Artefact

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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19/03/2026

THANK YOU

We’re overwhelmed by the support for Artefact.
Thanks to your contributions, Artefact can:
Provide match funding for Arts Council bids
2. Cover essential BORING operational costs
3. Access vital FUN technical equipment for live music, shows, and creative events

Your support keeps the dreams alive and our programs thriving!

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09/03/2026

🎊🎊We've now reached the final 24 hours mark!🎉🎉

Thank to all the residents of Stirchley and South Birmingham who have supported our fundraiser so far. We've been really motivated by all your excitement and memories of the old Artefact in Stirchley, but don't worry when we reopen we'll be the same old place (minus the leaking roof).

It's been almost 12 years since Artefact opened it's doors back in 2015 offering a community arts space for workshops, music, poetry and more. Now, set to move into our new home in the Stirchley Cooperative Development, we can upgrade our arts programme to deliver something really fun and exciting for Stirchley and beyond.

For anyone who hasn't seen our fundraiser, please do check out the link below and watch our short film!

We've missed you all so much and can't wait to welcome you all back into the hallowed halls of Artefact for more creativity, music and socialising!

The Artefact team

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/artefact-returns #

Artefact Returns: Help us build a new co-op home for art, music & community in Stirchley’s landmark development.

27/02/2026

📯📯📯APPRECIATION POST THREE📯📯📯📯📯

Eleven days left!

Artefact would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has donated to our relaunch fundraiser so far!

As we are edging ever closer to the long-overdue completion of our new home in the our excitement grows for welcoming you all back- and reading your messages of support for our return has been a big part of that building excitement.

A big special thanks to
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We have so many plans for projects, working locally and with international artists and bands. Please do check out our fundraiser (link in bio!) and share far and wide with any friends and organisations you think would be interested in our work.

All our thanks,
The Artefact Team

14/02/2026

📯📯📯📯APPRECIATION POST TWO📯📯📯📯📯

Twenty-four days left!

Artefact would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has donated to our relaunch fundraiser so far!

As we are edging ever closer to the long-overdue completion of our new home in the our excitement grows for welcoming you all back- and reading your messages of support for our return has been a big part of that building excitement.

First of all thanks to




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We have so many plans for projects, working locally and with international artists and bands. Please do check out our fundraiser (link in bio!) and share far and wide with any friends and organisations you think would be interested in our work.

All our thanks,
The Artefact Team

07/02/2026

📯📯📯📯APPRECIATION POST ONE📯📯📯📯📯

Thirty-three days left!

Artefact would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has donated to our relaunch fundraiser so far!

As we are edging ever closer to the long-overdue completion of our new home in the our excitement grows for welcoming you all back- and reading your messages of support for our return has been a big part of that building excitement.

We have so many plans for projects, working locally and with international artists and bands. Please do share our Fundraiser far and wide with any friends and organisations you think would be interested in our work.

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All our thanks,
The Artefact Team

08/01/2026

Dear Stirchley and beyond!
We hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

We wanted to send a quick message to say a massive thank you to everyone who has donated and shared our fundraiser!

We’re so overwhelmed by your messages of support and excitement for Artefacts reopening and we can’t wait to welcome you all back into our hallowed halls for more art, music and community building!

If you haven’t checked out our fundraiser yet please do, consider donating and share with your friends and neighbours and we can’t wait to see you all again soon!

2026 marks Artefacts eleventh year in Stirchley and we have a great arts programme planned for the first year in our new premises with some great artists and events for everyone to be involved.

Best wishes,
The Artefact Team!

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Artefact gang!

We hope to be open very soon and can’t wait to welcome you all back in to the new halls of music, art and community!

20/12/2025

Looking for an extra Christmas stocking-filler?

Why not consider one of the wonderful and weird rewards from Artefact this year…

Gifts for the foodies, and book-binders, lovers of poetry, story-tellers and makers in your life!

Book a space with Artefact’s curator Gugan Gill for our Book-Binding Workshop.
Commission a bespoke poems from Artefact’s literato Lee Mackenzie.
Or even a specially composed- personal alarm clock song written and performed by the world-famous Artefact House Band!
Book a space in Hipkiss & Graney’s woodcarving workshop Table Tales where you will carve your own stories into the new mead hall tables of Artefact.
Or be the first to get our exclusive Artefact Relaunch Tees to commemorate its reopening!
Looking for a different kind of culture? Start your own Kombucha journey by adopting one James McIlwrath’s Healthy SCOBY’s (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast)

If any of these gifts sound like a perfect stocking-filler for one of your loved ones this Christmas then click the link to our fundraiser now (link in bio) and be safe in the knowledge that you also have our deepest gratitude by supporting our long-awaited and long-overdue relaunch in 2026.

Merry Christmas
The Artefact Team

18/12/2025

📯📯📯📯📯📯 ARTEFACT RETURNS!

Artefact is coming back to Stirchley, and we’re so close we can almost touch it.

This space has always been about more than walls: it’s about people meeting art, and art meeting people.

To make that happen again, we need your support.

If Artefact has ever meant something to you (or if you want it to exist for the people who haven’t found it yet) please consider donating to our Crowdfunder campaign. Every contribution genuinely helps us get the doors back open.

If you can't donate, then please share, it really matters and will be a huge help. Every share can bring in around £20 in donations according to Crowdfunder, so please consider it.

If you believe in independent, artist-led spaces rooted in their community, please donate to our Crowdfunder campaign and help us take the next step.

Artefact Returns: Help us build a new co-op home for art, music & community in Stirchley’s landmark development.