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Reclaiming Rhythm "Voices from the past, melodies of the future"

Event Overview: "Reclaiming Rhythm" is a vibrant black music event that celebrates the rich history and transformative power of black music, connecting past influences to future possibilities

Free event for the community, all are welcome including children

Panel Discussion: Discussions will focus on the evolution of black music, its cultural significance, and its impact on contemporary art forms

Mini Art Exhibition: Featuring 2024 images from the Black Music Festival that highlight visual artistry in connection with music.

Stuart Croft: Eternal Return

Eternal Return is a major exhibition of artist film works by Leeds-born Stuart Croft, the first since his untimely death in 2015. Visitors to the gallery are invited to journey through a sequence of immersive spaces, each containing an infinitely looping narrative film with no distinct beginning, middle or end. The films transport us from the bedroom of a gothic mansion where we eavesdrop on a macabre fable, to the passenger seat of a car on an endless road trip, and from the abandoned film-set of a 1950’s musical, to the claustrophobic vault of a spacecraft flying at blinding speed.

Melanie Whitehead Smith: HERE MARKS THE SPOT

Made in collaboration with LGBTQ+ people in Leeds, HERE MARKS THE SPOT maps sites of queer joy across the city.

Projections of dancing figures pop up across Leeds, translating personal moments into public celebrations.

The short dance films were made in collaboration with dance artist Melanie Whitehead Smith and local people who shared their experiences of queer joy.

Mixing physical theatre, contemporary dance and improvisation, the films create traces of happy memories, played out again in the locations that inspired them.

LORE

LORE is a group exhibition featuring 14 artists exploring contemporary folklore through their practice.

Folklore is continually evolving and can be used as a tool to help us connect and make sense of personal and social landscapes that can be challenging to navigate. Folklore is created by people. It encompasses customs, tales, sayings, dances, material objects or any art forms preserved among a people, rooted in place and time, memorialising communities and celebrating the personal craft of the artist or artists.

Installation: Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown

Addressing the climate crisis through intervening in our food systems, Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown is an installation that combines data science and Chinese diasporic food culture.

This two-week installation at Kirkgate Market showcases an experimental food farm and data pop-up store, housing locally grown ingredients that will be used in a one off Supper Club hosted at Kirkgate Market on Friday 15 November, 6.30–8.30pm.

Illuminating Edward Carpenter

This immersive environment explores the life of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), poet, philosopher and advocate for gay rights, women’s rights and environmental causes. Using sound, light, projection and his extensive collection of letters, notebooks and photographs at the University of Leeds, the exhibition vividly brings Carpenter to life.

Artist: Matthew Dangerfield (UK)

Student Commissions

Explore the work of the next generation of artists with Ed Green’s playful structure of found materials, Eleanor Craig’s interactive installation symbolising recovery and Kelly Cumberland’s fusion of art and science, highlighting cellular processes through light and shadow.

 

Artists: Ed Green, Eleanor Craig & Kelly Cumberland (UK)