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Leeds Cultural Investment Programme 2025/2026 is now open

Leeds City Council's 2025-2026 Leeds Cultural Investment Programme of arts and cultural activity funding is now open for applications. 

The aim of the scheme is to provide financial support for individual artists or cultural, voluntary and community organisations to create new opportunities for residents from across the city to engage in cultural activity as a participant, attendee or creator. 

Photo North Festival #6: A Celebration of Powerful Stories Through Photography

Photo North Festival is back, and it’s bigger and bolder than ever. 

From 11th to 13th April 2025, The Carriageworks in Millennium Square will be transformed into a vibrant hub of creativity, celebrating the very best of Yorkshire photography. This year’s event will showcase a dynamic and diverse lineup of photographers, all hailing from the region, bringing their powerful work to the forefront in a series of thought-provoking exhibitions and presentations. 

Making big change through big art: Inside the Pyramid Plan

Pyramid, the Leeds-based arts charity supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism to get into the arts, reveals its ambitions for the next four years. Coined the ‘Pyramid Plan’, this co-written strategy is the brainchild of the charity’s Visioning Group, made up of 10 artists with and without learning disabilities, autism, or both, who lead on the strategic direction of the organisation. 

A PLATFORM_ X Kid Acne Street Art Collab

Build to Rent developer PLATFORM_ has recently collaborated with renowned international street artist Kid Acne to create a major new landmark for Leeds. The art installation will transform the historic Commercial Inn in the heart of Sweetfields, a significant new 1.3 million sqft neighbourhood in Leeds' South Bank.

Spearheading the international Street Art movement, Yorkshire-based Kid Acne has exhibited large-scale artworks across the globe for over twenty years, from Rome and Los Angeles to Beijing and Paris. 

You Are An Artist (despite telling yourself different!)

What, or who, do you think of when you consider the term artist? A few years ago I was asked this question, my response today is very different to the one I gave back then.

Let me introduce myself; I am Doll and I make art. I am an artist.

It has taken many years to feel comfortable saying that, and the question I posed has a lot to do with how I see myself. When I pondered the question originally my view of an artist came tangled in layers of perception, judgement and self doubt - the term evoked sterile white gallery walls and ornate gold frames holding oil paintings.

The Black Nature In Residence Programme 2.0 - Deadline 31 October

With support from Arts Council England, this Black-led programme is an exciting opportunity for creatives of the Global Majority within the Northern regions, to be in residence within nature for one year. This includes those from African, Asian, Caribbean, indigenous, and dual-heritage backgrounds. Artists from all disciplines are invited to submit an application to undertake a paid freelance residency.