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We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, including:

• Nine venues, more than sixty performers and a whole lotta laughs: Get the low-down on this weekend's Kings Heath Comedy Festival.

• Soul-stirring spoken word from the Moseley performer at one with his craft, channelling the lyrical fire of Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Little Simz to connect and heal himself, and his followers around the world.

• Get to know the Staffordshire's Barry Lillee, who crafts well developed and funny characters - in his own story that goes from Stoke to Sicily - and back again!

• Meet the actors swapping the boards for... the fields! Discover the knack of turning classic productions on their heads, complete with the unpredictability of English weather, with the outdoor theatre production coming to our area this summer.

• Meet Ludlow writer Florence Lace-Evans, who has the world's largest arts festival in her sights with her Rik-Mayall-esque dark anarchic sitcom.

• Heading to Telford for the podcast that explores the folklore of one of our most rural areas - which has just scooped a nomination for one of the biggest audio awards going!

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