Birmingham Civic Society

Breaking News is back!
2017-07-05 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Our 2017 Spring Reception had to be cancelled at the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances…but now it’s back…as our Summer Reception! Marc Reeves, Editor of the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail and Editor-in-Chief for Trinity Mirror Midlands, is our guest speaker, and it has been rescheduled for Wednesday 5 July, 6-8pm at DWF LLP. We now have instant access to news, with the ability to share and even create stories. What impact is this having on the way we receive and understand events happening around the world? Marc will be sharing his thoughts on how the nature of news, and storytelling, has evolved over recent years and what its future may look like.
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Backstage tour of The REP
2017-06-22 16:30 - 17:30
Join Steve Ball, Associate Director at The REP for a private, backstage tour on Thursday 22 June, 5.30 – 6.30pm. This fascinating behind the scenes tour takes in the costume, wig, make-up and set building departments.
Afterwards members will have chance to see The Play That Goes Wrong, the Mischief Theatre Company’s multi award-winning West End smash-hit comedy. Steve has very kindly offered a 15% member discount for the 7.30pm main house performance. This popular show is nearly sold out with only a limited amount of tickets still available.
Book for the backstage tour on Eventbrite.

...and the winner is...Civic Pride!
2017-06-15 17:00 - 19:00
You are invited to celebrate the launch of Birmingham Civic Society’s centenary ale – Civic Pride.
The name was chosen by members and the public to celebrate the Society’s centenary in 2018.
Join us on Thursday 15 June, 6-8pm, at Two Towers Brewery, at the Gunmakers Arms, and hear about Civic Pride from Darren and Mark, the wizards behind Two Towers. Then raise a glass or two with our Chairman, Gavin, to the founders of the Society and its formation on 10 June 1918.
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2017 Spring Reception
2017-05-25 17:00 - 19:00
Marc Reeves, Editor of the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail and Editor-in-Chief for Trinity Mirror Midlands, will be our 2017 Spring Reception speaker.
We now have instant access to news with the ability to share and even create stories. What impact is this having on the way we receive and understand events happening around world? Marc will be sharing his thoughts on how the nature of news, and storytelling, has evolved over recent years and what its future may look like.
This event, on Thursday 25 May, 6 – 8pm, at DWF, is for corporate members and their guests only.
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Sidestreets & Silversmiths: a walking tour of the Jewellery Quarter
2017-04-26 17:00 - 19:00
Guide, Ian Jelf, is back for our annual walking tour! On Wednesday 26 April Ian will guide us through some of the Jewellery Quarter’s most intriguing side streets and share stories of the silversmiths that lived and worked there. The tour starts at St Paul’s Church at 6pm and ends at The Pig & Tail in Albion Street around 8pm for a drink (included within the ticket price).
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CBSO lunch and rehearsal
2017-03-15 12:45 - 14:30
The second in our 2017 People, Places, Pride series of events:
On Wednesday 15 March, 12.45 – 2.30pm, at the CBSO Centre, meet the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra CEO Stephen Maddock OBE over lunch, then enjoy a very special opportunity to watch the orchestra rehearse. The CBSO was founded in 1920, and Stephen will talk about its significance to the city, its history and its future plans.

12.45pm – Arrive
1.00pm – Lunch
1.30pm – Presentation and talk from Stephen Maddock OBE
2.00pm – Presentation close
2.15pm – View rehearsal from the gallery **
2.30pm – Leave

** Note: The orchestra will be rehearsing from 2.15 – 5.15pm with a 15-20 min. break in the middle. Those of us that don’t have to leave at 2.30pm will be able to stay on to hear the full rehearsal or leave at the break.
The orchestra will be rehearsing the following with conductor Robert Trevino:
Bartok Miraculous Mandarin: Suite [to be performed as part of the following day’s concert]
Strauss Don Juan [to be performed at a concert in Coventry on Friday 17 March]
Book your place for the CBSO Lunch and Rehearsal
The CBSO would like to offer guests a 15% discount to attend the concert next day:
Thursday 16 March 2017, 7.30pm, at Symphony Hall – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Featuring Robert Trevino Conductor and Stephen Hough, Piano
Programme:

Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin: Suite
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Shostakovitch Symphony No.5

To redeem the 15% discount, guests can purchase their tickets online here and add the code CBGF when prompted

Visit the BBC Studios
2016-11-22 18:00 - 20:00
On Tuesday 22 November, 6 – 8pm, members and their guests are invited to a drinks reception and Q&A with Joe Godwin, Director of the BBC in the Midlands and the BBC Academy, followed by a guided tour of the Mailbox Studios. Joe spoke at our 2015 Spring Reception and told us about future plans for the BBC in Birmingham. He has now invited us to visit the studios and has promised to update us on what has happened in the last twelve months.
