Creativity and Culture West Midlands

In this full interview Janet Douglas talks about her practice and how it began with a desire to provide alternative provision for young people struggling in mainstream education. She discusses her partnerships with Ikea, Lush and Palmers and how they supported her work with young people donating ex display and surplus stock. She outlines her path into e-textiles and how her Chapters of our Lives exhibition paid tribute to some of those she felt have previously been left out of histories of Birmingham

You can find her @feedmycreative and @greenwoodpresents across all social media platforms and her more about her work through feedmycreative.com

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In this full interview Janet Vaughan talks about her journey from a freelance Theatre Designer to becoming Co-Artistic Director and Designer of Talking Birds in Coventry. She She describes how completing a course with Julie's Bicycle was transformative galvanising all aspects of her work and encouraging her to work within the organisation to provide artist residencies through the Nest. Janet defines regenerative creative practice and discusses how it has become a priority for her work at Talking Birds.

You can find her @birdmail across all social media platforms and hear more about her work through talkingbirds.co.uk

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In episode two of Creativity and Culture West Midlands, Satnam Rana and Robbie Dalal discuss what support is available for creatives living and working in the West Midlands and hear from Jess Piette from Multistory an organisation that supports artists and creatives in Sandwell. We also hear from Corey Campbell who moved from working as a freelance Creative theatre practitioner to become Creative Director of the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.

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In this full interview Jess Piette talks about her work at Multistory including the BCN programme and other support the organisation offers to artists and creatives working in Sandwell. She discusses her views on the current landscape for creatives working in Sandwell and the wider region and what makes the West Midlands unique.

You can find Jess @jesspiette and more information about her work @multistory across all social media platforms.

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In this full interview Corey Campbell talks about his artistic practice, his love for the city of Coventry and his transition from working as a freelance theatre practitioner to an employee when he became Creative Director of the Belgrade Theatre. He outlines the reasons for setting up his own theatre company Strictly Arts, those who inspired him, and the journey of transitioning to become Creative Director of the Belgrade

You can find him @corey_ma_campbell across all social media platforms and more about his work @thebelgradetheatre.

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In this first episode of Creativity and Culture West Midlands, Satnam Rana and Robbie Dalal discuss the landscape for creatives living and working in the West Midlands and hear from Kerri Williams (Dudley) and Amrit Singh (Solihull) about their work.

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In this full interview Kerri Williams @theheritagecrafter talks about her life as a decorative artist specialising in the endangered craft 'Roses and Castles'.

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In this full interview Amrit Singh @MrASingh talks about his art and his relationship with social media which took him from graphic design to 3D sculptures and learning to describe what he does

You can find Amrit @MrASingh across all social media platforms

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A brand new podcast series coming soon Creativity and Culture West Midlands

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