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.

MotherShip is an arts organisation that connects communities through culture and creativity. Championing women, particularly mothers and those who are newly arrived.

Billy is a Deaf performing artist who specialises in Hip Hop theatre and street dance. With Ariel Fung, a deaf dancer from Hong Kong, Billy will be creating a series of street dance tutorial videos on YouTube in BSL, for Deaf kids to enjoy, and gain inspiration from, and learn new skills, during lockdown.

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.

Walsall Creative Factory develops projects in Community and School settings in Walsall by fostering partnership and working with a variety of groups, neighbourhoods and organisations. The team provide life enriching experiences through the delivery of creative activities and events to support community cohesion.

100 Years Ago and 10 Yards Away is a new project led by Jack and Harry Trow. It will be a short film chronicling West Bromwich Albion’s League championship-winning season of 1919/20. Made with and for the people of the Black Country, as well as people further afield for whom the Black Country and/or football is close to their heart.

Andre Reid is a designer, Maker and Researcher who is actively working towards reimagining Walsall as a town of full of creative practice and home of innovation. The Abundance in Walsall project aims to profile the wealth of arts and cultural activities available in Walsall town, through the creation of an online interactive, arts map & directory.

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…

Stay up your own end’ was an online platform for creating and sharing new pieces of creative writing about different areas of the Black Country, with the chance to be a paid feature act in an online showcase event.

Corridor of Colour invites residents to design artwork, text or shoutouts that Luke will turn into creative fabric bunting over nearly 750m of street and High Street for the benefit of all, commuters, leisure walkers and locals.

For their Creative Connection commission Fizzog Community Trust worked with 5 groups within the Black Country to create a 5 updated and hilarious versions of well-known fairytales.

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're trying to find out what makes Black Country humour so unique so have asked poet Dave Pitt of Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists to find out on our behalf.

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.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, those who are identified at risk of severe illness were sent an official government NHS letter which states that the safest course of action is; ‘To stay at home at all times and avoid all face-face contact for at least twelve weeks from today.’ Fragments is an artistic response to this letter.

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

Where IS the Black Country? It's an important question and one that you can ask a million people, and if you do, you will get a million different answers. BUT non of them will be Birmingham!

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.