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Connect & Create: Empowering People Through Art
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Metal Southend
Creative Break Time
Creative Break Time is a bold three-year project in collaboration with four Southend schools to explore how creativity could improve the working lives of teachers.
Essex Writers House 2026: Full programme coming soon
Metal Southend will host Essex Writers House 2026, working in partnership with Essex Book Festival. Full programme to be released here soon.
Poets in Every Port 2025/27
Metal And Estuary Festival in partnership with the Southbank Centre We’re thrilled to announce that Metal and Estuary Festival are partnering with the Southbank Centre on two major national projects. […]
Brentwood Creative Changemakers
Brentwood is home to a dynamic creative community of freelancers, businesses, networks, venues and organisations, working to make positive impact across the local community.
This Is Us
We believe that art has a powerful role to play in making change and building pride in our communities.
Lucky Dip
Taking place 4 times a year, each with different guest hosts, this programme exists to connect local creatives with each other, celebrate the joy in art, platform cross-disciplinary artists and […]
Essex Writers House
For the past six years, Metal Southend has presented Essex Writers House, a popular annual programme hosted at Chalkwell Hall in partnership with Essex Book Festival. Across the month, we […]
Estuary 2021
Estuary 2021’s mix of large and intimate scale visual art, literature, music and film took place over 23 days, from 22 May to 13 June 2021, celebrating culture, creativity, recovery […]
Agency for Creative Production: Putting production into practice
We are delighted to announce a new skills-based social enterprise Agency for Creative Production (ACP) has received initial investment from Creative Estuary through its Re:Generation 2031 programme. ACP is a […]
Art Makes Children Powerful
Metal presents a new in-school creative learning project for young people and their teachers, shaped by artists and practitioners living and working in South Essex, celebrating creativity in all forms! […]
