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Date: Wednesday 2nd April 6pm – 7pm Online: Zoom Want to know more about our lead artist call out for Positive Notes? Then come along to this friendly and informal information session, a chance to hear about the project and ask the Metal team any questions you have regarding the application. Positive Notes is a brand-new […]
In this interactive session, New Art Exchange (NAE) will share their citizen-led approach to cultural programming—placing community voice at the heart of decision-making. Through case studies and discussion, the session will explore how citizen led models can shape more inclusive, resonant and far-reaching activity. Participants will consider how citizen leadership can inform not only programme […]
What or who makes you feel safe in Peterborough? How do you show others that they’re safe with you? Join artist Rose Croft for a drop-in workshop for folks aged 16 – 19, to create your own pocket of protection; a stitched or printed handkerchief or small fabric pouch that holds something important to […]
Come and create your own tiny "museum exhibits" that explore identity, storytelling, myths and legends of the city, or perhaps a vision of Peterborough’s future. Working with Fi Cifaldi, folks will decorate and display objects (real or symbolic), which can be made through air dry clay, drawing, painting, mixed media, collage and with various other […]
Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? Metal can support you!
Make Time For Love is a project created by artists YARA + DAVINA, commissioned by arts organisation Metal, and through collaboration with communities in L15, to celebrate the creativity that exists in the Wavertree and Picton neighbourhood.
Make Time For Love: Celebration Day – Saturday 20 September, 11am-5pm Make Time For Love is a project by arts organisation Metal, with artists YARA + DAVINA, commissioned by Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council. Make Time For Love is the finale of a 2-year programme called Picton Play with communities in L15, to celebrate the […]
Part of: Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay, Platfoma festival Sunday 5 October , 3 – 4:30pm | Peterborough Museum | Free | Open to artists, producers, creatives Do you explore themes of home, movement, or identity in your work? Are you looking to connect with others on a similar path? As […]
A workshop with artist and facilitator Kate Genever.
Is it possible to imagine a bold cultural future for Cambridge, without addressing our ghosts?
Join us on Thursday 30 October, 7-9pm, for Get a Room- a Metal Social offering space for creatives to gather, connect and collaborate hosted by artist Alfie Winters.
Want to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? Metal’s Open Advice Sessions for local artists return this Autumn. We want to support you on your creative journey. We’re offering free one-to-one sessions in-person or online for artists and creatives who live and/or work within our local area. […]
Looking for something creative to do this half-term? Join artist Joel Rodriguez at Dream Space for a hands-on collage workshop. We’ll be mixing up images, textures, and words to imagine future stories of Peterborough and Joel will be taking portraits of participants, with their consent, to capture the people behind the stories. All part of […]
Sunday 2 November, 7pm Peterborough Museum and Gallery Tickets £7.50 / free for people who identify as living with chronic illness, Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodiverse Ages 14+ Invited by Metal, multidisciplinary artist Joanna Holland brings her performance Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity to Peterborough. A once grand hall in an abandoned manor […]
Join Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck from the Alternative School of Economics, as they imagine and design a new modular, mobile Reading Room for Peterborough - and invite you to be part of it. We’ll think about how we make a space to be together, what a Reading Room could be, and how we can […]
Join artists Soraya and Kate on 13 November to explore what's in a name? Souvenirs and surnames overlap. Both things we keep, and both relate to specific times and places. Souvenirs come from close and faraway places. Names do too. Soraya and Kate invite you to join us over a collection of souvenirs as we […]
Join Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck from the Alternative School of Economics, as they dream up something new — a modular, mobile Reading Room for Peterborough — and they invite you to be part of it. Together we’ll reimagine what a reading room could be - a structure that can hold books and be a […]
Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea, or build relationships with local organisations? About the Sessions We’re offering free 1:1 sessions online or in person for artists who live and/or work within our local area. These sessions will be led by you and cover topics you’d like to discuss. This might include: […]
Get a Room: Social — Dream Access Terminal with Lawrence Becko Thursday 20 November, 6–8pm Dream Space, Unit 27, Queensgate, Peterborough Free Are you an artist / creative looking to network, share your latest projects, or simply connect with like-minded individuals? Come along to our next at Get a Room Social at Metal Peterborough - space […]
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?
Join cultural leader Amy Vaughan for an inspiring, hands-on workshop all about the 'connective tissue' of Cambridge’s creative life. Together, we’ll explore what could happen if we shifted to a 'yes, and' mindset - opening up new ways to collaborate, imagine, and make things happen.
