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Creativity and Wellbeing

Our Community Producer Arman Nouri finds out what's available to residents in Edmonton during Creativity and Wellbeing Week. (From 2hrs 36 mins) 20 May 2025

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Creative Lives & BBC Radio London

Our Community Producer, Arman Nouri, joins Kim Davis on her show 'Sounds of the City' to talk about the partnership between Creative Lives and BBC Radio London. (From 1hr 41mins) 6 May 2025 

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In The Frame

Grace Stubbings talk to In The Frame, a Hartlepool-based filmmakers collective, supporting local and regional creatives within the screen industries. 25 March 2025

BBC Radio Sheffield

Paulette Edwards hears from Rotherham's play reading group based at Mowbray Gardens. 26 March 2025

Cannock Council to close Theatre and Museum 

Both the Prince of Wales Theatre and the Museum of Cannock Chase will close in April 2025. Cannock Borough Council took the decision to close a 1.3million pound budget shortfall.

Campaigners say the Museum and Theatre are vital for preserving the history and culture of the area and lots of community groups use them week in week out.

BBC WM broadcast the story, and Rachel New, our Creative Lives producer met the Split Mask Theatre company at their rehearsals for one of last shows that will play at the Prince of Wales Theatre. 12 February 2025

BBC Radio Sheffield

Utopia Theatre specialise in African storytelling, and their latest production, Death and The King's Horseman, involves the talents of a community ensemble who have been learning to sing in a different language and skills for storytelling through movement, alongside professional Nigerian actors. (From 2hrs 14mins) 22 January 2025

Banishing the blues with creativity

The third Monday of January has been dubbed ‘Blue Monday’ thanks to various colliding factors: the length of time since you last got paid, Christmas is a distant memory, most of us have abandoned our New Year’s resolutions, and the days are still long, dark and cold - making it a perfect storm for feeling a bit down. But the good news is things can only get better from here! If you're in Cannock or the Black Country there's an app that can help bounce your way into Spring, as our Creative Lives Producer, Rachel New, discovered. 22 January 2025

Learning Maths and English through art

South Staffordshire College is teaching Maths and English though art. Rachel New, one of our Creative Lives Producers, met a group of adults improving their reading, writing and wellbeing with this bold programme. 

BBC Radio Tees

Grace Stubbings speaks to Mark Sandles and some of his students about Hartlepool Rock School. 6 January 2025

BBC Radio West Midlands

Rachel New went to Press Books and Coffee in Hednesford to a workshop with Pep the Poet, a children's poet and wellbeing champion. Pep spoke about his struggle with poor mental health, and how teaching poetry to children is a powerful thing. 18 December 2024

BBC Radio West Midlands

Seasons Theatre Company is a fully inclusive amateur dramatics group, focusing on musical theatre in Staffordshire. Many of the members are disabled, and are supported by volunteers to put on two fantastic shows a year. Rachel New went to see them rehearse and find out how being part of Seasons is changing lives. 18 December 2024