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Jada - Sandwell Flyers - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Oliver - Sandwell Flyers - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Mandy - Sandwell Special Olympics - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Satnam - Sandwell Special Olympics - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Gurbinder - Warley Weightlifting Club - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Natalie - Doshthill Quarry open Water Swimming - People, Place, Sport by Multistory

Rupinder Kaur's 'Songs with Mum' explores growing up between Handsworth and West Bromwich as a child who held three languages in her tongue. The conflicts she had along with my relationship with her mum, how music influenced her and drew her towards the beauty of Panjabi poetry and then poetry in general. Now West Bromwich is Rupinder's home and she couldn’t be prouder. Rupinder Kaur is a Birmingh...

In Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Casey Bailey evokes a new generation’s desire to be seen; stories of young people ‘asking for a tomorrow’. "We know that Sandwell is one of the most deprived areas in the country, and there are young people in parts of Sandwell who feel this sense of loss and hopelessness. What I really hope is that anybody hearing this who is in any position to support them, guide t...

Episode two of our new Sandwell Stories podcast is made by poet Kuli Kohli. Featuring Kuli’s poem ‘Black Country Wonder Woman’ and a newly recorded introduction, the episode tells the story of a time of strikes and the anxiety of having a premature baby in difficult circumstances. The poem is made in collaboration with Kuli’s son, Akaash, who raps some verses. Indian born, Kuli Kohli runs a Punjab...

Fathers of the Black Country is told through the voice of poet Roy McFarlane, who begins with stories from young fathers and shares memories of those who have passed over: an ode to the different stages of fatherhood. This second season of the Sandwell Stories podcast looks at the past and the present, the lives of a new generation, and a desire to belong; mothers and fathers; sons and daughters;...

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

For Stories in Isolation, Multistory commissioned Naush Sabah to write new poems for her sequence 'Fundament/Forty', which is a sequence of poems which use Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadith—a famous text from the Islamic canon—as source material. The poems explore the sense of isolation from family or community that can ensue from dissent or doubt in one’s faith tradition and respond to the source texts...

For Stories in Isolation, Multistory commissioned Naush Sabah to write new poems for her sequence 'Fundament/Forty', which is a sequence of poems which use Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadith—a famous text from the Islamic canon—as source material. The poems explore the sense of isolation from family or community that can ensue from dissent or doubt in one’s faith tradition and respond to the source texts...

For Stories in Isolation, Multistory commissioned Naush Sabah to write new poems for her sequence 'Fundament/Forty', which is a sequence of poems which use Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadith—a famous text from the Islamic canon—as source material. The poems explore the sense of isolation from family or community that can ensue from dissent or doubt in one’s faith tradition and respond to the source texts...

For Stories in Isolation, Multistory commissioned Naush Sabah to write new poems for her sequence 'Fundament/Forty', which is a sequence of poems which use Imam Nawawi’s Forty Hadith—a famous text from the Islamic canon—as source material. The poems explore the sense of isolation from family or community that can ensue from dissent or doubt in one’s faith tradition and respond to the source texts...

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

‘Black Country Roots’ is a book published by Multistory that tells the story of the African-Caribbean community in Sandwell and the Black Country, through oral history interviews and photography. This poem was written and performed by Kurly McGeachie - Birmingham Poet Laureate finalist - who conducted the interviews for the project. Photo credit: Music for a church service, Wolverhampton, 1976 © N...

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.

Multistory's new digital programme Stories in Isolation, commissions poetry and writing in response to the current COVID-19 situation, as a gesture of support for local Sandwell artists and our Blast! Creative Network.