Birmingham City Council and partners across the City Centre are marking the start of the World War One with a programme of events and activities this weekend. - Saturday 2nd August in Chamberlain Square from 1PM Birmingham Hippodrome will be hosting the Minimum Monument art installation by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo in Chamberlain Square, where members of the public will be able to place on the steps small frozen figures which melt in the sun. The display of over 5,000 figures celebrates the common man, honouring not only those who fought in WW1 but all those who contributed, including families who made a sacrifice. - Sunday 3rd August in Victoria and Chamberlain Squares between 12PM and 6PM A full day’s entertainment programme, opening with Charlie Chaplin silent movies on the big Screen in Victoria Square, followed by a full programme of stage events, including the Military Community Choir, the Alan Warner Band and Music Hall Show with Maggie O’Hara, and the Band of the West Midlands Fire Service. Birmingham’s Poet Laureate Joanna Skelt and Young Poet Laureate Lauren Williams will both be performing specially commissioned poems from the main stage. The Western Front Association will also be hosting talks in the Council House for those wishing to learn more about the war and its links to Birmingham. In addition to the stage programme, representatives of the Armed Forces will be in attendance, with weapon displays from the 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and a field hospital display by the 202 Field Hospital comparing modern day army resources with those of 1914. There will also be living history displays, including suffragettes, as well as the Travelling Military Museum, craft workshop and a Charlie Chaplin ‘walkabout’ character. Birmingham City Council’s gold-winning Chelsea Flower Show display will also open to the public. - Monday 4th August at Birmingham Cathedral from 5:30PM to 11PM. A candlelight vigil will be held at Birmingham Cathedral will provide an opportunity for quiet reflection with music from Birmingham City Council Choir and Birmingham Cathedral Choir, as well as a live broadcast of the service to be held at Westminster Abbey from 10pm to 11pm. The event will be part of Lights Out 14-18, a UK-wide initiative which aims to have one light on at 11pm to mark the time at which war was declared on Germany in 1914. 1418now.org.uk/lights-out/
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:23:18 +0000
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