Jazz for adults x lassn
Across the month of August, musical messiahs, Ozzy Moysley and Fergus Quill took over the basement of Hyde Park Book Club with their Jazz for Adults ensembles, raising money for Leeds Assylum Seekers Support Network.
cosey fanni tutti: a hull revolutionary
Cosey Fanni Tutti took the world by storm with her wildly controversial artworks, music production, and experimental theatre performances alongside her collective, COUM Transmissions. Tutti broke boundaries, defied stereotypes, and injected the art industry with anarchy and liberation. Working in the sex industry, corporations, domestic spaces, her labour and her body were central to her practice. An icon and pioneer of modern feminist art. And it all began in Hull.
access series: art education
Out of 80 educational institutions across the country that offer an art-history A-Level, only two are located in the north. Only one of them a state school.
This disparity reflects how much art education is undervalued in northern communities. A domino-effect from institution, to teachers, to students, to communities, who are made to believe art is not a serious subject.
Access: Art Education looks at this horrifying figure to try and understand the true effects this has on our young creatives. Fear not, it also features a conversation with Will Clarke, an up-and-coming pioneer of art education access in the north. I promise his passion will reassure you and inspire you and prove that things are about to change around here.
series: access all areas?
The first series from A Room Up North: Access.
This series explores growing problem of access in the north; in education, opportunity, and class-division. I speak to some incredible people who are demanding change for our future in the arts and propose some conclusions on what needs to happen next.
culture doesn’t stop at the m25
That’s the thing about northern creatives. They don’t wait for permission, or a commission, or someone in London to tell them they’re onto something. They just crack on. They make. They share. They build communities that quietly hold people together, often without making a fuss about it.
the legend of the local
Across the north, many of you beautiful people have taken to reclaiming your heritage, reinventing it even, finding new ways to keep the spirit in some of our most dingy locals.
I have had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Amy Kitchingman, founder of the Green Carnation Film Club in Leeds, West Yorkshire. As well as being an icon and overall brainbox, Amy is a die-hard film fanatic and holds independent productions very close to her heart. You can often find Green Carnation occupying the top floor of The Cardigan Arms, Kirkstall Road; a beautiful old pub, might I add - the only surviving Tetley Heritage local out of the “Big Three” Burley pubs, along with the Rising Sun (derelict), and the Queen Hotel (now a supermarket).