ALL TOGETHER BUT DIFFERENT

The MET (Mobile Event Tent) is one of Preston's newest and most exciting entertainment venues. The adaptable venue delivers events day and night. You will find daytime events for children, such as workshops, arts and crafts, and entertainment in the form of children's story time and performances. Adults are catered for with workshops and exhibitions during the day, and evening entertainment such as comedy nights, theatre, and live music.

The MET (Mobile Event Tent)

Immersive performance story telling and installation gathered from the people of Preston

Preston Market

<h3>All Together But Different </h3>Without a doubt. We’ve been in. We’ve been out. We’ve been upside down. Our world has changed and is changing still. Where have we been? Where are we now? Were might we be? All Together But Different is an immersive multimedia installation and theatrical happening informed and inspired by the people and place of Preston. Responding to words and voices directly captured from people in Preston Bordello Collective members have created a range a new works which form a site specific installation in and around MET and provides the setting for a unique one off live art happening. Curated by the Bordello Collective the intervention fuses together audio-visual works, spoken word, site specific sculpture and live art into a cross media collage. All Together But Different explores a little of the journey we have all been on and prompts us to think about the possibilities of what might come next. We emerge now from history and look back to the rainbow. The storm may be over and more rain will fall but when you look at the mighty bus station you know we have the gutters for it…Schedule:4pm-6pm: Installation open to the public. 6pm-7pm: Theatrical &#x27;happening&#x27; - This is a ticketed event7pm-8pm: Open to the public to see the installation transformedInspired and informed by the people of Preston All Together But Different has been co-created by Bordello Collective members:Dyad - Is a spoken word performance artist fusing live art, text art, installation and mixed media. Their work is grounded in a social consciousness that puts the act of question the world we inhabit to the forefront of our mind. They have exhibited for Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Pineapple Black 24/7 gallery, ARC Stockton and The Baltic.Instagram: @dyad_daydLoucey Bain - A design focussed installation artist working with construction materials she creates delicate sculptural work that contradicts the materials original purpose. Her work is often displayed in unique and unusual way often lit to create shadow and distort space. She recently held their critically acclaimed solo exhibition ‘Spatial Narratives’ at The Auxiliary. Instagram: @loucey.bainJohn James Perangie - Artist and performer based in the North East working with sculpture, painting, installation and fashion. Their work is fluid gestural and colourful and is concerned with the found object and the alteration of materials. They regularly exhibit in shows and galleries across the country and recently staged a solo exhibition at Wet Dovetail Gallery and were Creative Factories ‘Artist of the Year’ 2019. Instagram: @john_perangieVision 25-C - A multidisciplinary artist working across sound art, film, performance and visual art. They produce experimental and industrial work that pushes visual and sonic boundaries. They have exhibited and performed at The Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Disgraceland, Sonic Arts Week, Protopia Festival and Middlesbrough Art Weekender. In 2021 they were part of New Creatives North creating and presenting new works for BBC Radio 6. Instagram: @vision25c<h3>About Bordello Collective</h3>Based in the North East, Bordello Collective are a cross media queer arts collective. Focussing on space, place and people they produce immersive interactive work that seeks to gently provoke a questioning of the world we all inhabit. Often fusing together multiple art forms Bordello gently challenge perceptions of how ‘art’ and ‘performance’ meet. Works include, ‘The Pilgrims’, a pop up queer theatre ritual staged on the streets of Edinburgh, ‘Verto’ a series of interventions along the three rivers of the North East commissioned by Northern Stage and ‘Pier 52’, a live art response to Gordon Matta-Clark’s seminal work ‘Days End’ as part of Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2021. Bordello Collective were artists in residence with Lakeland Arts at The Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry and Abbot Hall Gallery for their exhibition ‘LGBT+ Within and Beyond’. Most recently they have presented ‘KIND’ a multi media project incorporating site specific installation, live art performance and a trail of digital artworks across Basingstoke delivered partnership with Proteus Theatre and completed a micro-residency at The Ferrens Gallery, Hull as part of the closing of the ‘Pride in our City’ exhibition. Bordello are currently working in collaboration with the Matta-Clark estate on a long term project to extend the live art response ‘Pier 52’ towards a US showing.The collectives experience crosses multiple art forms and ranges in scale from intimate works designed for micro spaces through to large scale work across multiple venues and localities. As individual artists they have have shared work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally in a range of places and platforms including BBC Radio 6, Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Pineapple Black Gallery, The Auxiliary, Fringe Arts Bath, Creation Space Basingstoke, The Baltic, Abbott Hall Gallery, Manchester Pride, Gosforth Civic Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, and many more.The collective also produce and host the Teesside based alt cabaret queer and performance platform ‘We The Queers’ regularly appearing online and live at ARC Stockton. Instagram: @bordellocollectiveWeb: www.bordellocollective.com What is the MET?The MET – Mobile Event Tent – will be a striking new city centre event space. It will be installed in the city’s Harris Quarter and will play host to an array of events to help bring people back into the city centre and supporting businesses hit hard by the pandemic.The contemporary structure, which has been designed and developed in Preston, will be made from specially adapted shipping containers, a state-of-the-art fabric cover, and other materials to create an inspiring 150 square metre space capable of accommodating up to 100 people. It will initially be situated next to Preston Market with the ability to move the structure to other city centre locations when needed in the following years.The project is being funded from the £20.9m the city secured from the government’s Towns Fund for a series of regeneration projects in the Harris Quarter. The MET will play a key role in encouraging people back into the city centre, generating economic activity, and providing work for local artists. The programme is funded by Preston City Council, UCLan and Lancashire County Council.

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