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Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces - available to buy!
Architectural researcher Dr Jonathan Orlek's brand-new publication, Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces is now available to buy.
East Street Arts secures better livelihoods for artists and our neighbours, while addressing the issue of economic and commercial decline in our towns and cities. We force positive interventions through art…
As leaders in the artist-led sector for almost 30 years we have empowered artists to be self-determined, take control, incite change and influence key decision-makers to improve lives and environments, locally, nationally and internationally.
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Architectural researcher Dr Jonathan Orlek's brand-new publication, Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces is now available to buy.
Are you an artist using sound and audio-visual media at the core of your practice? Do you want to collaborate with communities and other artists to develop new artworks? Apply now! Deadline 12pm, Sunday 5 May 2024.
Visual artist Herfa Martina Thompson and Law lecturer Dr Zoe Tongue first collaborated as part of Leeds Creative Labs, a programme that partners artists and academics, initiated by the University of Leeds’ Cultural Institute and facilitated in partnership with East Street Arts.
Sounds of New Briggate is our podcast series - hosted by local people, telling local stories - which celebrates New Briggate, a unique and vibrant high street in the heart of Leeds.
We're working with Leeds-based, Iranian-born illustrator and printmaker Mohammad Barrangi to bring three large-scale paper murals to the streets of Leeds.
Do you make books or printed materials on artist-led housing, live/work spaces, civic practice or living archives? Contribute now! Together we can learn.
Collaborations between: art, technology, sustainability and community have found their feet firmly under the table at Convention House. A former nunnery turned not-so-blank canvas, Convention House completes a trio of buildings that form East Street Arts’ forever home on St.Mary’s Lane, Mabgate.
We always dreamt of owning our very own hostel, inspired by accommodation we encountered on our travels we saw a real opportunity to build an affordable yet inspiring place to stay here in Leeds.
A City Less Grey is our on-going project that commissions artists working in public places.
Xavier de Sousa is an independent performance maker and culture worker, based between Brighton and Lisbon.
Nwando Ebizie is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and curator.
Award-winning artist Jade Montserrat creates work from her black diasporic perspective, living in the north of England.
No Going Back explores the role of art and artists in the city and civic practice, through the lens of East Street Arts’ archive.
Artists and activists get together to present their work and experience on setting up collectively owned spaces, artist-led houses and documenting change in a city of disappearing houses and public spaces.