🎉 What do archives mean to marginalised groups, and why are they important for heritage projects?
Find out more in Queer New Briggate: Archives and the High Street. Listen here: eaststreetarts.org.uk/.../listen-to-…

LAST 2 TICKETS LEFT 📚We are excited to announce that East Street Arts new book 'Hidden Histories of New Briggate' will be launched after our guided walk, 'Why is New Briggate “NEW”?' Guests are invited for drinks and nibbles at Kino for the launch. 🔗👉zurl.co/d3Tx

🎉Only a few more days left to apply!

🎉 Find out more about the history of jazz and its role in the artistic and cultural development of Leeds with John Toolan from Chapel FM and Steve Crocker from Jazz Leeds in the next instalment of Sounds of New Briggate.

Listen here: eaststreetarts.org.uk/.../listen-to-…

Make sure that you get to see our current exhibition, No Going Back, open 10-4pm, before it closes on Saturday 27 April!

Find out more: eastst.art/nogoingback

The next speaker in our #VisitingArtistsTalks series is Mohammad Barrangi Illustration – a multidisciplinary artist whose work centres on his own experiences of travel, migration and disability

Monday 29 April, 2-4pm University of Leeds

Free, all welcome!

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/event…

#VAT #fahacs

📣BOOK LAUNCH📚We are excited to announce that East Street Arts new book 'Hidden Histories of New Briggate' will be launched after our guided walk, 'Why is New Briggate “NEW”?' Walkers are invited for drinks and nibbles at @Kino for the book launch. 🔗👉zurl.co/FXdO

❤️ Brilliant to see that United We Stand has been saved and will be held by the Leeds United Supporters Trust.

You can hear Co-founder Jon Wakeman talking about the area on BBC Radio Leeds last week here (2:17:24) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

🎉 Join Joe Williams from Heritage Corner Leeds to discover more about the connection between New Briggate and Leeds’ Black community

Listen here: eaststreetarts.org.uk/2024/03/21/lis…

🎉 Micro awards for international collaboration!

🎉 We have some fantastic speakers joining us on 26 April for Housing: Can Artists Offer a Different Perspective? focusing on setting up collectively owned spaces, artist-led houses and documenting change in cities.

Book your tickets now: eaststreetarts.org.uk/events/housing…

🎉 Join Alanna Reid (Culture Commons), Nabil Al-Kinani (Privatise the Mandem), Dan Sean Kelly (Two Queens) and artist Eva Sajovic on the 26 April to find out more about creating collectively owned space.
Book now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/housing-can-…

✨ we can't wait to see more from this collaboration over the next few weeks!

Sad to see the collapse of this building on Kirkgate. We’ve been frustrated at the lack of progress in restoring the oldest street in the city and this is what happens when heritage buildings are neglected. Thank goodness nobody was hurt

🎉 Join Simon Phillips, from the Leeds Jewish Housing Association for The Jewish Heritage of New Briggate and Beyond exploring how through the 1860s to the 1920s New Briggate was a hub of Jewish life.

Listen here: eastst.art/sounds-of-new-…

Come and join us and Leeds Civic Trust on 9th May to hear all about New Briggate from historian Robert Dyson, and get a free copy of our #HiddenHistories of New Briggate book 👇

*Call for visual artists in the North of England, UK*
CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues is an international programme that brings together artists, cultural organisations and communities to delve into the complexities of our #colonial legacy.

In Last Dream, Mohammad Arfeen, DO.barrangi draws from the aesthetic of Persian miniature painting, deeply rooted in the exploration of migration, travel and freedom.

Find his work spread all across Leeds, in collaboration with 이동섭 and @eaststreetarts 🖋️

#Exhibition #Leeds

🎉 💃🏽 We hope you’ve been enjoying Sounds of New Briggate!

Join Suzy Mason - co-founder of Leeds’ Kit Kat Club, Vague, and SpeedQueen - for New Briggate After Dark.

Listen here: eastst.art/sounds-of-new-…