Festival Team
Birmingham Light Festival is a City Curator Project, a role fully funded by Colmore BID. It is being made possible with thanks to the full support of all five city-centre BIDs. OPUS are the producers of Birmingham Light Festival.
Alex Nicholson-Evans
⏺︎ CITY CURATOR &
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Alex is Birmingham City Centre's first 'City Curator'. A brand-new role funded by Colmore BID and supported by all five City Centre BIDs. She is also the Founder & Director of Living For The Weekend, the company behind city-wide festivals such as Birmingham Cocktail Weekend and Birmingham Restaurant Festival.
Alex was formerly the Commercial Director at Birmingham Museums, she is a passionate non-executive director and is also a judge for awards such as the West Midlands Tourism Awards.
Rebecca Phillips
⏺︎ CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Bex is the Senior Producer at OPUS and has taken a lead role in designing and delivering key visual and public art projects over the past two years, driven by her passion for placemaking through transforming public spaces with culture, light and art.
She has forged a career in producing large scale, multi-disciplinary events - specifically for outdoor and public places – with a focus on access for all and designing spaces and programmes with the audience experience at its core.
Caroline Davis
⏺︎ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Caroline is Founder and Managing Director of OPUS, an award winning female-led producing house specialising in devising, commissioning and managing memorable, creative experiences and events outdoors and in the public realm. Caroline takes a collaborative, proactive and inclusive approach to interventions, bringing together a curatorial eye with strong skills in design, production and financial management.
Caroline traditionally specialises in producing site specific and outdoor work including Motionhouse’s Wondrous Stories, the Commonwealth Games Festival Sites, bringing joy and delight to audiences.
Producing House
OPUS stands for Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces and is run by Executive Producer and Managing Director, Caroline Davis. OPUS are a female-led, multidisciplinary arts and events producing house based in Birmingham but working nationally to offer event design, concept and management and creative and strategic producing services. Focusing on large-scale, multi-stakeholder, combined arts events and festivals, OPUS create collaborative cultural and artistic interventions in place-based settings and non-traditional performance spaces, that connect people to each other and the space they are in. OPUS have a track record of delivery with arts, sport and leisure, government and corporate / private sector clients, in everything from civic spaces, shopping centres and train stations, to greenfield and woodland sites - even on public transport. OPUS are excited to be producing and delivering Birmingham Light Festival, providing all aspects of Production and Event Management - find out more about us here.
Supporters
Of course, it's a much wider team that makes an event of this scale a success. We couldn't deliver Birmingham Light Festival without our incredible supporters, partners and suppliers! Particular thanks to Colmore BID whose team have supported across all areas of developing and delivering the festival.