Uncover the Best of Birmingham | What’s on in Digbeth
We’ve been in Digbeth, speaking to local business owners about what people can get up to in the area, and discovering why the area is the creative heart of Birmingham.
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00:02 - This is Digbeth Art Space.
00:08 We have the gallery here.
00:10 We've got the shop and studio as well.
00:13 We have resident artists in the studio.
00:16 We've got Imogen Morris and Stan Purah Design Studio
00:21 have just moved in.
00:23 We have a really wide range of people who come here.
00:27 We have people who come specifically for the art,
00:30 but we also have, because of where we are,
00:33 we have people who work in Zelig and Custard Factory.
00:37 People will come in and sit, eat their lunch in here,
00:40 just use it, enjoy the space.
00:42 One of the things that we really like to do
00:45 is finding talent and encouraging it
00:48 and encouraging people to stretch themselves.
00:51 At the moment, we've got Ray Richardson's exhibition up,
00:53 which you can see behind me.
00:56 Coming up, we've got Jenny Owen.
00:59 We've got George Cockcocks, who's a local artist.
01:02 We're working with Ben Oakley Gallery
01:04 and down in London and White Hotel up in Manchester.
01:08 And we're also producing a play
01:12 at Hockley Social Club with the White Hotel.
01:15 So lots of things coming up in the next six months
01:19 and yeah, very exciting.
01:21 - We set up 25 years ago.
01:24 We sell board games, role-playing games, card games.
01:28 We've got a couple of big pre-releases coming up
01:31 for card games and then some war gaming
01:33 and some role-playing going on on the tables as well.
01:35 Board gaming and role-playing, and even the war gaming,
01:39 is face-to-face, it's around a table.
01:41 And it's all community building, really.
01:44 You meet people over the table and become friends.
01:48 Digbuff is an eclectic mix of businesses
01:50 and it's a melting pot, really.
01:52 So we pull in our own little groups into the pot.
01:55 - We are the Central School of Makeup.
01:57 We're based in Digbuff and we are at Zellig Building
02:00 in the Custard Factory.
02:02 And we were founded in 2013.
02:05 We're the first independent private makeup school
02:08 outside of London that offers international qualifications.
02:11 And we provide professional hair and makeup courses
02:15 for people who wanna get into the industry
02:18 but are looking for an alternative route
02:19 for their education.
02:20 - We are really looking to train our students
02:23 and then actively get them into work.
02:26 So we are quite a good fit here
02:27 because this is the sort of landing pad for students
02:30 to then springboard into some of those roles.
02:33 We have a lot of courses starting in September.
02:36 We have foundation-level courses,
02:37 so these are for complete beginners
02:39 who are looking to start a business in beauty or bridal,
02:42 perhaps looking to get into retail.
02:44 We have a lot of returning students coming in September
02:46 for our fashion courses as well.
02:50 - There's lots of amazing, fun businesses here,
02:54 startups, businesses that have been here
02:56 for many years as well.
02:58 Digbuff and the businesses based here
03:00 are really the creative heart of Birmingham.
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