Back in the Spring of 2021 Penn Climate Action were commissioned as part of our Creative Connections project to produce a project that looked at plastic waste. The team worked with RAW to help people in the community build a large sculpture made out the collected pieces.

The DESIblitz Literature Festival 2021 opens on 18th of September with leading British South Asian and South Asian literary names for a mix of in-person and digital events.

INVITATION to the Youth Lab Wolves advocacy event - re-imagining Wolverhampton with Kupid Val-Essoné.

Curiosity Productions and Creative Black Country have been working with young people and artists in Wolverhampton to explore what ideas you have for the future of your city. Join our online creative workshop with Andre Reid on Thursday 26th August at 7pm

A series of quick-fire sharing events to help inspire creativity across the Black Country. 20x20, is a series of online events in which two creatives spend 20 seconds each presenting their work and experiences with the help of 20 slides.

Inspiring young people to work in the creative industries with ‘Creative Confidence Sessions’ Stourbridge Jobcentre was selected to become part of CBC’s Creative Communities programme in 2020 as part of the organisation’s new programme in Dudley.

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.