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SUMMARY:Mercury Creatives Southend Masterclass: So You Want to be a Director? with Dan Sherer
DESCRIPTION:Mercury Creatives have teamed up with Metal Southend and are using our space at Chalkwell Hall as their Southend hub! Check out one of their upcoming events below. \nMercury Creatives Southend Masterclass: So You Want to be a Director? with Dan Sherer – Book here! \nIn this workshop\, you will cover what a theatre director does and all the things that it might entail\, both inside and outside the rehearsal room. Such as working with actors and creative teams and how you might start off your journey into the professional industry. \nMeet the Facilitator\nDan Sherer was previously an Associate for New Work and Talent Development at the Mercury Theatre and is now a teacher at RADA and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, teaching acting and directing. He is one of the Creative Directors of And The Rest\, a multi-disciplinary production company making work across theatre\, film\, and dance: andtherest.org \nBursary Offer\nA limited number of free bursary places are available for this event.\nTo request one of these places\, please email mercury.creatives@mercurytheatre.co.uk. \nDon’t miss our Connect session\nJoin us from 8pm at our Mercury Creatives Connect in Southend event for an exciting networking opportunity. \n 
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/mercury-creatives-southend-masterclass-so-you-want-to-be-a-director-with-dan-sherer/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Southend
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SUMMARY:Words in Public Spaces: Launch
DESCRIPTION:Peterborough’s shopfronts are becoming public stages. \nJoin us for the launch of A/Owning\, a new public artwork by José García Oliva\, as part of Words in Public Spaces. \nWords in Public Spaces is a new public art commission from Metal\, part of Peterborough Cultural Alliance’s Place Partnership Programme. Working with local shop owners across the city\, many of them migrant and second-generation families\, José has adapted each awning into stages for a city-wide cultural programme. \nThe words on the awnings come from a poem written collectively by people in Peterborough. On the night\, we’ll move between each awning\, gathering the words as we go. \nBook your free tickets and learn more here.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/words-in-public-spaces-launch/
LOCATION:Chat and Chill\, 29 Bridge Street\, Peterborough\, PE1 1HJ
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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SUMMARY:Different Trains
DESCRIPTION:Ten years since the project’s debut at Edge Hill station\, we revisit Steve Reich’s Different Trains with Bill Morrison’s film accompaniment. \nA partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic\, and originally staged with support from Liverpool Biennial\, Sound Intermedia\, Southbank Centre and Culture Liverpool\, the film poignantly depicts train journeys spanning America and continental Europe during the Second World War. Celebrating other works made in Liverpool\, we hear a premiere from our tenth Rushworth Composition Prize winner Andrew Barney\, and music by local composers Mark Simpson\, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Nneka Cummins\, whose work finding gills (when they try to drown you) won an Ivor Novello Award. \nThis event marks the 10th anniversary with a commemorative performance at the Tung Auditorium\, in partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic 10:10 Orchestra.
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/different-trains/
LOCATION:Tung Auditorium\, 60 Oxford Street\, Liverpool\, L7 3NY
CATEGORIES:Liverpool
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SUMMARY:Forest Management by S. Reeson: Poetry sharing & launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 14th October\, 7-9pm at Chalkwell Hall for an evening with local artist and poet S. Reeson\, who will be launching a new poetry pamphlet\, Forest Management.\n\n\n\nFree Event: tickets bookable via Eventbrite here \n  \n\nS. Reeson’s powerful poetry is set amongst the trees\, exploring themes of trauma and healing\, fear and revelation\, navigating tensions between control and wilderness against the backdrop of our own personal and emotional landscapes. \nExpect an evening of sharings\, readings and signings with special guests amongst the welcoming environment of Metal’s home in Southend\, Chalkwell Hall. \n  \nAbout artist and poet S. Reeson \nS. Reeson is a published poet\, exhibited photographer and passionate mental health advocate. For the last decade they’ve combined these three skills in increasingly satisfying and occasionally unexpected ways on a page\, in person and across the Internet. S’s practice explores themes of mental health\, anxiety\, personal identity\, social injustice\, and environmentalism through a multi-disciplinary artistic lens. \nIn June 2026\, S completed a Writers in Residency with Metal Southend as part of Essex Writers House and facilitated workshops with Southbank Centre’s A Poet in Every Port Mobile Poetry Library Porject and has recently exhibited in Leigh Art Trail. \nForest Management is S’s second published pamphlet following their debut poetry chapbook: Flammable Solid. \nMore about S. Reeson here
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/forest-management-by-s-reeson-poetry-sharing-launch/
LOCATION:Metal Southend\, Chalkwell Hall\, Chalkwell Avenue\, Southend on Sea\, Essex\, SS08NB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Southend
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SUMMARY:A/Owning
DESCRIPTION:A/Owning is a new public artwork by José García Oliva\, as part of Words in Public Spaces. \nWorking with local shop owners across the city\, many of them migrant and second-generation families\, José has adapted each awning into stages for a city-wide cultural programme. The words on the awnings come from a poem written collectively by people in Peterborough. \nOn the night\, contemporary dance performances and live music will happen under the awnings. The music is written for each shopfront and draws on its sounds\, its owners and the places its food and people come from. A part of each piece will also be improvised in response to what is happening around: a door opening\, a bus passing\, voices at the till. \nRefreshments will be served at the final shop location\, plus there will be a DJ night led there too! \nWords in Public Spaces is a new public art commission from Metal\, part of Peterborough Cultural Alliance’s Place Partnership Programme. \nBook free tickets here. \nImage credit: Alice Mann
URL:https://metalculture.com/whats-on/a-owning/
LOCATION:2020 World Buffet\, 35 New Road\, Peterborough\, PE1 1FJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Peterborough
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