birmingham – The Oil Machine
As part of Moseley Road Baths’ Diving In project, the former Women’s Slipper Baths at Moseley Road Baths are being brought back to life. We plan to bring two of the former washing baths back into use this summer as a space of relaxation and wellbeing for adults in the local area and beyond. But what does a relaxing space look like to you? Would YOU take a bath in Moseley Road Baths? And if not, what would make you want to?
The fantastic artist Sharonjit Sutton has created an illustration of the Women’s Slipper Baths for you to annotate and sketch what you would like to be in the space. Come and get creative and help shape our plans this year!
All day in the Upper Gallery. Watch and discuss with artist Mid in the and get involved
Moseley Road Baths FREE Winter Wonderland Day
10am to 4pm
Experience Yuletide festivities at Moseley Road Baths
Join us for a Warm Welcome at our Winter Wonderland festive day:
• Join our community created Winter Wonderland and Grotto, book now and receive a personalised sustainable gift when you meet Santa.
• Stroll our winter market stalls in the Gala pool, hosting local crafts and goods, unwrap all it has to offer.
• Get in the festive mood with free festive film pop up in our Tearoom.
• Warm your cockles with a selection of indulging seasonal refreshments.
• Enjoy the rhythmic and harmonic vocals of our live Calypso Moon band.
VISIT YOUR LOCAL CITY FARM!
BALSALL HEATH SECOND SATURDAY
Saturday 10th December BALSALL HEATH CITY FARM
Malvern Street (off Clifton Road), Balsall Heath, B12 8NN
Visit the animals (feed available on- site)
Buy produce such as: Chutneys, Chili sauce, Pink Fir Apple Potatoes.
Check out the gardens
Learn about composting and worms!
Find out about our Clubs and Groups!
Book your visit by scanning the QR code
St. Paul’s Community Development Trust working for and with the community
www.stpaulstrust.org.uk
Or here: https://www.stpaulstrust.org.uk/ city-farm/visit-and-donate/
11am to 5pm, The GAP/Mix Cafe, The Old Print Works
Pick up some unique handmade items whilst SUPPORTING YOUNG MAKERS!
Each date will feature totally different stallholders selling an exciting array of gifts and goodies, including crochet fashion, jewellery, mehndi, toys, original artworks & prints, cards, stationary, books, candles and more!
