July 6th
Spoken Word with Saju Iqbal Ahmed
Venue: Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane, LS7 3LW
Time: 1pm-4pm
A workshop where you can relive your journey and stories of Chapeltown through dialogue, spoken word and performance, led by poet Saju Iqbal Ahmed. Participants will get the opportunity to share their stories and developed performances at the Chapeltown Word Junction taking place on the Saturday of the festival week. The Word Junction is a celebration of Chapeltown’s literary achievements and writers.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
July 7th
Light Graffiti – Painting with Light
Venue: Bracken Edge Primary School (Closed workshop)
Time: 3.30pm-5.30pm
Using a camera on a long exposure, the children will be able to draw pictures and write words with light. The pictures will then be viewed on a computer and participants will be able to choose which one they’d like to have printed and displayed during the festival. Workshop led by artist and photographer Jonathan Turner.
Heros & Heroines – Portrait Painting
Venue: Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane, LS7 3LW
Time: 1pm-4pm
A workshop led by Chapeltown based artist Marcia Brown.
Have a go at producing a basic portrait painting of a personal hero or heroine using oil paints or acrylics. You will need to bring along a photo or image of your hero/heroine to use as reference.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Memory of Tropical Flowers
Venue: Feel Good Factor, 53 Louis Street, LS7 4BP
Time: 10.30am-12.00pm
A mini canvas painting workshop, suitable for older people, with local artist Carol Sorhaindo. You will experiment with painting techniques on small canvases exploring the theme of memory of tropical flowers and fruit.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Bookbinding for Beginners
Venue: Union105, 105 Chapeltown Rd, LS7 3HY
Time: 6pm-7.30pm
A workshop suitable for ages 12+ with artist and bookmaker Ellen Burroughs.
The workshop will be basic introduction to bookbinding where you will make a trio of small books, each using a different technique. Great for people interested in self publishing, making their own sketchbooks or using techniques to create photo albums.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Carnival Mask Making at Hillcrest
Venue: Hillcrest Academy, Cowper Street, LS7 4DR (Closed workshop)
Time: 9am-10.30am
Workshop led by artist Rhian Kempadoo Millar
Children will design and make carnival masks, create headdresses/mask templates, and decorate with gems/sequins and feathers.
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July 8th
Carnival Mask Making at Hillcrest
Venue: Hillcrest Academy, Cowper Street, LS7 4DR (Closed workshop)
Time: 9am-10.30am
Workshop led by artist Rhian Kempadoo Millar
Children will design and make carnival masks, create headdresses/mask templates, and decorate with gems/sequins and feathers.
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July 9th
Memory of Tropical Flowers
Venue: Feel Good Factor, 53 Louis Street, LS7 4BP
Time: 10.30am-12.00pm
A mini canvas painting workshop, suitable for older people, with local artist Carol Sorhaindo. You will experiment with painting techniques on small canvases exploring the theme of memory of tropical flowers and fruit.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
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July 10th
African Tie Dye Workshop
Venue: Roscoe Methodist Church Hall, Francis Street, Leeds LS7 4BY
Time: 1pm-4pm
A workshop in traditional & contemporary textile resisting techniques and production processes.
Suitable for adults and children 10+ with guardians, with artist Oluseyi Ogunjobi.
An introductory session that will explore the context of textiles resisting processes and the philosophies associated with them. All participants will be taken through a practical journey of producing their own unique example of traditional African and contemporary textiles. Participants will learn about the importance of understanding the nature of fabric content and some aspects of the chemistry of textiles. The workshop will be conducted using a holistic approach.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Evening of Live Music
Time: 7pm-12 midnight
Venue: Leeds West Indian Centre. 10 Laycock Place. LS7 3JA
Featuring:
Fidel and the Harbingers – Bringing sweet reggae music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtj02RLasgs
Vanessa Rani Quartet – They were so good last year we had to have them back again.
www.vanessaranimusic.com
Royal Blood – Bringing to you legendary reggae music and new songs from their recent album.
MC on the night – Fluid Irie.
Admission is FREE but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are very welcome.
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July 11th
Chapeltown Word Junction
Venue: Reginald Centre, 263 Chapeltown Road, LS7 3EX
Time: 11.30am-2pm
Event running order: word-junction.pdf.
The official opening of the ‘Word Junction collection’ at the Reginald Centre library + performances and readings from some of Chapeltown’s literary heavyweights.
Featuring:
- Michelle Scally Clarke (with bass player David Fenwick)
- Dead Poets (two live poets from the spoken word collective)
- Saju Ahmed + participants from Mondays spoken word workshop
- Dr Carl Hylton (presenting a guide to the collection)
- Sai Murray (selected readings from the collection)
- Jane Storr and Maxine Dennis (presenting Chapeltown Women’s poetry from the 1980’s)
- Patricia Jones (Community Highlights magazine)
Building on the research from last year’s event we will present the opening of the ‘Word Junction collection’ – a dedicated permanent space in the library housing writings, documents and publications about Chapeltown and from Chapeltown-based and connected writers.
Throughout the whole week of the Arts Festival the library will also provide a space to view short films from several Chapeltown arts projects: including Sonic City, Race Card, Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project and more.
A free catalogue listing the known Chapeltown-related publications will be distributed at the event with books also for sale, information stalls and refreshments. A raffle will be held featuring donated books and prizes.
Bookbinding for Beginners
Venue: Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane, LS7 3LW
Time: 11am-12.30pm
A workshop suitable for ages 12+ with artist and bookmaker Ellen Burroughs.
The workshop will be basic introduction to bookbinding where you will make a trio of small books, each using a different technique. Great for people interested in self publishing, making their own sketchbooks or using techniques to create photo albums.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
DJ-ing Skills Drop In
Venue: Lifeforce Productions, Host Media Centre, 21 Savile Mount, LS7 3HZ
Time: 1pm-4pm
DJ skill workshop for children and young people run by LifeForce Productions, the award-winning Music Production and super-creative multi-media charity based at Leeds Media Centre
Feel free to drop in anytime between 1pm-4pm.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome.
Singing and Songwriting with Christella Litras
Venue: NSCD, Lighting Studio, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH
Time: 1pm-4pm
Founder member of the Caution Collective vocal group, Christella Litras, will lead this singing / song-writing workshop where you will learn about different vocal techniques, voice projection and choral singing and will explore how to combine poetry and music.
Over the past ten years Christella has produced and musically directed various professional live and recorded musical/theatrical performances, including producer for Rob Green’s new album, Parlour Tricks and producing and vocally arranging albums for Ella Andall in Trinidad. She has provided vocal and songwriting tuition for both national and international educational establishments and has performed and vocally directed many professional studio recordings and performance poetry showcases.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Theatre Improvisation, Devising and Shakespeare
Venue: NSCD, Studio 3, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH
Time: 1pm-4pm
A workshop that focuses on the basics of what it takes to devise a piece of theatre, the improvisational work that goes into it and how all of this can be inspired by the wonderful works of Shakespeare. Led by award winning actor and Co-Founder of Chicken Shop Shakespeare, Lladel Bryant.
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited. Please contact lotte@esamail.org.uk or ring 0113 262 6633 to book a place.
Youth Hip Hop Masterclass with Ess Green
Venue: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH
Time: 1pm–4pm
For young dancers aged 12 – 18 years, this workshop will feature warm up exercises and will focus on the Hip Hop, House and Breaking styles of dance.
Ess has travelled around the world working with the industries finest, learning and training the foundations of hip hop and street styles. A lot of people would have seen Ess on Got to Dance with his crew the A Team who made it to the finals in 2012 but more recently Ess has danced with JLS and Kimberly Wyatt and has just finished a run in the West End 5 star rated Hip Hop Theatre Show ‘Some Like It Hip Hop’ by ZooNation
Free to attend but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome. Booking is essential as space is limited.To book a place contact 0113 2193005 or email participation@nscd.ac.uk
Contemporary Dance Class
Venue: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH
Time: 1pm–2.30pm
Suitable for 12 – 18 years
Free for Chapeltown residents / £5 for non residents – Supported by funding from Chapeltown Arts Festival. To book a place contact 0113 2193005 or email participation@nscd.ac.uk
East Street Arts Leeds Open Studios
Explore studios. Meet artists. Buy art.
11-12 July 2015
12noon-7pm (Saturday and Sunday)
Union 105 (105 Chapeltown Road Leeds, LS7 3HY)
Patrick Studios (St Marys Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH)
Barkston Studios (Croydon Street Leeds, LS11 9RT)
Artist’s studios are fascinating places; “once inside there is a kind of magic that happens and you’re suddenly in the middle of a very rich and, I feel, privileged experience. Every studio is different because every artist is different. The set up, interior and approach to individual spaces is never the same.” Karen Watson (East Street Arts, Co-Founder & Artistic Director.)
East Street Arts’ members are opening their doors and you are invited. Take some time and explore some of the most creative environments in Leeds; painters, sculptors, designers, filmmakers, performers, ceramicists, illustrators, writers, tailors, photographers and digital artists are all welcoming you behind the scenes.
So take the opportunity to meet the artists in their place of work, start a conversation, maybe buy some of their work and start your own art collection or build upon the one you may already have!
For more information please contact –
Lydia Catterall – Project Co-ordinator – Open Studios
T: 0113 248 0040
M: 07850752295
E: lydia@esamail.org.uk
Inna di Dancehall – Symposium
Venue: Inkwell 31 Potternewton Lane, LS7 3LW Leeds
Time: 7pm-9.30pm
The aesthetic and poetics of Sound System Culture – With Khadijah Ibrahiim
This event will debate the continuing relevance of the aesthetics and poetics of Sound System culture to British writing and to recover to view the cultural hinterland of the Sound System and dancehall culture that sprang up in all the urban centres where Caribbean/Black British people were present.
There are lazy and ill-informed assumptions about the nature of dub poetry and the relationship between Black British poets and performance. This event will set out to counter these assumptions by documenting the actual creative wealth and complexity of the Sound System scene and the roles of selectors, djs, toasters, singjays and dub poets.
One of the important themes will be the relationship of these various performers to their listeners, who can be better be described as active participants than as an audience. In this respect, this event is an attempt to explore distinctive elements in Black British culture that draw on African traditions of interaction.
The symposium will take the form of a performance of poems that both explore and draw from the sound system culture; contributions from a selector (Fluid Irie), a guest toaster (K.D. Ranks) dancer (David Hamilton) and guest speaker Lincoln Richards to illustrate and recreate their roles; and an audio-visual presentation that captures the sights and sounds of the period of the 1970-80s when the Sound system and dancehall culture was at its height. There will be a panel of practitioners and an open discussion with the audience.
The symposium will create opportunities for dialogue and the sharing of experiences, engaging the public in a high-quality performance fusing poetry, music, dance, photography and discussion.
This event is FREE but donations to the Chapeltown Arts Festival are welcome.
July 12th
Punjabi Roots
Venue: Norma Hutchinson Park
Punjabi Roots will give audience members quick exciting workshop sessions throughout the day where they will teach about the Dhol, it’s culture and drum patterns.
Art in The Park with Liz Stirling
Venue: Norma Hutchinson Park – Chapeltown Road
Time: 12pm-3pm
Come and make art in the park and add your work to the pop-up exhibition displays in tents and an outdoor maze.
We will be making large scale monster drawings and other creature pictures exploring all sorts of materials.
LAB in a Van
Venue: Streets in Chapeltown – Various
Time: 12pm-8pm
Live Art Bistro will be presenting a selection of pop up Cabaret performances from the back of a transit van – taking place across the main streets, car parks and open spaces of Chapeltown. If your lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time your likely to see some rather irreverent, boisterous and laudable sights!
Show and Sell
Venue: Norma Hutchinson Park
Time: 11.30am-4.30pm
Arts and Crafts Fair for local artists, makers and creatives to display and sell their wares.
If you are a maker, an artist or a creative person and you want to show, sell or perform your work this is the place to do it. If you would like to book a stall please email chapeltownartsfestival@gmail.com or call 07716012727 / 01132626633.
Pitches cost £20.
Band in the Park
Venue: Norma Hutchinson Park
Time: 2.30pm-4.30pm
Music from Bassa Bassa, the ‘merchants of musical mayhem.’ – bassabassa.co.uk
East Street Arts Leeds Open Studios
Explore studios. Meet artists. Buy art.
11-12 July 2015
12 noon-7pm (Saturday and Sunday)
Union 105 (105 Chapeltown Road Leeds, LS7 3HY)
Patrick Studios (St Marys Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH)
Barkston Studios (Croydon Street Leeds, LS11 9RT)
Street Art (makes it sound more exciting than it is).They should finish painting them on Sat 11th. Unveil on Sunday at 2pm.
Street Art
A collaboration between LCC and Chapeltown Arts festival. A competition will be run to see who can win the best design for painting 4 of the Virgin Communication boxes near to and on Chapeltown Road. See artists in action through out the Festival week painting and making Chapeltown a more exciting place to be.
Unveiling will be on Sunday 12th July at 2pm.
Chapeltown Zine in A Day
Venue: Union105, 105 Chapeltown Rd, LS7 3HY
Time: 11am-5pm
Can we make a whole zine for Chapeltown in one day? You bet we can!
As part of the Chapeltown Arts Festival, Footprint Workers Coop will be setting up their Risograph printer and booklet maker at Union105 on Sunday 12th July and are inviting the local community and festival attendees to contribute a written or drawn page for our very own Chapeltown Zine. It gets printed, collated, folded, stapled and is ready in one day.
We will be collecting A5 pages for the zine throughout the festival week, 6th-12th July, so if anyone wants to contribute you just need to drop off a page at Union105 at some point before Sunday 12th July at 3pm.
So create yourself a Chapeltown related A5 page and get involved in putting our very own zine together!
Footprint Workers Coop – www.footprinters.co.uk
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