Utter Bearwood

18/10/2024

Free writing workshop…..tomorrow Saturday 19th October at 2pm……Thimblemill library

28/02/2024

Music coming up at Thimblemill library

23/12/2023

Merry Christmas from all at Sandwell Libraries and Archives 🎅
All Libraries are open this Saturday and Smethwick as usual on Sunday ☃🎄

We’re back to business as usual from Tuesday 2 January 2024

Please follow the link below to find out which libraries will be open during the festive period as Welcome Spaces and Library Plus Open Libraries.

Welcoming Spaces
https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/christmaswelcomingspaces

Library Plus Christmas Hours
https://prism.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/sandwell/assets/-/library-plus.html

17/12/2023

A bit of festive storytelling this afternoon and it’s suitable for all ages….£3.00 a child and the adults are for free….it’s going to be a good one….it’s created by our lovely friends BCTouring and infamous Arts….Thimblemill Library at 4pm

06/06/2023

Join us on Monday 19th June with “Mangoes on the Beach by Peter Chand ….Thimblemill library 6.30pm for 7pm start❤️

12/10/2022

12/10/2022

23/07/2022

We’ve had a fabulous time tonight…..💕

16/04/2021

Our fabulous friends are doing it again bringing you the best in arts cultural events.....this time through stories...... and it’s free......Black Country Touring are running their free Dial-A-Story project again, for anyone who's missing the arts and live performance.

Grab the phone for a 15 minute one-to-one poem, story or song this Spring, with brilliant local artists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBff18HYnE&ab_channel=BlackCountryTouring

Book here: https://bit.ly/Dial_A_Story

Fill out the form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible with a date and time and all the information you will need to access the performance.

05/09/2020

Black Country Touring – Dial a Story…
August 28, 2020by Libby Mahoney in Blog, Health & Wellbeing tagged art, Black Country, Community News

Fancy something a bit different… Grab a 15 minute free performance on the telephone by poet Adrian B Earle, Storyteller Peter Chand or by singer Sam Frankie Fox during the first three weeks of September 2020.

All it takes is the cost of a local 0121 number.

Black Country Touring has secured funding from Heart of England Community Foundation’s ‘Doing Things Differently’ fund, Sandwell MBC’s Vision 2030 and Creative Black Country to deliver this project which aims to reduce isolation by providing social interaction through a dose of short live performance on your telephone.

Adrian Earle is a Writer, Poet, and media maker from Birmingham, creating journeys through the written word for stage, film and radio under the name ThinkWriteFly.

September Performance Dates and Times are as follows:

Adrian Earle
• Tue 1 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Thu 3 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Mon 7 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Tue 8 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Wed 9 -10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Thu 10 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Fri 11 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Mon 14 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Tue 15 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Wed 16 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Thu 17 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm
• Fri 18 – 10am, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1pm

Peter Chand is an award-winning international Storyteller, hugely in demand for his unique retelling of tales from his motherland, India into English. Whether it is performing in a tiny classroom, or enthralling hundreds of adults in a theatre, he has a story for every occasion.

Peter Chand
• Thu 3 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Fri 4 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Mon 7 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Tue 8 -10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Thu 10 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4

Sam Frankie Fox is a Welsh vocalist, harpist, theatre maker and sound designer based in the West Midlands. Sam has worked locally, nationally and internationally.

Sam Frankie Fox
• Wed 9 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Thu 10 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Sat 12 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Wed 16 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4
• Thu 17 – 10, 10.45, 11.30, 12.15, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4

To book a performance contact Bobby Tiwana on [email protected]

Black Country Touring is part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.