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Creative Communities PODCAST: In Sandwell with Stourbridge-based artist Ruth Turnball and Robert Bruce, CEO of the Dorothy Parkes Centre in Smethwick.
Creative Communities special series - PART 04: SANDWELL
Head down to the Mela Arts Village to catch Autin Dance’s The Giant Wheel, an exciting high-energy performance, and walk about stilt acts and puppetry with Jack in the Box.
You are invited to the launch of OUR COMMONWEALTH - a photography and film project celebrating some of the extraordinary people of Sandwell.
Imaginative sculptural birdhouses tell stories of migration to Birmingham and the Black Country.
U Island CIC and West Midlands based arts organisation Juneau Projects, have been working with families and individuals originally from Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and the UK to create imaginative sculptural birdhouses that tell their stories of migration to the Black Country and their sense of home.
During lockdown many of us have suffered from not seeing our families so Barbara and Marta came up with the Love Letters to Family + Friends project that would use creative postcards and collaging to connect with a message of love to those we miss the most.
Lucky residents in Smethwick have been invited to take part in a new F WORDS project by Barbara Gibson and Marta Kochanek. Love Letters offers seniors, the separated and isolated families the opportunity to create their own postcards using materials, including the images above and below, from a pack of materials to send a note to their loved ones.
During 2020 CBC’s Creative Advisor for Sandwell, Richard, worked with Bally from the Sandwell Asian Mental Health Group to put together a calendar of positivity. With a tough year getting used to lockdowns and social distancing the members of the group worked in new ways online and via the phone to design and produce these positive messages to take us through the year ahead.