Stans Cafe – The Rice Show!

On Friday I went along, as I said, to the Stans Cafe preview of ‘Of all the people in all the World’ or what is known as ‘the rice show’ from 5p.m to 6.30pm.

Simon, Mark and I arrived at the A.E. Harris factory on 110 Northwood St, Birmingham. Greeted by a lady (I think this was Charlotte) from Stans Cafe with the programme and then a glass of wine!

We entered the large industrial space and began to explore the world through statistics: past/present paired with the shocking/humourous. Below is a photo I got on my mobile (not particularly great but I laughed out loud): ‘The most people ever to fit into a smart car’

It put things into perspective, for example, the amount of child soldiers worldwide and this equalled at least the amount of children (under 5?) in Birmingham.

There was an announcement on the tannoy asked us to head to Nigeria. All gathered around we heard some short and sweet speeches (which I recorded so I will try to upload), to which Kevin Isaacs and Fierce! got a mention!

From Birmingham, and an office in the Big Peg, Stans Cafe have an interesting story and background and a company I have personally been aware of for a long time and been itching to see a piece of their work.

‘Of all the people in all the World’ will grow for the duration of the performance and will be documented on Radio Rice and a live feed of The Rice Show – which posts all digital discussion tagged with the rice show on their site, very exciting stuff!

It was part of artsfest and will run until 5th October, a definite must see and great homecoming!