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Walk, Talk, Make! with Yaku Stapleton
Join Yaku Stapleton on a trip to investigate the rich history of New Briggate in a way you haven’t before.
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…
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Join Yaku Stapleton on a trip to investigate the rich history of New Briggate in a way you haven’t before.
Leeds local Stan Graham shares a lifetime of adventures and anecdotes about New Briggate.
Join artist and researcher Andrea Thoma for a special preview of her upcoming exhibition Colour Folds and Other Things: the Painted, Photographed and Filmed.
Join Andrea Thoma for the closing night of her exhibition Colour Folds and Other Things: the Painting, Photographed and Filmed, where she will be discussing abstraction in contemporary painting with artist, musician and lecturer Kevin Laycock.
Apply now! East Street Arts are looking for an early careers artist to undertake research as part of The Climate Residency.
My Environment Summer School 2022
East Street Arts have commissioned four artists as part of the Season for Change programme, ‘The Space Between’.
Creative You! LifeSkills Project supports unemployed residents living primarily in the Mabgate, Burmantofts and Lincoln Green neighbourhoods and surrounding areas of Harehills and Gipton.
East Street Arts is leading a cultural consortium of organisations based on or near New Briggate on the North side of the city centre of Leeds, which is part of a national programme funded by Historic England called the High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ).
Andrea Thoma is an artist and researcher concerned with place and nomadic dwelling in the context of contemporary art.
Reading based The Rising Sun Arts Centre is an independent arts centre and the heart of city’s cultural life for over 27 years.
Double Elephant Print Workshop, based in Exeter, provides open access print facilities, community workshops and a strong body of Arts in Health activities to encourage and support people to discover their creativity.
Join Yaku Stapleton on a trip to investigate the rich history of New Briggate in a way you haven’t before.
Leeds local Stan Graham shares a lifetime of adventures and anecdotes about New Briggate.
Join artist and researcher Andrea Thoma for a special preview of her upcoming exhibition Colour Folds and Other Things: the Painted, Photographed and Filmed.
Join Andrea Thoma for the closing night of her exhibition Colour Folds and Other Things: the Painting, Photographed and Filmed, where she will be discussing abstraction in contemporary painting with artist, musician and lecturer Kevin Laycock.