Creativity and Culture West Midlands
Creativity and Culture West Midlands
Podcast Description
Where creativity and culture meets ambition in the heart of the West Midlands.Join former BBC Arts and culture correspondent Satnam Rana and Birmingham based artist Robbie Dalal as they journey through the vibrant cultural landscape of the West Midlands. Each episode pulls back the curtain on the region's most compelling creative voices – the dreamers and doers shaping the future of the West Midlands creative powerhouse. Fresh from Coventry's triumphant City of Culture and Birmingham's Commonwealth Games cultural spectacle, Creativity and Culture West Midlands asks the burning question: Can lightning strike twice? Can this dynamic region reclaim its heritage as the ‘Creative Workshop of the World?’ Intimate, revealing, and unapologetically local – hear the full, unfiltered stories of artists, performers, and cultural innovators carving out their place in the West Midlands' creative renaissance. Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop weekly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast explores themes of creativity, culture, innovation, and sustainability within the vibrant landscape of the West Midlands. Episodes tackle specific areas like artistic identity, immersive technologies, and community engagement, featuring examples such as Daya Bhatti's fusion of South Asian identity with augmented reality and Janet Douglas's work in e-textiles providing alternative education for youth.
Where creativity and culture meets ambition in the heart of the West Midlands.
Join former BBC Arts and culture correspondent Satnam Rana and Birmingham based artist Robbie Dalal as they journey through the vibrant cultural landscape of the West Midlands. Each episode pulls back the curtain on the region’s most compelling creative voices – the dreamers and doers shaping the future of the West Midlands creative powerhouse.
Fresh from Coventry’s triumphant City of Culture and Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games cultural spectacle, Creativity and Culture West Midlands asks the burning question: Can lightning strike twice? Can this dynamic region reclaim its heritage as the ‘Creative Workshop of the World?’
Intimate, revealing, and unapologetically local – hear the full, unfiltered stories of artists, performers, and cultural innovators carving out their place in the West Midlands’ creative renaissance.
Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop weekly.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this full interview Karen Newman talks about her journey from artist to Founder and CEO of one of the West Midlands leading immersive arts organisations, Birmingham Open Media. Karen describes her days as an art student and the boundaries that were put in place during her course to differentiate between disciplines.
With a passion to blur the boundaries of creative practice Karen found a new path supporting artists to explore immersive technologies. After setting up BOM, she began working with schools and adults to design and build inclusive training courses so a new generation of artists could learn to use the tools needed in virtual production and games and worked on one of the most high profile technical briefs, designing a smart baton that would tour the countries of the Commonwealth before the games came to Birmingham in 2022.
You can find her @bomlab across all social media platforms and hear more about her work through bom.org.uk
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