Results tagged “Glass” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

As anyone (by definition, those of you without a life) who has skimmed more than one of my blogs will realise, I am a person of narrow interests. I am obsessed with all the visual arts and theatre (particularly puppets), ukuleles, wine, food and bicycles, but most of all by my grandchildren.

Next week I get the chance to combine several of these at what promises to be one of the great cultural events of the year in the West Midlands. The Stourbridge International Festival of Glass can justly claim, in only its third incarnation, to be putting the Black Country on the international map.

The first International Dance Festival Birmingham is finished - and what a four-week feast it's been! Beginning with tai-chi on water at the Hippodrome and ending last night with the general public salsa-ing at sunset in the Mailbox, the IDFB triumphantly lived up to its own slogan - 'Bringing the city alive with dance'.

Now it's all over, I wish to honour the efforts and achievements of those involved with my very own awards ceremony (you'll be relieved to read that no phoney phone-ins nor he's-a-mate nepotism have in any way affected the resuts):