Happy Ozzy Day! 💜🖤 Celebrating Ozzy Osbourne today? Here’s a reminder that the Brum SoundTracks App, created with Jez Collins, includes a Black Sabbath filter: bom.org.uk/brumsoundtra... We also spotted Jez with Ozzy the Bull at New Street, collecting personal tributes in a commemorative guestbook.

We’re proud to be supporting The Culture Collective (The GAP’s Youth Collective) on their filmmaking project, The Other Preppers. Through 4 workshops at BOM, participants are exploring the use of Blender & Unreal Engine for their film project. We’re loving being part of their creative journey! 💛

5 days left to apply for our fully funded course teaching TouchDesigner and @unrealengine.bsky.social. Available to creatives in the West Midlands and designed for live immersive performances. The course begins on Tuesday 8th September. Find out more 👉🏼 bom.org.uk/immersive-ar... 📸 Angela Grabowska

📣 Coming soon! 📣 Our CreaTech Frontiers Workshops are returning in September. You’ll spot a refreshed programme, with new workshops amongst the returning sessions. Explore workshops covering Fundamentals in XR project planning to Immersive Projection Mapping and more. bom.org.uk/immersivewor...

We’re super excited to be partnering with Electronic Arts (EA) 💛 Working with EA, we’re delivering a digital arts programme to 2 youth groups in Birmingham, focusing on games, their positive social impact – and career pathways. We can't wait to begin!

🚨 We’ve extended our deadline! 🚨 The new date for our free, fully funded Immersive Arts Bootcamp is Monday 20th July at 5pm. Join us and learn TouchDesigner & Unreal Engine for your Live Performance project. Read more and apply here 👉🏼 bom.org.uk/immersive-ar...

The sun is shining, and it’s the perfect opportunity to test out Brum SoundTracks. ☀️ Discover the city and learn about current and lost venues. Choose routes around the city, filter by key artists or load up the app wherever you are to learn about any locations close by. Download 👉🏼 bit.ly/4gpg8ZX

One week since we hosted Soul Paint with @sarahticho.bsky.social! Soul Paint merges body mapping, digital painting and VR, helping people visualise and explore their emotions. This event was part of Healing Arts Birmingham with Jameel Arts & Health Lab, BCC & @who.int. 📸 @veritymilligan.bsky.social

It’s been a brilliant few weeks at BOM. 💛 We've had a flurry of activity, from working on projects in our studio to exhibiting at education conferences; we've had visitors stopping by to learn more about BOM, hosted a BFI diversity roundtable and Sarah Ticho's Soul Paint for Healing Arts Birmingham.

This week, we’ve been at ElevationX’s SciSpace Showcase at @millenniumpoint.bsky.social. 🪐🎮 We had 600+ children in attendance, celebrating STEM, careers in space, engineering and tech. Our team, Adanna & Teo, introduced pupils to immersive tech from VR to interactive, online tools - a fab day!

Missed out on booking Soul Paint at BOM? We've released more times for next week! BOM is hosting Soul Paint as part of the Healing Arts Birmingham events in association with Jameel Arts and Health Lab, Birmingham City Council and the World Health Organisation. Book 👉🏼 bom.org.uk/soulpaint/

2 weeks until we have the award-winning VR Experience, Soul Paint at BOM. 🥳 Created by @sarahticho.bsky.social & Niki Smit, we’re presenting Soul Paint as part of Healing Arts Birmingham, in association with Jameel Arts Health Lab, Birmingham City Council and @who.int. Book 👉🏼 bom.org.uk/soulpaint/

Hands up if you walk past the Town Hall and don’t know the music heritage behind this Brum landmark? ✋🏻 Brum SoundTracks is an app featuring our city’s current and lost music venues. Discover archive material and AR intros from Jez Collins, who is dressed to match each location! 👉🏼 bit.ly/4avpXkZ

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 26 June, for our Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-Time Technologies. Designed for live performance, this 12-week, in-person bootcamp is fully funded and will teach participants how to use TouchDesigner and @unrealengine.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/4wf30Mg

We’re bringing Soul Paint to BOM! 🎨 Experience the multi-award-winning VR experience on 24th June. We’re delighted to host Soul Paint as part of the events for Healing Arts Birmingham in association with Jameel Arts Health Lab, Birmingham City Council & @who.int. Book here 👉🏼 bom.org.uk/soulpaint/

This week, we joined the University of Birmingham's World Building and Ethical Game Design event, which shared insights on ethics, imagination, belonging and community-driven design. 🤩 We love talking about games for good, and our team shared projects from Hidden Kingdoms to R&D on Mother Nature XR.

Love all things immersive and live performance? 🎭 Apply for our Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-time Technologies and learn @unrealengine.bsky.social and TouchDesigner to create a live immersive performance. Join our preview evening on Wednesday 3rd June, 5–7pm. More info: bit.ly/4wf30Mg

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We’re excited to be partnering with @unibirmingham.bsky.social on a PhD opportunity, fully-funded by UKRI via CreaTech Frontiers for the project, Shaping Space: Integrating Immersive Audio into Creative and Production Pipelines. The application deadline is 27th May. Apply here 👉🏼 bit.ly/4uWTyM2

Building the Brum SoundTracks app with @jezcollins.bsky.social has taught us so much – especially about venues like the Odeon on New Street. 👀 It was once a music venue and hosted The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. 🤯 Download and learn more: bom.org.uk/brumsoundtra...

Recent highlights at BOM. We've been busy attending Flatpack Festival & Overlap Social to support our Bootcamp alumni Max, plenty of R&D from Tech to skills training and some snazzy new headshots for some of our team! 😍

Have you downloaded Brum SoundTracks? If you’re in Birmingham and have always wanted to know more about some of the musical history of the city’s venues, get downloading! 😍 Find out more: bom.org.uk/BrumSoundTra...

Bootcamp is back! 💚 Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-time technologies has a focus on performance. Ideal for individuals or organisations with funding in place to develop a prototype, the course covers Unreal Engine & TouchDesigner. Applications open for Sept and Jan start dates 👉🏼 bit.ly/4wf30Mg

Monday 11th May is the deadline for expressions of interest for the CreaTechFrontiers Live and Immersive Fund! 👀 Ten £25k grants are available to support bold, innovative projects in live performance or immersive experiences. Find out more and get applying! 👉🏼 createchfrontiers.com

Awesome bootcamp alumni news alert! We’re excited to share that several of our alumni have recently secured funding for their projects. Congrats to Ruth Hopkins, Shayan Mawlood and Hazel Sealeaf, what an incredible achievement! 🥳 Read more 👉🏼 bit.ly/48N7OhP

Team R&D focus! 💪🏽 Our Immersive Trainer, Akshay, recently attended a VP Operator workshop at Twickenham Film Studios. Hosted in the Quite Brilliant Virtual Production Stage with LED volume, VP expert Chris Bouchard led hands-on training in Assimilate Live FX. A fantastic afternoon!

Virtual Production in the heart of Brum? We got you. From green screen work to motion capture or something that requires more technical expertise, come and chat with us! Visit bom.org.uk/virtual-prod... and email us at info@bom.org.uk 💚

The sun’s out! 😎 It’s the perfect opportunity to explore the city with Brum SoundTracks. Love music and want to learn more about Brum’s musical heritage? This is your sign to download Brum SoundTracks! Find out more: bom.org.uk/brumsoundtra...

Some moments from the last week. From Akshay's thank you gifts from the bootcampers and badminton club to showcasing at the CWX Expo and winning the CWX Immersive Impact Award. What a brilliant week it's been! 😍

A look back at our Creative Industries Panel with Jennifer Koch, Games Specialist; Cassie Smyth, Co-founder of Reel Brum; Linda Spurdle, Museums, Heritage and Culture Consultant; and Laura Veart, CreaTech Frontiers Creative Clusters Manager. 📸 Photos by Angela Grabowska.