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.
Exhibition telling story of Irish in Britain comes to Holbeck
An oral history exhibition celebrating 50 years of Irish in Britain, the national membership organisation for the Irish community in Britain, is visiting Holbeck next week (15-19 November 2023). The stories within the exhibition are as inspirational as they are heart-breaking, and most importantly, will never be forgotten. From the
New photography group set to launch in South Leeds
Digital Image South Leeds is a new group set up in South Leeds with the aim of bringing together people of South Leeds who have a like-minded interest in Digital Photography and Video Making. We are aiming to help individuals gain expertise, practical skills, develop creativity and confidence in using
Loane Bobillier: Squaring the Circle | Opening Night: Thursday 2nd March 2023. 5:30-8:30pm
Loane Bobilier is an international student at Leeds Arts University; hailing from Switzerland and arriving on these shores via China and Singapore, her work is a selection of satisfying geometric objects and shapes.
iNSIGHT: a photography exhibition by the community
St. Luke’s CARES is showing their first community photographic exhibition and the grand opening is on Friday (30 July 2021) at 12noon. The collection is a result of a series of photos taken from disposable cameras handed to the community over the last two months and developed to show an
BasementArtsProject: View From The Corner – Notes On A Pandemic 1
We are, as a rule, a social species and the idea of isolating oneself, or even a family group, away from the rest of society for an indefinite period of time is probably one of the cruelest requests that could be made of many people. Even the most anti-social behaviour is at it’s heart a social act; rarely do people set out to behave badly on their own, more often than not there is a pack instinct that draws people together based on shared values
Competition time: write, draw, photo and win prizes!
We are of course anticipating that we’ll all be in some form of lockdown for many weeks to come – and news (and events, and sport, and a lot of our regular content) will be in short supply. Meanwhile, we’ll all be cooped up at home, looking for things to
Art Life: South of the River | Landscapes of the (Un)Known
Now that the New Year is well and truly underway and we prepare to enter February, so too does BasementArtsProject prepare to enter, not just our 2020 programme on 6 March, but also the last year of our first decade as a Beeston-based arts organisation. On 2 April 2021 BasementArtsProject
Beeston photographer wins nature award
Stuart Petch, who contributes nature photographs to the South Leeds Life newspaper, won an award last month in the 2019 International Bird Photographer of the Year competition. Stuart told us: “Basically I found a dead sparrowhawk in the city centre, ‘rescued’ it from the roadside, brought it home, and was
Take a photo to celebrate life in Holbeck
Holbeck Elderly Aid (HEA) and Northern Monk Brewery launched their True North 2019 photography project at St Matthew’s Community Centre on Friday (31 May 2019). The aim is to gather a collection of photographs that celebrate life in Holbeck. Twelve photos will be selected to be published as a calendar,