Events

EVENTS

Talk with Photographer Tom Hicks

2nd February
6:00 pm - 7:00 am

Multistory have invited Tom Hicks aka Black Country Type to deliver a talk on Zoom on 2 February, 6 to 7pm. He will be speaking about his approach to photography, the landscape of the Black Country and the ideas behind his work. Tom Hicks is an artist, writer and curator from Kingswinford and his Black Country Type […] READ MORE

Feminist Survival Guide: Reading Group

10th February
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.

We invite you to join us at an online reading session of By Us, For You: A Personal Safety Guide, made in collaboration with artist Ali Baskerville, community arts organisation Multistory and women*, girls and non-binary people in Sandwell. The guide responds to an urgent need for personal safety initiatives that focus on empowering those […] READ MORE

PAST EVENTS

Dreaming the Black Country: A Psychogeographical Writing Workshop

21st July 2021
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.

How does a certain place make us feel? How can we explore it in a different way than we normally would?  Psychogeography is a growing practice that since the 1950s has sought to reimagine the city, and to playfully explore it in alternative ways. One of the traditional techniques employed by psychogeography – dérive – or drift – is […] READ MORE

Seeing in Isolation: audio description in photography and art.

8th July 2021
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.

Audio Description – a way that people who can’t see are offered a description of the visual elements they are missing. But who determines what is important to be described and what is not? Is this once-removed viewing experience, that is controlled by someone else, a satisfactory one? Mandy Redvers-Rowe Using Seeing in Isolation as a springboard for […] READ MORE

In Conversation with International Blind and Visually Impaired Photographers

30th June 2021
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Zoom

Do you need to have sight to take photographs? This question will be explored at this event that brings together blind and visually impaired international photographers: Bruce Hall, Karren Visser, Mickel Smithen, Pete Eckert and Sonia Soberats to present their work and be in conversation with curator Douglas McCulloh of exhibition ‘Sight Unseen: International Photography […] READ MORE