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Anyone who has taken the BeanBoozled Challenge knows in  an unhappy instance that they are chewing a weird and wild flavour like Canned Dog Food or Rotten Egg. Their reactions are almost uncontrollable. Smiles turn upside down, noses wrinkle, and eyes squint in a combination of disbelief and disapproval.

Anyone aged eight to 80 can go tree climbing at the National Forest Wood Fair on August Bank Holiday Monday. Under careful supervision and using ropes and harness, visitors to the Wood Fair will be able to climb up into the canopy of one of the veteran oak trees at Beacon Hill Country Park and get a bird's eye view over the Wood Fair site and the growing National Forest.

With the revelation of recently written tracks on Tana's Soundcloud, there is a free intimate live show at COBS Bar in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday 22^nd August 2015 open to the general public. “better to try and fail than to live with should’ve could’ve would’ve”  Time is of the essence for Tana to make her mark on the Music Industry. She has jump started her career and is ready to embark on a new journey into commerciality.

A new season of new laughs from comedy veterans and fresh talent is brought to you by Upfront Comedy and The Drum. Kicking off the season on Friday 4 September, at 7pm is Mother and Son Standing Up. Multi-award winning comedienne, Angie Le Mar debuts her brand new unique show Mother & Son Standing Up, alongside her first born son, Travis Jay, a rising star on the comedy circuit. The evening will be hosted by Teletubbie comic, John Simmit.

The Slade Rooms Comedy night makes a welcome return on September 24th for a new season of new comedy, with food included in price of your ticket!! It only needs 3 things. a great venue, a great audience and great acts. Comedian, writer and actor Tim Clark is one of the brightest lights on the national comedy scene and a familiar face on television.

More than 8,500 happy ‘Color Runners’  headed to Birmingham’s NEC this weekend when the Happiest 5k on the planet  returned to the city for the second time. Starting as a blank canvas and finishing head-to-toe in every colour of the rainbow, fun-loving runners from across the city and beyond took part in the ‘Happiest 5k on the Planet’.

Multi-platinum selling rock band Nickelback have been forced to cancel all remaining dates for the 2015 No Fixed Address Tour due to an extended period of vocal rest ordered for lead singer Chad Kroeger. Kroeger, who was diagnosed with an intracordal cyst on his voice box in June, recently underwent surgery and must remain on vocal rest as ordered by doctors for the next six to nine months in order to fully recuperate. 

An incredibly rare fossil – the 315 million-year-old Coseley Spider – will star in a new exhibition revealing the Black Country’s amazing geological legacy. Never shown in Wolverhampton before, the internationally important example of the species Eophrynus Prestvicii discovered near Coseley shows the early evolution of spiders, say experts.

Would-be authors can get expert advice on writing when crime writer Tom Bryson gives at talk at a Sandwell library. Brandhall Library is hosting an afternoon with Kinver author Tom Bryson who will be at the library in Tame Road, Oldbury, on Friday 21 August at 3pm.  Tom’s latest book is called ‘In it for the Money’ and is the latest in a series of crime books based in Birmingham and the Black Country featuring DCI Matt Proctor.

Birmingham’s Bob Brolly revealed his latest venture this week, with the launch of his new role with Irish TV taking place at the ‘heart of learning’ in Digbeth. The BBC Radio favourite will now head up Irish TV’s Midlands offering after his first instalment, a jam-packed launch show  from South and City College’s Digbeth Auditorium on Monday August 24.

Firmly established as one of the top events of its kind in the UK, as well as one of the biggest in the Midlands, the 9th annual Derby Festé will this year take place over the weekend of September 25th and 26th. First staged in 2007 as a way of helping to showcase the changes to the city brought about by more than £2-billion worth of regeneration, Derby Festé now transforms the whole of the city centre into a world-class festival site with performances for the whole family to enjoy.

The London Korean Festival brought a slice of Korea to London's iconic Trafalgar Square and was so popular that it reached capacity. Visitors were treated to the sights, sounds and aromas of South Korea during a fun-packed day on the 9th August. The family event had something for everyone in the form of K-Cuisine, which offered Korean street foods on both the east and west sides of the square. Live cooking demonstrations from celebrated chefs Judy Joo of Jinjuu.com and Joo Won of 'Galvin at Windows'.

Expect some riveting tales from the wagon trains of the Wild West when wheelwright Phill Gregson returns to give a masterclass at the National Forest Wood Fair, on Bank Holiday Monday 31 August. Phill was absent from the event at Beacon Hill Country Park last year, as he was on a six-week study tour of the United States, looking at materials and production methods used by wheelwrights in America.

A day of events for young people, by young people, takes place at Wolverhampton Art Gallery on National Youth Day this Wednesday (12 August 2015). #OurWorld features a display of work by members of ArtForum Gold, a group who meet regularly at the gallery to gain an art qualification outside of formal education, alongside work from Re-Entry and submissions by young people from across the city.

Participating in the arts as a family can be every bit as productive as spending regular meal times together.  This Autumn half term families of all shapes and sizes from across the nation can get involved with a huge range of arts experiences on offer, many of which are free, as part of the Get Creative Family Arts Festival.