Artefact

12/10/2026

TOMORROW! (Tuesday 13th)
Centrala
7.30-10.30pm
vision__fortune PLUS SPECIAL GUEST DZIN DZIN!

Get your tickets now via the link in our bio.

01/10/2026

28/09/2026

Sourdure played an stunningly beautiful set of songs with roots in Arabic, Turkish and Persian music, many of them sung in the magical Occitan language- joined by a sparse and spacious set of gorgeous piano instruments cast in radio static from Sam Bland. A wonderful night with a great turnout - here’s to many more!

Next Artefact Presents… is on 13th October - Vision Fortune and Dzinn Dzinn!

Also thank you to Bournville Cafe’ for the much needed next day restorative breakfast.

27/09/2026

Excellent turn out for tonight’s concert by sourdure supported by Sam Bland Music thank you to everyone who came here tonight and a big thankyou to Centrala for allowing Artefact to use their venue to host this night!

25/09/2026

Well done to and the excellent Stirchley History Group for delivering a really interesting and eye-opening heritage day about the radical history of Stirchley!

18/09/2026

SUNDAY 27th September

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07/09/2026

Artefact Presents... Sourdure + Sam Bland
📍Location Centrala Centrala Digbeth
🗓️ Sun 27th Sep 2026
🕰️ 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Fresh from our magical evening with Eric Chenaux, Artefact is ecstatic to present you with another twilight performance of Gallic-based musical alchemy!

An artist based in Thiers, Ernest Bergez, aka Sourdure, has been exploring the boundaries of distant sound worlds for the past ten years, combining a spirit of experimentation with a personal, hand-crafted approach to traditional musical objects. Hybrid and exploratory, Sourdure‘s music reveals itself in many facets: baroque inventions on traditional canvas, vociferous carnivalesque odes, stylistic borrowings from oriental music, sonic orfevrery marked by concrete music… Combined with the acoustic rusticity of the violin or the dotar (a Central Asian lute), electronics do their alchemical work, disturbing sound objects, altering perceptions and the course of time.

Whether exalted or bittersweet, the vocals borrow from the voices of classical Arabic, Turkish or Persian music. The Occitan language of Auvergne takes centre stage, deploying its metaphorical and polysemous mesh to express the common, the intimate and the sacred. The melody is born from the word, the poem gives birth to the song, in a form that could be distantly reminiscent of trobar, the art of the troubadours. A one-man orchestra, a single man playing from a universe of orchestras, Sourdure sings like the nose on your face.

Sourdure will be joined by Sam Bland, who surfs the shortwave radio waves for hazy esoterica and static-drenched enigmas, and accompanies this exquisite interference with jazz influenced piano. A real treat!

Poster beautifully designed by Ashley Swift

10/08/2026

Artefact Presents... Sourdure and Sam Bland
Sun 27th Sep 2026
6:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Fresh from our magical evening with Eric Chenaux, Artefact is ecstatic to present you with another twilight performance of Gallic-based musical alchemy!

An artist based in Thiers, Ernest Bergez, aka Sourdure, has been exploring the boundaries of distant sound worlds for the past ten years, combining a spirit of experimentation with a personal, hand-crafted approach to traditional musical objects. Hybrid and exploratory, Sourdure‘s music reveals itself in many facets: baroque inventions on traditional canvas, vociferous carnivalesque odes, stylistic borrowings from oriental music, sonic orfevrery marked by concrete music… Combined with the acoustic rusticity of the violin or the dotar (a Central Asian lute), electronics do their alchemical work, disturbing sound objects, altering perceptions and the course of time.

Whether exalted or bittersweet, the vocals borrow from the voices of classical Arabic, Turkish or Persian music. The Occitan language of Auvergne takes centre stage, deploying its metaphorical and polysemous mesh to express the common, the intimate and the sacred. The melody is born from the word, the poem gives birth to the song, in a form that could be distantly reminiscent of trobar, the art of the troubadours. A one-man orchestra, a single man playing from a universe of orchestras, Sourdure sings like the nose on your face.

Sourdure will be joined by Sam Bland, who surfs the shortwave radio waves for hazy esoterica and static-drenched enigmas, and accompanies this exquisite interference with jazz influenced piano. A real treat!

Location TBC (watch this space!)

Poster beautifully designed by Ashley Swift

25/06/2026

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Building a space that sounds better, together.

We are excited to share that .social will be working closely with Artefact to ensure the community hall in our new space will be professionally sound treated.

This will ensure that it’s a great sounding space, so we can continue to champion forward thinking artists in a venue that helps them sound their best.

We’re also running acoustic tests so that the space is perfectly tuned, and we won’t disturb our immediate neighbours.

Community relations are key to everything Artefact does, and this space will perfectly reflect this. The hall will be an acoustically excellent space and cultural hub, open to use for Artefact events, local artists and residents.

We would not have been able to realise this project without the help of Birmingham City Council, and the grant provided as part of the Music Infrastructure Fund

02/04/2026

🎸🚨LIVE MUSIC ALERT!🚨🎷

Artefact Presents... Eric Chenaux and Karolina Wegryzyn
28th April, 7pm


Eric Chenaux is one of the great contemporary guitarists and experimental songsmiths. His work balances masterful improvisation and classic composition, at once giving nods to avant-garde noiseniks, folk songwriters and the great jazz singers. A former Wire Magazine cover star and described by The Guardian as having “one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music”, Chenaux is a bonafide legend making a much anticipated visit to Birmingham on the back of 2024’s extraordinary ‘Delights Of My Life’.

“Where Chenaux really differs from any of them is in his lysergic tonal explorations, behind his honey-dipped vocals and baffling assortment of bent guitar notes, aquatic and forever morphing” The Quietus

“A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.” The Wire

Karolina Wegrzyn is an award-winning Polish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from South-Eastern Poland, now based in West Midlands. She plays accordion, hammered dulcimer and frame drums. Raised in a family of traditional singers and dancers, she inherited many songs from her grandmother and uses archaic “scream singing” rooted in Eastern European village traditions. She received a Polish Ministry of Culture award in 2011 and placed 3rd at the 2021 Szczecin Traditional Musician’s Tournament. She performs at many UK events with her band, blending powerful upbeat Balkan folk with emotional North-Carpathian rawness to create a sense of shared cultural heritage.

This concert is taking place at and we’d like to thank them for hosting Artefact whilst we still await moving into our new home! 🙏

Venue information below ⬇️ :

Centrala
Art Gallery
And Creative Space

Address:

Unit 4 Minerva Works
158 Fazeley Street
Birmingham
B5 5RT

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