Vee Dagger is a Taiwanese lesbian drag artist inspired by villainesses, sixties technicolour, overwrought horror, and birds.

Metin Akdemir, produces and curates works in film and contemporary art, looks at the invisible objects and people of daily life, urban memory through spaces as well as mainstream films and narratives from a queer perspective.

Axmed Maxamed is a Queer Diasporic Somali activist, organizer and music nerd. Axmed was born in Xamar, Somalia where he spent his early years until his family had to flee during the civil war and ended up in the Netherlands

Nahi Mitti is a transfeminine brown person who works on and against discourse around her body-mind-spirit, using an intermedia(l) approach, invested in asking questions around (queer) virtuosity, the role of an artist, deferral... failure, and the inter-connective potentialities present in her/their practice and its world-building.

Roland Korponovics is a media-artist currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary.

East Street Arts have been awarded £245,000 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF).

Leeds Print Workshop has moved to their new home at Patrick Studios thanks to the encouragement and support of East Street Arts.

A historic part of Leeds city centre is set for a string of ambitious improvement projects after key heritage funding was officially agreed.

Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) invited three artist studio providers to chat about their experience of continuing to support creative workspaces during Covid-19.

New artworks and performances searching for intimacy in a time of social isolation.

OPPORTUNITY NOW CLOSED! Our Art Hostel commissions call out is now live. We have 16 available to apply for and we cant wait to see your submissions!

NOW CLOSED! Open Call for FIVE co-commissions for CHASM a programme of Live artworks and performances searching for intimacy in a time of social isolation.