Free online Minecraft and Music production courses for young people in Sandwell.
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We know 2020 has been a tough and challenging year but it has also been a time of intense creativity for many. CBC’s Marketing & Content Manager, Kerry, asked the team to share their favourite projects that they worked on during the pandemic and here is what they said…
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With support from Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy CBC has been able to set up and explore possibilities for a free funding network for arts and culture across the Black Country. In these challenging times the network can connect those fundraising across the region and provide support.
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Cinema For All’s regional support scheme On the Ground is back – connecting emerging and existing community cinema exhibitors from across the West Midlands to their share skills, knowledge and expertise!
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This month Birmingham-based theatre maker Graeme Rose will be releasing a seven-part series of true-crime podcasts that investigate the story of his Great Uncle’s unsolved murder in Quinton.
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If you are working on a project grant application, or are about start one, for a creative project based in the Black Country and would like some advice then we are offering 20 minute sessions on the 23rd and 30th October.
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£200,000 has been awarded to Creative Black Country to create a new, inclusive art and culture project linked to the Commonwealth Games, following a collaboration between Olympic legacy funder Spirit of 2012 and Birmingham 2022.
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We will be taking part in this year’s Black Country Business Festival and organising three very different events.
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We’ve collated all of the 20x20 Dudley videos of our 6 speakers who joined us during August. Take a look below and get inspired by their very different stories, practices and creative knowledge.
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In 2017 the Chamber set up the Black Country Business Festival, a showcase of the range of businesses that proudly make up the Black Country. The now, annual event promotes the area’s investment potential and enables the local business community to collaborate and share best practice.
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It’s strange to think back to the start of the year when our main concerns were which venues could we host community engagement events and when best to schedule them for maximum take-up (remember those days before the words ’social distancing’ became part of our everyday vocabulary).
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Join CBC Monday's at 4pm via ZOOM or Facebook to hear fast-paced inspirational presentations from creative practitioners and speakers who will share their work using 20 images with just 20 seconds to talk through each one.
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Creative Black Country and partners are developing a project that gives local people an opportunity to tell their story and be part of the Birmingham 2022 Cultural Festival linked to the Commonwealth Games. Would you like to get involved?
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In September 2020 DESIblitz will host its first online Digital Literary Festival for creative writers from the British Asian community.
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Newhampton Arts Centre has joined forces with other West Midlands companies who are coming together to celebrate the region’s art and culture with a Midsummer Festival.
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Black Country Touring have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.
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Creative Black Country is delighted to announce that we’ll be continuing our work in the Black Country until 2023 thanks to funding received from Arts Council England under the Creative People and Places Programme.
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Creative Black Country have supported 20 new projects that respond to creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over £30,000 of commissions has been handed to projects across the Black Country to help communities stay creative, learn new skills, and keep connected.
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Dudley Adult and Community Learning are offering a range of free online courses that are run through their moodle platform.
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Cross-sector partnership between Wolverhampton City Council, The University of Wolverhampton and Creative Black Country receives €13,000 funding for new Youth Lab project.
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