What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds Dock kitchen, bar and event space, Fearns, has been announced as the location for the opening party for Compass Festival 2024, taking place on Friday 1 November 2024 from 6 to 8pm. The opening party also kicks off Compass Festival’s Leeds Sauce Week (1–8 November), a celebration of Leeds’
Compass Festival returns to South Leeds next month with one of the key artworks located at Crown Point Bridge in Hunslet. This is the arts festival’s fifth edition. In past years Compass Festival has come to South Leeds with Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters’s spiralling walk around Holbeck and the
For a week in November, people in Holbeck and Beeston, as well as four other communities across Leeds, were invited to answer a question a day about how they were feeling. Voting boxes were located in chip shops, community centres, pubs and clubs and results were posted each day on
The Measures Of Us art project started today with people in Beeston and Holbeck being asked if they laugh everyday. As previously reported, Measures Of Us is part of the Compass Festival, a programme of arts events taking place across Leeds this week. Each day this week a new question
The city-wide Compass Festival is bringing an interactive artwork to Holbeck and Beeston, testing the temperature of the community through five questions or statements. Over 5 days during the festival, starting on Monday 19 November, Measures of Us will unfold in six neighbourhoods around the city, asking questions which take
Do you know your neighbours? Do you wish your street was a bit friendlier? Do you get a bit awkward when you spot those that live next door but can’t remember their name? Artist and broadcaster Scottee is looking for one street in Leeds to nominate itself as the loneliest
Two men are attempting to walk around (and around) Holbeck following a spiral route marked on a map. As they go they are collecting items and building a structure of mementos of their journey. Spiral is part of the Compass Arts Festival taking place in Leeds this week. Sticking exactly