We are really thrilled to see The Guardian have written about Metal & Village Green being reasons to come to Southend, along with our friends Focal Point Gallery, Leigh Folk Festival, and The Railway Hotel. Lovely defence of the culture going on in the town. READ IN FULL
This week on Time & Space Residency in Southend we have the brilliant poet, translator & educator Henry Stead working on his new version of Medea… “the dark magic of antiquity clashing with the blackest depths of modernity” READ MORE
Thanks to the wonderful photographers who give their time, capture the magic of the day, and keep the festival alive all year round in these fantastic images. HAVE A FLICK THROUGH OUR FLICKR! CLARISSA DEBENHAM ANDREW KENYON JON WEBBER MATT ALLEN MARK MASSEY ANDREW WILD FRANCES BECKERMAN SHARIF RADWAN ROB HUMM CHLOE […]
Photos of yet another wonderful VG-NG… Photos by Matt Allen… Photos by Jon Webber…
CHANGE MAKERS BLOG June 30th 2017 – Change Maker Artist’s Labs at Metal (Julie Cleves – photo by Kate Marsh) As a person with a disability, a disabled person, a dis-ah-blayed[1] person or (Dis)abled[2] person or a weirdo[3] I have often spoken about my enjoyment in defining myself as ‘different’. This has not always been […]
Village Green is over for another year! Thanks to Dan Bryant for this video that encapsulates a beautiful day…
We are really delighted to let you know that Metal were successful in our bid to remain an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation for a further four years from 2018 – 2022, announced yesterday (27 June 2017). This award enables us to continue our work in the cities of Liverpool and Peterborough and across […]
Between 7-22 June, in partnership with the Crafts Council creative development team, Metal are running a series of FREE workshops in traditional crafts with the Gateway Academy, Thurrock. We will be working with one hundred year 9 and 10 students to up-skill them in craft skills that can be taken into the workplace, with award winning […]
Launch: Sat 17 June 11am-3pm, with artist’s talk at 1:30pm NetPark Open Day Metal, Chalkwell Hall, Chalkwell Park, Southend-on-Sea SS0 8NB Woodland: French & Mottershead Woodland is an audio work that describes your body’s fade into the leaf litter of a forest floor. This work connects you deeply to your body, and tells the […]
We’d love you to join us for the launch of Spiky Black, a collaboration between artists Alison Carlier & Amanda Loomes this Wednesday 14 June between 5pm and 7pm. The work is being hosted as part of NetPark, the world’s first digital art park in Chalkwell Park and offers a transformative audio layer to the experience of Chalkwell Park […]
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 […]