Join Yishi at Queer History Club for a talk about the history of queer homes in queer books - then get crafty to make your own home even queerer with a fridge magnet or coaster that explores what queer domesticity means to you. Materials provided.
After graduating in the 1980’s Helen Wood taught art in secondary schools,before joining Printmaking at the Bradford School of Art as a technician in 1997. Her processes are experimental and address the creative possibilities of the everyday, transforming the ordinary and everyday into the curious and extraordinary.
Mo Robertson is an artist whose autobiographical work looks at mental health and social stigma. Both confrontational and confessional it is work that argues for personal growth and societal change.
BasementArtsProject is an experimental art venue and family home in Beeston, South Leeds. Since April 2011 we have worked with more than 200 artists; these have ranged from undergraduate and early career through to established artists, and all in the context of daily life.
We are delighted that local author Maria Ferguson will be in the shop to chat to readers and celebrate the launch of her latest poetry collection ‘Swell’. Maria will be in conversation with the award winning British poet and novelist, Helen Mort.
In the consultation room I stared
at the purple flowers in their purple
vase and imagined my insides:
an ocean, a cave, a storm.
Come and meet winemaker Felix Coloma, a third-generation winemaker from Bodega Coloma, at our February tasting experiences. Enjoy five of his specially selected wines alongside a five-course menu inspired by one of Spain’s lesser known regions: Extremadura!
For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Karanjit Panesar an artist and filmmaker living and working in Leeds.
Karanjit Panesar’s practice is ambitious, broad and layered. His starting point is filmmaking and from these films he often builds installations, with sculpture, drawing and writing spilling into and out of the moving image space.
For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk at the University of Leeds we welcome Izzie Beirne.
For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk at the University of Leeds we welcome alumna Bethan Hughes.
Bethan Hughes’ audiovisual installations, sculptures and texts interweave archival research and and speculative narratives to explore the unnatural ecologies generated through industry, commerce and technology.
Join Professor Emily Zobel’s Marshall who will focus on four key aspects of her work which centres around the theme of cultural forms as potent vehicles of resistance to oppressive power.
A Civic Remembrance Event, with the theme ‘For A Better Future’.
This international day of remembrance focuses on the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust, and millions more people killed under German Nazi persecution, and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The Lord Mayor will open this year’s civic remembrance event, which will include a keynote speech by Nick Winton, son of Sir Nicholas Winton MBE.