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🕴️ SKASTUDS — SATURDAY 25th July
LIVE SKA & REGGAE AT THE ACTRESS & BISHOP

Get ready for one of the most feel-good afternoons of live music in Birmingham.

Skastuds are a high-energy ska and reggae covers band known for turning pubs into dance floors. From the first note, they bring rhythm, brass and bounce that fills the room. As a result, standing still is not an option.

The band performs upbeat ska anthems as well as smooth reggae grooves. At the same time, every song is designed to keep the crowd moving. Because of this, every Skastuds show feels more like a party than a gig.

However, it is not just about the music. The atmosphere is friendly, loud and full of smiles. Therefore, whether you are a long-time ska fan or just love live music, you will feel right at home.

Meanwhile, The Actress & Bishop provides the perfect setting. With great beer, warm vibes and a packed dancefloor, it is one of Birmingham’s best places for live music.

So, if you are looking for an upbeat Saturday session, this is it. Skastuds at The Actress & Bishop promises big tunes, great energy and a crowd that knows how to have fun.

Click here https://wegottickets.com/f/18840 for tickets and more information

The Music Of Joan Baez – Sarah Yeo

One of the UK’s high rising songwriters Sarah Yeo, performs material in her own “beautiful voice” (BBC) from Joan’s early career from the first recording, ‘Harvard Square’ and onward through her lengthy journey to date, telling pivotal stories and singing key songs from the Newport Festival days, her years in Nashville, activism around the world, her relationship both on and off the stage with Bob Dylan, and her love of recording just great songs.

The set list takes note of the current political climate and includes self penned songs ‘Diamonds and Rust’, ‘The Winds of the Old Days’, Dylan greats such as ‘Love Is Just A Four Letter Word’, ‘There But For Fortune’, ‘Farewell Angelina’ and the wonderful catalogue from songwriters Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs, Janis Ian and not forgetting the early Folk covers, ‘The Banks of the Ohio’, ‘House of the Rising Sun’ and many more hits.

Sarah, a recent finalist in the ‘International songwriting competition’, also delves into the Spanish language repertoire Joan loved so much.

Sarah’s ‘warm rich voice’ with sweet higher notes, lends itself perfectly for this special evening of songs and stories.

As Sarah learns more about Miss Baez’s life and career, she feels she can relate to her in many ways, making the project a very personal, interesting and inspiring experience.

Beyond the Steps Company presents – TWO

Under the Tree presents – The Careless Carless Case

Birmingham History Company presents – Lieutenant Lempriere and his Parachute Queen

Zander Gibney presents – The Poet of Lufatia

Payne’s Players presents – Terminal 2

Frogbone Trombone presents – Frogbone Trombone Sketch Show

Embedded Theatre presents – Boundless

A45 Theatre presents – A Different Kind of First

TeePee Productions presents – Tell Me Where It Hurts

Birmingham’s Affordable Family Panto returns this Easter with Jack and the Beanstalk!

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum… a GIANT panto that’s lots of fun!

Ticket pricing:
Standard – £17.50
Under 16’s – £15.00

Note: other times available, see learn more at bottom.

Five Ways to Die in Birmingham – An Afternoon at the Coffin Works

Price: £20

Birmingham in the 19th-century was hailed as the ‘workshop of the world’. The Jewellery Quarter was its busy hub, producing jewellery, silver and tableware.

About 40% of British jewellery is still made there. Behind a frontage of terraced houses, J.W.Evans Silver Factory is among its most complete surviving historic factories. Crammed with tools and equipment, it’s preserved as if the workers might return at any minute.

Entry to J.W Evans is through guided tours only and advance booking is essential. Please arrive at the time on your booking as tours start promptly.

Note there are two tours on the day below starting at 11.00am and 13.30pm

We advise that unfortunately, the tour is not suitable for those with poor mobility, due to the uneven floors, narrow walkways, and steep stairs across the building. Minimum age for the tours is 16 years old.

You can book online until 9am on the day of your visit. Tickets are free for members – just remember to bring your English Heritage membership card. You can join as a member online or during your visit.

We can’t wait to see you at J. W. Evans Silver Factory soon.

Birmingham’s world-famous Jewellery Quarter has been Britain’s main seat of jewellery and silver manufacture for at least the last 150 years.

It has been described as a ‘National treasure, a place of unique character and a particular combination of structures associated with jewellery and metal working that doesn’t seem to exist anywhere else in the world.’

Join us on a lively guided walk looking at the people, places and themes that have helped to shape this singular working district.

Please Note: This guided walk begins outside St Paul’s Church in St Pauls Square B3 1QZ and ends at the Museum of the Jewellery quarter.

Please arrive in good time with your pre-booked ticket as the walk will begin promptly at 2pm.

Pre-booking required.

Birmingham in the 19th-century was hailed as the ‘workshop of the world’. The Jewellery Quarter was its busy hub, producing jewellery, silver and tableware.

About 40% of British jewellery is still made there. Behind a frontage of terraced houses, J.W.Evans Silver Factory is among its most complete surviving historic factories. Crammed with tools and equipment, it’s preserved as if the workers might return at any minute.

Entry to J.W Evans is through guided tours only and advance booking is essential. Please arrive at the time on your booking as tours start promptly.

Note there are two tours on the day below starting at 11.00am and 13.30pm

We advise that unfortunately, the tour is not suitable for those with poor mobility, due to the uneven floors, narrow walkways, and steep stairs across the building. Minimum age for the tours is 16 years old.

You can book online until 9am on the day of your visit. Tickets are free for members – just remember to bring your English Heritage membership card. You can join as a member online or during your visit.

We can’t wait to see you at J. W. Evans Silver Factory soon.

Birmingham in the 19th-century was hailed as the ‘workshop of the world’. The Jewellery Quarter was its busy hub, producing jewellery, silver and tableware.

About 40% of British jewellery is still made there. Behind a frontage of terraced houses, J.W.Evans Silver Factory is among its most complete surviving historic factories. Crammed with tools and equipment, it’s preserved as if the workers might return at any minute.

Entry to J.W Evans is through guided tours only and advance booking is essential. Please arrive at the time on your booking as tours start promptly.

Note there are two tours on the day below starting at 11.00am and 13.30pm

We advise that unfortunately, the tour is not suitable for those with poor mobility, due to the uneven floors, narrow walkways, and steep stairs across the building. Minimum age for the tours is 16 years old.

You can book online until 9am on the day of your visit. Tickets are free for members – just remember to bring your English Heritage membership card. You can join as a member online or during your visit.

We can’t wait to see you at J. W. Evans Silver Factory soon.

A special themed guided tour of the Smith & Pepper workshop exploring the role of Birmingham and the Jewellery Quarter in the first and second world wars.

Birmingham was the single most important place for munitions work. But who worked here and what did they produce? Discover the lives of the people who contributed to these war efforts, their loves and losses, both in and around the Jewellery Quarter.

Journey through Smith and Pepper on a guided tour researched and written by our award-winning historian. Spanning both world wars, you’ll hear about the family connections and service in war, local bombing, a local silversmith soldier, migrant workers and women.

Finally, the tour guide will demonstrate some original machines used for munitions work from 1942.

Places on this tour are limited. Pre-booking recommended.