Metal are one of the delivery partners involved in a Heritage Lottery Funded project, led by the alternative education group, Epic Quest Centre. The project involves short courses, events and activities for young people and adults to discover the history of Mendip Wildlife Community Garden through arts, crafts, cookery, gardening, nature conservation and more. Mendip Wildlife Community Garden is a […]
Culture LAB: Essex Writers Mon 19 – Fri 23 March 2018 As part of an exciting partnership with Essex Book Festival, Metal is transforming Chalkwell Hall in Southend-on-Sea into a pop-up Essex Writers House for the whole month of March 2018. As part of the month, we are hosting a week long Culture LAB for […]
FOR WRITERS HOUSE 2019 – click HERE. 2018 ARCHIVE: POP-UP Essex Writers House 1 – 29 March 2018 As part of an exciting new partnership with Essex Book Festival, Metal is transforming Chalkwell Hall into a pop-up Essex Writers House for the whole month of March 2018 to host a wide range […]
AUDIO ARTWORK LAUNCH
OPENING: 17/06/17 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | FREE
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.
PUNK MEETS ROSES MEETS ART MEETS TECH
Spiky Black is a new site-specific audio artwork for NetPark – the world’s first digital art park.
A collaboration between artists Alison Carlier & Amanda Loomes in partnership with Metal Southend.
Dates: Mon 3 – Thurs 6 April (10am – 5.30pm each day – with live gig on Thurs evening) Venue: Chalkwell Hall (in Chalkwell Park) Chalkwell Avenue, Southend SS0 8NB. The Project SoSlam are working with Metal to run a Culture LAB for young singer / songwriters from across the Borough of Southend-on-Sea. Up […]
Following a great deal of work at Metal Art School, we are proud to announce the launch of The Garden of Remember…
Love Grays 25 February, Grays High Street Join us for the launch of Love Grays – the launch of a year of events in Grays, ranging from a food festival, outdoor cinema screening, art trail and lots more. The launch event on the 25 Feb is celebrating the town centre and the brilliant community and cultural organisations […]
Crafting the Future of Thurrock; Craft Trade School MAKER BRIEF The Crafts Council, Thurrock Council and Metal Culture are looking for traditional craft practitioners to plan and deliver workshops on the new education programme Craft Trade School. The project is a new initiative to up-skill young people working in, or looking to work in, construction, […]
Jon Kipps is a Visual Artist from Southend who has organised Village Green’s Artist Village this year. Kipps’ artistic work spans sculpture, painting, photography and performance. He has always been interested in the relationship between artwork music and ways of experiencing the two together. For Artist Village Kipps has invited 8 artists, some local to […]
ESTUARY 2016 17 September – 2 October 2016 For more information, see Estuary website. Estuary is a new, biennial arts festival curated in response to the spectacular Thames Estuary and presented in culturally significant and historic venues along the Essex and Kent shorelines. An exciting mix of new and existing works will pull together powerful […]
The People Department at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council have been awarded funds to enable a series of workshops with people living with dementia and their families at Metal. The project will work with the digital art Apps and media studio at our innovative NetPark project and will be based in our new Metal Art School. […]