You are invited to the launch of OUR COMMONWEALTH - a photography and film project celebrating some of the extraordinary people of Sandwell.

On Saturday 9 July, Dudley High Street will burst to life with opportunities for unusual encounters and dipping into some hands on doing and making. They are all part of the Radio Public Festival, a free, one day celebration and exploration featuring sound, installations, walks, talks, performances, workshops and transmissions. You are warmly invited.

In this podcast we learn about artist Daniella Turbin’s practice. Does walking somewhere change your relationship to that space?

Black Country residents are being invited to get involved in a Summer of Creativity with new projects that are being supported as part of multiple collaborations between Creative Black Country, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council and CoLab Dudley alongside creative organisations and artists from across the region.

In this podcast Sue Brisco & Kanj Nicholas discuss expressions of kindness. Why kindness is important in society right now. And how it’s informed their respective Offsite9 projects.

A film produced by Jack Smallwood portrays the emotions expressed by D/deaf people via a new short BSL poem. The poem tackles the concept of dual identity with D/deafness in relation to selfhood and features people who are deaf/hard of hearing and are born, raised and live in Wolverhampton.

Photo Gallery: Imagine Wolves was a collaboration between artists Leanne O’Connor and Ewan Johnston born out of discussions and research in to re-imagined futures and ways of togetherness for Wolverhampton and its people.

Photo Gallery: To round off the Offsite9 activities musician and composer Ni Singh invited people to join him for an evening of immersive sounds, visuals and performance at Newhampton Arts Centre.

Audiences were invited to follow Rudie, Maria, Jeevan and Scott as they aimed to make their own journeys to Wolverhampton, all in different eras, experiencing Windrush, Brexit and the "really hostile environment" in the new performance called Wander.

Photo Gallery: A Euphoric Happening aimed to capture euphoric moments through dance, music and visual media embracing themes of healing and togetherness in a double bill event of Euphoria and Visions at Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton City Centre.

Photo gallery and Video: Sahjan Kooner’s work for Offsite9 explored the relationships between migration, technology and lineage through a new video installation titled Frozen Archive for MOON/ish.exe.

Artist Sukhjeven Chumber displayed a series of photographs at Light House which were taken at a Black Lives Matter protest at West Park, Wolverhampton during the first Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020.

Photo gallery and video - Kathleen Fabre’s Alignment project for Offsite9 has been wonderfully received - despite some of the pieces being destroyed by vandals!

Photo and Video for Communion by Thomas Jack Brown. Hosted within the chapel of St. Peter’s Church in the city centre, Communion contains archival footage and images of some of Wolverhampton’s citizens collapsed together to show the city’s history in a non-linear way.

It was a beautiful turnout for the Plant Fete earlier this month. Charlotte Dunn’s project for #Offsite9 included a community plant swap where she hoped to inspire a love of nature and togetherness in Wolverhampton.

Tegen Kimbley was part of a group project curated by Hannah Taylor which saw 4 photographers take very different approaches to exploring how we navigate the reparative histories of our region when we document culture.

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.

Artists David Rowan and Joseph Potts will be starting a ‘Dudley Creates’ residency at the Cornbow Centre in Halesowen in April and are looking for an Assistant Artist to help with the project.

Charlotte Dunn’s community plant swap event hopes to inspire a love of nature and togetherness in Wolverhampton this April.