This month we have relaunched our Creative Communities strand of support where communities are invited to try out something new; for example craft skills, setting up a choir, or starting a garden gallery with your neighbours. You can also use the support to ‘go and see’ something like a theatre show or visit a museum or gallery.

Filming begins on the BSL videos for the Stourbridge Glass Museum website

Can you help us tell our story? The Creative Black Country team are looking for talented creative documenters (this includes, photographers, filmmakers, animators and illustrators, designers) to help tell our story in 2024 and 2025. 

Creative Black Country’s Fundraising Fellowship Scheme cohort, a vibrant assembly of artists and arts organisations based across Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Sandwell boroughs.

We're giving you a WHOLE 365 days to get your party outfit ready as Creative Black Country celebrates 10 years of co-creating with communities, artists and creatives across the Black Country!

In the realm of creative collaboration, the fusion of art and activism often leads to compelling narratives that resonate deeply with our shared human experience. The participation in the Cultural Bridge Programme embarked on a transformative journey that saw our emerging Black Country artists initially working in solitude.

Theatre-makers, musicians, artists, writers, visual artists and community organisations from Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley are invited to apply to the Black Country Digital Firsts programme.  

Creative Black Country’s Funding Network invite you to a special online webinar for funding advice with the National Lottery Heritage Fund: Applying for grants from £10,000 to £250,000 under its new 10-year strategy ‘Heritage 2033’.

2023 has been jam-packed full of projects here at CBC and we’ve really enjoyed meeting new creatives and communities, alongside supporting people to make projects happen in the places they live with the people that matter to them. As we begin to lean into 2024 we asked the team to share their best bits, favourite memories and key highlights of the year…

Some of the fantastic work completed as part of the Culture Volunteers WM project, working with the National Trust and the Refugee and Migrant Centre in Wolverhampton.

Thank you to everyone that came along to our Winter Warmer last week. We were thrilled to see you all getting creative with our workshops and enjoying meeting with new friends and old.

A morning of work in the grounds at Moseley kept our second group of volunteers busy.

Dudley Creates started as a Creative Black Country commissioned cultural programme designed to make possible a diverse and locally relevant programme of high-quality creative participation opportunities for local communities across Dudley Borough.

On a regular Monday morning in Dudley, just after the COVID restrictions had begun to lift, creative artist Gavin Rogers led a small group of women, POC and members of the LGBTQIA+ community into Netherton Tunnel.

This inclusive and inventive poetry and animation project consisted of a series of online writing workshops with poet and playwright Nafeesa Hamid and further online animation workshops with Sarah to bring the poems to life in an animated film

What do a freelance photographer and filmmaker, the front-of-house manager at a theatre, a touring company general manager, an art gallery visitor assistant supervisor, and a museum outreach manager all have in common? 

What do get when you bring together the Dudley Peoples Archive, the wonderful Growing Up In Dudley project, a stack of linen squares, an ambitious, creative community facilitator and a welcoming space at CoLab Dudley?

Visiting Moseley Old Hall, an historic place of refuge.

Meet our Culture Volunteers who visited Germany last week on an exchange programme that involved seeing art, sharing ideas, and making new connections.