Dudley Creates Chronicles
This is the beginning of a live chronicle of our 100 year cultural strategy in action. We have many contributors, they are all local people catalysing and supporting cultural action across Dudley Borough. These chronicles offer glimpses into events and activities through photography, videos, some writing and art.
For a deeper dive into our learning, research and reflections, visit the Dudley Creates section of CoLab Dudley’s Lab Notes publication.
Urban Rooms Dudley micro commissions
Urban Rooms are spaces where people can go to understand, debate and get involved in the past, present and future of where they live, work and play.
Might Urban Rooms in Dudley support local people to shape possible futures?
Urban Rooms are spaces where people can go to understand, debate and get involved in the past, present and future of where they live, work and play.
Photo Journal: Rehearsing the Futures We Want
This was an invitation from Dudley's Time Rebels to taste, touch, glimpse, imagine and ultimately practice together the futures we want for culture in and across our communities in Dudley borough over the next 100 years.
Time to Make - a diary of events
‘Time to Make’ is a team of Dudley ‘Time Rebels’ (Rachel, Dan, Rick and Becky) who hold a shared belief that making space and time for people to be creative and connect positively impacts individuals and can build on the cultural ecology of Dudley Borough.
Two Days in Autumn
3 artists came together in early November to host a weekend of workshops with attendees using foraged items to make beautiful autumnal colour dyes and botanical inks which were then use to experiment with.
Field Works: You have to go away to come back
In Garbett and Laybourne’s Compendium of Aphorisms, Sayings and Terms, the entry on page eight reads “You have to go away to come back”. This is a phrase we use often and it means that even though our work is hyper-locally focused sometimes we need to head off, get away and wander further afield in search of different places, new experiences and inspiration. We bring back ideas, creative energy, artistic material and fresh ways of thinking.
Introducing the nature inspired micro commissions to Dudley Creates
It has been a really exciting week here at Dudley Creates as we met with our wonderful cohort of Nature Inspired micro commission funded project leads.
Playful mapping of Dudley’s cultural ecosystem
Using foraged autumn greens and browns as media to stimulate sharing on flows and niches in Dudley’s cultural ecosystem.
Hedgerow Syrup
Reclaiming Our Roots is an experimental and creative community (re)connection experience designed by Time Rebel Deb McDonald, in collaboration with her fellow Director of Ekho Collective, Clare Evans, and herbalist, teacher, artist and author Amaia Dadachanji.
Dudley Creates - nature inspired micro commissions
Do you work creatively with nature and our environment, create with natural materials, or take a focus on nature as a subject matter? If so we are looking for Dudley Borough based creatives to support co-created projects that can inspire people to connect with nature and their local green and blue spaces.
What’s the agenda?
As part of our funding for the Dudley Creates Cultural Compact we wanted to see what an approach to an alternative ‘meeting agenda’ could look like. Rather than a circulated word document sent to a small handful of people with several ‘agenda items’ we thought it would be more appropriate to showcase the ‘strategy in action’.
Sonification of a more-than-human High Street
Sonification of a more-than-human High Street
Place naming: Transform Anywhere to Somewhere
Place naming: Transform Anywhere to Somewhere
Summer Cultural Collaborators Gathering
The Time Rebels of Dudley invited local people to pop into CoLab Dudley on the High Street for the Summer Cultural Collaborators Seasonal Gathering.