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

U Island CIC and West Midlands based arts organisation Juneau Projects, have been working with families and individuals originally from Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and the UK to create imaginative sculptural birdhouses that tell their stories of migration to the Black Country and their sense of home.

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.

Commissioned by Creative Black Country as part of our Creative Connections commissions, Yam Cams encouraged ordinary people across the region to take a closer look at their local environment and view it with a fresh eye. The results of the project are now recorded in a new book called ‘Yam Cams: Picturing the Black Country’.

CBC is working with Curiosity Productions on our Youth Labs project over the next few months and they are commissioning artists (open to all art forms) to collaborate with communities to help consult the young people of Wolverhampton regarding their visions for the city.

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.

How many of us would have guessed we’d still be in semi-lockdown so far in to 2021? The last 18 months have been a really strange time for CBC but, like everyone else, we’ve adapted and changed things so that we can continue our work in this new world. Find out some of the things we’ve got coming up in the next 6 months.

Our friends and partner at SPARKS, Deaf Explorer will be hosting a thought-provoking discussion for CEDIA about equality where they will profile the stories of four deaf artists.

During lockdown many of us have suffered from not seeing our families so Barbara and Marta came up with the Love Letters to Family + Friends project that would use creative postcards and collaging to connect with a message of love to those we miss the most.

Congratulations to local community hub Gatis Community Space who are busy putting plans together for a summer of wellbeing activities after receiving a grant of £9750 from the Severn Trent Community fund.

Asylum Artist Quarter is offering 9 commissions for sound works in the form of music, soundscapes, spoken word, speeches to respond to 9 chosen sites in Wolverhampton City Centre that were once used as spaces.

A Summer of SPARKS workshops awaits giving you the opportunity to learn more about performance, storytelling and poetry with creatives Ishtiaq Hussain, Kuli Kohli and Jasmine Gardosi.

Bostin News edition 01 is available to read in full online and to download.

Offsite 9 Commissions Open Call Brief & Guidelines - 4 Commissions up £4,000. Offsite 9 commissions will support activities that increase opportunities for people to experience great creative and cultural experiences in Wolverhampton.

We want young people from Wolverhampton to help shape and reimagine the High Street of the future. Can you help design your city through arts, culture and creative ideas?

We are delighted to announce that Creative Black Country’s Desi Pubs project is featured in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

For May Half Term Loff Out Loud! is coming to the Black Country Living Museum where you are invited to clown around with the historic characters as you discover how Black Country folk stayed playful in the past and Funny Roots is getting involved.

Join Dudley Creates during the end of May for a week of creative workshops led by photographers, poets, artists, illustrators, filmmakers and practitioners.