Peterborough

What gives Cambridge it’s creative spark, it’s creative power? What energies, resources and ideas flow through the city? How might we build on them to shape a bold creative future together? 

Get a Room for DDN artists and creatives — John Clark online   Monday 15 December 6-7.30pm  Online - via Zoom      Are you an artist or creative that identifies as d/Deaf disabled & neurodivergent (DDN)? Are you a support worker, carer, or friend of someone who’s DDN and looking to connect with like-minded individuals? Autistic Filmmaker, John Clark […]

Here We Are is an exhibition of works expressing individuality, mess, union, and hope. Created by local young people in collaboration with Metal, The Kite Trust, and The British Museum, new urgent, noisy, and non-conformist works celebrate unheard voices and showcase queer joy.    During the Autumn of 2025, 15 local young people took part in Where We Are, a UK wide youth-led programme with The British Museum, supported […]

Here We Are is an exhibition of works expressing individuality, mess, union, and hope. Created by local young people in collaboration with Metal, The Kite Trust, and The British Museum, new urgent, noisy, and non-conformist works celebrate unheard voices and showcase queer joy.    During the Autumn of 2025, 15 local young people took part in Where We Are, a UK wide youth-led programme with The British Museum, supported […]

Join us for What We Heard: Artists to Artists - an evening bringing together members of Cambridge’s creative community for conversation, ideas and food, as we share the new Artists to Artists commissioned work and mark the culmination of a programme of shared dinners, gatherings, conversations and commissions connecting creative voices across Cambridge. Over several […]

Join us for a Banquet of Hope, hosted by Lizzie, Many and Marianne from the Wild Roots Collective on Thursday 26 March at 1pm - 3pm at Gladstone Connect. This is an afternoon of live storytelling, creativity and a three-course meal made with warm, seasonal food. This free event is for people living with ongoing […]

Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? We’re offering free 1:1 sessions in person for artists who live and/or work in Fenland and surrounding areas. Hosted by Viviana Checchia, our Director of Metal Peterborough, and Creative Fenland. These sessions will be led by you and what you would like to discuss, which might include:  - Discussing your […]

Join arts marketing professional Nazma Noor for a relaxed, informal Festival Network session with discussions that will help you think like your target audiences and generate ideas for how to use marketing to reach them. Together, we’ll explore questions such as: - What types of things do your audience care about? - What does good marketing look […]

Join a creative writing workshop and contribute words to be displayed across Peterborough. This workshop is an opportunity to explore the power of words and the hidden stories that keep Peterborough going. Led by former Peterborough Poet Laureates Charley Genever (2016) and Keely Mills (2009), we will use words found and overheard across the city […]