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:

TDE: Xhosa Cole Residency, 23 & 24 January (The Mac) → https://macbirmingham.co.uk/book/instance/2001949

Pillion screening, 22 January (Mockingbird Cinema) →

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=1192812

Nai Whitts – EMM – Sharni – Mowgli the Mennace, 23 January (The Rainbow) →

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/thefuturesoundproject/nai-whitts-sharni-mowgli-the-mennace-1-tba/e-ovpbxp

Barber Lunchtime Concert, 23 January (Elgar Hall, Bramall, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts) → https://barber.org.uk/hanachang/

Emerging Artists Showcase 2, 22 January (The Sunflower Lounge) →

http://thesunflowerlounge.com/events/emerging-artists-showcase-2/

Palestine ‘36 screening, 22 January (The Mac) → https://macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/palestine-36

Bandeoke, 22 January and Thursdays (Box Brindleyplace) →

https://www.theboxbar.co.uk/bars/brindleyplace/bandeoke

LIGHTHOUSE Winter Edition, 22-25 January (Bad Gastein, Austria) → https://lighthouse.plus/event/grandlighthouse26

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