Category: Moseley Road Baths

  • 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.

  • BHTV curated by Flatpack Festival at moseley road baths

    BHTV curated by Flatpack Festival at moseley road baths

    10am-4pm, Saturday 12th August, Moseley Road Baths

    Join us in the Living Room as we gather round the television for “BHTV”, three channels of Balsall Heathen programming curated by Flatpack Festival. Expect family-friendly entertainment from around the world, as well as creative and documentary films about Balsall Heath and Moseley Road Baths itself.

    Flatpack is a mobile arts organisation which exists to show amazing work, bring people together and develop new ideas. We love film in all shapes and sizes, particularly where it bumps up against other artforms, and get a kick out of transforming spaces to create unforgettable events. Every May bank holiday you can find us taking over venues across Birmingham with the “magnificently eclectic” Flatpack Festival, while throughout the year we pop up all over the place with everything from family activities to al fresco horror.

    More about Flatpack here 

  • Big Fatt pool party at moseley road baths

    Big Fatt pool party at moseley road baths

    August 12th

    session 1 – 1pm – 2:30pm
    session 2 – 3pm – 4:30pm

    Tickets – FREE

    Oh buoy! Oh buoy! Fatt Projects and Moseley Road Baths have partnered up to throw the first ever BIG FATT POOL PARTY.
    Book here 

    Hosted by local legend and amateur aqua-aerobics instructor Ginny Lemon, featuring performances from Mama Mamba and pool party beats from DJ Just Soriah, you’re in for 90 minutes of wet and wild wonder. Whether you want to make a splash or have a poolside gossip, come join us for a uniquely joyous swim sesh.

    This is a judgment free inclusive pool party for all body types to come and use the pool in comfort. We’re pro-fat, pro-femme, pro-trans, pro-disabled, anti-racist, pro-fabulous. Bring your best self, bring your bingo wings, bring your pals, bring your inflatables!

    This is a free sober daytime event, suitable for ages 18+. There will be loud music throughout. Private any-gender changing cubicles are available throughout.

    About the space

    Our historic pool is a one of a kind, unique and beautiful space. Being a historic pool we wanted to be as transparent as possible about what to expect in the space.

    Please see our visual journey attached and please note we have 1 x hoist to access the pool as well as the swimming pool ladders.

    Access to the Big Fatt Pool Party will be through the rear of the building straight into the pool hall, accessed via a slip road off Edward Road. There will be party people showing you the way from Edward Road through to the poolside.

    If you have any questions before the day reach us on keepswimming@moseleyroadbaths.org.uk, or call us on 01214390320.

    Parking

    We are on the number 50 bus route for those taking public transport.

    We recommend parking on Edward Road for those in vehicles. All roads nearby are free for parking.

    Dimensions

    • Rear fire exit double blue doors: 2 meter width by 2.08 meter height
    • Disabled toilet door: 2.29 meter height by 1.48 meter width
    • From front of toilet bowl to furthest wall: 1.25 meters
    • From toilet door to poolside: 3.5 meters

    About Fatt Projects

    FATT PROJECTS IS A BIRMINGHAM BASED QUEER PERFORMANCE COMPANY.

    We make shows, parties, performances, events, and juicy creative bits focused on advancing queer joy.

    Our work celebrate queerness, community, care, empowerment, and change-making. It is just as likely to take place in public spaces and contexts where queer identities are underrepresented as it is in conventional theatre spaces.

    Fatt Projects Ltd. is a company formed in 2021 to support and grow the creative work of artist, activist and professional hot mess Adam Carver (aka Fatt Butcher), they are artistic director of the company.

    We describe our work as full-fat.

    Book here

  • Balsall Heath Living Room ‘Back To Ours’ at Moseley Road Baths

    Balsall Heath Living Room ‘Back To Ours’ at Moseley Road Baths

    Moseley Road Baths invites you ‘Back to Ours’. The Gala Pool has been designed by Friction Arts to create a gentle space with and for local residents where visitors can relax, engage and converse. Playful installations, made by our contributors, are inside and outside the building invite us to examine and celebrate our communal and individual heritage, as well as the rich, complex history of the Baths and of Balsall Heath, and to strengthen the future that we will create together.

    This is made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

    CODA Workshop: Ask an Architect/ Living Furniture 10:00 – 16:00

    Through the three months of Balsall Heath’s Living Room local architects CODA Workshop will be resident in the space, inviting us to share memories of our most treasured pieces of furniture, exploring what and who makes these items so special to us and creating models and designs of furniture in response to our memories.

    CODA will also be giving you a chance to Ask an Architect anything! What are your design queries or building woes? Wondering how you can best use the space in your home, or how it can be more energy efficient? Your local neighbourhood architects are here to help…

    CODA Workshop are Birmingham-based architects interested in the interaction of art, landscape, history and the built environment. CODA are guided by natural and sustainable principles and the aim to create spaces that improve the quality of our lives.

    Edible Garden Workshops 11:00 – 16:00

    Fruit and Nut Village will be adding a temporary orchard to our courtyard, which has been transformed into Balsall Heath’s Play Kitchen and Pocket Garden. We’ll become custodians of their edible plants and fruit trees for the duration of Balsall Heath’s Living Room.

    Join us on 8th July to grow your own edible plants with Fruit and Nut Village.

    Mini Athletics 14-14:30 (4-7 year olds) 14.30-15pm (1-3 year olds)

    As part of Balsall Heath’s Living Room Mini Athletics South Birmingham are here!

    At Mini Athletics we take what children love to do the most (running super fast, jumping high and throwing far) and mix it with imaginative themes, learning to follow instructions, making friends and developing gross motor skills. It’s the magical combination of imaginative play sports and burning energy!

    Free, 30min, limited capacity – Please book here >

  • WATA IS LIFE

    WATA IS LIFE

    World Ocean Day – Art, Talks and Perfromances –

    6pm – 9pm organised by Adjei Sun – venue Moseley Road Baths – booking is required and you can book here, family friendly

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wata-is-life-tickets-607905671227

  • Would YOU take a bath in Moseley Road Baths?

    Would YOU take a bath in Moseley Road Baths?

    As part of Moseley Road Baths’ Diving In project, the former Women’s Slipper Baths at Moseley Road Baths are being brought back to life. We plan to bring two of the former washing baths back into use this summer as a space of relaxation and wellbeing for adults in the local area and beyond. But what does a relaxing space look like to you? Would YOU take a bath in Moseley Road Baths? And if not, what would make you want to?

    The fantastic artist Sharonjit Sutton has created an illustration of the Women’s Slipper Baths for you to annotate and sketch what you would like to be in the space. Come and get creative and help shape our plans this year!

  • Moseley Road Baths Winter Wonderland

    Moseley Road Baths Winter Wonderland

    Moseley Road Baths FREE Winter Wonderland Day

    10am to 4pm
    Experience Yuletide festivities at Moseley Road Baths
    Join us for a Warm Welcome at our Winter Wonderland festive day:
    • Join our community created Winter Wonderland and Grotto, book now and receive a personalised sustainable gift when you meet Santa.
    • Stroll our winter market stalls in the Gala pool, hosting local crafts and goods, unwrap all it has to offer.
    • Get in the festive mood with free festive film pop up in our Tearoom.
    • Warm your cockles with a selection of indulging seasonal refreshments.
    • Enjoy the rhythmic and harmonic vocals of our live Calypso Moon band.

  • Moseley Road Baths Tours

    Moseley Road Baths Tours

    Take a view behind the scenes of this unique building, Moseley Road Baths, which has served the community of Balsall Heath for almost 114 yr. It is such an amazing space, well worth a look

    You can book on Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moseley-road-baths-tours-tickets-440289657217

  • Arts All Over The Place takeover at Moseley Road Baths

    Arts All Over The Place takeover at Moseley Road Baths

    12:00-14:00 Authentic Self : workshop

    13:00-15:00 Pottery Workshop

    14:00-16:00 Model Making Workshop

    Drop in – no booking required

    More info please email artsallovertheplace@yahoo.co.uk

    Arts All Over The Place is a charity with the aim of the relief of those in need, in particular people with mental and emotional health and wellbeing needs, through the use of the arts.

    Artsallovertheplace.org.uk