Lab notes and stories shared by Kerry O'Coy in a convenor and creative producer role with CoLab Dudley between 2019 and 2024.
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Date of gathering: Thursday 8th December 2022, 12-3pm A throwback to our very FIRST Cultural Collaborators Gathering and the launch of the Dudley Creates network. Photos from a gathering held on 8 December 2022 in the Imaginarium at CoLab Dudley on Dudley High Street. This was an invitation from Dudley&
Nature Inspired Micro Commission Creatives: Helen, Jackie + Jo Venue: Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge Three 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. The workshops offered
On the 7th December we held our final Cultural Collaborators Gathering of 2023. It was an opportunity for the Time Rebels of Dudley to share an update of the wonderful projects they have been co-creating with communities across the borough. In total 30 creatives have been commissioned this year as
Author: Kerry O'Coy
Helen Garbett and Bill Laybourne - Workshop 24 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
Author: Kerry O'Coy
The Time Rebels of Dudley invited local people to pop into CoLab Dudley on the High Street for the Summer Cultural Collaborators Seasonal Gathering to talk about their projects, share ideas, get creative and think about the kind of projects they’d like to be involved in. The Time to
The Dudley People's Archive explores and celebrates Dudley’s rich heritage and vibrant present through photography, art, publications and stories. Time Rebel David began work on this project with Dudley Council’s Heritage team to explore imaginative ways to share stories that both look to the past while
Stitchers in Time are disrupting narratives of isolation and decay in a post industrial town through relational and creative practices. The stitchers acknowledge past narratives of place and people whilst simultaneously reframing them within new narratives of Dudley that look to environmental technologies and ‘what could be…’. Each crafting