Discover Digbeth before #TAL12!

Apr 25th, 2012 @ 11:21 am › Nicky Getgood
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Digbeth street art (photo by Roger Marks)

The Maple House venue for this Saturday’s #TAL12 unconference is lovely and central but it’s not in the very best bit of Birmingham, which is of course Digbeth! (See Digbeth is Good for a million reason why.)

That’s why the pre-#TAL12 entertainment this Friday 26th April will be geared towards discovering Digbeth. We’ll be starting at 6.00pm with a walk from the Bullring’s Bull sculpture in the city centre through Digbeth, taking in its glorious architecture, street art and industrial history (a map of the route is here).

Then we’ve booked a table for 7.30pm at the Bay Leaf Restaurant in The Custard Factory arts and media quarter followed by some post-curry pints at Birmingham’s oldest inn, The Old Crown pub. Digbeth really is good!

If you’d like to join us for the Friday night fun, please let us know in the comments box or on the #TAL12 google group if you haven’t already.

Nicky is the Communications Manager at Talk About Local – recruiting, training and working with IT trainers and active citizens across the UK to help them create and develop simple yet effective community websites and online profiles. Nicky is currently overseeing Talk About Local's Networking for Work project, helping jobseekers to take control of their online profiles and look their best online. Nicky managed the popular Birmingham hyperlocal website Digbeth is Good since it began in May 2008 until moving to Cardiff in December 2011, where she helps organise regular Canton Social Media Surgeries. Nicky is interested in ways of using storytelling, game-playing and events within communities to tell their stories and effect positive change.