Birmingham Blog (October 2020) - Visit Birmingham

The University of Birmingham’s much-loved Barber Concerts series celebrates its 75^th anniversary this year. To mark this special occasion, organisers are calling for people to send in their memories of Barber Concerts, which will be collated into a special archive to be shared online and on social media.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is to return to Symphony Hall Birmingham, as its doors open for the first time in over seven months to enable live concerts for socially-distanced audiences.

Today it has been announced that Birmingham Repertory Theatre has been awarded a grant of £1.38 million from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. 

Birmingham Hippodrome is delighted to confirm it has received an offer of £3m from the Cultural Recover Fund and thanks Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DMCS) and Arts Council England (ACE) for providing a welcome lifeline for the independent charity until the end of March 2021.

The BBC has signed up to be the Domestic Broadcast Rights Holder for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will make global sport history by becoming the first ever major multi-sport event to award more medals to women than men.

A new city centre site of popular restaurant Vietnamese Street Kitchen is due to open at Birmingham’s iconic Bullring next month. 

Passengers using West Midlands Railway (WMR) services via Birmingham Snow Hill are being urged to check their journeys ahead of a new timetable coming into effect next week (w/c Oct 26).

The daily schedule for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has been released today (Friday 16 October 2020), with the organisers confirming which sports will be held on each of the 11 days of competition and urging fans to sign-up for ticket updates, as planning for the Games accelerates.

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has today started a search for Hometown Heroes - inspirational local stars of community sport in the West Midlands – to be the faces of an upcoming advertising campaign.