History
We’ve done a lot since 1993! Explore the history of East Street Arts – there’s a lot…
The build-up / 1993-1998 / 1998-2001 / 2002-2004 / 2005-2008 / 2009-2013
In January 2017, a gaggle of artists completed their journey on the trail of shopping extravaganzas and rumours of retail’s demise in the press, with the Sell YourSelf exhibition at 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds.
Eight months after the “fantastical” debut What A Drag event, Live Art Bistro was again taken over for the after party of the year with a second night.
17 years on from the tragic events at the World Trade Center, New York, Adam Young presented Free Fall, a performance exploring the personal and societal fall out from the attacks on September 11th.
In response to the snap election announcement in June 2017, Lloyd & Wilson held two unique Snap Broadcast Bartender events playfully unpicking the political agenda and giving a platform to voices they felt were missing from the media narrative.
To celebrate the British Art Show in 2015, East Street Arts instigated the Queen of all parties with What A Drag!
In 2018, Social Radio Leeds connected with the local area with diverse programming and a series of workshops to unlock the power of radio for the community.
Coinciding with International Women’s Day 2017, Leeds’ The Fanny Collective launched Pretty an exhibition exploring the harsher end of anti-feminist ideas as gender politics becomes more divided.
As artist in residence at Artist House 45, Beeston in 2019, Silvia Liebig explored the local area and its residents with the Being Beeston Projekt.
In March 2014, East Street Arts annual member’s trip visited Barcelona, with a schedule organised by artist Hondartza Fraga, who also acted as guide to the group of 20.
For four days in June 2017, The Gender Roadshow explored new ways of presenting trans performance across Leeds.
Over a decade, photographer Tim Smith documented his travels back to his childhood home of Barbados, and other Carribean places, displaying his images at Union 105, Leeds in August 2017.
Between 2016 and 2018, Akeelah Bertram created the Ultiverse. We spoke to her before its showing at Light Night at The Tetley in October 2018.