Category: Community
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Kirkstall Living Advent Calendar
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…
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What was your defining image of Kirkstall Art Trail 2024?
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…
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The Vicarages Project
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…
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The Glebes Project
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,…
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Kirkstall Art Trail Welcomes Hawksworth group
Kirkstall Art Trail are pleased to show work created by a group from Hawksworth. ‘Creative Tuesdays Hawksworth’, which is supported by the Better Together Project (West Leeds), meet every Tuesday morning. Hawksworth is a small estate, built in the early twentieth century, but within the larger Kirkstall ward. The group has been running for over…
