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SUMMARY:Metal Peterborough: Open Advice Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Our Metal Open Advice Sessions for artists are back!  \nWe’re offering free 1:1 sessions for artists who live and/or work within our local areas. These sessions will be led by you and what you would like to discuss. \nYou can choose to have your session in person at our location at Chauffeurs Cottage in Peterborough\, 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. \nSessions are free and will be open on a first come first served basis (to those who live and/or work in the locations where we are based). Any artist that has previously booked a slot on our last 2 open advice sessions won’t be eligible this time.\n \nYou can book a free 1:1 slot with us here. \nWhat’s on offer?\n\nOur team will share their experience and backgrounds during a one-hour long session. Your session will be led by you\, and you can decide what you would like to discuss. What you share with us in the session will stay in the meeting. We will not share your ideas outside of the session space. The sessions can either be in person or online. Please let us know your preference when you book.\n \n\nWhat can you talk about? \nAnything to do with your art or practice! We can answer questions you might have about funding or put you in touch with networks and organisations\, or just discuss your project idea.  \nPrevious sessions have included: \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 \nThese sessions will be led by you\, so please come prepared with questions and discussion points. When booking your slot\, you will be invited to give us some context about what we will be discussing.\n \n\nWho can book an Open Advice Session? \nOur sessions are open to artists working in any artform at any stage of their career. Individuals\, collaborations or collectives can book a slot. \nThe only stipulation is that you must live or work in\, or have a strong connection to Peterborough or Cambridgeshire and the surrounding villages. \nThere is one session available per artist or group and the slots are 1 hour long. Session booking will be open on a first come first served basis.\n \n\nWho will you be talking to? \nIn Peterborough\, our team have a background working in community roles\, artist spaces or as practicing artists\, which include photography\, performance art and socially engaged work. We have experience developing and delivering participatory projects with artists\, organisations and local communities\, as well as developing activities with young people and arts for health and wellbeing. We’ve supported artists in a wide range of creative disciplines\, including artists who are in the early stages of their career and have a vast knowledge of Peterborough\, Cambridgeshire and Fenland. We have experience in supporting artists with their funding applications including Arts Council England. Learn more about our Peterborough site and our access in the space here.\n \n\nWhat timeslots are available? \nDuring the day you will be able to book one of our hour long sessions. Timings are: \n– 10am – 11am\n– 11.30am – 12.30pm\n– 1.30pm – 2.30pm\n– 3pm – 4pm\n– 4.30pm – 5.30pm \nHow to book: \nPlease book via our Eventbrite link here.    \nWe understand that projects and funding have different timelines that may fall outside of the dates of these bookable sessions. Please get in touch with your local site if you would like to arrange a chat outside of these sessions. Contact us here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/metal-peterborough-open-advice-sessions-2/
LOCATION:Metal Peterborough\, Chauffeur's Cottage\, St Peter's Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1YX
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:I will not be dragooned...
DESCRIPTION:The TOMA 2022/24 cohort and TOMA Associates\, are taking over Chalkwell Hall for a weekend exhibition\, events and workshops.  \nPrivate view: Friday 9 February\, 6-10pm. Join the guestlist here.\nExhibition open: Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 February\, 12-5pm. \n‘I will not be dragooned…’ aka ‘I will not be frightened out’. The family motto of the original owner of Chalkwell Hall\, as discovered by Rachel Lichtenstein\, author and archivist. In 2008\, Rachel was invited for a residency to help Metal uncover the history of Chalkwell Hall. The motto has been reinstated in the foyer of the building\, providing inspiration and encouragement for those who use the space today.  \nTOMA artists were enticed by this motto and felt it pertinent to their current practices and the ‘dreaming’ ways of TOMA. I will not be dragooned… presents a collection of works that hold a sense of strength\, history and belonging. From looking at this motto through a lens of perspectives and diverse creative practices\, TOMA artists have found insightful ways to express their own wills to not be dragooned.  \nWhether it be looking into the intricate and multifaceted nature of the internet\, slowing down\, taking haste\, engaging in child play\, sitting under trees\, seeking contemplation\, growing the capacity of our gardens\, reflecting on our public spaces or encouraging people to simply (yet profoundly) ‘get around to it’\, we invite you to embrace our individual creative processes and perhaps discover your own response to this motto. This exhibition shows how we benefit from coming together in collaboration to embolden each other’s fascinations.  \nTOMA current cohort artists:\n– Neeral Bhatt\n– Graham Burnett\n– Erene Dellaporta\n– James Forward\n– Gülşen Güler\n– Joanna Hartle\n– Edi McGurk\n– Eva Sbaraini\n– Kate Sullivan\n– Fredrix Vermin\n– Fern Worsley  \nTOMAssociates:\n– Fiona Bennett\n– Peter Haugh\n– Blandine Martin\n– Emma Mills\n– Paige Ockendon\n– Grace Price\n– Jonathan Rust\n– Jessica Scott\n– Gemma Shaw\n– Victoria Sills\n– Philippa Stewart\n  \nThe Other MA (TOMA) is an artist-run education model and exhibition space based in Southend on Sea which supports artists who have faced barriers accessing art education and the ‘art world’. 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/i-will-not-be-dragooned/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Southend: Open Advice Sessions for Global Majority Artists with Mia Jerome & Metal
DESCRIPTION:Metal Open Advice Sessions for global majority artists are back!  \nOn Wednesday 14 February\, 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 local artist Mia Jerome along with the Metal 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.  \nSessions will be open on a first come first served basis. 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 4 March so stay tuned for the announcement!
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/southend-open-advice-sessions-for-global-majority-artists-with-mia-jerome-metal/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:'Home is now - we are home': Interactive walk with Hayley Harrison #1
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Hayley Harrison for an interactive walk at dusk through Peterborough city centre to the river and back. During the walk\, Hayley will project words onto buildings\, benches and branches around us to make us reflect on our relationships to the landscape we are walking through\, and to the humans and non-humans we are sharing space with.   \nAfter the walk\, we will return to Chauffeurs Cottage to think about ‘home’ in the context of the earth crisis and capitalism. We will consider if we have found the refuge we need on our walk\, and if the landscape reflected our everyday desires for ourselves and our communities.   \nAt the end everyone will be invited to write their own text\, question or message which will be shared and projected at the second walk. These calls could reflect what we want or need\, or simply how we feel about what is needed to remake and reconnect the landscapes and communities around us.   \nBook your free place on the walk . \nAbout Hayley Harrison \nHayley Harrison works with people\, performance\, alternative photography\, text and projected moving image. They work directly outside or in response to urban landscapes. They invite local communities to celebrate their green spaces and places we call home\, finding specific questions relevant to places we inhabit\, and beings we share space with in that moment. Hayley also holds space for loss\, and sorrow in response to the ecological crisis and consequential collective and personal grief. \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet  \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will bring together artists and curious people through walks\, talks\, dinners and workshops to consider what we need at a time when the world feels fragile in many ways. \nInspired by ideas from the book ‘Radical Intimacy’ by Sophie K. Rosa\, Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will explore the themes of home and refuge\, the idea of rest and solidarity\, community and connection through a varied series of events. \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will take place as a selection of WALKS\, TALKS\, DINNERS and WORKSHOPS with plenty of ways to get involved. \nYou can find out more about the programme here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/home-is-now-we-are-home-interactive-walk-with-hayley-harrison-1/
LOCATION:Metal Peterborough\, Chauffeur's Cottage\, St Peter's Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1YX
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Radical Imagination: design inspired by collective creativity
DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop\, as part of Future Network\, join Ramona Zadissa (they/them) where you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with other participants to construct designs based on Islamic geometry to embrace a new form of intimacy through collaborative creativity and collective learning.  \nTogether we will explore the hidden mathematical concepts behind the intricate patterns of Islamic art\, where mathematics\, spirituality\, and aesthetics converge seamlessly.   \nThis workshop draws inspiration from Sophie K Rosa’s book Radical Intimacy\, questioning societal expectations and capitalist ideologies prescribing a singular path to fulfilment. In the spirit of radical imagination\, we challenge conventional norms and embrace a new form of intimacy through collaborative creativity and collective learning.   \nDuring the workshop you will focus on the creative process of creating work together\, while learning a new technique. Participants will create artworks\, that might disappear/ aren’t lasting\, and create Islamic geometric designs on large rolls of paper\, creating something together.   \nThis workshop isn’t just about learning the basics of Islamic geometric design; it’s a call to reimagine our relationship with art\, society\, and ourselves.  \nWhat is Islamic Geometric design? \nThe geometric designs in Islamic art are often built on combinations of repeated squares and circles\, which may be overlapped and interlaced\, as can arabesques (with which they are often combined)\, to form intricate and complex patterns.   \nAbout Ramona Zadissa \nRamona Zadissa (they/them) is a creative freelancer\, passionate about community engagement\, collaborative learning\, skill sharing\, and curious about ways to make this world a colourfully brilliant place for all.  \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will bring together artists and curious people through walks\, talks\, dinners and workshops to consider what we need at a time when the world feels fragile in many ways.  \nInspired by ideas from the book ‘Radical Intimacy’ by Sophie K. Rosa\, Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will explore the themes of home and refuge\, the idea of rest and solidarity\, community and connection through a varied series of events.  \nStrong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will take place as a selection of WALKS\, TALKS\, DINNERS and WORKSHOPS with plenty of ways to get involved.  \nYou can find out more about the programme here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/radical-imagination-design-inspired-by-collective-creativity/
LOCATION:Metal Peterborough\, Chauffeur's Cottage\, St Peter's Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1YX
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Future Station: I'm Watching Out of my Ears - Echoes of Narcissus in the Work of Arthur Russell
DESCRIPTION:Our Future Station talk is back at Edge Hill Station on Tuesday 27 February from 6pm\, featuring writer Matt Colquhoun who will discuss how self-love can be reread as self-transformation.  \nIn this talk\, Matt will draw from their latest book ‘Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie’ (Repeater Books\, 2023) and the work of Arthur Russell to discuss their reflections on whether narcissism is positive and necessary and its relationship to queerness.   \nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, UK. Alongside their most recent work\, Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (2023)\, they are the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures (2021). Check out their blog: xenogothic.com.  \nThis talk is in partnership with experimental fiction publisher and shop Dead Ink Books and radical writing publisher Repeater Books.  \nThere will be a short Q+A with Matt after the talk. Free (vegan) food will be served after the talk and there will be a chance to discuss ideas further. As places are limited\, we are asking for a deposit of £5 which will be refunded when you attend. Walk-ups are welcome\, subject to availability. Book tickets here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/future-station-im-watching-out-of-my-ears-echoes-of-narcissus-in-the-work-of-arthur-russell/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:MNAN: How to take care when making autobiographical work - A conversation with Sophie K Rosa & Kelly Green
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special in-conversation online with author of ‘Radical Intimacy’ Sophie K Rosa and artist Kelly Green.  \nEver considered making autobiographical work? Maybe you’ve questioned about how to care for yourself when using your own experiences to create work? On Thursday 29 February\, Sophie K Rosa and Kelly Green will discuss their experiences and top tips for making work based on personal experiences. Get involved with the Q&A at the end of the conversation too and bring any burning questions along.  \nBook your free online place . \nThis event is part of Metal Peterborough’s ‘Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet’ programme\, bringing together artists and curious people through walks\, talks\, dinners and workshops to consider what we need at a time when the world feels fragile in many ways.  \nAbout Sophie K Rosa\nSophie K Rosa is a writer and freelance journalist. She has written for Novara Media\, Guardian\, Buzzfeed\, VICE\, Al Jazeera\, Aeon and CNN. In 2018\, she was openDemocracy’s feminist investigative journalism fellow\, producing a series of articles tracking the backlash against women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights. \nAbout Kelly Green \nKelly Green is a interdisciplinary performance artist; a caring\, feisty\, hot mess. She was the artist-in-residence with LADA and Canterbury Christ Church University (2016-2018) for their programme with Tate Exchange exploring class and cultural privilege. Kelly has created two solo shows CHAV and SLAG\, and her current work MILF (the Musical) is a co-creation theatre project exploring motherhood in all its forms and genders. 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/mnan-how-to-take-care-when-making-autobiographical-work-a-conversation-with-sophie-k-rosa-kelly-green/
LOCATION:UK Wide (Online Event)\, Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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