Join CBC’s Dudley Creates team and help us plan projects across the Borough for 2022. There are some exciting things happening across Dudley town’s and we’d love to spread some creativity to communities.

Over 100 Walsall residents aged 5 - 83 have contributed to a new film celebrating Walsall’s Arboretum. Watch the film here…

Offsite 9 is an ambitious program of work launching January 2022 to coincide with British Art Show 9 which is taking place in Wolverhampton. We are sharing more details of some of the work that Creative Black Country is commissioning over the coming months that will explore the themes from British Art Show and showcase how the touring exhibition is inspiring and informing some of the commissioned works.

Write, Create and Perform—for girls and women. Weekly 2-hour workshop sessions over six weeks led by writer-performer Rupinder Kaur. CBC’s Dudley Creates team is inviting girls and women to take part in a series of weekly online creative workshops with Rupinder Kaur starting Tuesday 2nd November from 6.30pm - 8pm.

Creative Black Country (CBC) are offering small commissions of £500 - £2000 for projects that develop creative activity with and by local communities in the Black Country. We are encouraging creative responses which bring fun, joy and creativity to local people in the Black Country in 2022.

Walsall Arboretum bandstand was open to the public last weekend (11-12 September) to host I Remember Walsall Illuminations – an exhibition of photos and videos about the famous Midlands light show which ran for 57 years in the town’s premier park.

Early September we invited young people to an advocacy event at Newhampton Arts Centre. We were joined by hosts and workshop facilitators Kupid Val Essone and Andre Reid, who lead an evening of creative conversations between young people and friends/stakeholders in the city.

We’re delighted to be able to share a few of the commissioned artists for our upcoming Offsite 9 project. Over 25 artists, creatives and organisations will be producing work from January 2022 onwards that will make up a programme of exciting and diverse projects, events and interventions that will pop-up across the city.

CBC will be hosting 4 sessions at this year’s Black Country Business Festival during October to help you make the most of funding opportunities. All the events will be hosted online via Zoom with a panel of experts, creatives and advisors to help inspire and answer your questions.

In July 2021, CBC ran a temperature test exercise through an online survey to gain insights into how the cultural sector in the Black Country coped with the Covid-19 pandemic over the past year. The information gathered also aimed to identify how the sector is currently responding to the lifting of restrictions…

I Remember Walsall Illuminations: An exhibition of photos and video at Walsall Arboretum Bandstand, 11-12 September.

Imaginative sculptural birdhouses tell stories of migration to Birmingham and the Black Country.

Young people in Wolverhampton are being invited to a music and creative workshop session next Tuesday, 7th September from 5pm at Newhampton Arts Centre to encourage them have a say on the future of their city.

Last week we popped along to the first Meet + Make event in Greenfield Gardens, Stourbridge for a new project organised by Ruth Turnbull which has been commissioned by the Dudley Creates team on behalf of CBC.

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.