Recently, our Director and Grand Union founder Cheryl attended the launch of ‘The Ground is Singing’, Issue 2 of Sandwell-based arts organisation Multistory’s annual journal ‘The Printing Room’. 🌱 📚 Featuring work by Exodus Crooks, Billy Haynes, Laura Onions, Lorna Rose and Abigail Villarroel, ‘The Ground is Singing’ responds to Multistory’s ‘Green Roots’ programme, exploring ‘climate resilience’ and (in)access to green space in Sandwell and the Black Country. We were especially excited to read Exodus’ piece, ‘Steel Soil’. Exodus, a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator, is working with us on a long-term exploratory project, having helped facilitate The Growing Project here at Grand Union. 💘 📝 Cheryl writes, ‘I enjoyed the earthly connections and underground poetics amongst a warm and generous crowd. Space Wolverhampton is a new venue, and the perfect setting for this kind of event.’ 🔗 To learn more about Multistory’s annual journal, ‘The Printing Room’, click here: https://multistory.org.uk/product/the-ground-is-singing-the-printing-room-issue-2/ [Image 1: Two people sit together on a long, green sofa beside a coffee table. Daylight streaming through the window, the person to the left of the frame recites lines from an open book, with a microphone in hand.] [Image 2: Three people sit beside one another in two, large arm chairs, punctuated by a leafy, green plant. In front sits a coffee table atop a fringed, red rug. All three people are smiling, as the person to the left reads from an open book, looking to the audience.] [Image 3: Two people sit on a long, green sofa together as a deep, evening sky peeks through a window behind them. Beside a coffee table covered with books and drinking glasses, the person to the left recites from a book, microphone held close to them.] (fb)

Tomorrow! 🎉 ⭐️ October Digbeth First Friday ⭐️ Join us at Grand Union alongside Birmingham-based experimental opera company Infinite Opera for a free, drop-in performative workshop. ✨ 🎤 Session 1, 6 - 6:45pm 🎤 Session 2, 7:15 - 8pm 🌱 Performing exploratory Digbeth-inspired songs and poetry, librettist and singer Roxanne Korda and pianist Melissa Morris will create an open space for discussion, to spark participants' thoughts and feelings about the ever-changing landscape of Digbeth. 🔗 To learn more about Infinite Opera’s 2025-26 community engagement commission, click here: https://www.grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/october-digbeth-first-friday-operatic-theatre-making-workshops-with-infinite-opera @infiniteopera @digbethfirstfri [Image description: A dimly-lit image of a crowd of figures stood together in harmony. One woman stands looking to the group with open arms and a music sheet in hand. White, superimposed text reads ‘Opera Making Workshops with Infinite Opera, DIGBETH FIRST FRIDAY.’] (fb)