Getting crafty at Wolverhampton Art Festival 2023 in Victoria Street in the city centre.

The Fundraising Fellowship Scheme is back for 2023 and we are very happy to announce that we have a new cohort of six community organisations and projects to support over the next year.

After weeks and weeks of preparation the Welcome to Spring Lantern Parade was finally here and lit up Whitmore Reans in style.

Our great team of volunteers have been pulling out all the stops again, helping out at Gatis Community Space in preparation for the Welcome Spring Lantern Parade on Saturday 25th of March.

Today is International Women’s Day and CBC are thrilled to work with lots of inspirational, talented and dedicated women everyday.

The Volunteering Futures project got off to a cracking start in early February when a group of 15 new volunteers helped out at Wolverhampton Literature Festival.

A short review on the processes used to evaluate and monitor work creative work.

We are delighted to be able to support and commission 10 Cosy Community projects for the end of 2022 and during 2023.

Year 7 Summary - April 2021 to March 2022. With the ongoing challenges of COVD-19 and its after-effects the approach to our work has continued to reflect and react to what our network of artists, creatives, organisations and communities tell us.

Responding to new challenges and supporting sector resilience. The CBC team continued to respond to new challenges, with the impact of COVID-19 on communities and creatives being a key area to address.

Creating new opportunities: Local programming in response to a major national touring show + International showcase for Desi Pubs.

CBC has been on a self-development journey building actions over the years to create work which is accessible. This has been achieved through a number of ways…

It has been an exciting year at Creative Black Country. As we respond to both opportunities and challenges the freelance team, and programme, has grown, we’ve supported a bumper year of co-created community projects and made lots of new partnerships.

In this podcast we talk to the multitalented artist and cultural misfit Ni Singh using ‘eclecticism’ as a starting point.

We are looking for local creatives to deliver activities or workshops in a warm and comfortable space for local communities across the Black Country.

Creative Black Country (CBC) is offering micro commissions of up to £2000 for projects to deliver creative activities in a warm and comfortable space for local communities in the Black Country.

At Creative Black Country, alongside our friends at CoLab Dudley, we have been working with colleagues across the creative and cultural sectors; members of the local creative and artistic community and locally-based practitioners, as well as the local authority to develop a new Cultural Strategy for the borough that will help more people take part in creative activity.

On Wednesday 12th October we held our first funding network event in person. Kindly hosted by Black Country Living Museum in their fabulous new Visitors Centre, it was lovely to welcome around 40 people, representing creative groups and organisations from across the region.

Poet Lee Mackenzie and Filmmaker Lauren Hatchard facilitated a workshop at St Peter's Church in Netherton in August 2022, the aim of the workshop was to capture memories of the green spaces and waterways in the area and put a 'pin in the map' of the location they associate with.

In this podcast we learn about togetherness, in discussion with Santosh Kumari, Parveen Bhrigu and Kully Kohli, from the Punjabi Women’s Writing Group from Wolverhampton.