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Metroland Cultures, Sheffield (2026)

17/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of [sic] a solo show by Jess Heritage ✨

The exhibition is now open Thurs–Sat, 12–5pm or by appointment until June 27th.

Jess Heritage works predominantly with speech and performance, building scripted dialogues that falter, defer, or fail to wholly arrive. [sic] restages a live performance originally staged through a phone call, now as an audio installation.

Jess Heritage is the recipient of The Perimeter Studio Award 2025/26. The Perimeter Studio Award is a scholarship programme for emerging artists after the completion of their degree at the Slade, University College of London.

19/05/2026

Coming soon 👀

Metroland Cultures is pleased to announce [sic] an exhibition which marks the culmination of Jess Heritage’s year-long residency at Metroland Studios, supported by The Perimeter.

✨ Opening: Tues 9 June 6-8pm all welcome

Revisiting a live performance originally staged through a phone call, [sic] restages the work as an audio installation. Fractured signals, interruptions, and moments of disconnection are relayed through a singular screen in the gallery which acts as a prompter, or a guide to a conversation perpetually on the verge of dropping out of earshot.

🗓️ Exhibition continues until 28 June open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm or by appointment.

Jess Heritage () is the recipient of The Perimeter Studio Award 2025/26. The Perimeter Studio Award is a scholarship programme for emerging artists after the completion of their degree at the Slade, University College of London, in partnership with Metroland Cultures.

Open call for the 2026/27 studio residency is live now, see link in bio ✨

19/05/2026

✨Last chance to catch ‘For no reason of my own’ This is the final week, open Wed–Sun 12–5pm until 24th May✨

An archive exhibition drawing on the Brent Community Law Centre, tracing how working-class communities built their own infrastructures of legal support, mutual aid and resistance. Bringing together materials from the Brent Community Law Centre and the Young People’s Law Centre alongside films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive and photographic materials from the North Paddington Community Darkroom.

‘For no reason of my own’ takes its title from a text by the YPLC, ‘If we can’t get our points across… we ought to have a spokesperson for ourselves’ (1981), which outlines the need for a specialised legal service for young people. These archival fragments speak to both legal histories and broader struggles around housing, racism, migration, labour and policing that shaped — and continue to shape — everyday life in Brent and beyond. By placing these materials in dialogue, we ask: what can we learn from collective and community action as a form of justice that extends beyond the limits of legal systems?

More info in our bio 🔝

08/05/2026

✨We’re committed to being open and accessible to all. Here’s some key access information to help you plan your visit to Metroland:

🐾 Assistance and hearing dogs are welcome throughout the space.
🚪The gallery entrance is 160 cm wide and located on the ground floor.
🧾 Printed exhibition materials are available, as well as large print formats.
🚘 Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available on Victoria Road in the pay-and-display bays for an unlimited period.

Invitation to take care: There are materials in our current exhibition that document experiences of injustice against Black and other racialised communities. It may awaken your own needs for care in the context of journeys you have experienced, navigated, or witnessed. We encourage you to honour these needs as we share this work together. This could look like: taking a deep breath; pausing to drink water; stepping outside to walk around the Kilburn Square and market.

📩 If you need any further assistance or have any questions please feel free to reach out via email: [email protected]

Our current exhibition, ‘For no reason of my own’ runs until May 24th. We are open Wednesday - Saturday from 12pm - 5pm. The exhibition is free and open to all.

📎For more information on this exhibition, please visit the link in our bio.

07/05/2026

‘For no reason of my own’ now open ✨

For no reason of my own is an archive display that introduces ‘Justice & Change’, an ongoing research programme exploring how the law shapes our lives and how communities create justice beyond the limits of the legal system. Bringing together materials from the Brent Community Law Centre (BCLC) and the Young People’s Law Centre (YPLC) alongside films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive and photographic materials from the North Paddington Community Darkroom, the display situates the law centre movement within a wider landscape of grassroots organising — documenting how working-class communities built infrastructures of mutual support, political education and resistance in response to structural inequality.

📍 Metroland Cultures, Kilburn
🗓️ Exhibition continues until 24 May
🕛 Wed–Sun, 12–5pm

More info in the bio

28/04/2026

Audio courtesy of Cinenova

22/04/2026

𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

‘For no reason of my own’ opens at Metroland Cultures on 1 May, 6–8pm ✨ Join us! Exhibition the runs until May 24th

An archive display introducing Justice & Change, a two-year research project exploring the histories of Brent Community Law Centre and Young People’s Law Centre - two pioneering organisations that fought for accessible legal support for working-class communities in Brent.

The display brings together archival materials, films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive, and photographic work from the North Paddington Community Darkroom tracing struggles around housing, racism, migration, labour and policing that shaped, and continue to shape, everyday life in Brent and beyond.

📍 Metroland Cultures, Kilburn
🗓 Launch: 1 May, 6–8pm, free, all welcome
🗓️ Exhibition continues 2–24 May
🕛 Wed–Sun, 12–5pm

More info in the bio

16/04/2026

✨New programme announcement✨

Launch: 1 May, 6–8pm, free, all welcome

Justice & Change is a new ongoing research programme exploring how the law shapes our lives, and how communities create justice beyond its limits. The project begins with the history of Brent Community Law Centre, one of the first community law centres in the UK, founded in 1971 in response to a lack of legal support for working-class communities.

Justice & Change will bring together community partners No More Exclusions and Redthread, alongside artists, researchers and young people, to learn from this history and respond to it creatively — building and activating archives, recording intergenerational oral histories, and commissioning new work from artists Francesca Telling and Rehana Zaman.

Join us on 1 May for the opening of ‘For no reason of my own’, an archive display introducing Justice & Change. Bringing together materials from Brent Community Law Centre and Young People’s Law Centre alongside films from Cinenova and London Community Video Archive and photographic work from the North Paddington Community Darkroom, the display traces how working-class communities built infrastructures of mutual support, political education and resistance in response to structural inequality.

Launch: 1 May, 6–8pm, free, all welcome
On show Wed–Sun 12–5pm until 24 May

More info in bio

Illustration by Sofia Niazi ()

The Justice & Change archive research work is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund with additional support from Arts Council England

10/04/2026

✨The Kilburn Print Workshop continues - through a series of publications made at Ashford Place ( a community resource centre in Cricklewood, Brent. Originally founded in 1983 as Cricklewood Homeless Concern by local residents, Ashford Place now supports vulnerable individuals across Brent with housing, mental health, dementia and social isolation.

The publications: Let the Music Play, A Place I Used to Go, I Got a Name, I Carry it With Me and One Day in London produced by artist Heiba Lamara () with members of Ashford Place as part of The Kilburn Print Workshop explore the possibility of self-publishing as a social activity in community settings. Members of Ashford Place document their art, poetry, writing and collages in weekly themed publications to be distributed to friends and family, a snapshot of the lives lived in Cricklewood.

The Kilburn Print Workshop is an ongoing community publishing and print education initiative at Metroland Cultures, initiated and led by artist Heiba Lamara. Inspired by the radical print workshops of 1970s–80s North and West London, the project works with local residents and groups to produce printed publications reimagining and mapping the landscape of community print in Kilburn today.

Thank you to Amrit, Anelo, Bernie, Carol, Christopher, Edilene, Insaaf, Jason, Kathryn, Maria, Mradula, Niki, Nomusa, Rhianna, Themis, Shenaz, Shez, Simone, Valerie, Vinaai, Vivienne, Danny, and everyone at the incredible Ashford Place 💙

25/03/2026

Exciting news from Metroland Studios resident Tom James () who has been shortlisted to create a new artwork from the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in partnership with the National Trust 💚

Tom is an artist and writer based in Kilburn whose work invites people to learn real skills, imagine new ways of living. His project Absolute Beginners — a new kind of factory on Park Royal Industrial Estate where young people learn to make basic goods in radically sustainable ways — is just one example of the thoughtful, community-rooted practice he brings to everything he does.

Being shortlisted for this commission is a huge deal, Tom has all our support and admiration. 🙌

Public voting closes this week: Saturday, 28th March, at 23:59! — please vote if you haven’t already and help Tom bring this to life.

🔗 Link in bio for more info.

📷 1+2 Absolute Beginners, a new kind of factory in Park Royal where local young people learn to make everyday products in radically sustainable ways (2021 - ongoing)
📷 3 Viewpoint, Tom James and Alex Hartley, shortlisted proposal for the National Trust’s Sycamore Gap commission

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