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A view of a Harlem Globetrotter player, holding a ball during a special workshop with Birmingham school children at NIA Community Hall, Birmingham
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The Original Harlem Globetrotters

The exhibition basketball team perform a combination of athleticism, theatre and comedy, showcasing basketball skills and antics.
  • Basketball
  • Physical Theatre
  • Family
Harry Redknapp commentating for BT Sport before the Emirates FA Cup, third round match at Prenton Park, Birkenhead
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An Evening With Harry Redknapp

The former footballer, successful football manager and 2018's winner of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! talks about his life and career.
  • Talk
WWE Live
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WWE Live

World Wrestling Entertainment returns with hi-octane matches between some of the sport's biggest stars including Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, Drew McIntyre, Baron Corbin, Bobby Lashley, Finn Balor, Elias, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Riott Squad, Heavy Machinery, The Revival, Natalya, Alexa Bliss, Titus O'Neil, Mojo Rawley.
  • Wrestling
  • Family
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom
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Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom

Europe's first touring animatronic Ice Age experience brings to life the sights and sounds of the Ice Age, with 40 majestic beasts that roamed the world some 70,000 years ago
  • Family Event
  • Children's
  • Puppet Theatre
  • Children
  • Family
Two gallery assistants look at 'Studies of Geometry, clouds, plants, engineering, etc c
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Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life In Drawing

To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, 12 of the Renaissance master's drawings from the Royal Collection will go on display, as part of 12 simultaneous exhibitions across the UK.
  • Drawings/Illustration
Tess Jaray: From Outside
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Tess Jaray: From Outside

Six major new abstract paintings by the influential British artist.
  • Painting
Too Cute!: Sweet Is About To Get Sinister
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Too Cute!: Sweet Is About To Get Sinister

Artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean examines the world of cuteness by curating works from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham's collection to reveal how objects and images can have the unique ability to be simultaneously sweet and yet sinister.
  • Painting
  • Installation
Lin Ke: Fly
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Lin Ke: Fly

The Chinese artist's 2016 performance video in which he is centred facing a laptop camera with his meditative position foiled by the irritating movement of his mouse cursor as if it were a flying insect.
  • Multimedia
  • Performance Art
Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On
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Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On

Photographs providing a snapshot of a Birmingham community from 1979, taken as part of the pop-up studio project undertaken by Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon.
  • Photography
Hew Locke: Here's The Thing
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Hew Locke: Here's The Thing

The British artist explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power through paintings, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation.
  • Painting
  • Drawings/Illustration
  • Photography
  • Sculpture