• Creative Break Time

    Creative Break Time is an opportunity to transform the creative learning landscape in Southend and across the country. Teachers are exhausted – how do we give them creative respite to […]

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    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 through innovative creativity, arts and culture.  […]

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    This Is Us

    We believe that art has a powerful role to play in making change and building pride in our communities. This is why we have partnered with Castle Point Council and […]

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    Essex Writers House 2024

    This June, Metal Southend will become a house for writers to read, to write overlooking the Thames Estuary, to get help and feedback on work or to have lively, meandering […]

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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    Anvil – Metal New Artist Network Zine

    In April 2022, Metal announced a call out for submissions of artwork, essays, prose and more, that capture the experiences of being an early career artist. These submissions were curated […]

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    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 […]

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