Call for Submissions

Privacy Clothing is now accepting submissions for an upcoming book documenting the inspiring stories of breast cancer survivors. With a focus on people working within the creative industries, the project will tell the personal stories of survivors and double as an educational resource. The narrative and image-rich coffee table book will be produced and directed [...]

Disablity Film Festival

Wolverhampton’s Light House Media Centre will play host to the first Disability Film festival to be held in the city from 18th – 20th April 2008, bringing work from regional, national and international disabled filmmakers to the big screen. Featuring a wide variety of genres and styles, including documentary, drama, comedy and animation, both feature [...]

Local composer to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Local composer Alice Trueman to have soundtrack broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday!
Wolverhampton born composer and Light House employee Alice Trueman has written an exciting new score for the first radio dramatisation of Girlfriend In A Coma, a modern classic by Douglas Coupland, the author of Generation X and Microserfs. The play will [...]

Upcoming shows

Upcoming shows at the Civic Halls include,
Siouxsie
Tuesday 4th March
Wulfrun Hall
Tickets £22.50
Simple Plan
Saturday 19th April
Wulfrun Hall
Tickets £13.50
Jake Shillingford
Tuesday 25th March
Little Civic
£6.00
For more information on these or any other shows at the Civic Halls, visit wolvescivic.co.uk

Dovecotes Arts Centre

Dovecotes Arts Centre is being launched with the kind support of the national children’s charity KidsOut and a grant from the Big Lottery Fund. This funding has allowed them to transform a community centre on the Dovecotes estate, Pendeford, into a modern and vibrant space which allows young people access to a range of multimedia [...]

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Leaders of Digital Revolution to take the campaign to West Midlands business
Three of the country’s leading figures in the development and use of digital media have been signed up to highlight how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the West Midlands can take advantage of digital media. Anthony Lilley, Dr Jon Salkeld and Dr [...]

Beyond the Creative Industries

Beyond the Creative Industries – Mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom
NESTA have released a reoprt on the importance of the creative industries within the UK.
The creative industries are one of the most important contributors to the UK economy. So it is important that we accurately measure their contribution to economic activity
To view the [...]

Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan

Passage to the Future
1 Mar 08 – 26 Apr 08
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
This exhibition displays work from eleven young Japanese artists who have been attracting attention with their work since the late 1990’s. Passage to the Future is coming exclusively to Wolverhampton Art Gallery as the only planned UK venue for this international exhibition.
For more information [...]