We are working with Infinite Opera across 2025-26 on a community engagement commission for Digbeth’s new BBC HQ, The Tea Factory.
Infinite Opera workshop at May Digbeth First Friday 2025. Image by Nina Baillie.
In 2025-26, Birmingham-based opera creation company Infinite Opera (Roxanne Korda & Daniel Blanco Albert) aim to build an innovative performance-installation for ‘Art at Typhoo’, a community engagement commission with Grand Union.
Following narratives inspired by the lived experiences of local residents and workers, and the heritage of Digbeth, Infinite Opera will run performative and creative wellbeing workshops and a series of 1-1 interviews with local business owners, to ask how business owners and workers feel connected to Digbeth as a changing landscape.
Infinite Opera will ask local Digbeth residents and workers to bring objects that will act as stimuli in the creative development, and constructed identity, of the piece. These items, with the permission of their owners, may be archived at the end of the project.
