Metal's CAFE VALISE at Leigh Community Centre is now open again after the Christmas break.

Pop in for a cup of tea & cake, a sandwich or anything else from our menu:

Open 10am-4pm Monday-Saturday.

For more information about CAFE VALISE click here.

Places for All tea party and exhibition of photographs by Liz Hingley was hosted by Metal at Chauffeurs Cottage in Peterborough on 24 November 2012.

It was the final community event of the oral history-based project Places for All? A Multimedia Investigation of Citizenship, Work and Belonging in a Fast-Changing Provincial City run by Ben Rogaly of the University of Sussex from March 2011 to March 2013. The event was coordinated by Jabeen Shafee of Step Up Community Association. Find out more about Places for All and participating organisations here.

Here is our short video and few photos from the event:

From the 20th to 22nd November, as part of the Liverpool Biennial, artist Ailie Rutherford introduced the guests at Metal to The Psychic Power of Plants.

By connecting to the plants the participants had a chance to explore the knowledge the plants might hold of the future, transforming it into a collection of surprising drawings.

Photos and drawings courtesy of the artist

www.ailierutherford.com

Jonathan Aasgaard, Metal's current artist in residence in Liverpool, led an amazing evening of music making last Thursday evening to bring Metal's series of events during The Biennial to a great close.

Jonathan invited along saxophonist Tom Challenger and composer Manuella Blackburn to perform at the station with him with him and the audience enjoyed a unique evening from three outstanding musicians. He also gave a first performance of a new work composed for him by Stephen Pratt and the programme concluded with Tom and Jonathan performing to an underscore created by Manuella which she directed from her mobile phone sending a live score to Jonathan and Tom which they viewed from computer screens as they performed.