Beeston community picnic a great success
A huge thank you to everyone who came down to Cross Flatts Park for the community picnic organised by Beeston Hill Community Association last Sunday (7 June 2026). We had around 100 people join us for some great food, chat, and games in the sunshine. All the veggie food was
Situation Leeds on ‘The Corner’ | Saturday 16th May 10am – 10pm
Situation Leeds | come and join us for a day of fun and frolics out in the open on ‘The Corner’ Pocket Sculpture Park, Tunstall Road (opposite BasementArtsProject).
Situation Leeds: Community Canvas
Today’s focus on Situation Leeds takes us away from ceramic ears and into a world of painting.
Come and join us for some community painting on Saturday 16th May 10am – 4pm
Situation Leeds: The Listening City
In yesterday’s writing ‘Sous le Pave les Plage’ I wrote about how the French postman Ferdinand Cheval turned work, and the public environment into a game. This game, which to many will have seemed either pointless or a sign of madness, resulted in an incredible artwork/folly in the ‘Palais Ideal’
Election Special: Sous les pavés, la plage!
The city has become a graveyard. The gap-toothed grin of the high street distorts our sense of reality as generally worthless businesses open and close and the centre shifts eternally. There will come a time when the dust settles at the end of civilisation and nature starts to reclaim the cities in the absence of the human animal.
Hard Shoulder Motorway City
We would like to invite the community of South Leeds to our next opening on Tuesday 19th May | 5:30 – 8:30pm by Artist Lane Shipsey.
Middleton Railway’s Community Day
Middleton Railway will hold its annual Community Day on Saturday 18 April 2026 at its Moor Road base in Hunslet. This is a great opportunity for local groups to share their activities with the public and recruit new volunteers to help run things. Last year groups such as the Friends
An Invitation to ‘The Living Tomb’: In Life and Death We Are Intertwined
BasementArtsProject have always straddled a line between the private and personal when it comes to presenting the idea of life as an artwork. Where does the public persona end and the private life begin?
