The borough of Southend is 125 years old this year! As part of the celebrations, Metal invited students from every school in the Borough to send a Love Letter to Southend. We received over 3000 entries! All of these postcards and thousands more will be shown in a huge exhibition at Village Green on Sat […]
Wonderful piece in the Echo celebrating Network Wellbeing Dementia Project and Dementia Awareness Week Colette said “As we get older often people don’t afford themselves the luxury of self-expression. We find that some people who might not have got into art find lots of creativity and love he chance to express themselves…We have built a […]
This week, it’s Mental Health Awareness Week (8-14 May 2017), followed by next week’s Dementia Awareness Week (14-20 May 2017). Please check out the information on different projects run under our NetPark Wellbeing Programme HERE. We’re proud to share these stats with you: · Over 600 HOURS of NetPark /Digital Art Mental Wellbeing delivered over last 16 […]
Lovely work being created at the Open Arts Digital Arts sessions – just one of the FREE Network Wellbeing groups we run out of our busy Metal Art School right here in the hub of Chalkwell Hall…
Colette was interviewed on BBC Essex about Love Letter to Southend, our project to commemorate 125 years of Southend being a borough. People are invited to write or design a postcard expressing how they feel about their town. We’ve received hundreds of beautiful designs already and all will be proudly displayed at Village Green on […]
‘Question Time Cabaret’, by Talia Randall: “a fun, rowdy and political knees-up” A commission for Planet B festival in Peterborough… – A night of variety performances from artists responding to issues of feminism, immigration/migration & climate change, taking place on Aug 11th – These performances will be mixed in with a Question Time style panel where well known and community experts […]
The songwriters who spent a week here at Metal creating new work for Estuary Festival’s Songwriters LAB are once again performing their collaboration at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival… Among the songwriters are Alasdair Roberts and Lucy Farrell whose group The Furrow Collective won the award for Best Group at the 2017 BBC Radio Two Folk […]
Well, this is lovely! Thanks, The Guardian! Metal has been picked out as Culture highlight of Southend, along with our friends at The Railway, Chinnerys, & Southend Film Festival. Village Green and its awesome line-up gets a special mention. Got your tickets yet, festival lovers?
The wonderful Benedict Newbery is back in the house for another week, working on new poetry. He’s a joy to have around and we can’t wait to see the fruits of his time here. Welcome back, Ben! One of the poems he wrote while on residency last April ‘My Dad’s Hospital Trip to Southend’ has […]
LOVE THIS. Great podcast featuring songs & chat from the Young Songwriters of the SoSlam LAB that took over Chalkwell Hall with their stunning talent a couple of weeks ago. We miss hearing them every day! CHECK THEM OUT – PLAYING LIVE AT PEGGY SUE’S SUNDAY 23RD APRIL – 4-7PM
New writing theatre company Old Trunk feature in the Echo today ahead of their double-bill of critically-acclaimed plays Pramkicker and Fran & Leni at the Palace Theatre Westcliff next week. Fran & Leni – Wednesday 19th April Pramkicker/Fran & Leni Double Bill – Saturday 22nd April Both plays are by award-winning writer Sadie Hasler and directed […]
