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SUMMARY:Liverpool Music Improvisors: Jair-Rohm Parker Wells
DESCRIPTION:International music improvisor Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is coming to Liverpool for a performance of his ‘Loopadelica’ project improvising on and processing the electric bass live. Also performing is Phantom Leg\, an eclectic collective mixing ambient\, ethnic\, electroacoustic\, and noise. \nCome along and experience the sounds on Friday 1 May from 7.30pm at Edge Hill Station. \nTickets are £8 / £5 unwaged and you can pay on the door.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/liverpool-music-improvisors-jair-rohm-parker-wells/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Liverpool
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SUMMARY:Peterborough Festivals Network
DESCRIPTION:After a short pause\, we’re restarting activity and creating space to reconnect with people working across festivals and events in Peterborough. Previously the Large Scale Festival Network\, this next phase is a soft re-start shaped by what’s needed now. \nFestival Exchange: Plans\, Needs & Opportunities\n \nOn Tuesday 5 May\, we’ll be hosting an evening social gathering from 6–8pm facilitated by Steph Peachey. This will be a chance to come together\, connect\, and share where things are at for your festival or event.  \nTogether\, we’ll explore questions such as: • What’s happening with your festival? •  What do you need? • What can you share?  \nYou’ll also have space to:\n• Talk through challenges\n• Exchange ideas and approaches\n• Spot opportunities to collaborate\n• Help shape what the Network offers next  \nWhether you’re planning a festival\, running an event\, or just starting to develop an idea\, you’re welcome.  \nWe’ll also be offering a limited number of 1:1 Open Advice Sessions on Thursday 7 May for those who would like a more in-depth conversation about their work.  \nRSVP and tell us what you’d find useful here. \nDelivered and funded in collaboration with Peterborough Cultural Alliance. 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/peterborough-festivals-network/
LOCATION:Cambridge Avenue\, Peterborough\, PE1 2JA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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SUMMARY:Creative Peer Meet-Up with Olga Jurgenson  & Idit Nathan
DESCRIPTION:Feeling stuck working on your own? Missing creative conversation\, shared thinking\, or simply being in a room (even a virtual one) with people who get it? \nJoin artists Olga Jurgenson and Idit Nathan for a relaxed and welcoming peer mentoring introductory session as part of Get a Room – space for creatives to come together\, spark new ideas\, and collaborate. Book a free place. \nOlga and Idit have both been part of a long-standing peer mentoring group and know first-hand how valuable it can be to have a space for reflection\, support\, accountability\, and creative exchange. This session is an invitation to come together with other artists and creatives\, meet like-minded people\, and explore what a peer-led support group could look like. \nWhether you’re looking for connection\, fresh perspective\, encouragement\, or just a space to think out loud with others\, this session is for you. \nTogether\, Olga and Idit will introduce some of the guiding principles of peer mentoring and help create a space for open conversation\, curiosity\, and creative solidarity. The hope is that this will support the formation of a new group that can continue meeting independently in the future. \nAn additional follow-up session will also be shaped around the needs of the group. \nThis session is free to attend. To book your space\, fill in the form here. \nAbout Get a Room\nGet a Room is all about making space for connection\, conversation\, and creative collaboration. It’s for artists and creative folks who want to think out loud together\, share early ideas\, and build something meaningful with others. These are the kinds of spaces that are often missing in our cities and across the country: spaces where people can come together to share\, reflect\, and explore ideas in a supportive\, private setting. This initiative supports the formation and development of artist- and creative-led groups built on kinship\, curiosity\, and solidarity. Groups where people can come together to talk about what’s on their minds\, swap experiences\, and maybe even dream up something new. \nAbout the artists \nIdit Nathan\nIdit is a Cambridge based conceptual artist\, her work includes interactive installations\, live events\, games\, audio visual works\, walks and artists’ books where play operates as a productively provocative space to challenge accepted understandings. Using optics\, scale and perspective participants respond to contemporary dilemmas both as actors with free will and actors in an historical and cultural context. Her artworks have been been exhibited internationally and are held in private and public collections. Idit has taught\, lectured and mentored privately and at art schools across the UK and until 2020 was associate lecturer at Central St. Martin’s College (University of the Arts London)\, where she completed an arts practice PhD titled Art of Play in Zones of Conflict – the Case of Israel Palestine in 2018. \nOlga Jürgenson\nBorn in Siberia\, raised in Estonia\, currently based in the UK\, Olga Jürgenson works and exhibits internationally. Her inherited familial nomadism\, combined with an inquisitive mind filtered through a feminist lens\, has led her to explore humanity’s search for utopian Paradise. Whether collaborating with the world’s first AI love doll Samantha\, researching television detective stories while questioning the role of God\, or painting portraits of robots disguised as celebrities\, Olga is drawn to the complexity of human nature. Her current work involves communicating with the spirits of her ancestors\, rummaging through their archives as they gladly share with her their Earthly experiences in carpentry\, crocheting and surviving bloodthirsty dictators. Olga has also participated in significant group exhibitions globally. 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/creative-peer-meet-up-with-olga-jurgenson-idit-nathan/
LOCATION:UK Wide (Online Event)\, Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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SUMMARY:Beating the Bounds: Picton Soundwalk
DESCRIPTION:Meeting at Metal\, Edge Hill Station at 10.30am for an 11.00am start.  \nStep into the stories of Picton and Wavertree this May\, as we gather for Beating the Bounds – a communal Rogation Day walk shaped by memory\, sound and shared experience. \nTogether\, we’ll retrace the route of the Picton Play Soundwalk\, created by sound artist Sara Wolff – an immersive audio journey built from the voices\, poems and lived experiences of local residents. \nThis special event invites you to walk the neighbourhood differently: to listen deeply\, notice the overlooked\, and reconnect with the places and people that make this area home. As we move through familiar streets\, stories will unfold through headphones and conversation alike\, blending past and present in a living map of community memory. \nRooted in the tradition of “beating the bounds\,” this shared walk becomes both a marking of place and a celebration of belonging – echoing Picton Play’s wider mission to bring people together through creativity\, play and collective exploration. \nWhether you joined the original soundwalk or you are discovering it for the first time\, this is an invitation to slow down\, tune in\, and walk together. \nJoin us. Walk\, listen\, and rediscover Picton. \nThe soundwalk will be followed by a light vegetarian lunch back at Metal\, Edge Hill Station\, with artist Sarah Wolff. Please note that tickets are limited. \nAccess\nWe will be walking together for approx. 45 minutes. Please wear comfortable shoes\, and dress for the weather. The soundwalk is accessed via mobile phone. You will need to bring your own device & headphones with you.  \nBook your free place here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/beating-the-bounds-picton-soundwalk/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Liverpool
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SUMMARY:Resetting Your Creativity Rhythm with Jeffrey Choy
DESCRIPTION:Clocks went forward on 29th March\, and we “lost” an hour. What if we used this seasonal shift to find a different kind of time? \nIn this edition of Get A Room\, artist and writer Jeffrey Choy invites you to a low-pressure social setting centred around the ups and downs of the creative process. This session specifically looks at the down cycles of creativity\, the essential periods of absorbing others’ arts\, daydreaming\, being playful and resting\, activities that are often treated as “unproductive”. This Get A Room is a curated space for collective rhythm with no expected outcome. Whether you’re in a high-energy creative phase or a quiet burnout phase\, you’re welcome to bring your “unfinished business” into the room. \nWhat to bring:\n– (optional) Your Work: A laptop to write\, a sketchbook to doodle\, knitting\, or a project you’ve been stuck on.\n– (optional) Your Inspiration: A book you’re currently devouring\, a handheld game you’re playing\, or a clip/reel that’s haunting your thoughts\n– (mandatory) Yourself: Just as you are\, whether you’re feeling high-battery or low-power. \nWhen: Thursday 14 May\, 5-7pm \nWhere: at RB7 Art Centre CIC\, Queensgate\, Long Causeway\, Peterborough PE1 1NT \nBook a free space here. \nAbout Jeffrey Choy\nJeffrey Choy is an artist and writer investigating the mechanics of cultural production\, with a focus on decolonial narrative\, through his practices of writing\, visual and spatial design\, documentation\, publication\, and interactive media. His practice examines the designer as scribe for commercial culture\, questioning how visual communication lends authoritative power to political and economic entities. Jeffrey works against this complicity\, interrogating how propaganda and class disparity become naturalised within culture. \nAfter a decade in visual communication and branding\, and having trained and worked in the fields of interior design and architecture\, Jeffrey’s creative trajectory shifted dramatically following the political upheaval in his hometown of Hong Kong. This rupture led him to rethink the role of media\, language\, and visual communication under conditions of state control. Across print\, digital media\, and physical spaces\, he explores how narratives are shaped\, censored\, and reclaimed. His publications work as both artistic objects and platforms for critical discourse\, often extending into participatory formats that treat play as a deliberate counter to late-capitalist crises and the ideology of infinite growth. \nHe is the co-founder and lead visual of Hidden Keileon CIC\, an artist-led collective working with migrant and queer communities to imagine futures through non-hierarchical collaboration and multidisciplinary\, life-affirming cultural projects. His artistic practice is shaped by collective authorship\, radical friendships\, and a politics of publishing grounded in the commons\, designing as a shared practice of survival and reimagination\, open to the curious and the critical alike.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/resetting-your-creativity-rhythm-with-jeffrey-choy/
LOCATION:RB7 Arts Centre\, Queensgate\, Queensgate Shopping Centre\, Long Causeway\, Peterborough\, PE1 1NT\,\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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