It’s strange to think back to the start of the year when our main concerns were which venues could we host community engagement events and when best to schedule them for maximum take-up (remember those days before the words ’social distancing’ became part of our everyday vocabulary).

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.

Creative Black Country and partners are developing a project that gives local people an opportunity to tell their story and be part of the Birmingham 2022 Cultural Festival linked to the Commonwealth Games. Would you like to get involved?

In September 2020 DESIblitz will host its first online Digital Literary Festival for creative writers from the British Asian community.

Newhampton Arts Centre has joined forces with other West Midlands companies who are coming together to celebrate the region’s art and culture with a Midsummer Festival.

Black Country Touring have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

Creative Black Country is delighted to announce that we’ll be continuing our work in the Black Country until 2023 thanks to funding received from Arts Council England under the Creative People and Places Programme.

Creative Black Country have supported 20 new projects that respond to creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over £30,000 of commissions has been handed to projects across the Black Country to help communities stay creative, learn new skills, and keep connected.

Cross-sector partnership between Wolverhampton City Council, The University of Wolverhampton and Creative Black Country receives €13,000 funding for new Youth Lab project.

We need your ideas to help reimagine our high streets for the future. If you are aged under 25 years and live in Wolverhampton then please complete this short survey.

DASH are seeking artists who identify as disabled - including neurodiverse artists for their online course: Art Influencers.

As part of Creative Black Country’s ongoing ‘creative documentation,’ we are looking for four editors to help us spread some Bostin’ News during these extraordinary times.

If you are thinking of, or planning to put together an application to the Arts Council’s new COVID-19 emergency funding and would like some advice then we’re happy to discuss your ideas and help you with your application.

The team The Space Arts have put together some helpful webinars for the next few weeks on how to get your work online.

For many people, one of the challenges of working from home during this pandemic has been learning how to use a wide array of different technologies to complete certain tasks and stay connected with people. Here’s some tips from our Dudley Project Administrator, Gavin…

Join Creative Black Country on MONDAY 6th April at 4pm via ZOOM to chat, ask questions and find our more about submitting your idea to our Creative Communities Commissions.

Several months ago Asylum embarked on their residency programme inviting five West Midlands-based artists to produce a solo show in response to community engagement and research of ‘Heterotopia’s’.

CoLab Dudley invite you to join them for the 3rd in their Creative Conversations on the Virtual High Street on Tuesday 7th April at 12.30pm. They have invited photographer Laura Dicken and CBC Creative Advisor to talk through her recent project in collaboration with CoLab Dudley.

Next up for Boredom Busters is Creative Producer Liam Smyth who has taken inspiration from some of our 100 Masters alongside a few other Black Country legends…