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  1. Inside gallery space with pale blue walls and a wooden flooring. On the left three outfits are on display, the back wall features miscellaneous artworks themed around sustainability.
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    Celebrating Sustainability through Art, Theatre, and Community


    4 November 2024
    MAC’s Sustainability season is in full swing after a lively and successful Big Green Weekender and launch of new exhibition Waste Age: What can design do?. Marketing intern Heidi Downing joined the team in the lead up to these events and…
  2. Illustration of Cannon Hill Park and MAC with swirling multicoloured shapes erupting from the arts centre and leading to nearby neighbourhoods
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    Calling all neighbours: MAC needs you!


    24 September 2024
    Live in Birmingham? Love speaking to people? If so, your favourite local arts centre needs you! We are looking for 10 confident and curious local residents to help shape the future of Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) as part of our MAC…
  3. White fabric with red embroidery details, with a red textile strip with the words 'stolen' and 'given away' on top in silver thread
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    Call for visual artists and poets to speak at Motherhood Symposium at MAC


    4 June 2024
    Submit your proposals to join the powerful event, Picturing the Unseen: Grief & Labour in and out of Motherhood Symposium, which aims to shed light on the unseen aspects of (m)otherhood. We are inviting visual artists and poets to…
  4. Woman sings into a microphone with keyboard and music technology. The woman is in a wheelchair, with cropped brown hair and glasses in a white shirt and black waistcoat.
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    MAC Music Leaders named as Mastercard Trailblazers


    29 March 2024
    MAC and MAC Makes Music are absolutely thrilled that Kris Halpin and Elizabeth J Birch, Music Leaders for MAC Makes Music, have been recognised as Mastercard Trailblazers.As the headline sponsor of The BRIT Awards, this year, Mastercard…
  5. Man smiles at the camera in a beige top and grey cardigan. He is stood in a theatre auditorium.
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    MAC Theatre Commission 2024 recipient announced as CJ Lloyd Webley


    28 March 2024
    Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is delighted to announce CJ Lloyd Webley, Birmingham theatre-maker, as the recipient of the MAC Theatre Commission Award 2024. Webley’s selected project explores the history of the former Lyndhurst Estate in…
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    MAC celebrates first community Iftar


    21 March 2024
    On Fri 15 March, we were honoured to host our first Iftar, sharing food, prayer, and joy with over 120 members of our local community during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. We are grateful to Birmingham artist Hira Butt, who led a…
  7. Two actors on stage singing into a microphone facing each other. Dramatic lighting points onto the microphone. In the background dancers are posed.
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    Mountview offers full-time Musical Theatre CertHE at MAC


    22 February 2024
    Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts expands its world-class offering with a full-time Musical Theatre CertHE across two terms, offered in Birmingham, as well as London, Manchester, and Exeter from September
  8. Pakistani woman waves Pakistan flag in hijab - four individual photos combined
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    MAC touring exhibition Zaibunnisa opens in Bradford


    21 December 2023
    A new exhibition at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, UK tells the story of Maryam Wahid’s remarkable journey to discover her Pakistani identity while visiting her mother’s childhood home for the first time. The exhibition was originally…
  9. Drawings unfinished, of women created in biro pen coloured in with red pen
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    Discovering the work of Madge Gill


    15 November 2023
    The remarkable life of the self-taught artist Words by Eibhlín Kissack & Sophie Dutton The Clouds Will Burst the Sun Will Shine Again featured an extensive collection of work by self-taught artist Madge Gill (1882 – 1961). The exhibition…
  10. Young girl smiles at camera next to other children and adults laying on bean bags in a cinema, watching a film
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    MAC announces three-year project to make cinema more accessible


    14 September 2023
    Expanding the Frame will open doors and break down barriers for disabled audiences Midlands Arts Centre have announced a three-year project supported by Film Hub Midlands entitled Expanding the Frame. The initiative seeks to significantly…
  11. Person faces away from the camera with short black curly hair, looking at artworks. Artworks are painted plates on wooden frame on a dark blue wall
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    MAC awarded Reimagine Grant from Art Fund


    6 September 2023
    Funding will support the arts charity to diversify their workforce by creating and improving opportunities for disabled people Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) have been awarded a £35,500 Reimagine Grant by Art Fund to diversify the arts…
  12. Young girl peeks face above chair in MAC's café
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    Introducing MAC Neighbours


    15 May 2023
    We are delighted to introduce MAC Neighbours, a new community research project aiming to deepen MAC’s relationship with communities in our hyperlocal area, especially those who are currently underrepresented in our audiences. In…