BIRMINGHAM SOCIAL MEDIA CAFE

BIRMINGHAM SOCIAL MEDIA CAFE, a set on Flickr.

Yesterday was the July meeting of Birmingham Social Media Cafe Event, organised by Karen Strunks and hosted at the magnificent Birmingham Town Hall.

The Birmingham Social Media Cafe is a place for people interested in Social Media to gather, get acquainted, chat, plot, scheme, and share. If you’re interested in the future of Social Media, how it’s organised, shared, produced and enjoyed, then come along to a future meeting.

If you’re an artist, film maker, geek, marketer, academic, musician, designer, writer, photographer, or anything close or related, then this is the event for you!

Not only can you put a face to a profile and further develop your contacts and relationships, everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the event, plus Lyle Bignon, Assistant Press & PR Manager for Town Hall Symphony Hall gave a tremendous interesting tour of the magnificent building and it’s history.

Its planned for the BSMC to continue to meet at the Town Hall each month until the end of 2011.

Further links:

BSMC on Twitter

Our Facebook Group

This is a branch of the London Social Media Cafe, or Tuttle Club.

SILVERSTONE CLASSIC 2011

SILVERSTONE CLASSIC 2011, a set on Flickr.

BIGGEST E-TYPE JAGUAR BIRTHDAY
PARTY AT SILVERSTONE CLASSIC

In celebration of the golden anniversary of Britain’s best-loved sports car, the Silverstone Classic has been a mecca for the E-type Jaguar today (Saturday 23 July).

The whole Silverstone Classic weekend has a strong E-type element, as the event marks the car’s official 50th birthday celebration for the leading Jaguar clubs. Indeed, the date of the Classic ties in perfectly with the E-type story, as the first UK customer car was delivered in July 1961.

In the leading 50th anniversary event for the iconic sports car, over 1000 E-types were on site and more than 800 took part in a special parade on the full 3.6-mile Grand Prix circuit, forming a mammoth E-type traffic jam (pictured). The final number of cars in the parade will be notified to Guinness World Records and the outcome will be confirmed shortly.

Supporting the headlining E-type activities, thousands of classic cars from hundreds of marques packed into Silverstone, with many other Jaguars on show including C-types, D-types, XK120s, XK140s, XK150s and more recent performance models like the XKR.

On-track, a record grid of 52 racing E-types contested a round of the E-type Challenge, the special race series created for 2011 to mark the anniversary year. The race was won by Jon Minshaw with a classy performance to stay ahead of Alex Buncombe and Graeme Dodd.

“This weekend is a fantastic celebration of the E-type,” said Event Director, Nick Wigley. “Cars from all over the world have come to Silverstone to make the Silverstone Classic the biggest and best anniversary event for the E-type.”

The action continued at Silverstone throughout Sunday, with another race for the E-type Challenge, as well as a full day of racing for other historic and classic categories.

LAUNCH PARTY @ BREWSMITHS COFFEE AND TEA

BREWSMITHS LAUNCH PARTY, a set on Flickr.

Situated seconds away from Snow Hill Railway Station Jewellery Quarter entrance, in the heart of what many would say is Birmingham’s cultural centre of creativity is the fabulous fresh, new Brewsmiths Coffee & Tea.

Unit 16 Queensway Arches, Livery Street, Birmingham, B3 1EU

The inspirational entrepreneurial project of Kate Butler & Dave Conroy. After both were made redundant from their previous roles, they have worked tirelessly to bring creativity, expression, fun, local engagement and thoroughly great quality product and service in their under-the-arches location for Brewsmiths Coffee & Tea. You have just got to check-it-out!

At their buzzing Launch Party on Saturday night they were joined by family, friends, guests, local suppliers and contacts who have all played a part to get this exciting and inspirational local business off to a flying start.

Recent visitors to Brewsmiths said on their Facebook page...

“Loved the JC cake guys, top place”

“Coffee was superb!! Thanks Kate!! :)”

Open from Monday to Saturday, and catering for breakfast, brunch, sandwiches, vegan, vegetarian; Brewsmiths provides a convenient, chic, and fun atmosphere where you can enjoy a quiet moment or chat with friends with a great coffee or a refreshing cup of tea , and not forgetting that delicious locally made selections of cake.

A MUST IF YOU’RE NEAR OR VISITING BIRMINGHAM’S JEWELLERY QUARTER!

To contact the guys at Brewsmiths, you can find them on:

Twitter      @Brewsmiths_JQ
Facebook  www.facebook.com/brewsmiths
email         dave@brewsmiths.co.uk