Category: Community

  • 2024 Kirkstall Living Advent launch

    Five photos of festive windows in a collage around the words Living Advent

    You’re all welcome to come to the Kirkstall Living Advent launch. Join us at the Festive Market and stick around for live music, food and drinks, and the reveal of the first window. You can also follow the rest of the trail with our map. Details: 🎄 Kirkstall Living Advent Launch 📍St Stephen’s Church Hall,… continue reading

  • 2024 Kirkstall ‘Living Advent Calendar’

    a collage of 11 advent window displays

    Light up your Christmas Spirit with Kirkstall’s Advent Windows. Kirkstall Advent Windows are back for 2024. It is a Swedish tradition that can be dated to the 1800’s. Lighting up windows in the dark gloom of winter, Advent candles would appear in windows to illuminate the street below. Fast forward to the 21st Century. In… continue reading

  • What was your defining image of Kirkstall Art Trail 2024?

    decorative, it reads 'Kirkstall Art Trail brings community together'

    What was your defining image of Kirkstall Art Trail 2024? Maybe one of the wide variety of artists held your attention like a brush in hand. Possibly one of the workshops or demonstrations captured you the most. Could it be that the upcycled fashion show or poetry sashayed into your creative imagination. Perhaps all of… continue reading

  • The Vicarages Project

    Art installation. A row of t-shirts, with art work emblazoned on them, are hanging high on a washing line between two back-to-back houses.

    Kirkstall Art Trail commissioned an artist to work with The Vicarage’s residents over the summer. The Vicarages are a number of back-to-back terrace houses with cobbled streets, with washing lines reaching across the street from house to house. The artist was briefed to collaborate with local residents to create a large scale work that would… continue reading

  • The Glebes Project

    A colourful riso print, created from the work that was made during the communnity workshop

    Kirkstall Art Trail commissioned an artist to work with a small community – The Glebes, two back-to-back terraced streets – over the summer. The artist was briefed to collaborate with local residents to create a work that would be displayed during the Art Trail. Kate Jennings, the artist-facilitator told us, “for the Kirkstall Art Trail,… continue reading