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  1. Image shows a cloudy blue sky, with the outstretched hands of three people throwing brightly coloured flowers to each other in the foreground.

    Hospital Rooms: Arts and mental health charity launches landmark national project

    5 April 2025
    Arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms has received an Arts Council England grant of £600,000 to launch an ambitious three-year project (2025–2028) across NHS Mental Health Services. The pioneering initiative will transform…
  2. Photo of a white girl with blonde hair blue eyes wearing a grey jumper with New York in big bold dark blue writing smiling arms crossed in front of a black bricked background

    Expanding The Team

    18 March 2025
    New Intern Incoming! Hi! My name is Rachel and I'm the new Expanding The Frame Intern.
  3. A child is peering into a wooden box, that is filled with grass and moss and trees

    Amazing ArtBoxes: Call out for artists

    14 March 2025
    The submission deadline has now passed. Selection will take place in April 2025, and we will inform successful proposals by Mon 28 April 2025. Building on the success of Pauline Farrar’s Celebrity Robot Trail, MAC is thrilled to present…
  4. Image shows a lantern-making workshop taking place at Midlands Arts Centre. In the centre of image is a pair of hands (belonging to a black person of colour) holding a sheet of paper with a list titled 'Things that light my life'.

    Midlands Arts Centre and Red Earth Collective CIC launch creative health project for Black men

    21 February 2025
    In 2025, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) and The Red Earth Collective CIC, an organisation led by MAC Associate Artist Sandra Griffiths, will be working in partnership to deliver a new creative health project: Build It. This vital initiative…

  5. Word Lounge Theatre Company: Callout for budding young performers

    19 November 2024
    Our friends at award-winning theatre company Women & Theatre are delighted to announce an exciting new opportunity for young people. It offers a chance for 13-17 year olds to develop their performance skills by joining Word Lounge Theatre…
  6. A white boy with dark blond hair (wearing green tracksuit bottoms and a grey long-sleeved T-shirt) snuggles against a large horse or unicorn plushie. He is lying on an tan leather sofa in a dark, shadowy living room. The living room wall behind him is an aquamarine blue.

    Opportunity for photographers: Prism Open 2025

    12 November 2024
    Are you a photographer? Do you live in the West Midlands? Are you over 18? If so, we have the perfect exhibition for you. Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) and Birmingham-based photography network Prism are proud to present Prism Open 2025: a…
  7. Inside gallery space with pale blue walls and a wooden flooring. On the left three outfits are on display, the back wall features miscellaneous artworks themed around sustainability.

    Celebrating Sustainability through Art, Theatre, and Community

    4 November 2024
    MAC’s Sustainability season is in full swing after a lively and successful Big Green Weekender and launch of new exhibition Waste Age: What can design do?. Marketing intern Heidi Downing joined the team in the lead up to these events and…

  8. Film introduction: Shock Treatment

    28 October 2024
    Words: Dr Sabina Stent Directed by Jim Sharman, and with a script and lyrics by Richard O’Brien, Shock Treatment is 1981’s non-canon parallel film to the events of 1975’s immensely popular The Rocky Horror Picture Show born of two…

  9. MAC extends partnership with Birmingham Assay Office

    3 October 2024
    Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is delighted to announce an extension of its milestone partnership with the Birmingham Assay Office, a company which hallmarks silver, gold and precious metal jewellery. Initially launched as part of MAC's 60th…
  10. Illustration of Cannon Hill Park and MAC with swirling multicoloured shapes erupting from the arts centre and leading to nearby neighbourhoods

    Calling all neighbours: MAC needs you!

    24 September 2024
    Live in Birmingham? Love speaking to people? If so, your favourite local arts centre needs you! We are looking for 10 confident and curious local residents to help shape the future of Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) as part of our MAC…
  11. Kathleen Turner clutches a large kitchen knife, reday to stab somebody.

    Film introduction: Serial Mom

    16 September 2024
    Words: Dr Sabina Stent In her July 2024 essay for CrimeReads, Julia Sirmons notes that “Serial Mom opens with title cards that mimic the typical true crime disclaimers: the film was based on interviews and witness testimony. And then,” she…
  12. Benjamin Zephaniah smiles and looks off to the left.

    Celebrating Benjamin Zephaniah raises over £1,700 for MAC's Every Child campaign

    3 September 2024
    In a heart-warming tribute to the late Birmingham poet, activist, and actor Benjamin Zephaniah, a special event at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) has raised over £1,700 for the organisation's Every Child campaign. The successful fundraiser…