60 Second Stories
Creative Black Country has been working with communities across the region to share creativity, fun and positivity via its Creative Connection Commissions. From small ideas big, inventive projects grew including poetry group Connect Dudley and Instagram photography project Yam Cams who are both featured in this short film.
Each project has showcased the power of reaching out to communities and how we can still be creative during challenging times. We decided to bring together the two projects to highlight our love of the Black Country, its diversity and its uniqueness.
This piece was produced by Creative Black Country for Creative People and Place's 60 Second Stories and features two of our 'Creative Connection' commissioned projects: the Connect Dudley Writers Group wrote the spoken word piece and Yam Cams provided the images of the Black Country.
The final recording features the voices of Claire Tedstone and Gordon Elcock. The recording was edited and composed by Bill Laybourne.