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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.
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Taipei Residency: Artist Call Out
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.
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Leeds Creative Labs Follow on Fund: Herfa Martina Thompson Dr Zoe Tongue
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.
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Artist Mohammad Barrangi’s large-scale murals come to the streets 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.
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Submit your publications to our exhibition and learning library
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.
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New exhibition explores the role of artists in our cities
A new exhibition exploring the role of art and artists in our cities and civic practice, through the lens of our East Street Arts archive.
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New Briggate artworks call for a brighter, safer and queerer future
This LGBT+ History Month, performance artist, writer and radical creator Harry Clayton-Wright shares a manifesto for a brighter, safer and queerer future.
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Sarah Francis: Physical, Colourful, Tactile
We caught up with Sarah Francis to talk about how her work has developed a year on from her seed commission at Convention House, and what’s next for her practice. Seed commissions allowed artists/collectives to discover the next steps in their artistic practice, thanks to the Weston Culture Fund.
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Opportunities
New Trustee Vacancies
NOW CLOSED We're searching for new Trustees, who share our commitment to artists and community development, believe in nurturing a city’s infrastructure, and uphold care and equity at their core, to join the East Street Arts Board.
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Netherlands Sharing: Communities & Resilience
It was lovely to get a glimpse into what our Netherlands-based residency artists have been up to during their stay with us, at their sharing event on Friday. Chiara Tammaro, Tom Dijkstra and Sijas de Groot stayed with us over the past two weeks at Convention House, and over their time discovered Leeds, studios in the city, and local communities.
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Three Netherlands-based artists join us for two-week residencies
In partnership with LEEDS 2023 and the Netherlands Embassy, this week we welcome three Netherlands-based artists to Leeds for two-week residencies based in our art and tech hub, Convention House.
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Carnival-inspired mural unveiled in Chapeltown
On 3rd October, we unveiled Reflections of Carnival - a new mural by artist and costume designer Rhian Kempadoo-Millar - in Chapeltown, in partnership with Leeds West Indian Carnival and Leeds City Council.