Welcome to Culture Zone

For our first three years we were part of the national Cultural Hubs programme and worked mainly with schools. We developed partnerships with cultural organisations and a host of artists, educators and creative practitioners delivering over 70 innovative arts and cultural projects to over 18,000 young people. We have an excellent network of partners and our long term creative education programmes have a seen a further 96 creative projects delivered to over 35,000 young people during 2009. We also provide ongoing professional development and support for teachers, educators, artists and arts organisations.

We are in our second year of delivering one of the ten national Find Your Talent pathfinder programmes and have over 90 projects running across the borough. Find Your Talent is about helping young people discover new things, to express themselves, to develop a passion and to make the most of their talent. Whether it is music, art, film, theatre, dance, digital media, exploring libraries, museums or heritage, Find Your Talent is for every child and young person, whatever their age and whatever their ability. This three year programme is enriching lives in Telford & Wrekin providing all sorts of opportunities for young people to participate in high quality cultural activities.We have also established Telford & Wrekin Music, a comprehensive service for participatory music and have introduced important annual cultural events such as Telford Dance Festival and Telford Film Festival.

This website will give you an overview of everything we do and the features will keep you up to date with current news and events.Foretel is an area dedicated exclusively to young people and our films in Movie Zone are a great way of getting a sense of our projects. Using the new Tell Me search service will tell you what you need to know about happenings and activities for everyone in Telford & Wrekin.