As part of Birmingham’s International Concert Season 2015/16, The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will perform Strauss on Monday, 19th October at Birmingham’s grand Symphony Hall theatre. It is well regarded that music transcends beyond the language barrier. The Leipzig Orchestra’s performance this October is a fantastic, not-to-be-missed experience. Birmingham welcomes Leipzig’s […]

Birmingham has once again joined forces with the German city of Leipzig to develop new ways of driving growth and innovation for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As part of the Mayor of Leipzig’s visit to Birmingham, marking the 25th anniversary of partnership between the cities, […]

Birmingham based artist, Ian Richards was invited to spend three months in Birmingham’s partner city Leipzig, as part of an exchange programme to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Leipzig’s first documented mention. The artistic exchange programme was initiated by HALLE 14 in cooperation with Leipzig partner cities Lyon (France) […]

Here are a few highlights from the Leipzig exhibition held at Thursday, 17th September at the Nest in Birmingham (Glenn Howells Architects). The exhibition by Leipzig based artist, Sven Bergelt, was to portray the artist’s perception of Birmingham’s architecture in the three months he has been […]

Our sister city Leipzig celebrates its 1000th anniversary this year. A rich programme of events has been put together by Leipzig and we are proud to be a part of some of them. Recently, Birmingham was invited to take part in the Leipzig’s first International Children and Youth Art Exhibition. […]

Birmingham City Council representative took part in a panel discussion on Fair Trade entitled “How Fair is Fair Trade?” in Leipzig, Germany. We were officially invited by our partner city Leipzig. Other participants included representatives of Lyon, another Birmingham’s partner city. The event’s key point was […]

Leipzig is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony and rated as the most liveable city in Germany. An educational, infrastructural, cultural and economic centre today, it has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire, and […]

19 April 2021 Cities are being invited to learn from leading innovative UK peers at a special national event this May. UK cities have seen some of the most challenging COVID-19 conditions this past year and one could be forgiven for thinking that all but […]

The Tenth Anniversary of friendship and exchange between Birmingham and Nanjing was marked by a visit from Birmingham’s partner city on 12th September 2018.  The ten strong delegation, led by the Party Secretary, Mr Zhang Jinghua, met with Council Leader Cllr Ian Ward and Bham […]