The Leeds Arts Party Event Programme 2015

Leeds College of Art Blenheim Walk Saturday 9th May 11am - 4pm

Create. Celebrate. Educate.

Welcome to the Leeds Arts Party!

Our celebration of the arts at Leeds College of Art Expect a vibrant day holding host to talks from Lemn Sissay MBE, Cape Farewell and Arts Education advocate, Susan Coles.

Take part in the creative workshops running all day, browse our arts market where you’ll find beautiful work for sale from the region’s finest artists and makers, and view our two exhibitions on display.

Join the conversations on topics surrounding the arts, plus an open discussion ‘Over to You’ at the end of the day, where you will have the opportunity discuss the issues that are most important to you.

The Leeds Arts Party is about exploring why the arts are not only important to education, but how they also benefit society and the world as a whole.

The theme of sustainability has been woven into the day. We believe that in order to tackle the pressing global sustainability issues faced in our world today, we need a generation of innovative problem solvers.

The lack of value placed on creativity in our schools today means that we are not equipping our children with the vital tools they need to make this world a better place tomorrow.

We hope you find the day inspiring, and that our party will reignite your passion for the power the arts can hold.

Thank you all for coming, have fun!

Frances Bailey Project Manager, The Leeds Arts Party

Contents

3 Guest Speakers 5 Workshops 7 Schedule 9 Arts Market 10 Exhibitions 11 Conversations 13 Sponsors & Thanks 14 Location 15 Map

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Guest Speakers We are honoured to present to you our exciting programme of guest speakers at the Leeds Arts Party. Tickets to these talks are free of charge thanks to our friends at the Green Exchange.

Booking Required Lemn Sissay, Poet and Playwright - 12pm Lemn Sissay MBE is the author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays. He was an official poet for the London Olympics. His Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London, in venues such as The Royal Festival Hall and The Olympic Park. Sissay is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, and inaugural trustee of World Book Night. @lemnsissay lemnsissay.com

Lucy Wood – Cape Farewell - 1.30pm Cape Farewell: Using the arts to inspire a cultural shift towards a sustainable, low carbon future.

Lucy will talk about Cape Farewell’s wide programme of activity, which utilises artists and art to interrogate issues around sustainability and climate change, and lead

Lecture Theatre - Room 8 on the Map

4 us towards a viable, healthier low-carbon future. From placing artists in residence with organic farmers as part of our Rural Interrogations programme to working with Paris-based organisation COAL on ArtCop21; an exciting programme of cultural events and installations across Paris that will focus the world’s attention on Climate Change as the leaders meet for the 2015 Climate Summit in December. @capefarewell capefarewell.com

Susan Coles - 3pm Susan Coles is an adviser, consultant, artist, school governor, critical friend, lecturer, advocate and activist for visual arts education.

Susan has been President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design.

Susan is also secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft and Design Education. She works across the UK in schools, colleges, universities and galleries and is also a popular speaker at c onferences and symposiums, in the UK and internationally.

Susan supports the Arts Party wholeheartedly.

“Art gave me my voice”. @theartcriminal artcrimes.org.uk

Advance tickets are available at lap15.eventbrite.co.uk. However tickets may still be available on the day, visit the welcome desk to register.

Build your personalised schedule on our ‘Guidebook’ app, enter ‘LAP15’ in the app to download our digital programme!

Lecture Theatre - Room 8 on the Map

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Workshops We have a brilliant selection of workshops running all day at The Leeds Arts Party.

Each workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities. Come get creative!

Stitch Up - Pom Pom Bomb Stitch-Up is an innovative Community Interest Company dedicated to up-skilling and connecting people and communities by teaching and promoting the basics and benefits of knitting and yarn crafts in a modern world.

They will be demonstrating various pom-pom techniques using only beautiful, colourful and donated yarn scraps which would otherwise have been destined for landfill.

Drop in at anytime and help showcase the collective power of people coming together to create something amazing!

East Street Arts - Negative Recycling An exciting workshop that uses film negatives to create images in an alternative way.

The workshop allows you to draw, paint or manipulate film negatives, which will then be scanned to create a stunning and individual digital image. The image can then be printed as a postcard or be used to create a badge, which will be yours to keep.

Negatives will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own negatives to use.

Cafeteria - Room 2 on the Map

6 The Blood Bag Project A craftivism project designed to encourage people to donate blood and raise awareness for Blackfan Anaemia.

Come make your very own beautiful, handcrafted blood bag for a fantastic cause.

Suitable for young and old, beginners and expert, anyone can create their own work of art!

Sea Monsters for Climate Change Woodcraft Folk have been using the idea of pro-climate change Sea Monsters who can’t wait for everything to flood to protest against climate change.

Come along and get crafty, making a huge Sea Monster protest prop. At the same time we’ll help you figure out your answer to important climate questions.

Paperwork Explore issues around mental health and well-being through movement and papercrafts. ‘Labelling’ is an interactive post-it note installation built through movement and participation designed to start conversations.

Help create the installation through rule based movement and writing words related to mental health.

Pyramid of Arts Pyramid of Arts is an inclusive arts community, producing high-quality work in a wide range of art-forms for public exhibition and performance.

Join them in making a collaborative sculpture piece made from recycled materials which will grow throughout the day!

Cafeteria - Room 2 on the Map

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Schedule 12-1

Arts Workshops 11am - 4pm

Arts Market 11am - 4pm

Convos

Exhibitions

Workshops

Lemn Sissay 12pm

Arts Market

Guest Speakers

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Exhibitions 11am - 4pm Convo 1 - 12pm

Convo 2 -

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Lucy Wood 1.30pm

- 1pm

Susan Coles 3pm

Convo 3 - 2pm Convo 4 - 3pm

Build your personalised schedule on our ‘Guidebook’ app, enter ‘LAP15’ in the app to download our digital programme!

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Arts Market The Leeds Arts Party presents an Arts Market featuring the work from some of the regions most talented artists and makers.

Expect everything from jewellery, ceramics, prints, books and much more.

Many of these makers work with sustainable and recycled materials, prepare to be inspired.

Betty Loves Stuff Carol Sorhaindo Garden Book Club Hannah Warner Krystyna Spink Leeds College of Art Lowri Jones Illustration Margaret Chalmers Matthew Walkden Melodies Jewellery

Room 7 on the Map

Mucky Boots Media Ornament Pulpitations Pb-Au Rogers Ink Samuel C Williams Sean Mort Print Shop Siamak Foroutan That Bird Things By Us

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Exhibitions We have two fantastic exhibitions on display for you at the Leeds Arts Party.

These exhibitions both demonstrate the importance of the arts socially and environmentally.

‘VisCom With’ Exhibition - Room 5 Students from BA (Hons) Visual Communication are showcasing their latest project screening short films and exhibiting work from this social design project developed in partnership with ‘Health for All’. Students have spent the past 10 weeks working together with local community groups under the ‘Health for All’ umbrella, developing and exploring dialogic processes and participatory practices. The end result is a collection of diverse visual representations of an organisation working with ‘local people to engage with and improve disadvantaged communities’. As well as an exhibition of work including films, newspapers, books and puppetry, there will be activities for all ages.

Salvage - Room 12 This exhibition features a selection of work from students from across multiple courses at Leeds College of Art. Each artist works sustainably either using found or recycled materials, or by factoring environmental themes into their pieces.

Rooms 5 & 12 on the Map

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Conversations We have put together a programme of curated conversations to get your tongues tired!

The arts are hot topic at the moment, especially with it being election week! What are your thoughts? We’d love to discuss them, come join us and share your ideas.

1. ‘The Politics of Art’ Tom Bowes - 12pm Join BOGSAT (Bunch of guys/girls sat around talking) for some relaxed open discussions focused around our newly elected Governments ideas on the arts and their policies. What’s good? What’s bad? And what could we do better? Possibly quite a lot…

2. ‘What is the Catalyst?’ John Slemensek - 1pm Where does creativity come from, and where does it lead us? From education, to frustration, from eureka to the freak-out, from self-taught to mind fraught. Join John Slemensek, Director of Woolgather Art and explorer of the artistic lifestyle as he raises the discussion around the path of creativity.

Room 6 on the Map

12 3. ‘ The Inclusivity of Arts’ Julia Brown - 2pm Julia Brown armed with her illustration photo booth will be facilitating discussions around the arts and their positive impact on those with learning disables, and the educational challenges they can face.

As a dyslexia and dyspraxia sufferer herself, she has felt the enormity that the power of the arts has brought to her life. With graduation from her degree in Visual Communication on the horizon; Julia has felt a kind of success that can be directly attributed to the inclusive nature of the arts.

Join the Arts conversation!

4. Over to You! - 3pm Time to create your own conversations!

We suspect there may be lots you want to talk about based on what you have experienced during your day at The Leeds Arts Party.

This open forum is for any discussion related to the arts that you may not have explored during the day.

Continue the conversation online #LeedsArtsParty

Room 6 on the Map

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Sponsors & Thanks We’d love to thank our amazing sponsors for their support in making The Leeds Arts Party happen! The Leeds Green Exchange, and V-Inspired - you are ace.

Huge thanks to Awesome Merchandise for their generous sponsorship of the event. Their products are amazing, you really should check them out.

Thank you to Leeds College of Art for letting us use their building, and their incredible support-in-kind.

Thank you to all of the staff at Leeds College of Art who have contributed to the running of the event, your support has been absolutely tremendous - we couldn’t have done it without you!

Thank you to staff and students from BA (Hons) Visual Communication.

What an excellent bunch of humans you really are.

To all of our volunteers, we really value your time - thank you!

Thank you to the conversation facilitators, community artists, stall holders, exhibiting artists, Lemn Sissay, Susan Coles and Lucy Wood for making the Leeds Arts Party a truly inspiring and exciting event.

And last but not least, THANK YOU! Thank you for attending.

By being apart of our day you have joined us in championing the arts; spread the word #LeedsArtsParty

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Location The Leeds Arts Party takes place at: Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk, LS2 9AQ Just a short walk from Leeds City Centre!

Buses 1, 6, 28, 56, 97 all run to Leeds University steps, we are just opposite there.

The nearest car park is Woodhouse Lane.

The post code for your sat nav is LS2 3AX.

Refreshments The mosaic cafe at Leeds College of Art will be open from 11am - 3pm.

Alternatively there are cafes located opposite Leeds University.

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Map

Entrance

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Entrance Gallery Workshops Cafeteria Workshops Vis Com With Conversations Arts Market Guest Speakers Lift Outside Area Disabled Toilet Salvage

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Lower Ground Floor

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Join the conversation #LeedsArtsParty