Creative Black Country is delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, which will see the theatre support community-led creative activity in Wolverhampton through Creative Black Country’s Creative Communities programme.

Stories were blooming alongside the flowers at Caldmore Community Garden on Saturday 20th June.. As part of Making Our Mark, local people took part in a series of storytelling workshops led by Bostin Arts, sharing memories, experiences and reflections on what this much-loved community space means to them.

Between November 2025 and March 2026, Creative Black Country worked with the four Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton to deliver a series of Creative Communities Go & Sees.

As lead partner for Three 15 Wednesbury, Multistory will be working with artists' Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale from The Caravan Gallery between May and October 2026, on The People’s Map, a collaborative map and an evolving community exhibition.

Would your Walsall-based community group like to share your unique heritage stories? Applications are now open for our final round of Community Heritage Grants.

This Friday 29th May, Three 15 and Sandwell Creates welcome Birmingham Opera Company for a series of free live performances bringing electrifying music and opera to the heart of Smethwick.

Do you have an idea for a heritage project? Are you thinking of applying to The National Lottery Heritage Fund? Join our free online event ‘Applying for grants from £10,000 to £250,000 under its new 10-year strategy ‘Heritage 2033’.

Invitation to Black Country Creative Freelancers - Creative Black Country’s Funding Network is hosting a free event especially for you!

We’re hosting a special online session for local creatives on 6th May, where you can hear about the commission that’s available - and there will be the opportunity to ask questions too.

We asked our Fundraising Manager Yvonne to help us look back at the past year of the Fundraising Fellowship Scheme and to share what has been happening.

We’re delighted to share a glimpse into Outside In, the beautiful immersive experience created by Gazebo Theatre as part of their journey on the Black Country Digital Firsts programme.

As the first cohort of groups taking part in Making our Mark has now ended, it feels like the right moment to pause, reflect and celebrate the creativity, care and connection that has been unfolding across Walsall.

What makes a city more than bricks and buildings? The people. We Are Wolverhampton is a photographic portrait project capturing the soul of the city, one face and one conversation at a time.

Tucked behind bamboo blinds at The Ruskin Glass Centre in Amblecote, The Limpetarium is a hidden Dudley gem, a contemporary cabinet of curiosities devoted to limpets that quietly reframes these humble sea-snails as poetic symbols of the town’s deep and unexpected connection to the sea.

This April, creativity takes flight at Glebefields Library as families are invited to step into a world of imagination, invention and play.

We’re inviting Walsall-based creatives, community groups and heritage organisations to apply for Walsall Beyond, a new £18,000 digital commission delivered in partnership with The Space as part of Making Our Mark.

Wolverhampton-based artist and illustrator Kanj Nicholas brings her nature-inspired, multidisciplinary practice to children’s publishing with Imagine If We Could Fly, a vibrant debut book that blends delicate watercolour and heartfelt storytelling to encourage young readers, and the adults around them, to create freely and without fear.

Wolverhampton-based multidisciplinary artist Victoria Murrain is embracing a long-delayed creative path, using ceramics and painting to chart a powerful story of reinvention, self-belief and the freedom to begin again at any age.

Odette Campbell is well known for her community-rooted crafting and crochet work, but a recent shift in her practice has seen her embrace a strikingly bold and rhythmic technique from the past, Bargello.

Creative Black Country is inviting proposals for an exciting new commission that will help shape how we understand, measure and share the impact of creativity across Sandwell.