Welcome to Dudley Creates

Imaginative projects and experiments designed by local people, cultivating curiosity, everyday creativity and care for all life.

A growing collective of local people in Dudley borough are co-creating projects that support communities to have thriving cultural lives by participating in creativity of all kinds.

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Some of the projects recently developed are focused around restoring our relationship with the natural world and taking action towards climate justice.

These activities are brought together through Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice.

Dudley Creates is an ever-evolving and ongoing project.

It started as a way to get more people involved in culture and creativity in Dudley and, through ongoing experiments and research, it has developed into a movement where a collective of local people are supporting a cultural strategy in action. You can download it here.

Local people have been (and are continuing to get) actively involved by trying out, experimenting and taking part in all kinds of creativity. It is with these experiments that we have been able to bring together the practices, tools and tactics to develop 5 key ideas that we hope will begin to help overcome barriers experienced by local people and communities who would like thriving cultural lives.

Meet the Time Rebels of Dudley

The Time Rebels of Dudley are local people; doers and creatives of all kinds, who helped to craft everyday creativity, collective imagination and long-term thinking in Dudley borough. Their action and learning stimulated Dudley Creates.

The Time Rebels are convened by CoLab Dudley