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    Where We Are… Taster Session: Mini Museums with Fi Cifaldi

    RBI Art Centre CIC, Queensgate, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT RBI Art Centre CIC, Queensgate, Long Causeway, Peterborough

    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 […]

    Open Advice Sessions with Metal Liverpool

    Metal Liverpool Platform 1, Edge Hill Station, Tunnel Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? Metal can support you!

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    Make Time For Love

    Wavertree High Street High St, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

    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.

    Free

    Make Time For Love – Celebration Day

    Wavertree High Street High St, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Creative Peer Meet-up and Sharing

    Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery 51 Priestgate, Peterborough, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    Vanquishing the Cultural Ghosts of Cambridge

    Anglia Ruskin University, Room LAB:006 Anglia Ruskin University, Room LAB:006, East Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    A workshop with artist and facilitator Kate Genever.
    Is it possible to imagine a bold cultural future for Cambridge, without addressing our ghosts? 

    Free
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    Open Advice Sessions for local artists with Metal Liverpool

    Metal Liverpool Platform 1, Edge Hill Station, Tunnel Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    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. […]

    Positive Notes Collage Workshop with Joel Rodriguez at Dream Space

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    Invited by Metal: Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity by Joanna Holland 

    Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery 51 Priestgate, Peterborough, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    £7.50

    Dream Space: Imagine a Reading Room workshop

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    Dream Space: We’re all from somewhere… with Soraya Smithson and Kate Genever

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    Dream Space: Help Create Peterborough’s Pop-Up Reading Room

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    Metal Open Advice Sessions – Peterborough

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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: […]

    Free

    Get a Room: Social — Dream Access Terminal with Lawrence Becko

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free

    From Here: Cambridge, Creatively

    Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

    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? 

    Free

    The Connective Tissue of Cambridge – Workshop with Amy Vaughan

    Cambridge Room, Unit 57, The Grafton Centre (opposite H&M Home and Boots) Cambridge Rooms, Unit 57, The Grafton Centre (opposite H&M Home and Boots), Cambridge

    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. 

    Free

    Get a Room: Social — The Exhale with artist Hana Sayeed (Malika Speaks)

    Unit 27 Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough PE1 1NT, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Get a Room: Social — The Exhale with artist Hana Sayeed (Malika Speaks)  Sunday 30 November 1-3pm   Dream Space, Unit 27, Queensgate, Peterborough    Are you an artist / creative looking to network, share your latest projects, or simply connect with like-minded individuals? Come along to our next Get a Room Social at Metal Peterborough - space […]

    Free

    Create Cambridge: Artist Open Advice Sessions with Issam Kourbaj

    Cambridge Room, Unit 57, The Grafton Centre (opposite H&M Home and Boots) Cambridge Rooms, Unit 57, The Grafton Centre (opposite H&M Home and Boots), Cambridge

    Calling all artists and creative freelancers based in Cambridge! Are you looking to discuss your creative practice or explore a project idea? Metal is hosting free 1:1 Open Advice Sessions in Cambridge with guest artists as part of the Create Cambridge programme. These sessions are for artists and freelancers who live and/or work in Cambridge and will be led by you and what you would like to discuss. 

    Free

    Create Cambridge: Artist open advice sessions with Bryony Kimmings

    UK Wide (Online Event) Online, United Kingdom

    Calling all artists and creative freelancers based in Cambridge! Are you looking to discuss your creative practice or explore a project idea? 

    Metal is hosting free 1:1 Open Advice Sessions in Cambridge with guest artists as part of the Create Cambridge programme. These sessions are for artists and freelancers who live and/or work in Cambridge and will be led by you and what you would like to discuss. 

    Free
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