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.

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.

Milcote Assembled is a project focusing on making connections on one road in Bearwood. This road is Milcote Road. The project aims to get people to connect with one another through a series of small ‘operations’ over the course of a few weeks. This will be done through anonymous communications.

LearnPlay Foundation launched a hub tasking the local community to design their own fantasy characters.

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.

Finn is a Deafblind visual artist currently working on mixing digital art with Haptic technology to create the sensation of touch to augment 3D animation.

We have set about trying to find out what is so unique about Black Country humour. From the comedians, the style, to the location - but one thing that can't be ignored is the accent!

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.

So we've found out where the Black Country actually is. We know who the key comedians are, but what is it that makes them so funny?

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.

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.