Over the last few months, our NetPark Wellbeing Project and Hyde Hall have held a joint summer wellbeing project for 15 people living in the Southend area with mental health […]
Our Open Advice Sessions for artists will return
In August 2023, we launched the first edition of our Metal Open Advice Sessions offering free 1:1 sessions for artists in our local areas. The sessions were open to artists […]
Mark your calendars: Lucky Dip returns!
Lock in these dates – Wednesday 4 October, Wednesday 6 December, Wednesday 4 March – because Lucky Dip is back at Chalkwell Hall to spice up your creative calendar! Brought […]
Our new food residency artist is here
W are delighted to announce mother and daughter duo, ‘MumTas’ who will be in residence with us, cooking across August in our pop-up café space! Get ready to have your […]
Seven new residency artists at Metal
Our new residency artists for 2023 are here! After carefully deliberating over lots of exciting applications and several cross-site conversations, we’re really pleased to welcome James Wilde, Fasiha Ashiq, Malika […]
New listening box in our Peterborough Reading Room
We are excited to be hosting a Write Club Open Mic listening box in our Reading Room in Peterborough. The “Write Club Open Mic” is a new monthly podcast that […]
DC4CC has announced their artist/producer cohort for Phase 2
The Disability Consultancy for Creative Change (DC4CC) is proud to announce the cohort of six selected artists/producers that will be paired with six organisations in the East of England for […]
Mark Richards, Director of Metal Peterborough, to depart the organisation at the end of 2022
Our Director of Metal in Peterborough, Mark Richards, will be departing the organisation at the end of this year. Mark joined us in 2013, opening our central base in the […]
New Artistic Director and CEO, Susie Thornberry, joins Metal
Today we’re announcing our new Artistic Director and CEO, Susie Thornberry following the departure of Colette Bailey who spent 20 years in the role, working closely with our founder Jude […]