Introduction
Good morning, here’s a Sunday read from The Old Post Office.
In this edition are some links from our corner of the internet(/instagram) - with many links to things we’ve seen that we think you’ll be interested in.
Last week Rachel held two accountability sessions at the coworking space - if you’re interested in joining, we’re largely organising them over on our Coworkers whatsapp community*. Though when there are firm dates, we’ll be sure to share them in this newsletter. *Get in touch directly if you’d like to join the Whatsapp Community. The only requirement to join, is that you need to have been to the coworking space…
I’ve signed up for Stirchley Sewing School *finally*! I’m joining the Absolute Beginners classes, starting tomorrow. Can’t wait! Charlotte’s held her sewing classes at the coworking space for a year now. It’s a great use of the coworking space out of hours.
I hope you enjoy the newsletter, and I’ll see you soon - either in the coworking space, at sewing school or probably Stirchley Community Market!— Kerry & team TOPO
Registered address service
We’ve had a flurry of interest in our registered address service. If you run a business or another type of registered organisation such as a charity or CIC, and don’t want to have your home address listed on HMRC’s public records, consider moving your registered address service to The Old Post Office. £8 per month, the details are here.
A song from 1919, Vanity Fair
Excerpt: “I hate the office;It cuts in on my social life.”
What are TOPO coworkers up to?
Danielle Clarke has been appointed Graphics host of upcoming Birmingham Design Festival, taking place 6-8 June. Tickets, BDF website
Becky Woodcock’s produced Sounding Change, an artist residency programme at University of Birmingham. Supporting “musicians, composers and artists at pivotal stages of their careers to explore new ideas, and develop their practice in our research environment”. The next event is BULLYACHE: WHO HURT YOU? Saturday 8 June, 8pm at the Elgar Concert Hall. Tickets, UoB website
Coworker Chloe Knibbs, with Lou Barnell - are performing Fragments and Rememberings – as part of new music and experimental performance festival CODA (no relation to our CODA workshop coworkers) Tuesday 11 June, 5pm at Birmingham Conservatoire Cafe. Tickets, BCU website
Other Stirchley/local happenings
On Tuesday 4 June at 6pm Sam Nordland from Stirchley Cooperative Development is on the first workers.coop podcast episode (live) talking about the Stirchley Cooperative Development and the Warehouse Cafe, listen along here
On Thursday 6 June at 7pm, Stirchley Community Church have their Stirchley Heroes awards evening. The church are celebrating 50 years in their current building opposite Stirchley Baths / Aldi, on Hazelwell Street. There’s a nice little printed magazine around which has a map of Stirchley and its businesses - lovely to be included. Special mention for ‘Maggies Munchies: Vietnamese’.
Digbeth First Friday returns Friday 7 June, a highlight: Grand Union’s Unmasking || Remapping: Mask-Making workshop with Babeworld at Plane Structure, Minerva Works 4-6pm. More via Grand Union’s website.
Stirchley’s first dystopian book club, Is This Tomorrow?’s next book will be The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. They’ll meet at Anjuna Lounge from 7pm on Thursday 20 June to discuss. New members are most welcome. Updates on instagram
Stirchley Printworks have received funding from Arts Council England and are offering funded residencies. More via their website
I mentioned Stirchley Community Market at Stirchley Baths on Saturday 15 June 10am-3pm in the last newsletter, but it can’t hurt to remind you again
There’s one month left to register for autumn’s Birmingham Open Studios (deadline 30 June). The Old Post Office took part as a venue with coworker artists in 2023, and I’m sure we will do so again this year. More info via their website. Email me if you’d be interested in taking part as part of TOPO [email protected], we haven’t planned anything yet.
Music to work to
If you’re relatively new to The Old Post Office’s newsletter, you may not know we had a regular Music to work to section of the newsletter - with playlists from coworkers. I’d love to bring this section back on a regular basis, if anyone would like to expose their musical taste? You need to submit 10 tracks, plus a little bit about you (email [email protected])
If you want to browse the archives, you can look through past newsletters - or head straight to Spotify.
For this newsletter, I’m re-sharing the very first playlist which is by Julia Gilbert. (It was Julia who came up with the idea for the playlists)
P.s. A reminder we have a Coworkers Whatsapp community - reply to this email if you'd like to join. P.p.s. If you'd like to come and cowork you can book your desk via this link