On Sunday 24 April, Frankfurt’s experimental music duo Les Trucs will perform in Birmingham as part of the Flatpack Film Festival during The Last Laugh screening. Les Trucs are Charlotte Simon, Zink Tonsur and a variety of electronic gadgetry. Together, they process and revise the intersection of music, […]

As part of the Birmingham-Frankfurt 50th anniversary programme, on the 1st of April the renowned Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International will be hosting a taste of Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival. Collaboration between these two festivals started several years ago but has been recently refreshed again as a result of […]

Birmingham and Frankfurt became formal partner cities in 1966. This year both cities will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our partnership and a number of events have been planned jointly with the City of Frankfurt and Frankfurt based organisations to celebrate the occasion. With the signing of […]

As part of the Birmingham and Frankfurt 50th anniversary programme, Birmingham based Bournville Young Singers will start a collaboration project with the Frankfurt Cathedral Choir. This coincides with the Bournville Young Singers 30th anniversary. Programme: 23 April: Welcome Day for Boys and Girls Choir from Frankfurt Cathedral and a civic reception in the […]

Birmingham Lord Mayor, Raymond Hassall took part in an event organised for HM Queen Elisabeth II during her visit to Frankfurt on 25 June 2015. He was officially invited by the Mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann and Volker Bouffier, Minister-President of the Garman State of Hesse to take […]

Four Birmingham care leavers have been able to undertake work experience at the Marriott Hotel in Birmingham’s partner city of Frankfurt as part of the Willkommen Project. The Willkommen Project is led by Catch 22, a UK charity that works with care leavers, in partnership […]

Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market returns to the city for five weeks from Thursday 13 November. Set up through our partner city connections with the City of Frankfurt, this is the 14th consecutive year that the Frankfurt Christmas Market has been held in Birmingham. It is […]