🧭 Compass Festival 2024 1–30 November Join us for a whole month of interactive art across Leeds! All events are free or Pay What You Can.
Leeds
Joined November 2010
- Tweets3.8K
- Following1.1K
- Followers3.4K
- Likes2.7K
Pinned Tweet
📢 Now live! Discover Compass Festival’s 2024 programme, unfolding from 1–30 Nov with a whole month of interactive art across Leeds.
From communal feasts to celebratory projections, our 2024 festival creates moments for reflection and connection.
🔗 compassliveart.org.uk/compas…
Watch our Compass Festival 2024 round up film!
Our seventh edition unfolded from 1–30 November, bringing a whole month of interactive art across Leeds.
Thousands of people joined us to discover nine projects with 11 artists.
On the street, in the market, on the menu:
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Compass Festival 2024!
We welcomed thousands of people over the month of November, presenting nine projects with 11 artists.
Joined us? Tell us your thoughts and enter our prize draw: surveymonkey.com/r/D62G39Z
ALT People sat sharing food at a large table. Text reads 'thanks for joining us at Compass Festival 2024! Read the round up >>>'
NOW OPEN! Have you booked your treatments?
🕯️🤳🐈
ALT+R (pronounced altar) is a digital wellness spa with a sense of humour, presented by @slapcollective.
Book now: compassliveart.org.uk/event/…
ALT A person lifts a phone above their head next to phones displaying candle emojies
ALT Three people raise their phones above their heads on yoga mats wearing office clothes
ALT A receptionist and an orange cat
We're one week into Ling Tan's installation: Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown at @LeedsMarkets!
🥚 Discover the cultural significance and environmental impact of various ingredients.
🎦 Watch a series of low carbon cooking films, made with East & Southeast Asian migrants in Leeds.
ALT A blurry red coated figure in front of Leeds Low Carbon Pop up, an installation in Kirkgate Market built from cardboard
ALT A close up of the ingredients on display including spring onions, sesame oil and eggs
ALT A blurry figure in front of the Leeds Low Carbon Pop up
ALT A straight on view of the ingredients on display and films at the Leeds Low Carbon Pop up
Compass Festival is HERE! Join us for a whole month of interactive art across Leeds.
⬇️ WEEK 1 ⬇️
🎊 Tonight: join our Opening Party
🥯 Discover Leeds Sauce Week from 1–8 November
Opening tomorrow:
📖 Quarantine: Building of Spines
🍚 Ling Tan: Leeds' Low Carbon Chinatown
ALT Compass Festival is here!
NEWS! Join us for an exclusive Compass Festival preview at @LightNightLeeds 📷
HERE MARKS THE SPOT by Melanie Whitehead Smith unfolds across Leeds 25–28 November as part of Compass Festival 2024.
Catch a sneak peek on 24-25 Oct for Light Night!
More: compassliveart.org.uk/join-u…
ALT A dancing figure illuminated against a dark background
🥂 We’re starting Leeds Sauce Week and Compass Festival 2024 with a party at Fearns.
Join us for a special drink and a snacks menu inspired by Popeye Collective’s Leeds Sauce.
🎟️ Tickets are Pay What You Can and available now on our website: compassliveart.org.uk/event/…
ALT A graphic with a bright pink bottle of Leeds Sauce and 'Compass Festival 2024 Opening Party, Fri 1 Nov, 6–8pm, Fearns, Pay What You Can
Have you experienced queer joy in Leeds?
Dance artist Melanie Whitehead Smith invites you to tell your story and join us at a free dance workshop.
After sharing your moments of joy, you’ll work with Melanie to create a piece of choreography.
Apply here: compassliveart.org.uk/here-m…
ALT a photo of Leeds terraced houses and the city skyline with the words ‘HERE MARKS THE SPOT’ in yellow writing over the top
Our 2023 Round-Up is live!🌟
What an incredible year!
We've worked with so many wonderful artists and organisations and we've loved programming work for our audiences!
If you've missed anything or want to see it all again, follow the link below! 👇
tinyurl.com/5n7zrzx6
New blog post live with reflections from residency artist Alisa Oleva about her recent project Walk Me There!
Read more here! 👇
compassliveart.org.uk/walk-m…
New blog post up! 📣
We spoke to our first residency artist of 2023 and asked them to reflect on their time developing their project The White Noise Factory! 🎤
Read more here!
compassliveart.org.uk/the-wh…
Job Opportunity!💫
Our friends @PhoenixLeeds are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Digital Communications Executive to support their overall communications & marketing strategies as they move into a new era.
Deadline: 13/11/2023
Apply here👇
tinyurl.com/3wfjrjk4
Residency Opportunity!🌟
@Photoworks_uk & @EnglishHeritage are looking to commission 3 artists aged 18-25 to make a new body of artwork that responds to an English Heritage free site.
Apply by 10am 13/11/2023
Read more here! 👇
tinyurl.com/3x7ue9my
Compass Festival retweeted
Our fresh #ArtOpps
💰 Commission @chaptertweets
🌱 Professional Development @factoryintl
🔎 Residencies @whatsnextculture & @ArtsatCERN
🤝 Collaboration @CompassFestLDS
🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity @dergreif_org
More #OpenCalls this way 👇
artrabbit.com/artist-opportu…
It was an absolute delight to be the case study organisation for this as part of our Collaborate project!🚶🚶♀️🚶♂️
Make sure to check out this How To guide on Walking Interviews!🤩
🚶♂️ Ready to walk and talk? 🚶♀️
Our latest How To guide, developed by Lauren Hall and @CeriPitches, shares practical advice on using walking interviews and how this research methodology may help you gain deeper insights from participants.
culturehive.co.uk/CVIresourc…
Want to become a Compass Trustee?🧭
We're currently looking to expand our Board of Trustees!
To find out more, follow the link below! 👇
compassliveart.org.uk/become…
Our friends @YorkshireDance are hosting a one-day dance festival in central Leeds for Children & Their Grown Ups on Sat 28 Oct.
Come along for a fun, friendly and imaginative family day out! 🌟
Find out more & grab your Pay As Your Feel tickets today: buff.ly/2TsugqK
'This is the beginning, the primordial existence of the concept before it becomes formed.'
@toussainttomove Negus Genesis tonight!
Tickets available!
Book here👇
stage.leeds.ac.uk/events/neg…
Low Carbon Chinatown X Leeds Residency - A Round Up is now live on our website! 🤩🍤 @LingQL
Learn all about the project and it's process as well as discovering the links to the recipes created so you can try them yourself 😋
Check it out here! 👇
compassliveart.org.uk/low-ca…
