Printed Bound is a celebration of contemporary print and artists’ bookmaking. Join us for a weekend of workshops, demonstrations, food, drink and shopping.
This year, Printed Bound will take place on the first floor of our iconic 1912 Mill, with over 40 printmakers, studios, artists and collectives selling and exhibiting their work. Expect to see screenprints, monoprints, risographs, etchings, zines, handmade books and more.
LEEDS 2023 has partnered with National Youth Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Compass Collective to provide a free ten-day acting course for young people across Leeds and West Yorkshire. Everyone who has completed the course will get to take part in a large-scale immersive outdoors performance about climate change later in September, as a part of a LEEDS 2023 signature event.
This year LIFI23 will take over Leeds Playhouse from 27th-30th September to present its diverse programme of inspiring and educational discussions.
How would you choose to define ‘The Dash’ that separates the year you’re born from the year you die?
Come and experience Existence Theatre Group’s brand new, original, student-led performance, exploring themes of duality, necessity, legacy and fulfilment.
Set in Britain, ‘The Dash’ follows Edith, an obituarist who receives a mysterious unsigned and unpublished painting that holds a remarkable resemblance to her younger self.
Scarborough, presented by Leeds Arts Centre, is a play about a forbidden weekend away, where a couple does all the things you might expect a couple to do. But fear is in the air, and they daren't leave their seaside hotel. After all, at just fifteen years old, one of them is just a child... the other their teacher.
The Hyde Park Picture House invite you to submit your short film to the BFI DIY Film Challenge, with a screening and networking event on 25th March.
For this challenge, we want you to Transform. This can be a physical transformation or a narrative transformation, we want you to run with this theme.
The winner of the DIY challenge will receive:
• £1000 BURSARY to put towards your career; whether to buy some kit, put towards studying or making your next short film
As we approach International Women’s Day I recall this phrase “Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart!” (Writer Elizabeth Gill). After witnessing an exhibit which did just that, I felt compelled as an artist to explore further.
As well as playing a key part in the stories of some of the city’s best known bands including the Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Old Chapel Music CIC - a not for profit community interest company which manages the studios in Holbeck - supports young people, up-and-coming artists and community groups, giving them access to the same facilities as established bands.
Residents since 1997 when as teenagers they were known as Parva, the Kaiser Chiefs still rehearse at Old Chapel Music Studios and have their own room in the extension they helped to fund in 2013.
The Wise Women manifesto was created by Dr Gillian Dyson-Moss, Dr Anne Schiffer, Dr Joanna Leah, and Lizzie Coombes, academics at Leeds Beckett’s Leeds School of Arts, to give voice to creative female researchers, especially those who feel frozen out as older women or as ‘early career researchers’.
The project has been funded by Research England and the Leeds Beckett Equity and Inclusion Research Fund.
As part of LEEDS 2023's signature project My LEEDS 2023, our 33 Neighbourhood Hosts are planning celebration events in each ward of the city and are looking for people in their communities to apply for a small grant to show off their talents or create activities as part of it.
Taking place in parks, village halls, high streets and shopping centres, the events will shine a light on the creativity found on our doorsteps.