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SUMMARY:Custodians of Our Culture
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Liverpool Black Archive Hub (LBAH). \nJoin Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network (LADFN) for an evening of film and conversation celebrating Liverpool Black Archive Hub (LBAH). LBAH is new online archive of film and photographs celebrating Liverpool’s Black Experience. LBAH catalogues a wealth of stories with a focus on the creativity of Liverpool’s Black community\, in a searchable resource perfect for researchers\, filmmakers and anyone interested in social history and Liverpool’s Black experience both historically and now. \nCome to Metal at Edge Hill train station and join Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network’s director Michelle Peterkin-Walker and a panel of special guests Jenaya Pickett\, Jimi Jagne\, Dr S-J Smith to explore the significance of archiving and visibility\, view a screening of highlights from the archive and find out more about the project.  \nThis event is suitable for anyone aged 16+. Refreshments will be provided. \nTo reserve a place for free\, click this link here. \n \n    \n  \nPreview the website below and at LBAH.co.uk \n 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/custodians-of-our-culture/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Lucky Dip: Life Drawing with a difference
DESCRIPTION:Lucky Dip is back at Chalkwell Hall to spice up your creative calendar! This quarterly event is a chance for local artists and creatives to connect and celebrate the joy in art. \nBook free tickets here. \nLucky Dip is formatted as an evening of two halves: \nFirst up\, a surprise creative session led by our guest artist host for this month\, Andy Downes. For October\, Andy is hosting a life drawing session with a difference! No spoilers\, it’s a space to try something new and for creative exploration. \nThe second half? It’s all about mingling and our human notice board! Come with something to share\, to spark collaborations\, and even throw those creative challenges you’ve been chewing on into the mix. Our bar will be open for you to have a drink and have a friendly chat with some new faces. \nLucky Dip breaks down the formal format of networking to bring people together in an accessible\, fun and informal way. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just dipping your toes into Southend’s art scene\, join us for evenings that are relaxed and creatively inspiring. \nWe hope you can make it! Doors are at 7pm and tickets are limited\, so be sure to book your free place here. \n \nAbout our guest host\, Andy: \nAndy Downes is a local visual artist renowned for his bold and textural creations\, characterised by energetic brushstrokes and thought-provoking color palettes\, his practice has a primary focus on portraiture and figurative subjects. \nAndy’s artistic journey has taken him from local exhibitions in Essex to London\, where his original paintings and prints have found homes across Europe. Beyond his practice\, Andy is a driving force within Southend’s creative community. Andy is based from and runs the Largest Little Known Studio on Grainger Road\, transforming the industrial unit in the heart of Southend into a spacious and creative hub. This new space holds a large workshop\, a dedicated life drawing area\, and a relaxed lounge where creative ideas flow freely. \nAndy Downes has also left an indelible mark on Southend’s cultural landscape by establishing the “Portrait Artist of the Year” competition and spearheading the “Southend’s Urban Landscape Open” initiative\, which welcomes both amateur and professional plein air landscape artists.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/lucky-dip-life-drawing-with-a-difference/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Future Network - Alternative Process Photography with Martha Cattell
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to welcome artist Martha Cattell to host an Alternative Process Photography workshop as part of our Future Network programme. \n\n\nDuring the workshop we will think about how you can have a more sustainable art practice with a focus on alternative process photography and testing out multiple ways of making camera-less photography. We will think about things from materials through to presentation. \nMartha will explore Metal’s garden to look at different ways of interacting with our environments\, before testing alternative methods of making camera-less photography\, such as cyanotypes\, anthotypes\, chemigrams\, as well as learning about various developers to help in this process. \nThe workshop will offer a chance to reflect on your art practice through an eco-lens\, share your own ideas and have a play with some alternative photography techniques. \nNo prior experience of photography is needed\, just your creativity and an open mind! \nTo book click here \n\n\n\n\nLunch \nDuring lunch there is the opportunity for participants to connect over some light refreshments. To share what you’ve created\, talk about your own practice\, or just find out what people are up to. Some snacks and refreshments will be provided\, but please feel free to bring your own lunch. \nIf you have any questions or queries\, then please feel free to get in touch at sarah@metalculture.com or on 01733 893077 \n\n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nAbout Martha Cattell \n\nMartha’s work explores tensions between nature and culture\, through memory and material. Their work typically revolves around moving image and photography; either curating or making\, and often incorporates or questions notion of the archive. They are currently creating work about the Fens and the lowest point in Britain. \nhttps://www.marthacattell.com
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/future-network-alternative-process-photography-with-martha-cattell/
LOCATION:Metal Peterborough\, Chauffeur's Cottage\, St Peter's Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1YX
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Hosted at: Cine-Sister presents The Baby Question (Film & Discussion)
DESCRIPTION:In 1974\, the contraceptive pill was made available to single women on the NHS for the first time. What has changed since then? What if child-free/childless women were at the centre of that narrative? The Baby Question is a theatrical film exploring the narratives of women who are child-free by choice or circumstance\, set in the world of a seventies top of the pops style chart tv show. Post show discussion hosted by artist Becky Owen-Fisher. \nBook free tickets here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/hosted-at-cine-sister-presents-the-baby-question-film-discussion/
LOCATION:Metal Peterborough\, Chauffeur's Cottage\, St Peter's Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1YX
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Workshop with Diabel Cissokho
DESCRIPTION:Africa Oyé and Metal present a musical instrument workshop and performance with griot and world-class Kora player\, Diabel Cissokho. \nPart of the great line of Cissokho griots\, Diabel grew up in Dakar and Tambacounda\, Senegal. Surrounded by a rich musical heritage and a family of musicians\, he began playing a number of traditional instruments. However\, his affinity with the kora was clear from an early age. A trailblazer and pioneer of the kora\, Diabel’s virtuosic talent\, his “resonant voice and rocking kora style” (Songlines)\, have been welcomed everywhere from WOMAD\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, Glastonbury\, Africa Oyé and the Barbican\, including a long stint as Baaba Maal’s kora player. \nDiabel Cissokho will host a musical instrument workshop and short acoustic performance at Metal Liverpool on Wednesday 18th October at their Platform 1 building in Edge Hill railway station. \nDoors to Metal will open at 6pm with a workshop start time of 6:30pm sharp. \nEntry to this event is free of charge\, but places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. \nReserve a place on Eventbrite – limited to 25 places\, so please return your free ticket to someone on the Waiting List if you’re unable to attend. \nDiabel Cissokho’s workshops forms part of Metal Liverpool’s Black History Month programme. For more information\, please visit our project page. \n \n 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/diabel-cissokho-workshop/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Style Wars - film screening at Edge Hill station
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Black History Month programme\, Liverpool Hip Hop Festival and Metal are proud to present a special screening of Style Wars at Edge Hill train station\, Liverpool. \nLauded as the definitive hip hop documentary of its era\, 1983’s Style Wars became iconic for capturing the moment the graffiti scene rose in prominence before becoming an international phenomenon. The film follows early-days graffiti writers from the streets of New York into their homes and meeting their families\, alongside interviews with ‘talking heads’ authority figures such as spokespeople from the mayor’s office. \nStyle Wars helped to put hip-hop on the map – not just as an emerging style of music in rap but as a multi-faceted biproduct of\, and response\, to inner city life in the late 20th century. Hip hop has of course become appreciated since the 1980s as potentially the USA’s most valuable cultural export\, in Style Wars we see a flash back to when breakdancing\, beatboxing\, basketball and of course the act of painting on subway trains were all part of a vibrant\, wholly new creative-artistic-expressive spectrum that was largely lumped together as criminal activity. Misunderstood by wider society\, and certainly not part of mainstream cultural conversations\, over time this film can be seen as partly helping to correct those misconceptions about graffiti – and hip hop at large. Listen out for the classic one-liners and snippets of dialogue that have made their way into rap music samples since the film’s initial release (hint: “King of Style”)!  \nJoin us for a celebration of 50 years of Hip Hop\, with additional activities hosted by Liverpool rap music’s finest Nikki Blaze and Tony Broke to accompany the screening. \nThis event is suitable for audience members aged 16+. \nTickets are available here at this link. \nFind us at the first set of double yellow doors on your right as you arrive at Platform 1 in Edge Hill station. \nDoors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm film start time. Style Wars running time: 1hr 9min. \nSpace is limited so book early to avoid disappointment\, though we will aim to accommodate walk-ups on the night where we can. Please be aware we do not have central heating so wrapping up in warm layers is encouraged. We can supply some blankets\, and hot drinks will be provided free of charge (donations welcome). \nStyle Wars film screening forms part of Metal Liverpool’s Black History Month programme. For more information\, please visit our project page.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/style-wars-film-screening/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Residency Open Call Q&A Session
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 24 October\, we are hosting an online Q&A session via Zoom for everyone who is interested in applying for a residency with us. Book your free tickets . \nThe online Q&A session will be a chance to hear about our residency offer directly from the staff members who will be supporting you in Peterborough and Southend\, to meet team members and to ask any questions you might have about our residencies.   \nThe session will take place at 6pm and will last up to 60 minutes. It will include (approximately):  \n\n30 minutes of insight delivered by the Metal team  \n30 minutes of Q&A with the Metal team \n\nOur sessions are free\, but booking is essential. Please book your space .  \nOur Metal Residency Open Call is currently live until Monday 13 November at 5pm. Learn more about the opportunity and how to apply here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/residency-open-call-qa-session/
LOCATION:UK Wide (Online Event)\, Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Southend: Open Advice Sessions for Global Majority Artists with Elsa James & Metal
DESCRIPTION: Metal Open Advice Sessions for artists are back!  \nOn Wednesday 25 October\, we’re offering free sessions for global majority artists who live and/or work within our local area (South Essex – Basildon\, Brentwood\, Castle Point\, Rochford\, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock). This session will be supported by artist Elsa James along with the Southend team. Sessions will be led by you and what you’d like to discuss\, which might include:  \n-Discussing your creative practice\n-Talking through a project idea\n– Advice or sign posting to different funding routes or opportunities\n–Building relationships with different organisations\, voluntary groups\, partners or venues\n–Budget development or reading draft applications  \nWe’re offering these sessions in person at Chalkwell Hall\, as well as the option to discuss your work with us online. There is one session available per artist and the slots are 1 hour long. Book here. \nMeet Elsa James:\nElsa James is a British African-Caribbean conceptual artist and activist living in Essex since 1999. Her practice is rooted in contemporary Black activism and invested in an ongoing questioning of visibility and belonging that centres Blackness as a methodology for liberation. Through an interdisciplinary\, collaborative and research-based practice\, she works across live performance\, film\, prints\, spoken word\, neon\, and sound. She was a finalist for the prestigious Freelands Award with Focal Point Gallery in 2021 and\, this year\, a nominated recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award. Her work is held in private and public collections\, including the Government Art Collection and Beecroft Art Gallery\, for which she became the first Black British artist to be acquired into the gallery’s collection. In 2022\, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Essex. \n \nSessions will be open on a first come first served basis so book your free place here. \nWe are holding these sessions in response to our open call residencies and conversations with artists\, partners and the Metal team. We will be running more Open Advice Sessions for artists on Monday 13 November\, Monday 29 January and Monday 4 March so stay tuned for the announcements!
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/southend-open-advice-sessions-for-global-majority-artists/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:MNAN: Design Considerations with Design Print Bind
DESCRIPTION:Are you after design inspiration to help promote your practice? Or do you need top tips on how to create a flyer for your event? Join printed matter experts Design Print Bind as they walk you through a brief guide to visual communications. \nWe will look at the basics of making graphics for sharing online and for print using the example of a launch event for an artists’ book. The workflow\, prompts and tools discussed can be used and modified for a broad range of outcomes and adapted to support your own practice and events. \nBook your free tickets here. \nAbout Design Print Bind\nDesign Print Bind is the studio partnership of graphic designers Flaminia Rossi and Samantha Whetton. We design publications and other printed matter\, visual identities\, websites and teach print and bookbinding skills in universities and public programmes.\nWe operate primarily as graphic designers\, but also produce small runs of printed matter and publications by hand at London Centre for Book Arts\, where we access printing and binding facilities. There we work alongside other printers\, binders and artists and as a part of that larger community we are involved in workshops\, book fairs\, small press publishing and events. \n  \nBook your free tickets here.\nLearn more about our Metal New Artist Network here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/mnan-design-considerations-with-design-print-bind/
LOCATION:UK Wide (Online Event)\, Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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