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Check in at The Art Hostel: Ziggy Wingle by Alison Smith
We’re checking in at the Art Hostel, highlighting how incredible the rooms and spaces are. Next, we’ve got room two - Alison Smith’s incredibly fun and playful Ziggy Wingle.
We’re checking in at the Art Hostel, highlighting how incredible the rooms and spaces are. Next, we’ve got room two - Alison Smith’s incredibly fun and playful Ziggy Wingle.
We’re excited to unveil a fantastic new mural on the intersection of Mabgate and Argyle Road, in collaboration with Portuguese artist Add Fuel, celebrating Leeds’ important ceramics heritage.
On Saturday 28 January we welcomed in the new year with the Mabgate, Lincoln Green & Burmantofts Neighbourhood Forum AGM at The Anglers Club.
We're really excited to be taking part in a UK-Taiwan artist exchange with artists Jui-Hung Ni and Sayang, in partnership with Platform Asia and Taipei Artist Village as part of Leeds 2023.
We’re checking in at the Art Hostel, highlighting how incredible the rooms and spaces are. First up, we’re looking at room one - Rooting by Sayang.
NOW CLOSED. East Street Arts have partnered with Leeds Creative Labs to bring together creatives with researchers from the University of Leeds as part of an initiative to open new ways of thinking.
Director and co-founder Karen Watson reflects on her time at East Street Arts ahead of her retirement in June.
Karen Watson and Jon Wakeman, East Street Arts' Founding Directors, have each been awarded a MBE by His Majesty The King in the New Year 2023 Honours List in recognition of their services to the arts.
COMMISSION IS NOW CLOSED. How could you draw time and change in Leeds? New and emerging artists and illustrators are being invited to submit work to a major heritage and regeneration project. Deadline for submissions 6/12/22
East Street Arts launches In Practice, a podcast dedicated to supporting artists and their collaborators. A catalogue of episodes showcases curated conversations around artist development, place making and more. How do you sustain a career making art, and what does that look like?
East Street Arts has been successful in our application to continue as an Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation. This news from the latest funding round means we can continue our mission to secure better outcomes for artists alongside tackling economic decline in towns and cities through creative and cultural interventions.
Here at East Street Arts, we’re delighted to be supporting Leeds Palestinian Film Festival on the ‘Humans Of Palestine’ exhibition alongside this year's Palestinian Film Festival. The show supports and showcases photography from The Network of Photographers for Palestine, a collective of activists and photographers seeking to provide Palestinian photographers with a worldwide audience and varied platforms.