Balsall Heath Second Saturday

The Second Saturday of the Month

Category: Birmingham

  • Bike donation with The Bike Project

    Bike donation with The Bike Project

    Do you have an unused bike collecting dust? 🚲 Consider donating it to a refugee!

    The Bike Project collects secondhand bikes, refurbishes them, and provides them to refugees and people seeking asylum. In the UK, over 230,000 refugees and people seeking asylum face challenging circumstances, having fled persecution and war, often unable to work and reliant on limited allowances. Meanwhile, there are around 38 million unused bikes across the country. Matching the two can offer immediate financial relief and practical benefits.

    “When you have to go from charity to charity to feed yourself, a bike becomes very important to your life.” – Adam, Bike Recipient

    Join us at the Balsall Heath Second Saturday with a pop-up drop-off point. Donate your bike on Saturday, November 11th, from 10 am to 4 pm at The Old Print Works, 498-506 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12 9AH.

    Your unused bike can transform the life of a refugee! Register your bike here: thebikeproject.co.uk/donate-bike

  • Sundragon Community Pottery clay Xmas Decoration making workshop

    Sundragon Community Pottery clay Xmas Decoration making workshop

    12 – 4pm The Old Print Works

    Sundragon Community Pottery will be hosting a FREE Christmas decoration making workshop.

  • Tattoo flash day

    Tattoo flash day

    Local artist Julia Frost is holding a very special tattoo flash day in collaboration with our neighborhood women’s charity Anawim.

    There will be plenty of pre-drawn, small designs to choose from at set prices. Simple requests such as text and linework designs are also welcome. Walk in anytime between 10am to 6pm on Saturday the 11th Nov. 

    All net proceeds of the event will go to Anawim, an independent charity dedicated to supporting and empowering women in and around Birmingham.

    Stop by to have a look and a chat and find out more about what Anawim does and how you can help.

    Check out Julia’s work on Instagram @juliafrosttattoo

  • Next event – November 11th 2023

    Next event – November 11th 2023

    See you there 🙂

  • Oriental Star Express exhibition

    Oriental Star Express exhibition

    10-4 upper gallery The Old Print Works

    Another chance to see this piece of Balsall Heath and South Asian music history.

  • Myrtle Cottage Garden Project with The GAP

    Myrtle Cottage Garden Project with The GAP

    Join us this Saturday between 12-3pm to find out all about our new garden project and how you can get involved! ✨🌱

    You will be able to….

    👀 …have a rare opportunity to look around the charming front garden of Myrtle Cottage, the oldest house in Balsall Heath and the former home of The Old Print Works director

    👋🏽 …meet Rebekah Warmington, Nature Pedagogue and Environmental Educator, who is collaborating with The GAP and young people to regenerate the garden

    💡…share your ideas for how the garden can be transformed into an urban oasis which reflects the heart and history of Balsall Heath and its vibrant communities and cultures

    🍂 …get crafty with some Autumnal Activities to get your ideas flowing!

    Be sure to pop by, have a little browse, let your imagination wander and share your ideas and inspiration to support the project 💫

    All ages.
    Free.
    Drop-in

  • Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers -October 14th from 11am

    Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers -October 14th from 11am

    11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works

    Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood

    Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in

    pathcarvers.co.uk

  • Sundragon Community Pottery clay pumpkin lantern making workshop.

    Sundragon Community Pottery clay pumpkin lantern making workshop.

    12 – 4pm The Old Print Works

    Sundragon Community Pottery will be hosting a FREE clay pumpkin making workshop.

  • A Bedroom For Everyone –

    A Bedroom For Everyone –

    Join us at the Old Print Works for the community screening of A Bedroom For Everyone, a new film commissioned by Ed Webb-Ingall, currently showing at Grand Union 1pm-4pm The Drawing Room, The Old Print Works

    Taking inspiration from Leeds Animation Workshop’s powerful short animation ‘Home and Dry’ from 1987, which remains strikingly relevant today, ‘A Bedroom for Everyone’ serves as a sequel of sorts, shifting our focus to the current housing crises and the essential role of grassroots organizing. It prompts us to reflect on the progress we have made and the work that still lies ahead. 💪🏠⁠
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    The script of this animation was crafted collaboratively with members from four inspiring activist and community groups: Save Druids Heath and Acorn Union from Birmingham, Akwaaba Social Centre for Migrants and Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth from London. By incorporating the voices and perspectives of those with lived experience of the housing crisis, the film acts as a powerful resource, inspiring individuals to seek out local groups, lend a helping hand, raise awareness, and contribute to the cause. It is a testament to the strength of collective action and the transformative potential it holds. 🌍❤️⁠
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    We invite you to engage with ‘A Bedroom for Everyone’ as a resource that can be shared with anyone interested or engaged in housing struggles. Reach out to us at info@grand-union.org.uk if you would like to showcase this impactful film in your community setting. Let’s empower one another, raise our voices, and ignite positive change. Together, we can make housing a fundamental right for all. 📧🎉 Available in Arabic, English, Polish, and Spanish. 🌍🌟 ⁠
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    Made by: ⁠
    @Edwebbingall⁠
    @Sofia_niazi⁠
    @astroidg⁠
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    With support from: ⁠
    @acornbirmingham⁠
    @sifafiresideofficial⁠
    @leedsanimation⁠
    @makinglevel⁠
    @stirchleycd⁠
    @granby4streetsclt⁠
    @Acorn_notts⁠
    @nottm_contemp⁠
    @luxscot⁠
    @rule_of_threes⁠
    The Women Asylum Seekers Housing Project⁠
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    Generously funded by: ⁠
    @oak_foundation⁠
    @aceagrams⁠
    @artfund⁠
    @unibirmingham⁠
    @serpentineuk

  • Hell Bus Tour 2023

    Hell Bus Tour 2023

    The ‘Hell Bus’ is an exciting interactive art installation by artist Darren Cullen (@SpellingMistakesCostLives) exposing the dirty tactics polluting industries employ to green their public image. Joined by campaign group Adfree Cities and environmental organisation Switch It Green, people of all ages will be welcomed aboard the exhibition to be entertained, educated, and encouraged to get involved.

    The bus has already made appearances at COP26, Glastonbury Festival and Boomtown, and featured in comedian Joe Lycett’s Channel 4 documentary ‘Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant’. It is sure to catch some eyes in Birmingham.

    The exhibition’s tour is timely, as public concern surrounding planet-harming activities and fossil fuel expansion is high while greenwashing by large corporations is leaving individuals feeling unsure of the solutions. The ‘Hell Bus’ tells this story in a fun and accessible way, while Adfree Cities and Switch It Green are on hand to provide people with simple, effective ways to take positive action against oil and gas companies like Shell.

  • Celebrate Local Heroes with Friction Arts at Moseley Road Baths

    Celebrate Local Heroes with Friction Arts at Moseley Road Baths

    We are celebrating your local heroes…

    Please join us 2 to 5pm, 9th September in the foyer to Moseley Road Baths.

    Young people will exchange flowers and our stories for your stories of local heroes at Moseley Road Baths and locally as part of ‘Balsall Heath Second Saturday’ 9th September 2023.

    Please join us 2 to 5pm in the foyer to Moseley Road Baths.

  • The GAP Youth Theatre Free Taster Session

    The GAP Youth Theatre Free Taster Session

    YOUTH THEATRE

    FREE TASTER SESSION

    Saturday 9 Sept 1-4pm The GAP

    An exciting opportunity for creative, curious, local young people 12-16 yrs, who love to explore, imagine, tell stories & step into other people’s shoes. This is taster session for regular, weekly youth theatre sessions on Saturday afternoons. From Sept – March we will be exploring the theme ‘The Island’ What’s it all about? What does it mean to live on an island? How does it shape who we are, and who we are not? What does it mean to be “castaway’? And what is it like to be colonised? Islands have a gripping hold on our imaginations, offering conflicting possibilities: a paradise or a prison? refuge or danger? community or complete isolation?

    Give it a go…

    Don’t worry if you’re not sure this is your thing… Come along and try it out this Saturday and see what you think. You can also find out more about the other exciting plans and amazing opportunities being a member of The GAP Youth Theatre has to offer!

    What’s involved?

    We will use all kinds of drama techniques to get inside the hearts and minds of islanders, design theatre sets, make amazing masks and learn how to tell stories collectively for an audience through performance.

    Who’s leading it?

    The GAP has an excellent track record of giving young people meaningful and transformational arts experiences. It has highly experienced staff who are expert at facilitating the development of creativity, critical thinking, a confident sense of self and personal values, through the social practice of making theatre.

    What will it cost?

    There is NO CHARGE to belong to the GAP Youth Theatre. We just ask that you contribute your commitment. As well as having loads of fun on this project you will also need to be prepared to work hard as a reliable member of the team.

    NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED

    FREE MEMBERSHIP

    TRY BEFORE YOU COMMIT

  • Roots of Love: Cyanotype Windrush 75 free Workshop September

    Roots of Love: Cyanotype Windrush 75 free Workshop September

    2pm The Old Print Works organised by 0121 Collective CIC

    This is an inter generational project that aims to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation. To do this we are running free workshops where we will use cyanotypes photo process (blue prints) to share stories, learn and connect with each other. It’s free to join in.

    Everyone is welcome and we especially would love to see people from the Windrush communities in Birmingham to come forward and share stories.

    Workshop

    We have three Saturday sessions coming up June to August which wil take place on Balsall Heath Second Saturday sessions where The Old Print Works and other places nearby hold a monthly creative open day.

    The workshop will last two hours and theme of this session is Roots of Love – which explores the Carribean family in Britian. We will mainly look at make cyanotypes using old photographs and used postcards to share stories.

    Tianna who is leading the project will tell you about her Nan’s front room who moved to Birmingham in the 1960s from Jamaica. Tracey who is the lead artist on the project will help people to make cyanotypes using lace and dollies on fabric and paper.

    Cyanotype is a 19th Century photo process which uses the sun or a UV lamp to make amazing blue images.

    We invite people to add work through a cyanotype image to the collaborative tapestry (fabric) that we are making for the project.

    It’s free come and all materials provided.

    The project is funded by National Lottery Community Fund

    Book below

    Register on Eventbrite
  • Sundragon Community Pottery Workshop

    Sundragon Community Pottery Workshop

    12 – 4pm The Old Print Works

    Sundragon Community Pottery will be hosting a FREE soap dish making workshop.

    Come and make a simple soap dish.

    For an additional cost of £5, you can choose to have your soap dish glazed and fired, to collect at the next Second Saturday, in October, when we shall be hosting a “clay pumpkin lantern“ making workshop.

  • Musical Wellbeing Workshop with Arianna

    Musical Wellbeing Workshop with Arianna

    2pm – 3.30pm The Old Print Works Music workshop with Arianna

    we will play, sing, make some noise and have fun.

    Just bring yourself – no experience necessary

    See you there!

  • Aluminium embossing workshop with Art Metallix

    Aluminium embossing workshop with Art Metallix

    2pm -4pm The Old Print Works upper gallery

    Birmingham Heritage week starts at The Old Print Works with a unique workshop for embossing on aluminium with Art Metallix. Get creative and transform ordinary aluminium into something extraordinary with this hands-on workshop. Perfect for all skill levels, you’ll receive guidance from Mel to learn and practice embossing techniques.

    Only 10 spots available, be sure to book your place – special concessionary rates available, please email info@secondsaturday.org.uk and we will send you a code.

    Register on Eventbrite
  • Evening events – keep checking for more details

    Evening events – keep checking for more details

  • Kitchen Lithography Workshop with Isra

    Kitchen Lithography Workshop with Isra

    Lower gallery – The Old Print Works 10 years and over

    Lithography printing was an innovative printing technique that made JH Butchers & Co world famous for their transfers. In this workshop, you will learn how to recreate this process (using items found in your own kitchen) and create a design to decorate your own postcards and greeting cards.

    Register on Eventbrite
  • Repair Cafe – September

    Repair Cafe – September

    September 9th 2023 2 – 5pm Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard entrance

    Balsall Heath Repair Cafe is back again at Balsall Heath Second Saturday. Repairers include woodwork ,brass polishing, general repairs, textiles, knife sharpening, bike repair, scrapstore, mechanical electrics, textiles. Check balsallheathrepaircafe.org for repairers closer to the day

  • Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers -September 9th from 11am

    Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers -September 9th from 11am

    11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works

    Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood

    Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in

    pathcarvers.co.uk

  • Climate Nans Caravan 10-1 The Old Print Works

    Climate Nans Caravan 10-1 The Old Print Works

    ‘We Are Here’ Campaign invites you to put your feet up, have a cuppa, some biscuits and talk to Climate Nan about the challenges that our homes, streets and neighbourhoods are facing.
    Climate Nan, as part of the We Are Here Campaign, will be parking her caravan at multiple locations across Ladywood and Balsall Heath between the 11th and 13th August as part of a tour of communities who have invited her to talk about the climate crisis. Residents can visit, share their concerns and discuss what can be done. Climate Nan will be offering a friendly ear to the neighbourhood with a warm invite and welcome into the caravan where you can either write a letter to the PM or local MP and or record a contribution to the podcast that will be recorded throughout the tour.

    Other stops of the tour:

    Friday 11th August, 10:00 -2:00 PM at the Neighbourhood Supper Club Summer Special hosted by CIVIC SQUARE and neighbours at Midland Sailing Club, Icknield Port Rd, Birmingham B16 0AA

    Friday 11th August, 3:00 – 6:00 PM at Birmingham Settlement- Edgbaston Reservoir Nature & Wellbeing Centre, 79 Selwyn Rd, Birmingham B16 0SL

    Saturday 12th August, 3:00 – 6:00 PM with Edgbaston Reservoir Collaborative (ERCO) at Midland Sailing Club, Icknield Port Rd, Birmingham B16 0AA

    Sunday 13th August, 10:00 – 4:00 PM at The B16 Lunch hosted by CIVIC SQUARE, South Loop Park, B16 0AE

  • Roots of Love: Cyanotype Windrush 75 free Workshop

    Roots of Love: Cyanotype Windrush 75 free Workshop

    11-1 The Old Print Works organised by 0121 Collective CIC

    This is an inter generational project that aims to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation. To do this we are running free workshops where we will use cyanotypes photo process (blue prints) to share stories, learn and connect with each other. It’s free to join in.

    Everyone is welcome and we especially would love to see people from the Windrush communities in Birmingham to come forward and share stories.

    Workshop

    We have three Saturday sessions coming up June to August which wil take place on Balsall Heath Second Saturday sessions where The Old Print Works and other places nearby hold a monthly creative open day.

    The workshop will last two hours and theme of this session is Roots of Love – which explores the Carribean family in Britian. We will mainly look at make cyanotypes using old photographs and used postcards to share stories.

    Tianna who is leading the project will tell you about her Nan’s front room who moved to Birmingham in the 1960s from Jamaica. Tracey who is the lead artist on the project will help people to make cyanotypes using lace and dollies on fabric and paper.

    Cyanotype is a 19th Century photo process which uses the sun or a UV lamp to make amazing blue images.

    We invite people to add work through a cyanotype image to the collaborative tapestry (fabric) that we are making for the project.

    It’s free come and all materials provided.

    The project is funded by National Lottery Community Fund

    Please book via eventbrite link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roots-of-love-cyanotype-windrush-75-workshop-tickets-638665213847

  • ‘An Outpouring of Love’ – Poetry Open mic and film screening with Marshea Makosa

    ‘An Outpouring of Love’ – Poetry Open mic and film screening with Marshea Makosa

    18.00 – 21.30, The Old Print Works, free entry

    Following on from a writing seminar and poetry workshop on love poems titled: ‘How to Write a Love Jones.’ on Saturday the 8th July there will be a relaxed poetry open mic, with a chance for writers of all abilities, new or seasoned, to share their work and showcase their best love poems at The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath. The open mic ‘An Outpouring of Love (Jones)’ will will lead into a film screening of Love Jones(1997).

    An Outpouring of Love open mic and film screening is hosted by Marshea Makosa, who founded Norate & Augustine’s a brand new Midlands based arts and culture platform. She is an earnest Earth Scientist with a love for postcolonial literature and poetry forever and always.

    https://www.nandaugustines.com/

  • Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers august 12th from 11am

    Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers august 12th from 11am

    11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works

    Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood

    Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in

    pathcarvers.co.uk

  • August 12th

    August 12th

  • ‘An Outpouring of Love’ – Poetry Open mic with Marshea Makosa

    ‘An Outpouring of Love’ – Poetry Open mic with Marshea Makosa

    Following on from a writing seminar and poetry workshop on love poems titled: ‘How to Write a Love Jones.’ on Saturday the 8th July there will be a relaxed poetry open mic, with a chance for writers of all abilities, new or seasoned, to share their work and showcase their best love poems at The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath. The open mic ‘An Outpouring of Love (Jones)’ will start at 18:30. The ‘Outpouring of Love’ open mic will lead into a film screening of Love Jones(1997) starting at 19:30.

    An Outpouring of Love open mic and film screening is hosted by Marshea Makosa, who founded Norate & Augustine’s a brand new Midlands based arts and culture platform. She is an earnest Earth Scientist with a love for postcolonial literature and poetry forever and always.

    https://www.nandaugustines.com/

  • Back A Yard Garden: Cyanotype Windrush 75 Free Workshop

    Back A Yard Garden: Cyanotype Windrush 75 Free Workshop

    11-1 The Old Print Works organised by 0121 Collective CIC

    This is an inter generational project that aims to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation. To do this we are running free workshops where we will use cyanotypes photo process (blue prints) to share stories, learn and connect with each other. It’s free to join in.

    Everyone is welcome and we especially would love to see people from the Windrush communities in Birmingham to come forward and share stories.

    Workshop

    We have three Saturday sessions coming up June to August which wil take place on Balsall Heath Second Saturday sessions where The Old Print Works and other places nearby hold a monthly creative open day.

    The workshop will last two hours and theme of this session is The Front Room – which explores the African-Carribean front room and how migrant families set up home in Britain. We will mainly look at how lace and dollies were a big part of these spaces. We will use lace and dollies to make cyanotypes and share stories.

    Tianna who is leading the project will tell you about her Nan’s front room who moved to Birmingham in the 1960s from Jamaica. Tracey who is the lead artist on the project will help people to make cyanotypes using lace and dollies on fabric and paper.

    Cyanotype is a 19th Century photo process which uses the sun or a UV lamp to make amazing blue images.

    We invite people to add work through a cyanotype image to the collaborative tapestry (fabric) that we are making for the project.

    It’s free come and all materials provided.

    The project is funded by National Lottery Community Fund

    Please book via eventbrite link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-front-room-cyanotype-windrush-75-tapestry-workshop-tickets-607324192007?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

  • Repair Cafe – July

    Repair Cafe – July

    July 8th 2023 2 – 5pm Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard entrance

    Balsall Heath Repair Cafe is back again at Balsall Heath Second Saturday. Repairers include woodwork ,brass polishing, general repairs, textiles, knife sharpening, bike repair, scrapstore, mechanical electrics, textiles. Check balsallheathrepaircafe.org for repairers closer to the day

  • Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers

    Family woodcarving with Pathcarvers

    11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works

    Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood

    Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in

    pathcarvers.co.uk

  • July 8th 2023

    July 8th 2023

    Our next event – details very soon