Community Commissions
Community is central to our work at Metroland Cultures. Discover how we work with communities in Brent.
Metroland Cultures’ mission is to build, share and support art and culture in Brent by supporting communities to amplify stories of Brent life, and working with artists to tell new stories.
At the heart of our approach is the idea of stewardship, guided by principles of listening, hosting, and care. As a community resource, we’re committed to not only looking after the physical building itself, but rebuilding shared provisions, constructing vital infrastructures and also, more introspectively, nurturing the vibrant ecology within our walls. We listen attentively to the needs and aspirations of our community, hosting and holding space for dialogue and exchange. Inspired by the fluidity, dynamism and ever-changing nature of our environment – the busy high street, the noise of commerce, the constant flow of migration.
Our care extends beyond physical preservation to nurturing the cultural and artistic fabric of the neighbourhood.
RUSHES: The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire) Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah
RUSHES is an ongoing programme of exhibitions and research outputs emerging from Metroland Cultures’ long-term curatorial work in Brent, rooted in the borough’s histories of community organising and radical visual culture
RUSHES – a new exhibition and research programme
An presentation of research bringing together archival material, film, and visual ephemera that reflect on the 1976-78 Grunwick Strike and the wider organising culture that surrounded them.
Kilburn Print Workshop – Heiba Lamara
The Kilburn Print Workshop is a commission with artist Heiba Lamara dedicated to community publishing and print and design education.
Growing Up B(r)ent – Ed Webb-Ingall with Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons’ Trust.
Growing Up B(r)ent is a radio play by artist and filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall, produced in collaboration with Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons’ Trust. The play explores what it means to create communities of kin, particularly for individuals to whom such communities might initially seem out of reach.
With Us All – Sufra and Sean Roy Parker
A glasshouse commissioned for a community garden in the heart of the St. Raphael estate