MORE TO EXPLORE - new commissions available

LAUNCHED THIS WEEK: More to Explore micro-commissions exploring and delivering creative ideas in the Black Country. 

More to Explore supports people in designing and delivering opportunities with communities to experience great creative and cultural experiences in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 

You can apply for up to £2,000, to help you to test out a new creative idea with and in your local community, or you can deliver a complete project.  

We are not prescriptive about how this is done, what is important to us is that local people are involved in the design and delivery of the project, and that it reaches people who may not normally have this kind of creative opportunity. 

We believe there is more to explore in the Black Country and would like to invite creative ideas to explore the following themes within the micro commission. 

• Home (family, places, neighbourhoods, identity, tradition, celebration, trends) 

• Environment & Nature (Green spaces, climate action, activism, wellbeing, growing) 

• Hidden Black Country (unseen and unheard stories and places, reimagine fact or fiction, share secrets) 

The themes are broad and open to interpretation, your ideas could be a digital or analogue solution (e.g. in person, print) or a combination of both. The activity must be new and must not have been previously delivered as a pilot/taster session. 

Priority will be given to groups who haven't received any financial award / support in the last year and groups in these areas: 

• Dudley: Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Halesowen, Stourbridge & Sedgley. 

• Sandwell: Rowley Regis, Tipton, Oldbury & Wednesbury. 

• Walsall: Willenhall, Bloxwich, Darlaston & Brownhills. 

• Wolverhampton: Bushbury, Heath Town / Blakenhall, Ettinghsall & Spring Vale. 

FIND OUT MORE AT THE MORE TO EXPLORE PAGE HERE.