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 MoreThe Volunteering Futures project got off to a cracking start in early February when a group of 15 new volunteers helped out at Wolverhampton Literature Festival.
Read MoreIn this podcast we talk to collaborating artists Leanne O’Connor & Ewan Johnston.
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 MoreCharlotte Dunn’s community plant swap event hopes to inspire a love of nature and togetherness in Wolverhampton this April.
Read More'It’s Dark Without, It’s Light Within' by Siân Macfarlane is now open: Fridays and Saturdays 12-4pm until the 10th April at Asylum Gallery, 21 Clifton St, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV3 0TZ.
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 MoreEarly September we invited young people to an advocacy event at Newhampton Arts Centre. We were joined by hosts and workshop facilitators Kupid Val Essone and Andre Reid, who lead an evening of creative conversations between young people and friends/stakeholders in the city.
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.
Read MoreYoung people in Wolverhampton are being invited to a music and creative workshop session next Tuesday, 7th September from 5pm at Newhampton Arts Centre to encourage them have a say on the future of their city.
Read MoreBack in the Spring of 2021 Penn Climate Action were commissioned as part of our Creative Connections project to produce a project that looked at plastic waste. The team worked with RAW to help people in the community build a large sculpture made out the collected pieces.
Read MoreCuriosity Productions and Creative Black Country have been working with young people and artists in Wolverhampton to explore what ideas you have for the future of your city. Join our online creative workshop with Andre Reid on Thursday 26th August at 7pm
Read MoreCongratulations to local community hub Gatis Community Space who are busy putting plans together for a summer of wellbeing activities after receiving a grant of £9750 from the Severn Trent Community fund.
Read MoreWe want young people from Wolverhampton to help shape and reimagine the High Street of the future. Can you help design your city through arts, culture and creative ideas?
Read MoreFreelance Opportunity - Programme Coordinator. Offsite 9 - British Art Show local programme, 2021 -2022 - APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED.
Hannah Taylor has been producing the Fragments Archive - a project that looks at the impact shielding has been having on members of the public from the Black Country and how they are responding to it.
Read MoreThe City of Wolverhampton Council, the University of Wolverhampton and Creative Black Country has been accepted onto Actors of Urban Change, a Europe-wide programme which promotes sustainable urban development and will give young people in Wolverhampton a voice in the development of their city.
Read MoreHannah Taylor’s Fragments Archive commission has been underway for several weeks. Her project explores how memory shapes our understanding of information and the disparity between oral histories and digital archives.
Read MoreLearnPlay Foundation launched a hub tasking the local community to design their own fantasy characters.
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