Preview I Love West Leeds Arts Festival
39 events showcasing some of the most weird and wonderful art Leeds has to offer
Preview: I Love West Leeds Arts Festival
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The quirky I Love West Leeds festival is back for its fifth year, and is bigger than ever. The festival will be taking place from the 3rd-19th July and will offer up an array of one of a kind, unique, weird and wonderful events including a Space Hopper Exercise Class with Pilates teacher Kath Nisbet on the 12th, a Bike-In Movie (which is exactly what you think it is) in Western Flats Park on the 19th, showcasing a film about kidnapping during the Tour de France called Belleville Rendezvou, and Wet Sounds in Bramley Baths on the 10th, which uses special underwater speakers to transmit the work of artist such as Joe Gilmore, letting you hear and feel sounds like you never have before.
Along with this plethora of wacky and wonderful events there is the highlight of the two weeks; Comings and Goings, a one of a kind photography exhibition by Casey Orr exploring migration, community and home. This fantastic visual display will be on large canvases on the exterior wall of Leeds Prison and simultaneously inside the prison during the entire two weeks, and is a must see for all photography and art lovers.
On top of this there will also be multiple music based events including the Bill James Big Band playing at Armley Liberal Club on the 16th. This band of brothers has been going strong for 45 years now and always please with their swinging tunes from the 30’s to the present day and will be accompanied by the Citizen’s Orchestra Performance. For the younger audience there is a collection of bands, fresh from an intensive rock school, performing on an outdoor stage in Pudsey Town Centre on the 19th and there will also be Festival Radio Online between the 13th to the 17th showcasing music, chat and drama.
The festival this year has been nominated for the Culture Led Project of the Year in the Regeneration and Renewal Awards and that is no surprise as the two weeks offers a fantastic amount of different and one-of events, most of which are accessible for all the family - and most of the time completely free as well.
As ever, it will be impossible to get to all the activities going on over the two week period but you can guarantee that there will be something worth doing every single day that won’t break the bank and will promise a quirky and fun filled experience that is just perfect for summer in West Leeds.
3-19 July, for full details see http://www.ilovewestleeds.co.uk
Posted on Friday 12th June 2009
Matthew Read
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