Final briefing as the team get ready for the volunteer Open Morning at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton.
Read MoreSome of Wolverhampton’s brightest young creative talent had chance to show off their skills at this year’s Same Difference festival in the city’s West Park.
Read MoreIn the Dining Room at Wightwick Manor with today’s deaf and hard of hearing guests finding out about volunteering.
Read MoreSince developing CBC’s pilot project ENTER as part of Cultural Bridge in 2021, a partnership programme between UK and Germany, CBC have been rediscovering the importance of building European relationships in the Black Country, and how we do this differently.
Read MoreGetting crafty at Wolverhampton Art Festival 2023 in Victoria Street in the city centre.
Read MoreIn this podcast we talk to Artist, Producer and Creator of Jambo Cinema Dawinder Bansal.
Read MoreThe University of Wolverhampton is in tune with millions of women suffering from symptoms of perimenopause and menopause and is embarking on a unique collaboration with Creative Black Country (CBC) to raise awareness of the menopause through song and is looking for participants to join.
Read MoreA film produced by Jack Smallwood portrays the emotions expressed by D/deaf people via a new short BSL poem. The poem tackles the concept of dual identity with D/deafness in relation to selfhood and features people who are deaf/hard of hearing and are born, raised and live in Wolverhampton.
Read MorePhoto Gallery: Imagine Wolves was a collaboration between artists Leanne O’Connor and Ewan Johnston born out of discussions and research in to re-imagined futures and ways of togetherness for Wolverhampton and its people.
Read MorePhoto Gallery: To round off the Offsite9 activities musician and composer Ni Singh invited people to join him for an evening of immersive sounds, visuals and performance at Newhampton Arts Centre.
Read MoreAudiences were invited to follow Rudie, Maria, Jeevan and Scott as they aimed to make their own journeys to Wolverhampton, all in different eras, experiencing Windrush, Brexit and the "really hostile environment" in the new performance called Wander.
Read MorePhoto Gallery: A Euphoric Happening aimed to capture euphoric moments through dance, music and visual media embracing themes of healing and togetherness in a double bill event of Euphoria and Visions at Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton City Centre.
Read MorePhoto gallery and Video: Sahjan Kooner’s work for Offsite9 explored the relationships between migration, technology and lineage through a new video installation titled Frozen Archive for MOON/ish.exe.
Read MoreArtist Sukhjeven Chumber displayed a series of photographs at Light House which were taken at a Black Lives Matter protest at West Park, Wolverhampton during the first Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020.
Read MorePhoto and Video for Communion by Thomas Jack Brown. Hosted within the chapel of St. Peter’s Church in the city centre, Communion contains archival footage and images of some of Wolverhampton’s citizens collapsed together to show the city’s history in a non-linear way.
Read MoreThe sun was shining for Boundary Way’s RESET event which took place at the garden allotments. A mix of art, creativity, workshops and (of course) some gardening were all on display during the afternoon.
Read MoreOn Saturday evening of the 12th March Fae Kilburn’s exhibition ‘Perspectives’ launched at Asylum Artist Quarter. Perspectives has been produced by Fae (in collaboration with DASH) to help raise awareness, challenge preconceived ideas and highlight the stigma faced by many.
Read MoreCity of Wolverhampton Mayor, Councillor Greg Brackenridge, opened the latest exhibition launch for Offsite9 on Friday 11th March at the Light House for artist Riccardo De Bruce’s ‘Stephen Architect of Hope’ project.
Read MoreOffsite 9 is an ambitious program of work launching January 2022 to coincide with British Art Show 9 which is taking place in Wolverhampton. We are sharing more details of some of the work that Creative Black Country is commissioning over the coming months that will explore the themes from British Art Show and showcase how the touring exhibition is inspiring and informing some of the commissioned works.
Read MoreWe’re delighted to be able to share a few of the commissioned artists for our upcoming Offsite 9 project. Over 25 artists, creatives and organisations will be producing work from January 2022 onwards that will make up a programme of exciting and diverse projects, events and interventions that will pop-up across the city.
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