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.
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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…
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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.
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We are looking for local creatives to deliver activities or workshops in a warm and comfortable space for local communities across the Black Country.
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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.
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The second of our blog posts about the Cultural Bridge project comes from photographer Deborah Stone who also travelled to Lorrach in Germany to take part in the programme.
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In the Spring of 2022 Wolverhampton based visual artist and street photographer Komlaish Achall went to Lörrach, Germany to take part in a new research and development programme called The Cultural Bridge.
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Arts Council England has today announced that a total of £38.3 million will be invested in Creative People and Places projects over the next three years - made possible thanks to National Lottery players - to deliver more grassroots-led cultural experiences in areas across England where involvement in arts and culture is below the national average.
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Creative Black Country has been working with communities across the region to share creativity, fun and positivity via its Creative Connection Commissions. From small ideas big, inventive projects grew including poetry group Connect Dudley and Instagram photography project Yam Cams who are both featured in this short film.
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Art Track: Metro Art Programme is a one-year pilot project to create an expanded programme of designs for public art commissions and public engagement activities for the new Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension which is due to open to passengers in 2024.
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Creative Black Country is developing a new initiative to support fundraising for arts and culture in the region for these challenging times.
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CBC will be hosting 4 sessions at this year’s Black Country Business Festival during October to help you make the most of funding opportunities. All the events will be hosted online via Zoom with a panel of experts, creatives and advisors to help inspire and answer your questions.
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In July 2021, CBC ran a temperature test exercise through an online survey to gain insights into how the cultural sector in the Black Country coped with the Covid-19 pandemic over the past year. The information gathered also aimed to identify how the sector is currently responding to the lifting of restrictions…
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The DESIblitz Literature Festival 2021 opens on 18th of September with leading British South Asian and South Asian literary names for a mix of in-person and digital events.
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How many of us would have guessed we’d still be in semi-lockdown so far in to 2021? The last 18 months have been a really strange time for CBC but, like everyone else, we’ve adapted and changed things so that we can continue our work in this new world. Find out some of the things we’ve got coming up in the next 6 months.
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Congratulations to local community hub Gatis Community Space who are busy putting plans together for a summer of wellbeing activities after receiving a grant of £9750 from the Severn Trent Community fund.
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We are delighted to announce that Creative Black Country’s Desi Pubs project is featured in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
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Watch the video from April’s Black Country Funding Network with Rachael Magson and Kevin Rogers.
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The team at Paycare, a Health Cash Plan and Wellbeing Training provider based in the heart of Wolverhampton, has donated £20,000 to Creative Black Country to help us to support 17 projects as part of ‘Creative Connections’ - our strand of work aimed at bringing joy to communities during the pandemic.
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In December, for the Winter Solstice on the 21st, Culture Central asked artists and organisations from across the West Midlands to produce and commission pieces of work that could be shared across social media platforms, lasting no more than 60 seconds each.
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