Culture Central was a proud supporter and strategic adviser to Birmingham Festival 2023. We're pleased to share this evaluation of the festival demonstrating a positive impact on the city.

Through Cultivate Heritage, we want to help organisations design and pitch creative projects which explore and celebrate the heritage of communities across Birmingham and the West Midlands. In this strand of our 'Birmingham Festival 2022 Legacy programme', we are raising awareness about The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s recently launched new funding programme, National Lottery Heritage Grants, which supports heritage-focused projects.

With ‘Collectively Strategising Culture’ just over a week away, Dr. Anthony Ruck, shares some of our contexts and thinking behind the development of the summit, and introduces the main question we’ll be asking throughout the day.

In this first year of a three-year leadership programme for those traditionally excluded from the cultural sector, we recruited 20 people to learn alongside and explore how we can make change for ourselves, our peers, the sector and the people and places of the West Midlands. Meet the first cohort of Collective.

Join Culture Central, and other leaders to reflect, celebrate and strategise as a sector in the West Midlands.

For Culture Central, 2023 was a year to catalyse and drive activity focussed on our priorities of collective action, inclusivity and supporting a dynamic and collaborative cultural sector, for the benefit of the region.  In this blog CEO, Erica Love reflects on the achievements and challenges of the year for our organisation and the sector.

Culture Central is proud to be partnering with Create Central and BFI Skills Clusters on the delivery of a West Midlands Skills Accelerator programme - this work focuses on skills and training opportunities for ‘below-the-line’ production crew in the region, aiming to make the sector more accessible and representative.

Are you looking to take your career to the next level? Would you like to benefit from the expertise of an experienced sector leader? We have relaunched our mentoring programme, ‘Grow’, and have refined our offer, training and support for mentors and mentees.

Culture Central was a proud supporter and strategic adviser to Birmingham Festival 2023. We're pleased to share this evaluation of the festival demonstrating a positive impact on the city.

Culture Central are looking for a film maker to capture the Culture Volunteer WM programme.

Join Culture Central to support colleagues working across the cultural sector in the West Midlands to ensure that we have a dynamic, resilient, equitable and inclusive sector. We are looking for people interested in developing their mentoring skills, as well as experienced mentors who would like to take an active role in supporting the cultural sector to change, learn and grow.

Culture Central offers a collective statement to organisations, workforce, communities, stakeholders and supporters with regard to uncertainty around arts, culture and creativity in Birmingham.

This year, Culture Central joins forces with More than a Moment on October 20th, presenting the Beautiful Futures Summit — an intersectional critical dialogue for the sector.

Culture Central and More than a Moment have been working together to curate a week of radical listening sessions platforming the voices of marginalised creatives and culture sector professionals.

After the success of our initial Chairs forum in Coventry in April 2023, we will be hosting three more in 2023-24.

The Chairs forum is a confidential regular meeting for those in voluntary governance positions in cultural organisations in the West Midlands with the goal of working collectively on challenges and opportunities facing boards.

Culture Central x people make it work x Collective is a leadership programme for those traditionally excluded from senior roles in the cultural sector.

This is an invitation for you to join us to explore and support how we make change for ourselves, our peers, the cultural sector and the people and places of the West Midlands.

As part of the Culture Volunteer project, we are launching the Culture Volunteer Knowledge Sharing Network.

Culture Volunteer West Midlands (a regional volunteering programme for volunteers in the arts and culture sector) are recruiting 16 people across the region, to be trained as Volunteer Access champions.

Culture Central is working in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust, Creative Black Country, Stoke Creates and Open Theatre to deliver regional and place-based, volunteering and development opportunities.

We wanted to understand more about the actual day-to-day experiences of freelancers working in the West Midlands, and we’ve partnered with the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick to ask freelancers ‘What do you do all day’?