Making sense of Birmingham’s creative community
I’ve started a fledgling blog to help me make sense of Birmingham’s creative organisations; of the different names and acronymns that crop up when people talk about Birmingham’s various ‘creative’ and ‘social media’ groups (the two seem to overlap an awful lot).
This started from a comment I posted on Paradise Circus months ago, and a subsequent conversation with Chris Unitt (also months ago). I had initially intended this to be just a blog post, but in trying to organise even a small amout of information it has turned into a full-blown blog. (A wiki would have been more collaborative, but my experience is that other people find blogs much easier to get to grips with. And I can always address any editing issues should other people want some control over content.)
As with most things I start it probably won’t get very far, and the chances are it’s not needed anyway. But I certainly find that jargon, mysterious names and acronyms crop up unexplained with alarming regularity.
What I find most confusing is not knowing what pedigree these organisations have: are they government funded, local council, charities, a bunch of drinking buddies; who’s in control of them, who’s funding them, which ones are in bed with each other?
Certainly the ones with the money and stature – ie those in public or private sector partnerships – appear (understandably) to be in each others’ pockets. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but without a little digging it’s hard to know what these organations do or how they fit together.
Which is why I’ve started Understanding Birmingham; mainly for my own amusement, but if other people find it useful then so much the better.
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