Birmingham Civic Society

2017 Spring Reception
2017-05-25 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
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.
