We’d like to invite you to an evening of creative project planning for Dudley in 2022 where we are bringing together creatives, organisations and people who are interested in creating a culture programme across the borough next year - and we’d love your input.

Dudley Creates presents 'Portrait of a Place' poetry workshop with Nafeesa Hamid (on 7th December + 11th January) + animation workshops in January.

Art Track: Metro Art Programme is a one-year pilot project to create an expanded programme of designs for public art commissions and public engagement activities for the new Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension which is due to open to passengers in 2024.

Join CBC’s Dudley Creates team and help us plan projects across the Borough for 2022. There are some exciting things happening across Dudley town’s and we’d love to spread some creativity to communities.

Write, Create and Perform—for girls and women. Weekly 2-hour workshop sessions over six weeks led by writer-performer Rupinder Kaur. CBC’s Dudley Creates team is inviting girls and women to take part in a series of weekly online creative workshops with Rupinder Kaur starting Tuesday 2nd November from 6.30pm - 8pm.

Last week we popped along to the first Meet + Make event in Greenfield Gardens, Stourbridge for a new project organised by Ruth Turnbull which has been commissioned by the Dudley Creates team on behalf of CBC.

Meet & Make invites you to get crafty in Greenfield Gardens, Stourbridge and help create a piece of textile art.

Last weekend Dudley Creates supported the Dudley Time Rebels and their activities at this year’s Do Fest.

Dudley’s Time Rebels are mostly local people; doers and creatives of all kinds, from students to grandparents. Alongside CoLab Dudley they have taken up the challenge to nurture imagination and long-term thinking in Dudley.

Do Fest Dudley is a 3-day open festival curated by CoLab Dudley inviting the people of the town to get involved in some hands on doing and making.

Dudley Creates is looking to commission creatives to work with communities across the Borough of Dudley in the town centres of Lye, Stourbridge, Coseley, Sedgley and Halesowen.

We’ve tentatively started to support a lovely range of projects in Dudley this year. The CBC team and associate producers, Kerry + Laura, have thought a lot about how to approach community-based work that is safe, socially distanced and that adheres to government guidelines.

The Positive Postcard Project has been bringing optimism and creativity to residents in Stourbridge and the surrounding areas of the Black Country. Supported by Creative Black Country this project is run by Artist Ruth Turnbull working with Holly Grove Art Club to create and send postcards with a positive message.

Luke Perry’s Corridor of Colour was a beautiful outdoor gallery of bunting made by Luke, with the help of his neighbours, that lined his street and the High Street in Wollaston.

We’ve collated all of the 20x20 Dudley videos of our 6 speakers who joined us during August. Take a look below and get inspired by their very different stories, practices and creative knowledge.

Join CBC Monday's at 4pm via ZOOM or Facebook to hear fast-paced inspirational presentations from creative practitioners and speakers who will share their work using 20 images with just 20 seconds to talk through each one.

Young Sketch Bookers is a new project that will be taking place July to September 2020. The team’s aim is to supply art materials to children during and after the Covid-19 lockdown. And they are looking for artists to offer inspiration to those receiving the packs.

Black Country Arts Council’s project aimed to bridge the gap between creative projects and community-focused outreach by offering free art packs that were distributed with the help of CBC’s Arts Advisors to groups and communities around the Black Country to help support children to overcome barriers to learning.

Sarah brings the joy of group drumming and sound relaxation to people across the UK. Playing drums is uplifting, stimulating for mind and body, and a wonderful way to connect with others.

Saz’s Ceramics & Crafts is a successful studio in the heart of the Black Country. Since the lockdown began, the studio has been closed so they have developed Rainbow kits, suitable for adults and children and delivered to particpant’s doors.

Connect Dudley is an online writing workshop for connecting people during lockdown. Designed by Rick Sanders, a poet and artist living in Lye, the workshop aims to bring people together through writing, asking them to reflect on what lockdown means to them and those around them during extraordinary times…