ArtsFest: the festival of the arts lover

Review of ArtsFest by visitor Mohsen Keiany:

ArtsFest, the UK’s biggest free arts festival, was decorated with white tents and the fluctuated crowds moving from one tent to other like clear water filling up various crystal containers.

Undoubtedly every single participant, visitor, artist and arts facilitator had its own agenda for taking part in this massive art event, but everyone shared a common goal of loving art of any form. Therefore the ArtsFest can be regarded as the festival for the arts lover.

Birmingham ArtsFest as its fundamental concept was featuring installations, performances, and art exhibitions and also providing arts workshops, talks and screenings across the performing, visual and digital arts genres. It also created markets for both arts producer (artist) and visitors. ArtsFest was also a showcase or in fact a showing off for Hundreds of small and big art centres and organisations as well as individuals which are appearing at least once a year, but yet it does worth seeing and feeling the delicious taste of togetherness.

Birmingham City Council as the core of the event organised the event, but also invited its Artists in Residence for documenting the event from their own artistic intelligence and vision. As they have been involving different communities around Birmingham for more than a year, they gained some valuable experience of recording some of the community’s favourite arts, music sounds, animations and also native Brumy fruits and vegetations.