We're launching nine unique commissions to disrupt loneliness in interesting ways across Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend.
Artist Ideas to Disrupt Loneliness
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Connect & Create: Empowering People Through Art
Connect & Create is an award-winning creative wellbeing initiative that brings people together through the transformative power of art.
The Unlonely City
The Unlonely City isan arts programme disrupting loneliness, nurturing moments of solidarity, surprise and laughter.
In Other Words 3
At a time when creative space is scarce, when artists are often expected to define themselves within systems not built for them, In Other Words 3 offers something different.
Metal Welcome
How can we make our spaces feel more open, inclusive, and human? How can policy reflect care, collaboration, and real change?
Working Artist Weeks
Working Artist Weeks is an artist residency and work experience programme exploring the relationship between home, school, and art spaces.
Artists for Future Policy
Artists for Future Policy is a pilot programme empowering artists to become catalysts for social change by actively engaging in the policy making process.
Creative Break Time
Creative Break Time is a bold three-year project in collaboration with four Southend schools to explore how creativity could improve the working lives of teachers.
Essex Writers House 2026: Full programme coming soon
Metal Southend will host Essex Writers House 2026, working in partnership with Essex Book Festival. Full programme to be released here soon.
Create Cambridge: Artists and Freelancers
Create Cambridge appointed us along with CT Consults and Intelligence Agency to drive research to support the development of a new cultural strategy for Cambridge.
Dream Space
Dream Space will breathe new life into an empty shop unit in the corner of Queensgate, transforming it into a vibrant community hub.
Contains Joy: Recycling Residency
Contains Joy - a creative project working with schools and communities across Liverpool to rethink our relationship with waste in fun, imaginative ways.
Stories, Mystery and Love
Stories, Mystery and Love is a set of three short stories inspired by and dedicated to Metal Liverpool's neighbourhood in Wavertree and Picton, written by award-winning authors Sophie Herxheimer, Hanan Issa, and Joelle Taylor.
PICTON PLAY: Soundwalk
Inspired by Stories, Mystery and Love, we invited community groups to respond to their neighbourhood and create an interactive sound walk.
Make Time For Love
Make Time For Love is the finale of a 2-year residency called Picton Play with communities in L15, to celebrate the creativity that exists in the Wavertree and Picton neighbourhoods.
As We Gather
Artist Luca Rutherford’s As We Gather was an invitation to imagine, to pause, to listen.
Poets in Every Port 2025/27
Metal And Estuary Festival in partnership with the Southbank Centre We’re thrilled to announce that Metal and Estuary Festival are partnering with the Southbank Centre on two major national projects. […]
