Balsall Heath Second Saturday

Sorry late to the gate!!! But! Next weekends May Second Saturday. Come on down! Check out our website for more info - www.secondsaturday.org.uk

April listings are here!!!

Another lovely full day

March! HOW is it even March! This weekend we welcome you to join us at our 5th Balsall Heath Second Saturday. A full day of workshops, sessions & events across 3 Grade 2 listed buildings in the heart of Balsall Heath. Many are free and drop in, there is even a cold water swim session for the brave!
www.secondsaturday.org.uk

Ort Gallery
The Old Print Works
Moseley Road Baths CIO
Dark Room Birmingham
The GAP Arts Project
Sundragon Pottery
BiclasB12 bicycle workshop
Metallix
The Sound School
Craftspace
LEAF Creative Arts CIC

Our March listings are now published, more details about each event can be found on the links below!
The GAP Arts Project
Dark Room Birmingham
Moseley Road Baths CIO
The Old Print Works
Ort Gallery
The Sound School
LEAF Creative Arts CIC
BiclasB12 bicycle workshop
Sundragon Pottery
Metallix

Wow what a full day of creativity in the heart of our community of Balsall Heath. If you missed today don’t forget we are here every Second Saturday ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

taster sessions underway… still time to drop on in, all free

Join Sundragon’s ‘Love’ pottery workshop this Saturday 12th Feb as part of Balsall Heath Second Saturday’s full day of events.

Workshop starts at 2.30pm, It’s FREE and you can drop in any time until 5.30pm

Wonderful to launch ‘My Doorstep, My Culture’ an exciting programme of creative workshops across 3 community organisations, led by local Artist ILdikó Nagy. It has culminated in a group exhibition, open until the end of March in the Gala pool, Moseley Road Baths.

Join us for a kite-making workshop led by young artist Hassan Rahmani and organised by a group of local Community Producers as part of our newest project, Cultural Resistance & Creative Protest. 🔥

Inspired by the use of kites in Afghanistan for sending messages that are otherwise forbidden or ignored by those in power, we invite you to write a message on your kite that communicates something you’d like to see changed in Balsall Heath.

We’ll then walk to a local park to fly these messages in our neighbourhood skies, sparking conversation with passers-by whilst enjoying tasty Afghan treats!

As part of

Thank you to everyone who made December Balsall Heath so special. We're taking some time off in January to rechange, back in Feb 2022!

🥳 Let’s celebrate. Let’s rest. 🥱

We are looking back over an incredible year. 2021 will always be a turning point for us as an organisation. We had some very low lows and some very high highs. Together these made up a rich experience of becoming a caring employer and activity provider.

The best of 2021:

We published our Warmth project aims & report
We updated our Mission statement, Access Guide and any policy that relates to equity and inclusion and became much more transparent organisation
We opened ourselves up to criticism and received this plenty - both good & bad
We made the most amazing connections to artists, curators, participants and staff by spreading warmth
We updated our complaints procedure and used it successfully on several occasions feeling confident in embracing conflict
We added 2 new directors to our board
We worked with some incredible artists most notably
We worked with dozens of incredible volunteers who gave their time in kind of which we are extremely grateful most notably Lesley Stewart, Amelia Rouse, Uzmah Naz, Charlie Pountney, Jaleesa Padmore (Jaleesa both as a paid intern and volunteer)
We supported new projects and ideas giving artists autonomy and proper pay: Creative Community, .art
We formalised our new rotating leadership procedure and flat working structure and hired our first Artistic Lead Aaisha Akhtar
We increased our team and saw the most amazing community work in action, supporting each other with care .akram2020 …

We are so excited for next year and the wonderful people we will work with. But for now we are winding down to rest. See you all in 2022.

🧡 Thank you for all your support! 🧡

We want everyone to feel safe and cared for during and we wanted you to know we’ll be following COVID-19 guidelines thought out the day.

Please stay safe & we hope you enjoy your experience today! Thank you. From all at the BHSS family.

7 days to our Balsall Heath Second Saturday, workshops, music, festive delights and yummy food in the heart of this wonderful community. 🎄🎄🎄Here some nightlights from Oct & Nov

20! yes 20 events/sessions/workshops to take part in including 4 exceptional evening events for our December just over a week away.

We can't wait to welcome you all to our third mini festival at the heart of Basall Heath

Please note some events are PRE BOOK - please visit Eventbrite for information

It’s all going on here 😍😍😍

Totes away! Bags available from the mix cafe printed right here at The Old Print Works

Why not try a Second Saturday Succulent Sausage Sandwich…I did and I’ll never look back..

Available

Today’s the day!! All this and much more added to the listings. a full family day out of art, music, food, craft, culture. We can’t wait to see you all!

Pear Slices #1: Collatz Workout https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pear-slices-1-collatz-workout-tickets-205048494567?ref=eios

Days away guys!!! What will you come to?

Come enjoy some delicious food this Saturday at our 2nd Balsall Heath Second Saturday

We are looking forward to being party of Basall Heath Second Saturday this month!
We will be selling tasty Homity pie and a Thai Curry! Both great on an autumnal evening with or without beer or wine ! :-). We will be at Old Print Works from 5.30 till 8.30/9pm.
It will be lovely to be working with again, too! Been ages!

Hoping to see lots of you!

Finally! The full listings are here!!! A full day of free drop in sessions on the 13th Nov - full details will be available via our website tomorrow, link in bio. Share, share, share!!! Get in touch if you have any questions

Calling out across the airwaves!! Second Saturday is looking for volunteers to take part in a range of activities; from a little admin to ambassadors on the day of the festivals. If you think you can spare our community some of your wonderful time please get in touch! DMs and or email via our website

Can't believe this was almost 2 weeks ago! Thank you so much to everyone who came to the FIRST EVER Balsall Heath Second Saturday! Next one on 13th November! Just 2 weeks to go! Please save the date, spread the word and come!

The park bench is here! Really looking forward to doing at 4.30 today in our courtyard as part of ! Plenty of room as we are outside so do come down!

Beautiful flower making upstairs

free drop in tea light holder workshop starting now till 4pm! Come along!!

STUDIO

10.10-10.25 Huda’s intro to The Sound School
10.30-12.00 Satpal’s Yoga-Chi & Chanting Workshop with Harmonium
12.00-13.00 Lunch-Browse-Socialise
13.00-14.15 Claire’s beginners yoga with Yoga Nidra
14.45-15.15 Kelly’s Energy field demo
15.30-16.30 Chakradance with Huda
17.00-18.00 Soundbath with Huda
18.30 Raffle
19.30-20.30 Soundbath with Huda
20.30-21.00 tea & biscuits

My shop and Neal’s Yard Remedies will be open in the breaks

COMMUNAL AREA

Bobi - Indian Head Massage
Ruby - Ruby's Vegan Kitchen
Julie - Startwentythree23

Vegan cakes
Refreshments

Places are limited so please book ahead
This is the charity link to donate to when you book.

Gong bath now setting up for the first session ! exciting!!!!

Today’s the day! Looking forward to seeing you today!!!!

We are very excited to add this workshop to the program of events for tomorrows line up - FREE Drop In Diyas tea light making workshop 2pm to 4pm inside Moseley Road, Balsall Heath. Children welcome, under 12s must be accompanied by an adult!

Just 2 days to go!!

Monthly festival to celebrate history and diversity The festival starts this Saturday

New blog post ! The incredible Ceri at tells us how her organisation has grown since its founding in 2009. They have a great program of events for this Saturday - link in bio.

Dan Burwood, founder of The Darkroom Birmingham talks to us about his introduction to photography. You can read his blog on our website. Postcards from Lebanon features photography by Paul Gorra, Tarek Mourad and Dan Burwood. Prints from the exhibition will be for sale, and all proceeds will go to Swiss Meds for Lebanon. Link in Bio

We caught up with Emily Butler, Programme Development Coordinator for everything that is ‘dry-side’ at Moseley Road Baths. BHSS is made up of 6 organisations and is one of them, check out what Emily has planned on the 9th October - link in Bio

Come down to The GAP for the first evening of the Balsall Heath Second Saturday. Every second Saturday we host a music night, and on this night World Service will be playing!

Andy Wickett's World Service was first formed in 1988 by session musicians who met former Duran Duran singer Andy Wickett. Now at its umpteenth formation, The GAP will be joined by members Paul Carroll on percussion and Mike Bethel on Double Bass, led by Andy performing in his unique, eccentric lively style. This is songwriter that knows the importance of a good party!

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Limited tickets available.

Food: Make a meal of it and try one of our scrumptious vegan burgers. Order one with your ticket for £5

Bar: There will be a selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks

Times: Doors at 7.30pm. Closing at 11pm.

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Please do adhere to the latest covid regulations to help protect your health and the health of our community.

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Ort Gallery – what can we say? Well a lot! We caught up with Josephine Reichert, the founder of Ort Gallery to hear about how they came to be and how this amazing organisation supports Balsall heath - Ort Gallery believes in people and the hope that communities can support each other when governments fail us – Check out the Blog and their program of events for BSSS now available on our website.👆🏽