Learn to create an immersive project on our free, Immersive Arts Bootcamp starting in January! In 12 weeks, you’ll learn how to use @UnrealEngine to create your game or experience. You’ll explore @Blender, Virtual Production and more. Sign up here 👉🏼 https://t.co/klSe7xE5Oq

We’re in awe of the amazing work created by our current Immersive Arts Bootcamp cohort. 🤩 These videos are just a snippet from a task during their bootcamp. Join us on Thursday 11th Dec from 1pm - 3pm and discover their creative projects! 🎟️ https://t.co/QaDtt0yaof

What if your restaurant’s ceiling could boost air quality, acoustics, and ambiance? Metro Interiors’ Rockfon Hygienic Plus™ tiles are built for high-traffic, hygiene-focused NYC spaces. Click to learn more.

We’re pleased to share that we were Highly Commended as a Creative Industries Innovator at the Innovation Awards! Well done to all the finalists in the category, and an extra special congratulations to our friends at Second Home Studios for taking home the win! Go Brum! 🏆

Classroom focus 💡 It’s all about STEM with our Water Bots programmes in schools. Working with Year 7s in two schools, they've been exploring civil engineering and chemical engineering based on bridge building and water filtration.

Join us at our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase! Explore XR projects created by our participants and discover insights and conversations with our industry panel. 📆 Thursday 11th December ⏰ 1PM - 3PM at BOM 🎟️RSVP https://t.co/NeYYnlGeNG

Interactive format encourages hands-on learning, turning phonics practice into playful discovery. Tap the video button or check the comments to get the same item. See more: https://t.co/5lvegpYRKU

We're Digital Technology Innovator Award Winners! 🥳 We're proud to be recognised at the 2025 Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s Charity Awards – this would not be possible without our fantastic Immersive Studio team, Laura, Gurvinder, Clodagh & Taran. Go team!

Powering Up is a 3-year funded project which is supported by the Paul Hamlyn, working predominantly with black children in North Birmingham.

This term, our Learning and Engagement team has been delivering the Powering Up programme with BOA Digital. The students have been learning to use Blender to create virtual exhibitions. It’s been amazing to see the pupils learn how to use Blender and see what they’ve created! ✨

We’re right at the beginning of our journey with our future home in Digbeth on Great Barr Street. It’s a space with so much potential, and we love the echoes of its seed mill past! We look forward to incorporating these details into BOM’s new home! ✨ Photo 2 by Angela Grabowska

In the grim darkness of the far future, heresies hide everywhere ⛓️ WISHLIST WARHAMMER CRPG ON STEAM

We can hardly believe that the Water Bots weekend fun in Dudley was three weeks ago! 😱 On our last day at Warrens Hall Nature Reserve, we took them into Netherton tunnel and we quickly realised they are spectacular in the dark… 🤔💡

We’re on the search for our next Bootcamp cohort! 👀 Learn how to use Unreal Engine to create your immersive project. The course is free and open to those living within the West Midlands. Find out more: https://t.co/80ezZqwZK5

It was awesome to invite Sakab Bashir, one of our bootcamp alumni, back to BOM recently! 💚 Sakab spent time in our Virtual Production Suite, where the motion capture data will be used for a sculpture. Fancy hiring our space for your project? More info: https://t.co/H7Xg3NPtGR

NEW BOM DIGS IN AT DIGBETH Big news from Birmingham Open Media (@BOMlab): the city’s pioneers of creative tech and digital art have just snapped up 120–122 Great Barr Street, securing their forever home right in the beating heart of Digbeth. Next door to Digbeth Loc Studios and

Figure out how to use AI to sharpen your thought. We’re providing exceptional scholars with the funding, tools, and guidance to accelerate their research. Up to 5K available from IHS and @cosmos_inst. Deadline: Jan 15

@BOMlab has announced the purchase of 120 - 122 Great Barr St in Digbeth for its future permanent home. With extensive renovations planned, BOM will sensitively restore this original Victorian seed mill, which sits directly on the Grand Union Canal towpath https://t.co/zxbvA30m9r

It's happening! We're super excited about this news 🥳

BOM’s on the move! 💛 We’ve purchased a permanent home for BOM in Digbeth, and we're planning extensive renovations for our Immersive Studio, Virtual Production and Learning Programmes. We’re a few years from moving but Digbeth, we’re coming for you! More: https://t.co/x5iiqfbl0G

Congratulations to Clodagh Delahunty-Forrest for winning Young Tech Person of the Year at the Birmingham Tech Awards! Clodagh’s win as a Games Artist in this category is also a win for the creative industries, as she showcases how art and technology can work together. Well done!

Celebrate the holidays in style. Grab your festive tee today!

From Canalside workshops to indoor activities at Little Geeks at @mac_birmingham, our engagement team has been busy! We showcased Mother Nature: EcoDash, introduced children to green screen and encouraged them to have a go at drawing in VR. Well done, team! 💪🏻💪🏾💪🏿

@ace_national @WestMids_CA @CanalRiverTrust Photography by Angela Grabowska.

The Water Bots project is funded by @ace_national, @WestMids_CA, Royal Academy of Engineering with support from @CanalRiverTrust.