Tue 9 - Sun 14 Jun/ Tue - Fri 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm, 9pm/ Sat & Sun 5pm, 5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.1... Look Left Look Right In Summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing ch...
Sat 30 May/ 8pm/ £17.50/ Warwick Arts Centre,/ The University of Warwick/ Gibbet Hill Road/ Coven... The Dark Angel Following devastating performances on Later... with Jools Holland and five star sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Camille O'Sullivan is tourin...
Outside Ikon, Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2HS/ 5.30pm - 6.30pm - FREE! Sing Hallelujah Reverend Billy is coming! Reverend Billy and his Gospel Choir of Life after Shopping are coming to Birmingham as part of his ‘The UK Shopocalypse Tour’ in May in his only...
Thu 28 May - Fri 26 Jun at 10am/ FREE/ Warwick Arts Centre,/ The University of Warwick/ Gibbet Hil... Spy Steps Inspired by teach-yourself-to-dance floor mats, Fierce favourites Stan's Cafe invites YOU to perform this new play. Instructions for the perform...
Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Bank Holiday Monday 25th May at 4pm/ Ikon Gallery, Brindley Place, ... What Would Jesus Buy? Screenings Reverend Billy and The Church of Life After Shopping are the subject of the Morgan Spurlock's film 'What Would Jesus Buy?'(duration 92 mins.) For...
Fierce! Seeks Artistic Director Fierce! Festival seeks a new leader “Fierce! can claim to be the Hay-on-Wye of performance art, the Glastonbury of experimental theatre” Daily Telegraph As it enters its secon...
Wed 6 & Thu 7 May 7.45pm/ £10 (£8) 1hr 30mins/ Warwick Arts Centre Virtuoso Visual folly. A film that doesn't exist. A spot on the wall. With Virtuoso (working title), Proto-type Theatre expands on the sensual experience ...
Thu 23 - Sat 25 Apr 7.30pm/ £15.50 (£13.50), £17.50 (£15.50)/ suitable for ages 14+ Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy created and performed by Ronnie Burkett music by John Alcorn, lighting design by Kevin Humphrey Billy Twinkle is a middle-aged cruise ship puppe...
Saturday 31 May / 1pm / 6.30pm/ Birmingham Hippodrome (outside) / 0870 730 1234/ Free Underground Squeezed in like sardines with a stranger's armpit in your face, it sometimes seems like there's barely space to breathe on many Tube journeys, let ...
Thursday 29 May / 6.30pm/ AMC Broadway Plaza / Screening by invitation/ 0121 244 8080 Helen An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to 'play' ...
Thursday 29 May / 6pm / The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth, Birmingham / 0121 244 8080 / Friday 3... Into the space Having once adopted the alter-ego Milee The Sheep in tribute to the cloned experiment Dolly, Taiwanese artist Feng-Ru Lee's work is inspired by both...
Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May / 2pm - 9pm/ The Edge / 0121 244 8080/ Free Nesting 'Nesting' takes the form of a site-specific installation that includes images, objects and sound. The work explores themes of motherhood, gestation ...
Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May / 2pm-9pm/ The Edge / 0121 244 8080 / Free The place where I learnt how to ride a bike The places we grew up often seemed to be vast kingdoms as a child, and even as years pass they retain an almost mystical aura in the mind. It is thi...
Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May / 7.00pm / The Edge / 0121 244 8080 / Free/ / Too punk to pray An exploration into prayer from those who do not pray to the ritualistic practices of organised religion. Sufi Punk explores a personal response to...
Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May / 2pm-9pm / The Edge / 0121 244 8080 / Free Cycle Dialogues Having cycled 4000 miles across 7 countries, artist explorer Sima Gonsai has mapped a global community entirely navigated by stories, people and pla...
Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May / 8.00pm / The Edge / 0121 244 8080 / Free Nocioception II: Narrative to Concept A multidisciplinary performance work sometimes as raw as whip weals, Sobriety Twist delves into a dark world of pain and pleasure in 'Nocioception P...
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 May / Individual performances 6pm-11pm nightly/ Birmingham Hippodrome / 08... The Courtesan's Tales Nicole Blackman is reopening 'The Courtesan's Tales' for what could be the final time at Fierce. An intimate one-on-one performance, each audience m...
Thursday 29 May - Sunday 1 June / from 11.30am daily/ Compton Verney / 01926 645500/ £12 (£10) i... Beloved New York poet and performance artist, Nicole Blackman, returns to Compton Verney following the popularity of last year’s premiere of Beloved. Y...
Tuesday 27 May / 8pm/ Custard Factory / 0870 730 1234/ £5 / Plus aftershow discussion with Lisa C... Judas Cradle Film Performed as part of Fierce 2005, Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper's 'The Judas Cradle' is undoubtedly one of the most provocative pieces of live art e...
Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 May / 7.45pm/ Warwick Arts Centre / 024 7652 4524/ £10.50 (£8.50) Civil "A seamless flow of beautifully crafted, intelligent images" Christopher Hewitt - Live Art Magazine In 1996 Robert Pacitti travelled to New Yor...
Monday 26 May / Doors Open 7pm/ Town Hall, Birmingham / 0121 780 3333/ £10.00 Ancient worship of the gods beyond Rome Capsule present an event at the newly refurbished Town Hall, featuring an evening of the occult with visionary rock musician and hip archaeologist J...
Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 May / Various performance times/ from 4pm on Monday 26th and 6pm on Tuesday... What Goes On In This House, Stays In This House Taking a peek behind suburbia's twitching net curtains, in 'What Goes On In This House, Stays In This House' Bernadette Louise has constructed an el...
Sunday 25 May / Doors 7.30pm/ (performance 7.45pm)/ Warwick Arts Centre / 024 7652 4524/ £10.50 /... Playing The Victim (Part of My Fierce Festival) A hackneyed image of male brutality is unveiled to reveal a celebration of one woman’s pleasure. Playing the Victim is a visceral and intense ...
Sunday 25 May / 7.30pm/ Ikon Gallery / 0121 248 0708/ £1 per person (up to 6 people in a group) Pub Quiz You'll need to know more than a few capital cities if you want to stand a chance in Yara El-Sherbini's pub quiz. In fact, there might not be any rig...
Sunday 25 May – Monday 26 May / 11am – 6pm/ Hushhair.com and Beauty Lounge, Stephenson St/ 30 ... Foot Washing For The Sole (Part of My Fierce Festival) During the course of our lifetimes our feet take a real punishing… The feet are the areas of our bodies that are most often neglected, yet su...
Saturday 24 May - 11am – 6pm / 10pm – 1am/ Sunday 25 May - Monday 26 May / 11am – 6pm/ The V... The Divine Edgar (Part of My Fierce Festival) At the prospect of premature burial maybe the only way to understand his irrational fear is to experience it … Drawing on elements of Victorian...
Part 1 Saturday 24 May / 3pm - 9pm/ Birmingham Hippodrome/ 20 minute appointments/ Free Event / Pl... I Told It To A Mannequin (Part of My Fierce Festival) Want to get something off your chest? Tell it to a mannequin, it’s good to talk to plastic people. Come and visit Dr Millicent Milligan's impa...
Saturday 24 May / 12pm - 6pm/ Central Square, Brindleyplace/ Free Event The Fête Encounter (Part of My Fierce Festival) The Fête Encounter presents 9 exciting live artists /collectives who have created engaging works to both explore the quirks of the British fête tr...
Sunday 25 May – Monday 26 May/ Every 20 minutes / 1pm - 10pm/ Birmingham Hippodrome / 0870 730 1... It Sank With The Shape Of Us (Part of My Fierce Festival) What happens when someone asks you all the questions they want to ask next to all the things they shouldn’t? On entering a living room, with ...
Saturday 24 May - Sunday 25 May / 11am – 8pm/ A secret location / 15 minute appointments/ Please... The Moment Before We Kiss (Part of My Fierce Festival) “I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.” - Mae West In ‘The Moment Before We Kiss’ Mich...
Saturday 24 May & Monday 26 May/ Hourly tours beginning at 12pm, 2pm & 4pm/ Meeting at Tourist Inf... B1 Labyrinths (Part of My Fierce Festival) A guided tour of the city centre where actors mingle with crowds and audiences find dramas in neglected alleyways. One city. Six performers. Co...
Friday 23 May / 7pm/ The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome/ 0870 730 1234/ £7 / £5 concessions Whisper (Part of My Fierce Festival) WHISPER is about how we see and what we hear... three performers activate a live world as audience members listen on headphones. A visually dec...
Wednesday 21 May / 7.45pm/ Warwick Arts Centre / 024 7652 4524/ £10.50 (£8.50) Terror of Living / Necessary Journeys In January 2007 the Great British love affair with Indian food took on a whole new meaning when the press reported on a terrorist group trying to ma...
Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 May / 7.30pm/ Warwick Arts Centre / 024 7652 4524/ £18(£16), £22(£20) DV8 Physical Theatre - To be straight with you "The persecution of people because of their sexual orientation is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid. We must all be allo...
Friday 16 May / 6pm / The Vaults, Newhall Hill / 0121 244 8080 / Free Entry but please RSVP in adv... Fierce VIP Launch Party - Sponsored by Tiger Featuring world premiere performance of Miss Hi Leg Kick’s latest delectable extravaganza - THE PRINCESS AND THE P.E Fierce’s launch parties ...
Wednesday 14 May 2008, 2pm / School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design Yara El-Sherbini / Jiva Parthipan Yara El-Sherbini is a conceptual artist whose playful, multi disciplinary approach attempts to accessibly engage art and non art audiences, through ...
Wednesday 7 May 2008, 2pm / School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design Harminder Singh Judge / Hancock & Kelly Live Harminder Singh Judge's work has been seen internationally at venues such as Tate Modern and the Centre for Contemporary Art Poland. His artistic pr...
Wednesday 30 April 2008, 2pm / School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design Breathe / The Other Way Works Breathe create sensory performative experiences in interactive environments, situating spectators in unsettled spaces between the public and priva...
Wednesday 23rd April 2008, 2pm / School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design / Miss high leg kick Multi-talented 'comic visionary superstar' and leggy lovely Miss High Leg Kick has toured internationally with her famous signature move, performing...
Wednesday 16 April 2008 Fierce Festival Fierce! Festival is an annual event, commissioning and presenting the area of artistic practice referred to as 'Live Art'. However, Fierce also regu...
Throughout the festival and ongoing Shakespearean Public Announcements Bring out your inner Shakespeare to bring public space to life in 'You Be The Bard', a unique collaboration between Fierce and the Royal Shakesp...
