Dance Xchange Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street, B5 4TB 0121 689 3170 www.dancexchange.org.uk A partner organisation with Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham Royal Ballet, dx is a dance house dedicated to creating exciting opportunities for people of all walks of life to experience dance as participants, performers and audience members. Birmingham Back to Backs 55-63 Hurst Street/50-54 Inge Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 4TE 0121 666 7671 (booking line) An atmospheric glimpse into the lives of the ordinary people who helped make Birmingham an extraordinary city. Take a guided tour and step back in time at Birmingham’s last surviving court of back to backs; houses built literally back-to-back around a communal courtyard. Moving from the 1840s through to the 1970s, discover the lives of some of the former residents who crammed into these small houses to live and work. With fires alight in the grates, and sounds and smells from the past, experience an evocative and intimate insight into life at the Back to Backs.
Electric Cinema 47-49 Station Street theelectric.co.uk / @ElectricBham The oldest working cinema in the UK, there is no better way to watch films. You cannot miss the art deco frontage of Birmingham’s only independent cinema, offering an intimate environment to watch either box-office smashes or arthouse curios. Book sofa seating for viewing pleasure in style and to add a rather glamorous touch; every sofa is named after a film icon and comes with a Text Waiter Service. You will be shown to your sofa, given a menu, and then when the film starts you can text, say, ‘popcorn to Hepburn’, and they will bring your snacks to you. The Old Rep Theatre Station Street, B5 4DY 0121 605 5116 www.oldreptheatre.org.uk This 383 seat theatre plays host to the Birmingham Stage Company and numerous amateur companies offering a wide variety of productions from plays to musicals, regular sellout Christmas productions and specially written issue-based drama for young people. 053