As hundreds of new students find their feet at UCE Birmingham’s Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), Millennium Point, the centre is to hold a week of special events to celebrate its wide spread of creative technologies.

In the October week when TIC’s regular last-Thursday-of-the-month Creative Networks takes place, the centre is holding a 7-day, multi-event ‘Creative Week’, commencing on Monday 23rd October.

The TIC’s team have planned an exciting week of free, public performance-based events, featuring TIC’s diverse interactive media technologies. Some events will be a showcase for student talents. However, others will feature other Midlands creative individuals and organisations, reflecting TIC’s increasingly influential contribution to the development of the region’s creative businesses.

The week commences on the evening of Monday 23rd October with the rock-band event, ‘Amplified’ in Millennium Point’s iBar. Apart from giving the public a chance to hear local bands at full volume, some musicians will be able to sign up for free recording sessions with TIC’s sound technology students.

Tuesday and Wednesday evenings sees TIC stage its fourth annual short film festival, Cinem@tic, in the IMAX. Around 15 films a night will be shown, selected from some 100 entries by a professional panel chaired by BBC BIG Screen’s Geraldine McCullagh. Festival winner will be announced on Wednesday evening.

Thursday sees the start of the four-day ‘Shake your Arts’ creative exhibition, which coincides with the October meeting of TIC’s Creative Networks. A wide-ranging display of creative talents from screen-based and photographic sources to other visual, fine and performing arts will feature over four days from Thursday 26th . The highlight of the opening evening will be the IMAX-launch of the Midlands third animated film festival known as ‘Flip’. Organised by Wolverhampton’s Light House Media Centre, it provides an exciting launch-pad for the ‘Shake your Arts’ showcase.

The evening of Friday 27th October sees Millennium Point’s i-Bar become the concert venue for SCAMP - short for ‘Sound of Computer-Aided Music Performance’. This annual TIC student-talent showcase features many original compositions, with conventional performances taking place alongside unique new music, often spontaneously created, live on stage with multimedia visual effects.

Anyone wishing to attend any of TIC’s free Creative Week events should phone 0121 331 5400 or e-mail Julian.moore@tic.ac.uk