NOT GOING TO WEMBLEY? PLENTY ON AT HOME

26-05-2007

As a dedicated Baggies fan your Stirrer editor will spend most of the Bank Holiday weekend quivering in anticipation at Monday’s play-off final. But even if you aren’t heading for Wembley, there’s plenty of other stuff to entertain you.

Birmingham’s Gay Pride Festival for instance, concentrated in the Village around Hurst Street which will be pedestrianised for the weekend.

There are four stages, and although the event kicks off tomorrow, the main shebang is the Parade - flambuoyant, I think they call it - which will wend its way from Victoria Square from 2pm on Sunday.

Pride also reaches into the Black Country on Monday when there’ll be a free party at the Greenhouse. More details from http://www.birminghampride.org/

This weekend also sees the continuation of the Fierce Festival of extreme art - one of the jewel’s in the city’s artistic crown. We’ve never seen a dull event there yet - check out http://www.fiercetv.co.uk/

Not to mention the international puppetry festival www.dynamicsfestival.com based at MAC but also at other venues.

If there’s something else going on that we haven’t mentioned, just post it on the Music And Arts section of our Message Board. Couldn’t be simpler.