Your weekday guide to Birmingham’s cultural life - in under five minutes. Handpicked arts and culture highlights, Monday to Friday.

Fresh from the great, confused laboratory of ideas that is Birmingham,* Outer Circle is your weekday shortcut to what’s on. Handpicked highlights of theatre, gigs, exhibitions, film, food and more - in under five minutes. Some of it’s big, some of it’s tucked away, all of it’s worth your time.

*Phrase borrowed from urbanist Jane Jacobs.

Today’s mentions in Outer Circle:

The Traiters Watch Party, 23 January (The Button Factory) →

https://thebuttonfactorybirmingham.co.uk/events/

Birmingham Jazz Presents – Pete Hurt, 23 January (1000 Trades) →

https://1000trades.org.uk/events/birmingham-jazz-presents-pete-hurt/

Romeo Stodart and Ren Harvieu, 25 January (Kitchen Garden Cafe) →

https://www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/romeo-stodart-ren-harvieu/

Talking Horses, 24 January (Dead Wax) →

https://www.deadwaxdigbeth.pub/events/talking-horses

Threads of HIV: Empowering Quilts exhibition, now until 31 January (Library of Birmingham) → https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/events/event/5006/threads_of_hiv_empowering_quilts_exhibition

1000 Trades Presents: Vipond, 24 January (1000 Trades) → https://1000trades.org.uk/events/1000-trades-presents-vipond/

The Mighty Craic, 24 January (The Night Owl) → https://thenightowl.club/event/ire-ish-the-mighty-craic/

Revolve Festival, 23 January (Sydney, Australia) →

https://www.manningbar.com/event/revolve-festival-2026/

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