We’re thrilled to be embarking on a brand new project with the wonderful Multistory who commissioned our Sandwell Pride of Place Project for Blast! Festival in 2019. Multistory says ” we are excited to be part of Three 15, Sandwell’s Place Partnership programme, working together to bring culture closer to home in Tipton, Smethwick and Wednesbury, and supporting wellbeing through creativity.
As lead partner for Wednesbury, we will be working with The Caravan Gallery between May and October 2026, on The People’s Map, where they will be in residence in the centre of Wednesbury. Led by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale, the project will culminate in the creation of a collaborative map and an evolving community exhibition. By engaging residents, schools, and local businesses through photography and storytelling, the project will celebrate and document Wednesbury’s industrial heritage, local identity and contemporary life, to create an evolving portrait of the town created by and for its residents.
Inspired by the fifteen minute city idea, the programme makes it easier for people to take part in high quality arts and cultural experiences within a fifteen minute walk of where they live. Three 15 builds on more than a decade of place based creative work in the Black Country and focuses on wellbeing, connection and long term sustainability through creative collaboration.
The programme is led by Creative Black Country and delivered in partnership with Black Country Touring, Multistory, Your City and Metropolitan Hospital Charity, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Black Country Housing Group, Black Country Together, Birmingham Opera Company and RSPB Sandwell.
Three 15 Sandwell Place Partnership is funded by Arts Council England.
Images courtesy of The Caravan Gallery.
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