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SUMMARY:Creative Peer Meet-up and Sharing
DESCRIPTION:Part of: Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay\, Platfoma festival \nSunday 5 October \, 3 – 4:30pm | Peterborough Museum | Free | Open to artists\, producers\, creatives  \nDo you explore themes of home\, movement\, or identity in your work?\nAre you looking to connect with others on a similar path?  \n  \nAs part of Platforma Festival 2025\, we are inviting artists\, producers\, and creatives to a creative peer meet–up and sharing session led and hosted by artists Olga Jurgenson and Idit Nathan.  \n  \nThis friendly and reflective session is for creatives working with themes such as migration\, memory\, and belonging – whether you’re early on in your practice or more established. Together\, we’ll explore how peer mentoring can support artistic growth\, spark new ideas\, and foster meaningful connection.  \n  \nYou’ll have the chance to:  \n\nShare your work in a supportive space \n\n\nConnect with other artists working around similar themes \n\n\nReflect on your creative practice through conversation and collaboration \n\n  \nCome along to share\, reflect\, and build creative solidarity\, in the first of what we hope will be many gatherings.  \n  \n Book your free peer sharing spot  \nA piece of artwork by Olga Jurgenson titled Aleksander and Arnold from Snezhinki (Snowflakes) 2025.\n  \nThe address for the Museum is:   \nPeterborough Museum and Art Gallery\, Priestgate\, Peterborough\, PE1 1LF  \nThe what3words location is: vest.spaces.posed  \n  \n  \nThis meetup is part of the wider Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay project / exhibition\, centred around a group exhibition at Broadway Gallery\, Letchworth by four female artists with family history of migration (4 September – 18 October). The project is supported by Metal\, Platforma Festival 2025\, and Arts Council England.  \n  \nYou can find more about the exhibition here: https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/leaving-were-the-ones-who-could-not-stay/    \n  \nAbout the facilitators:   \n  \nOlga and Idit are collaborators in a long-standing peer mentoring group at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge\, as well as exhibiting artists in the exhibition\, Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay at Broadway gallery in Letchworth (part of Platforma Festival 2025).\n \nOlga Jürgenson \nOlga Jürgenson was born in Siberia and raised in Estonia; she is currently based in Cambridge and works and exhibits internationally. Participant in significant group exhibitions globally\, including 56th Venice Biennial\, MANIFESTA 10\, Liverpool\, Moscow and Ural biennials\, awarded numerous grants and awards from several European foundations. Olga produced and curated the National Pavilion of Mauritius at the 56th and 57th Venice Biennale. Her current artistic work involves rummaging through the archives of her ancestors and learning from their experiences in carpentry\, crocheting\, and surviving bloodthirsty dictators.\n  \n\nIdit Elia Nathan  \nIdit Elia Nathan grew up in Jerusalem and is currently based in Cambridge. Her work is exhibited and held in collections in the UK and abroad. She is a conceptual artist whose work includes interactive installations\, live events\, games\, audio-visual works\, walks and artists’ books where play and audience participation operate as a productively provocative space to challenge accepted understandings. Using found objects\, playing with optics\, scale and perspective\, her current projects document and investigates the challenging historical and cultural context we find ourselves in.    \n  \n  \nAbout Platforma festival  \nCo-produced by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with local artists and organisations\, Platforma is a festival that takes place every two years in a different part of England. The aim is to present work by\, with and about refugees to a wide audience\, build capacity and share learning. Platforma 2025 will include more than 35 arts events across music\, theatre\, film exhibitions\, and more.   \nPlatforma 2025 in Peterborough is produced by 62 Gladstone Street\, a community-rooted arts space in the heart of Peterborough with a particular focus on supporting South Asian and MENA artists. Through exhibitions\, residencies\, and public programmes\, it provides a vital platform for underrepresented voices and fosters meaningful dialogue between artists and the wider community.  \nPartners: Counterpoints Arts\, Landmark Theatres\, Peterborough Cultural Alliance\, Metal Peterborough\, Peterborough Presents\, Peterborough Museum\, HELP Charity\, and the Aziz Foundation  \nFind out more about the Peterborough Platforma here.   \n  \n 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/creative-peer-meet-up-and-sharing-part-of-leaving-were-the-ones-who-could-not-stay-platfoma-festival/
LOCATION:Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery\, 51 Priestgate\, Peterborough\, PE1 1LF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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SUMMARY:Vanquishing the Cultural Ghosts of Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:A workshop with artist and facilitator Kate Genever \n20 October 2025 \n12 – 2:30pm  \nRoom LAB:006\, Anglia Ruskin University\,\nEast Rd\, Cambridge CB1 1PT \nFree\, booking recommended. \n  \nIs it possible to imagine a bold cultural future for Cambridge\, without addressing our ghosts?  \nIn this hands-on\, thought-provoking workshop\, artist and facilitator Kate Genever will guide Cambridge’s creative community through a collective exploration of the ‘ghosts’ that linger in the city’s cultural and artistic life.  \nKate Genever is an artist and facilitator who works alongside communities to imagine and shape the future.  \nTogether\, we will:  \n\nConsider the hauntings that shape our cultural landscape \n\n\nGive form to these literal and metaphorical ghosts\, bringing the unseen into view \n\n\nReflect through conversation and creative acts\, as we make space for new visions. \n\nTimed just before Halloween\, this session invites artists and creatives of all disciplines to gather\, reflect and take part in a collective act of cultural exorcism.  \nThis workshop is part of Create Cambridge\, the city’s cultural compact bringing together artists\, cultural organisations\, academic institutions\, industry and civic partners to shape a bold new cultural vision for Cambridge.  \nOpen to artists and the creative community of Cambridge.  \nLet us know you’re coming by booking your place here. \n  \n  \nAbout Create Cambridge  \nCreate Cambridge is the city’s cultural compact\, bringing together artists and cultural organisations with academic\, industry\, and civic partners to lead on a bold new vision for culture in Cambridge.  \n\nChampioning Culture – Making Cambridge a globally recognised champion of creativity and artistic innovation\, where arts organisations\, artists and citizens flourish together. 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/vanquishing-the-cultural-ghosts-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:Anglia Ruskin University\, Room LAB:006\, Anglia Ruskin University\, Room LAB:006\, East Road\, Cambridge\, CB1 1PT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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SUMMARY:Get a Room: Metal Social hosted by Artist Alfie Winters of One-Hour Residency
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us on Thursday 30 October\, 7-9pm\, for Get a Room – a Metal Social offering space for creatives to gather\, connect\, and collaborate. During the evening you’ll share ideas\, plan projects\, and meet like-minded people – all in the welcoming environment of Metal’s home in Southend\, Chalkwell Hall. \nThis Metal Social will be hosted by local artist Alfie Winters\, founder of the one-hour residency at Chalkwell Hall. \nExpect: \n\na warm welcome\nopportunities for connection\ncreative conversation\na tombola of art-making prompts\nfun resources and games including ‘Artist’s Truth or Dare’.\n\nHost Alfie Winters is a visual artist and educator from Essex\, working from Studio 12\, Leigh-on-Sea. His work explores performance\, process\, and archive\, applying these to create lo-fi autonomy. With a photography background\, his lens-based work questions and documents practice-based research in artistic spaces. \nBook your free ticket via Eventbrite HERE \n  \nMetal Socials are part of Get a Room\, Metal’s programme of artist-led hangouts for fun\, solidarity\, togetherness\, and challenge in Liverpool\, Peterborough\, Southend and online. Get a Room asks\, ‘what are the creative spaces we need for fruitful conversations and connection in these times?’ 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/get-a-room-metal-social-hosted-by-artist-alfie-winters-of-one-hour-residency/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Open Advice Sessions for local artists with Metal Liverpool
DESCRIPTION:Want to discuss your creative practice\, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations?  \nMetal’s Open Advice Sessions for local artists return this Autumn. We want to support you on your creative journey.  \nWe’re offering free one-to-one sessions in-person or online for artists and creatives who live and/or work within our local area. These sessions will be led by you and what you would like to discuss\, which might include:  \n\nDiscussing your creative practice \n\n\nTalking through a project idea \n\n\nAdvice or sign posting to different funding routes or opportunities \n\n\nBuilding relationships with different organisations\, voluntary groups\, partners or venues \n\n\nBudget development or reading sections of draft applications \n\n  \nWho is this for?  \nWe’re offering these sessions for people to discuss their work with us in-person or online. There is one session available per artist and the slots are 1 hour long. Sessions are free and will be open on a first come first served basis to those who live and/or work in Liverpool City Region where we are based. To ensure we can support as many artists and creatives as possible\, anyone who has previously booked a slot with us in the past 12 months won’t be eligible this time.  \n  \nThings to note  \nOur team will share their experience and backgrounds with the disclaimer that that some things brought into the Open Advice Sessions might be outside of our expertise. In this instance\, we will try our best to help in the session. What you share with us in the session will stay in the meeting. We will not share your ideas outside of the session space.  \n  \nAbout the Metal Liverpool team  \nIn Liverpool we are all practicing artists in our spare time and have various levels of experience developing participatory projects and workshops with clear social and political impacts\, working with people from diverse backgrounds. We have supported a variety of artistic disciplines and support a community of artists in our buildings from theatre\, dance\, film\, music\, writing\, sculpture\, drawing and painting\, as well as arts for health and wellbeing benefits. We have experience applying for Arts Council funding\, as well as smaller locally based trusts and funds. Learn more about our Liverpool site and our access to the building here.  \nOnce you’ve made your appointment\, the Metal team will be in touch over email.  \nBook an Open Advice Session to speak with the Metal Liverpool team. Come along and discuss your ideas – we look forward to meeting you!  \n 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/open-advice-sessions-for-local-artists-with-metal-liverpool/
LOCATION:Metal Liverpool\, Platform 1\, Edge Hill Station\, Tunnel Road\, Liverpool\, L7 6ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured,Liverpool
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SUMMARY:Positive Notes Collage Workshop with Joel Rodriguez at Dream Space
DESCRIPTION: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 our Positive Notes project.   \nCollages made during the workshop will form part of an online exhibition linked to Positive Notes\, celebrating the imagination and voices of young people across the city.  \nDrop in\, make\, chat\, and add your story to Peterborough’s future.  \nNo experience needed\, just curiosity and open minds!   \nPositive Notes is an arts project developed with young people (aged 13–25) from across Peterborough. Working with artist Joel Rodriguez\, it uncovers and celebrates the hidden gems of the city\,  stories of amazing people\, places and events. Community groups and young people have been shaping these artworks\, inspiring a series of colourful tile-based artworks that will soon be installed across the city centre\, forming a trail of creativity\, connection and pride.  \nDream Space is Metal’s new pop-up creative hub in Queensgate\, transforming an empty shop into a welcoming space for reading\, reflection\, and making. At the centre of Dream Space is our Pop-Up Reading Room\, a place where ideas are cooked up\, books are shared\, and conversations spark. Featuring titles from Left Book Club\, Pluto Press\, and local artists\, the Reading Room invites visitors to slow down\, explore\, and connect through creativity.  \nFor more information please contact Sarah at sarah@metalculture.com   \nImage Credit: Anthony Ashely
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/positive-notes-collage-workshop-with-joel-rodriguez-at-dream-space/
LOCATION:Unit 27\, Queensgate Shopping Centre\, Long Causeway\, Peterborough PE1 1NT\, Peterborough\, Cambridgeshire\, PE1 1NT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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