Small Acts of Resistance: BCU Live Brief 2023
‘Small Acts of Resistance’ was a live brief produced by Multistory for BCU students to respond to.
Doomsday- A Wednesbury Reckoning
A participatory project weaving the stories of Wednesbury residents into a new installation at Market Place.
MARKET
A participatory project weaving the stories of Wednesbury residents into a new installation at Market Place.
Change Is Coming
Digital Postcards features visual artworks and written responses created by Wednesbury’s residents, depicting thoughts and ideas for a ‘Past, Present and Future High Street’.
Digital Postcards
Digital Postcards features visual artworks and written responses created by Wednesbury’s residents, depicting thoughts and ideas for a ‘Past, Present and Future High Street’.
People, Place & Sport
People, Place and Sport is a celebration of local communities and grassroots sport in the West Midlands.
Women, Work & Wednesbury
Women, Work & Wednesbury is a publication made by artist Sophie Huckfield that contains research and interviews with local women about their role in Wednesbury’s industrial past and present.
Seeing in Isolation
Seeing in Isolation is a digital exhibition from that shares digital stories made with, and told by, visually impaired Sandwell residents.
Wednesbury Tales
A series of guided community walks around Wednesbury where poets and performers brought to life the facts and fables, truth and tall stories to be found in the history of the High Street.
Black Country Allotment Society
Focused on the everyday, Black Country Allotment Society traces the seasonal changes, the relationship between allotment people, plants, bees and animals and the cycle of allotment activities, from sowing to reaping.
Street Full of Dialect
A Street Full of Dialect celebrates the mane languages and dialects that make up Wednesbury, as well as some of the wonderful and diverse flavours of food to be found in the town.
Pop-up Poetry
Pop-up Poetry Pop Up Poetry, produced by Black Country Touring, shone a spotlight on the independent businesses that are a vital part of the town centre. It highlighted the stories..
Blast! Festival
Blast! Festival invited 40 international and local artists, photographers and curators to showcase work, develop projects and collaborate with communities to present stories about every day life.
By Us, For You
By Us, For You is a feminist survival guide created by women*, girls and non-binary people from Sandwell.
The Allotments
Photographer Denise Maxwell documented local people in their Wednesbury allotments during lockdown; the photographs below were taken at Woden Road, Friar Park Road and Barlow Road Allotments.