A big thank you to everyone who attended our Lisel Haas Archive Exploration at the Library of Birmingham as part of Birmingham Heritage Week! It was lovely and exciting to share our Lisel Haas project with so many people.

New blog alert! Our research assistant Franziska Eggers has written a blog about her experience discovering the Lisel Haas archives, accompanied by some gorgeous illustrations of locations important to Haas's story. Read the blog now on our website: www.bertzassociates.net/blog/researc...

Thank you to everyone who came to our Rolling at the Tower Screening and Q&A for Birmingham Heritage Week, in partnership with Culture Forward at University of Birmingham! 🛼

Come work with us! We are looking for a filmmaker who can document our upcoming Arts Council project. The filmmaker will attend events, research trips and days, and interview project participants, to document the project. Full job description on our website 🔗 www.bertzassociates.net/work-with-us

New series announcement! As part of our work with Hydrogen Academy EU, we've been having conversations with Innovators and Educators working within Green Hydrogen and engineering. The first conversation with Lilo Maclachlan is available on youtube now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aju...

We are proud to announce that our Discovering Lisel Haas project is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. This funding will enable us to hold an exhibition of Haas’s work at the Library of Birmingham in late 2026.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Art Deco in Birmingham walk last Sunday for Birmingham Heritage Week! 🏙️ Led by Christiane Worth, this walk around the city centre highlighted the beautiful Art Deco buildings Birmingham has to offer.

We are so excited to reveal the panellists who will be speaking at our ‘Rolling at the Tower’ Screening and Q+A! Chaired by Sara Jones, the panel will feature Iris Bertz FRSA, Empress Gibbs, John Munro, John Hill-Daniel, Simone Smith, and M.uuya. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rolling-at...

Don’t miss out! Our community documentary ‘Rolling at The Tower’ is screening at the Mockingbird Cinema next Thursday as part of Birmingham Heritage Week. youtu.be/B2GdXfz5-HU?...

Bertz Associates is excited to share our last event for Birmingham Heritage Week, an exploration of Lisel Haas’ archive at the Library of Birmingham. 📚 📅 Saturday 20th September ⏰ 2pm 📍 The Library of Birmingham www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lisel-haas...

Come work with us! We are excited to be hiring a cataloguer to work on our Lisel Haas project. We are looking for someone who is passionate about making archives more accessible to local communities and exploring what they can mean for people today. sites.google.com/bertzassocia...

As part of Birmingham Heritage Week, join us for a screening of our latest documentary 'Rolling at the Tower', funded by Historic England, to celebrate Brum’s rollerskating past, present and future 🌟 📅 Thursday 18th September ⏰ 8pm 📍 The Mockingbird Cinema www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1515808577...

Back in June, Aaron Lad and Iris Bertz FRSA travelled to Varna, Bulgaria for the biannual Hydrogen Academy Assembly! You can read all about their experience in a new blog by Aaron on our website - www.bertzassociates.net/blog/the-var...

Bertz Associates is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded an Archives Revealed Cataloguing grant from The National Archives to catalogue the Lisel Haas collection at the The Library of Birmingham, Birmingham City Council!

We are honored that our film 'Rolling at The Tower' will be screened at Neighbourhood Cotch Club, a cosy space for intimate film screenings based on a barge on the Birmingham canal, hosted by Civic Square.

We are so proud to share that our short film 'Rolling Out Film' will be screened by Flatpack in partnership with University of Birmingham as part of their Words and Pictures: An Evening of Birmingham Creativity event at the Royal Geographical Society conference!

On Wednesday, week before last, Iris and Diyaa were invited to attend Legacy WM ‘Every Journey Matters’ Celebration event as the project came to an end.

We are pleased to welcome Anna Banks to the Bertz Associates team! Anna has joined us a Storytelling and Branding intern. They'll be helping us to tell our story, share our projects and celebrate our achievements.

We are excited to welcome Eve Lewis to the Bertz Associates team! Eve is working with us to programme and organise our upcoming Birmingham Heritage Week events - keep an eye out for our event announcements in August.

We are so pleased to welcome Shakil Giordani to the Bertz Associates team! He is joining us to work on @hyacademyeuproject.bsky.social, signing up new schools and developing new learning resources.

This International Women in Engineering Day, we're proud to wecolme Diyaa Rahman to the Bertz Associates team as a Research Intern working on the European Hydrogen Academy project! #InternationalWomenInEngineeringDay #INWED25

Calling all German speakers! Interested in learning more about the Hydrogen Academy project? Tune in to Radio Free FM this Sunday at 12pm BST (or 1pm CEST) to hear Iris Bertz FRSA and Robert Steinberger-Wilckens discuss the project and the importance of green hydrogen with host Michael Troost.

New blog alert! Check out this new review of our recent film, 'Rolling at The Tower', by Charlie Mead. Thanks Charlie for the excellent review! You can read the review on our blog now 🔗 www.bertzassociates.net/blog/rolling...

Can you help us? We're looking to recruit more schools to the European Hydrogen Academy Project. Schools who are signed up to the Hydrogen Academy network will receive access to free learning resources, in addition to building connections with schools across Europe.

Thank you to everyone who attended our film screening and roller disco last week - we had an absolute blast and hope you did too! Don’t worry if you missed this one, we will definitely do this again 🌟

Join us for a double screening of our films 'Rolling Out Brum' (2023) and 'Rolling at The Tower' (2025) at CircusMASH UK on Friday 16 May, in collaboration with Skate Buddies and Children of the Diaspora with support from Screen B14.

We're on ITV X! Our recent documentary, 'Rolling at The Tower' was profiled by ITV Central. The video stars some of the cast and crew (credits below) talking about the project, along with some sneak peaks at the documentary. Check out the full video: www.itv.com/watch/news/r...

We interviewd Professor Robert Steinberger-Wilckens to find out more about Hydrogen. He is Director of the Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research at University of Birmingham UK, and heads up the Hydrogen Academy, a European Horizon project with 17 Partners across Europe. youtu.be/U26YLCgetuo

We are so excited to hear that our short film 'Rolling Out Brum' will be screening at Screen B14 Short Films event tomorrow (Thursday 17 April) at The Cuban Embassy in Moseley! Hope to see you there - tickets are available now 🔗 screenb14.eventive.org/schedule/67c...

Join Bertz Associates, Children of the Diaspora, and Skate Buddies for a celebration of roller skating at Circus Mash 🛼🪩🎪 A night of roller skating fun! We’re coming together to discover the long history of roller skating in Birmingham and celebrate the community in Brum today. shorturl.at/Epzv7

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who attended our screening for Rolling At The Tower at MAC this weekend! ✨🛼We truly were overwhelmed with the love and support we received from everyone - we are so grateful for our Bertz Associates community ❤️ Thanks to Michael Wright-Rowe for capturing the day for us 📸

Our upcomg documentary explores the history of roller venue, The Tower Ballroom, and considers what it tells us about the power of community action. Premiering at MAC on Sunday 16 March, tickets are available now: macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/ro... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8W...

We are so excited to be screening our new community documentary at Midlands Arts Centre on Sunday 16 March at 4pm! The screening will be followed by a live onstage Q&A with the cast and crew macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/rolli...

✈️🇪🇸 Back in December, Hydrogen Academy Project Assistant Aaron Lad and Bertz Director Iris Bertz visited Zaragoza in Spain for a Hydrogen Academy symposium - Aaron wrote about the trip in a great new blog, check it out 🔗 www.bertzassociates.net/blog/the-zar...

Hello Blue Sky! As we're new here, we thought we'd introduce outselves: Bertz Associates are a digital storytelling organisation based in Birmingham, UK, who uncover hidden histories and use the past to dream new futures. We have so many exciting projects to share so watch this space ✨