Your what's on guide for events in Leeds

A salaried two-year Sculpture Fellowship is offered by Leeds Arts University and the Kenneth Armitage Foundation, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.  The two-year Fellowship starts in September and is based within the University for the duration. The Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Fellowship, Leeds, is a new partnership initiative of Leeds Arts University and Kenneth Armitage Foundation, in association with the Henry Moore Foundation. The Fellowship celebrates the significant contribution made by Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002), who was born in Leeds and is an alumnus of Leeds Arts University, to the evolution of British sculpture.Leeds Arts University will provide studio space, access to university resources and a research and production budget,...

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An open callout for artists of Leeds and beyond for the annual Leeds Summer Group Show exhibition presented online in July.The 2021 Leeds Summer Group Show is an eclectic exhibition celebrating talent across mediums, genres and locations. This is part of a series of annual summer group shows that artist and independent curator Court Spencer has been running since 2015. The ongoing global pandemic the exhibition will be online once again this year with the hope that 2022 will see it return as a physical exhibition at a venue in Leeds.To make it as open as possible there's no theme or submission fee,...

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To celebrate Leeds City centre reopening and the end of lockdown the team at The Old Red Bus Station ran a poster project asking Leeds artists and residents to take a government covid poster and change it to say something new and to send a positive message to Leeds.We were overwhelmed with the response to our call out and received over 48 designs which were printed as banners and posters and displayed around the outside of the Old Red Bus Station, turning the building into a 3D message board to Leeds and passers-by.After a year with no events, we wanted to shine a light...

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On Friday 2nd April 2021 it is 10 years to the day since BasementArtsProject threw open the kitchen door for the first time with a project by Kimbal Quist Bumstead. To celebrate this longevity, and despite the pandemic lockdown, we have invited Kimbal back for a covid-safe event that will allow all of those who have sailed with us for the first decade, and those who may be reading one of our invitations for the first time, the opportunity to be a part of our transition into the second decade. We Are Still Here: Sonic LandscapesIn place of what would have been...

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The groundbreaking Leeds project, Manbassadors, which reaches out to isolated people to support their mental health with a simple intervention of bite size support on a very local level, is celebrating two years of success with a Poem Portrait Exhibition led by Space2 on lampposts across Harehills, in East Leeds. The Orion Consortium of Feel Good Factor, Space2 and Zest started the Manbassador Project in East Leeds by with funding from the Male Suicide Prevention Fund. More recently funding has been provided by the National Lottery emergency COVID fund and the scheme could be extended to men right across Leeds.Manbassadors...

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The Old Red Bus Station (ORBS) is one of Leeds most loved grass roots venues, with a DIY ethic, vegan canteen, bar, exhibition space and underground club / event space. ORBS has been giving Leeds raw, cutting edge music for over five years and continues to support local and new talent.  Like many venues in the UK, ORBS had to close...

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