Everyone is welcome to join us on Friday 6th March at our Vivid Projects space and the BRIG Cafe from 6-8pm. Visitors can take a look at excerpts from the media archive collection, see behind the scenes of our digitisation process, and enjoy creative archive responses including early previews of work by BMAP Professional Placement holders Charlotte Bailey and Jayne Murray.

Staff and artists will be available to answer your questions about the BMAP project and share more about the topics that will be explored in the forthcoming exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which opens on 18 April.

The group are: Charlotte Bailey, Erinn Dhesi, Jayne Murray, Marley Starskey Butler, Nafeesa Hamid and Vignesh Venkataramaiah, supported by Lorenzo Prati, Project Coordinator and Michael Lightborne, Archive Facilitator.

BMAP is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.