We're launching nine unique commissions to disrupt loneliness in interesting ways across Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend.
Artist Ideas to Disrupt Loneliness
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Metal Culture
Connect & Create: Empowering People Through Art
Connect & Create is an award-winning creative wellbeing initiative that brings people together through the transformative power of art.
In Other Words 3
At a time when creative space is scarce, when artists are often expected to define themselves within systems not built for them, In Other Words 3 offers something different.
Metal Welcome
How can we make our spaces feel more open, inclusive, and human? How can policy reflect care, collaboration, and real change?
Working Artist Weeks
Working Artist Weeks is an artist residency and work experience programme exploring the relationship between home, school, and art spaces.
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.
A Poet In Every Port
We’re shining a spotlight on Southend’s coastal stories as part of A Poet in Every Port.
Essex Writers House 2026
This year’s Essex Writers House celebrates the messy and circuitous paths writers take.
Contains Joy: Recycling Residency
Contains Joy - a creative project working with schools and communities across Liverpool to rethink our relationship with waste in fun, imaginative ways.
As We Gather
Artist Luca Rutherford’s As We Gather was an invitation to imagine, to pause, to listen.
The Citizens in Power Network
Metal has joined The Citizens in Power Network.
