We Can Play is a project that brings together a group of 20 talented young musicians between the ages of 11 and 17 from across Liverpool and the neighbouring boroughs (Knowsley, Halton, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral). The aim of the project is to give young people the opportunity to experiment with new techniques and styles […]
Applications for the two residency based awards, part of the Liverpool Art Prize are now open; Metal’s Studio Award, open to artists based across the UK, and Metal’s International Residency to Shanghai, open to any North West based artist. The application forms are below: Metal International Residency Award Click here for International Residency Award application Deadline […]
VILLAGE GREEN Competition Were you there?! Could you spot yourself amongst a sea of 2013’s Village Green festival-goers? If you think you can, you could be a winner! Metal will be posting a crowd shot from VG2013 every Wednesday for the next 10 weeks on our Facebook page. If you find yourself amongst the sun-kissed faces, tag […]
Four mentors will be supporting the Research and Development LAB at Peterborough for project Indie-Vision. These sessions will be lead by national practitioners, curators and historians working in poster design, PR, advertising and social media, and will support the selected cohort with their designs through action research. The mentors will include… Simon Collister is senior lecturer in […]
Stalls opportunities for artists and craft makers at this year’s Village Green on 12 July: Artist Stalls Would you like to expose and sell your Artwork and bespoke designs? · Free trader tickets (2 per stall) · Fantastic opportunity to get your art ‘out there’ in front of a captive audience (30,000 who are already culturally interested) · Networking / having fun […]
On Saturday 22 March we held our second session with the new We Can Play group of talented young musicians, led by the renowned British composer Bill Connor with staff from the Music Education Hub Resonate. The group have begun getting to grips with playing without sheet music and improvising their own compositions. Metal are […]