Hello, it has been some time since we did anything to this website. Not the best marketing strategy. Our lack of website presence doesnt mean we have been dormant.
Like everyone of you, lockdown affected our plans and added to the challenges we had around resources. This year has seen a resurgence of our aims, mission and philosphy.
Projects we have been invloved with in 2021 and 2022 include:
A play – Promise of a Garden in partnership with Leeds 2023, Leeds Older Peoples Forum, Performance Ensemble and Leeds Playhouse where we ran community workshops making fabric, paper and ceramic flowers for the play.
My World, My City, My Neighbourhood – Leeds 2023. A project involving the community in starting to transform an area of land we are calling the ginnel. See The Ginnel Project for further information.
Chapeltown Word Junction at Leeds Art Gallery – Chapeltown Word Junction 2022 is a one-day take-over of Leeds Art Gallery happening on 24th September 2022. It is a literary event, inviting audiences to engage with contributions from established and emerging Leeds based writers, primarily descendants of previously colonised countries.
The event will elicit emotional, spiritual, creative and historical responses to the exhibition ‘Shifting Perspectives’, which explores colonial legacies within the Leeds Art Collection.
There will be catharsis, there may be pain but these processes are necessary to resist neo-colonialist tropes that continue to be part of our everyday lives, liberate thinking and transform minds.
The event is an important artistic step in the process of decolonising this public institution and ensuring that the creative output of all the citizens of Leeds is included and welcomed into our city’s art gallery.
Artists, writers, and authors include, Joe Williams (Heritage Walks), Asher Jael (World Re-imagined), Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett Univesity), Corinne Bailey Rae , SAA-UK and Sable Radio. More on the day
Go to Eventbrite to bok your FREE ticket – Here
