Auto-theory writing workshop: Maria Fusco

We’re excited to welcome Maria Fusco to the BCN programme, who will lead a writing workshop focussing on art writing and critical auto-theory / fiction for the seven artists selected..

‘Ofrendas To Our Ancestors’ workshop with ITZATNA Arts

Join ITZATNA Arts in their free, interactive workshop to create your own ‘Ofrenda To Our Ancestors’ at Bearwood Yoga. (28A Abbey Road Bearwood B67 5RD) ITZATNA ARTS  are an emerging artist..

Gathering Press at Dartmouth Park Pavilion

The surroundings of Dartmouth Park will set the scene for two printmaking workshops with Gathering Press, a roving screen-printing unit initiated by artist Laura Onions. Gathering Press is an ongoing..

Subterranean Lines: Ceramics Workshop & Walk

A guided walk around Dudley’s weird and wonderful Wren’s Nest Nature Reserve. Throughout the day we’ll explore the site’s many-layered histories and geological formations, and this will inform a ceramics..

Poetry Mapping Workshop

Join us for a relaxed and social Poetry Mapping workshop, led by artist and writer Lee Mackenzie, who has recently been commissioned as part of Multistory’s Green Roots programme. The..

Fundraising Workshop: Developing Your Creative Practice

A fundraising workshop designed to help you with applying to the Arts Council England’s Developing your Creative Practice fund, which opens on 12 December 2022. Producer Jenny Moore will walk..

Workshop: Land, Literacy, Languages

This collaborative creative workshop, led by artist Rachel Pimm, is a continuation of the BCN’s Multispecies Placemaking programme strand, and aims to create an embodied space for reflection on environmental conditions and the climate crisis through words and senses.

Artist Talk: Jaskirt Boora

An in-conversation and Q&A session with artist Jaskirt Boora that explores issues of representation, with a particular focus on ethnicity and gender within sports and the photography landscape, as well as her..

Reading Group: Braiding Sweetgrass

An interdisciplinary reading group for people interested in exploring creative approaches to tackling climate change. Join us in reading from and discussing Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the..

Winter Artist Social

Join us for first in-person meet-up of the Blast Creative Network since 2019, at Lodge Road Community Centre on 2 December! Arrive at 6pm to get settled in, grab a..

Dreaming the Black Country: A Psychogeographical Writing Workshop

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..

Artist Talk: Roo Dhissou

During this talk Roo Dhissou will share her experience and journey, advising on how to begin and maintain a career as an artist alongside your day job or studies, including..

Artist Talk: The Other Collective

The Other is a photography collective working to raise awareness, using an intersectional approach, to class discrimination within photography in the UK. Cofounders Joanne Coates, Kelly O’Brien and Kirsty Mackay..