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.

Shaving the Surface → https://www.instagram.com/p/DbTsTIKCC_O/?img_index=1

Canals Prism Photography Network exhibition at Centrala for Digbeth First Friday → https://centrala-space.org.uk/events/prism-exhibition-launch-digbeth-first-friday/

Second Saturday Festival at The Old Printworks → https://www.secondsaturday.org.uk/

Family-Friendly Baby Rave at Blow Water → https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/Hare-And-Hounds-Kings-Heath/Baby-and-the-Beats-by-Blow-Water-330PM/42458706/

Tiny Beer Fest → https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ7XRoToOcO/

Eternal Groovin Summer Showcase at Mama Roux’s → https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/Mama-Roux%27s/Eternal-Groovin-Summer-Showcase--Mama-Rouxs/42566950/

Helsinki Metal Festival → https://hellsinkimetalfestival.fi/en/

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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.

Summertime Garden → https://birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk/bbg-event/summertime-garden-26/

Tiny Beer Fest → https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ7XRoToOcO/

Bournville & Weoley Castle Youth Fest → https://sellymanormuseum.org.uk/events/2026-08-09/bournville-weoley-castle-youth-festival

Fold/Unfold at the Nook Gallery → https://www.nook-gallery.co.uk/pages/exhibitions

Fresh at SUKI10C → https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/SUKi10C/Lumina-presents-FRESH-6th-August/42258764/

Andrea Von Kampen at the Kitchen Garden Café → https://www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/andrea-von-kampen/

La Strada Graz, Austria → https://www.lastrada.at/program

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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:

Museum of BAM, 7-30 August (nook Gallery) → https://www.instagram.com

Fire + Rice Residency, Wed-Fri in August (Deadbeat Bar) → https://www.instagram.com

Piece of Work Open Mic, 6 August (Museum of the Jewellery Quarter) → https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/piece-of-work-open-mic

Quiz Night, 4 Wednesdays (Hare and Hounds) → https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham

Birmingham Improv Presents: Spaghetti Junction, 5 August (1000 Trades) → https://1000trades.org.uk/events/birmingham-improv-presents-spaghetti-junction-2026-08-05/

James Aaron, 5 August (The Sunflower Lounge) → http://thesunflowerlounge.com

Bansko Jazz Festival, until 9 August (Bansko, Bulgaria) → https://banskojazzfest.bg/

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Outer Circle is produced by 11c Media for Brum Radio and is recorded at Birmingham Podcast Studios in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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