Beyond Vision: Black Country Women, a spatial sound journey, is a Digital First, immersive experience built by Sarah-Ann Cromwell. Participants can walk through, up to, and explore the spatial sound of Warley Woods and hear stories of joy from Sandra, Perm and Saba from Sandwell Visually Impaired. …
From West Bromwich to the Mixing Desk: SVI Rocks Record at the MAC
SVI Rocks record at the Midlands Art Centre Recording Studios On 22 November, SVI Rockers visited the Midland Arts Centre (MAC) to record their version of House of the Rising Sun in MAC’s new studios. The session brought together SVI Rocks and the Tipton Collective for an afternoon of music and …
A look back at the Sandwell Talking News Christmas Special 2024
Sandwell Talking News (STN) is a weekly audio newspaper for blind and visually impaired people in and around Sandwell. It is completely volunteer-run, produced, recorded and edited by a team of blind, partially sighted and sighted volunteers. Our youngest volunteer reader is 6 and oldest 70+ The …
Rembrandt in Black & White.
SVI Members Explore Art Through Audio Description and Touch On a Thursday afternoon in May, eight members from Sandwell Visually Impaired (SVI) and three from The Art Yard took a trip to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) for a specially arranged tour of Rembrandt’s …
SVI Rocks
SVI Rocks: Turning Up the Volume on Creativity and Inclusion. This autumn, Sandwell Visually Impaired (SVI) members swapped autumn blues for rock anthems with the launch of the SVI Rocks project. Running from October to November, the initiative brought together our keen SVI musicians and their …
