The sun shone for our second Workplace Wellbeing Workshop with lovely staff from Paycare.

GUEST BLOG POST - from Kulturvilla Nellie our ‘Cultural Bridge’ partner organisation. Thank you to Stephanie Staib, project lead Kulturvilla Nellie for sharing this post following a visit to the Black Country in June.

Since 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.  

The second of our blog posts about the Cultural Bridge project comes from photographer Deborah Stone who also travelled to Lorrach in Germany to take part in the programme.

In the Spring of 2022 Wolverhampton based visual artist and street photographer Komlaish Achall went to Lörrach, Germany to take part in a new research and development programme called The Cultural Bridge.

2 Meters Ap-Art Community Portraits Art Exhibition - An Outdoor Public Art Show by Ade Wressell. Monday 3rd May - Friday 18th June @ Walsall Creative Factory. The Exhibition is a collection of black and white portraiture photographs that tell the story of the Butts diverse community, celebrating identity and togetherness, whilst being kept apart during Covid-19.

Yam Cams is a new photography project, that launched this month, which aims to inspire people to photograph everyday life in the four Black Country boroughs: Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Caitriona Dunnett is an Irish artist based in the West Midlands. She investigates memory and its subjective, personal and forgotten narratives through nineteenth century photographic techniques. CBC Sun prints will engage 20 families from the Black Country in one of the earliest forms of photography.

Saturday 25th May saw the launch of the Black Country leg of Girl Gaze at the British Muslim School in West Bromwich as part of the new BLAST! Photo Festival by Multistory.

One strand of CBC’s activity consists of giving funding to local creatives to support activities that build audiences, and promote creative and artistic excellence across the Black Country.

Multistory are hosting a number of events over the next few weeks to celebrate collaborations, book launches and their new festival BLAST!