City of Colours Festival in Digbeth, City Centre Birmingham
Creative Birmingham comes out in full force this weekend, painting the streets of Digbeth technicolour with a mash-up of music, graffiti/street art, dance & movement, film, food and creative community spirit. For the full extensive list of free exhibitions, workshops and generally hip happenings see: www.cityofcolours.co.uk. For our feature see: here
Flatpack Film are also screening free street art shorts at the Mockingbird Theatre as part of the festival, including Tacit a film featuring the local artist who created the former Central Library’s (now demolished) birds. See our Flatpack feature here

Ellipsis Fine Art Degree Show at Birmingham School of Art
More free (fine) art art this weekend. Until Sunday see the best of brilliant new artists in our midst, for free. Unmissable. See our feature with times/details: here

Digbeth Dining Club + Hare & Hounds Street Takeover & Food Festival.
More Weekend festival fun + Street Food as Funky music, markets and food fill the streets of Kings Heath on Sunday: See our feature here.

Sarehole Mill’s Flying Teapot Sunday Markets. Also on Sunday, a more genteel gathering in Sarehole Mill’s picturesque square with street food, a micro brewery and a bustling collection of market stalls accompanied by live acoustic sounds. See here

Boardgame Smackdown at Hare & Hounds + Cup of tea Comedy at The Mockingbird.
Both on Sunday, both free. See our weekly comedy round-up: here

Leftback on Rotation at Spotlight, Birmingham 
Vinyl revival in the form of Nottingham’s Leftback records, Saturday night. Free before 11pm, £5 after. See our weekly clubbing round-up for other events from £2: here