breeze arts festival brochure

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Front cover and page 2: Photography provided by Creative Services Leeds City Council, Jonathan Turner and Project Space Leeds, artist: Helen Entwistle, The Drawing Shed, 2010.

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Hi, we’re the Breeze Arts Festival management team, a group of young people aged 11 to 19 years. This year we’ve come together to bring you a brilliant, diverse and exciting festival. Our aim is to ensure that young people’s voices are heard in organising the festival. We believe it is important for young people to be able to showcase their talents and creativity through

performances and workshops. Our role has been to ensure there are activities everyone can enjoy, ranging from dance and visual arts to film and creative writing. We’ve had a great experience and our highlights were: choosing a band from the AMP Awards for Breeze on Briggate; creative marketing sessions; devising a line-up of events and choosing projects that we thought you would enjoy.

We hope you enjoy it and hope to see you there!

Contact us on [email protected] if you want to get involved next year or if you have any comments or questions about the 2014 festival.

Festival information and ticketsFull details of all our festival events and workshops can be found at our website www.breezeleeds.org/breezeartsfestival

This brochure is available in large print, audio and Braille by telephoning 0113 247 8539.

All event details are correct at time of going to print. Access to venues will vary; please contact the venues directly for further information.

Welcome to the

Breeze Arts Festival is an exciting festival of events for Leeds, with nine days packed full of activities for 11 – 19 year olds, celebrating the creativity of young people across the city.

Breeze Arts Festival management team

Cara-Mia, Darcey, Estelle, Holly, Lauren, Phoebe, Sam, Summer, Zakiya and staff Helen and Fran.


£ Absent Parachute

£ Centre for Advanced Training, Yorkshire Young Dancers (contemporary strand)

£ DAZL

£ D-fault

£ DJ School UK

£ Kirsty White

£ Leeds Silver Steel Sparrows

£ Lifeforce Lifesteppaz

£ Maia Broughton

£ SAA-uk Senior Bharatanatyam Dancers

£ Sam Pidgeon

£ Yorkshire Dance Youth

Where: Briggate, Leeds City Centre

Time: 11am – 4pm

Tickets: Free.Check our website nearer the time for the full set list.

Saturday 19 July

Breezereads BookfestWays to write a ghost: creative writing workshop with Leeds Book Awards author Emily Diamand

Learn how to give your stories the chill factor and send a shiver down the backs of your readers’ spines.

Where: Guiseley Library, Otley Road, Guiseley, LS20 8AH

Time: 10.30am – 12 noon

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone 01943 872 675 to book your place.

Saturday 19 July

Breeze on Briggate

Open air stage with the best in live music and dance featuring:


Saturday 19 July

Breezereads BookfestCosplay afternoon

An afternoon of Cosplay – prizes for the best costume and artwork. Anime screening, Japanese crafts, food, games and lots more…

Where: Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB

Time: 2 – 4pm

Tickets: Free, just turn up.

Sunday 20 July

Stop-Mo Sunday

Love film? Come and see a fantastic selection of films that celebrate stop-motion filmmaking at the Breeze mini film festival. These films have been specially chosen by young people working with Leeds Young Film.

12pm Chicken Run 2pm Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas 4pm Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Where: Hyde Park Picture House, Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6 1JD

Time: As above

Tickets: £1 per film with a Breezecard (£2 without) or £2.50 for all three films with a Breezecard (£5 without). To book visit www. leedsyoungfilm.com/film/stopmo-sunday/

Saturday 19 July

No more now

1914. A group of young people in Seacroft take over an old building to create their own Picture House. A live action, multimedia performance by East Leeds FM’s Next Generation about entertainment then and now.

Where: Chapel FM, Old Seacroft Chapel, York Road, Leeds, LS14 6JB

Time: 7pm

Tickets: Free, or pay what you can. Booking is essential. Go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-more-now-tickets-11400771013 to book your ticket.


Sunday 20 July

Breezereads BookfestMake your own journal with author and illustrator Teresa Flavin

Do you love writing, drawing and crafting? Do you love customising your notebooks? Then this workshop is for you!

Where: Headingley Library, North Lane, Leeds, LS6 3HG

Time: 1 – 2.30pm


Monday 21 July

Breezereads BookfestComic workshop with Matt Dyson

Create your own comic book characters and get lots of drawing tips and advice with artist Matt Dyson.

Where: Bramley Library, Hough Lane, Leeds, LS13 3ND

Time: 5 – 6.30pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone 0113 378 1851to book your place.

Monday 21 July

DJ workshops

Free DJ session at DJ School UK. Your chance to mix and scratch at a fully equipped studio. Have a go at DJing, talk to professionals and meet other DJs.

Where: DJ School UK, Yorkshire Dance, 3 St Peter’s Square, Leeds, LS9 8AH

Time: 11 – 15 year olds: 5 – 6.30pm 15 – 19 year olds: 6.30 – 8pm



Tuesday 22 July

Breezereads BookfestPerforming in public workshop

Interested in acting and storytelling but feel that you need to gain more confidence? Hone your performance skills with award-winning actress and storyteller Ursula Holden Gill.

Where: Seacroft Library, Seacroft Crescent, Leeds, LS14 6PA

Time: 1 – 3pm


Wednesday 23 July – Friday 25 July

RJC Dance Breeze summer camp

Come along to RJC Dance’s summer camp and take part in three days of creative contemporary urban dance sessions, finishing with a performance on Friday 25 July.

Where: Mandela Centre, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 3HY

Time: 10am – 4pm each day

Tickets: Free, apply through an application form available from 0113 239 2040 or email [email protected]

Photo by Brian Slater

Tuesday 22 July

Town Hall tour

Your chance to see the prison cells and the courtroom of Leeds Town Hall, as well as climbing up 203 steps to the top of the clock tower for a unique view unlike any other! Access to the clock tower is by steps only. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Where: Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD

Time: 5pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone 0113 224 3801 to book your tour ticket.

Photo by Jonathan Turner


Wednesday 23 July

March of the Robots: The flashing RoboQuilt

Explore technology and textiles and create a flashing LED robot patch for our giant RoboQuilt!

Where: The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds, LS10 1JQ

Time: 10am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Go to www.marchofthe robots.com/events to book your place.

Wednesday 23 July

Breezereads BookfestOpen games day

Come and try out different games: Warhammer, Yu-Gi-Oh! Magic the Gathering and many more. Try your hand at painting Warhammer figures too.

Where: Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB

Time: 1 – 6pm


Wednesday 23 July

Breezereads BookfestManga crafts afternoon

Paint a momiji doll or make something chibi – small, cute and cuddly – to take home with you.

Where: Wetherby Library, 17 Westgate, Wetherby, LS22 6LL

Time: 1 – 3pm



Wednesday 23 July

Breeze Arts Foundation performance

A brand new, exciting piece of contemporary theatre exploring the theme ‘We are here’, devised and performed by young people.

Where: First Floor, 6 St Peter’s Buildings, Leeds, LS9 8AH

Time: 2pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone Richard Knowles at First Floor on 0113 245 5252 to book your ticket.

Thursday 24 July

Breezereads BookfestRobot football tournament

Take part in a 5 a side robotic football match using lego bots with Andrew Amos from Riveting Robots – all inside the library!

Where: Moor Allerton Library, Moor Allerton Centre, King Lane, Leeds, LS17 5NY

Time: 1 – 3pm


Thursday 24 July

March of the Robots: The Unloved Toy Orchestra with Greenmount Studio

Make electronic music by creating a robot orchestra from circuit bent toys, then record a live track with Greenmount Studio!

Where: Interplay Theatre, Armley Ridge Road, Leeds, LS12 3LE

Time: 10am – 4pm (bring your own lunch).



Thursday 24 July

Breezereads BookfestCreate comics with Jim Medway

Learn how to put your own comic strip together with top comic artist Jim Medway.

Where: Halton Library, 273 Selby Road, Leeds, LS15 7JR

Time: 2 – 4pm


Thursday 24 July

‘Kick Off’ boys’ youth dance platform

Northern School of Contemporary Dance proudly presents ‘Kick Off’, a boys’ dance platform celebrating local and regional talent.

Where: The Riley Theatre at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 98 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 4BH

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone 0113 219 3018 to book your ticket.

Thursday 24 July

‘What I Would Change’ film premiere

The premiere screening of a short film made with young people in Leeds about what they would like to change.

Where: Arts@Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 6HW

Time: 7 – 8.30pm



Friday 25 July

March of the Robots: 3D Printed Minecraft Leeds

Help us build a 3D map of Leeds robots using your Minecraft skills, Voxel Builder and a 3D printer!

Where: Leeds Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4.30pm


Friday 25 July

Special effects make-up for stage and TV

Spend the morning at First Floor with a professional stage make-up artist, learning tricks of the trade to create realistic scars, wounds, bruises and more. Finish with an exciting backstage tour of West Yorkshire Playhouse, where you will learn about working in a theatre and creating a show - and uncover some theatrical secrets!

Where: First Floor, 6 St Peter’s Buildings, Leeds, LS9 8AH

Time: 10.30am – 2pm (bring your own lunch)


Friday 25 July

Lego animation workshop

Get creative with Lego! Make your very own Lego movie animation with InspirEd.

Where: Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD

Time: 10am – 2pm (bring your own lunch)



Friday 25 July

Breezereads BookfestIt is rocket science!

Build a rocket powered drag racing car in this workshop with Andrew Amos from Riveting Robots.

Where: Compton Road Library, The Compton Centre, Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS9 7BG

Time: 1 – 3pm


Friday 25 July

Revolutionary Art exhibition launch

The Tetley has been working with a group of young people to produce an exhibition of their art work. Come along to this launch event to see what they have created. You can also see their exhibition on Sat 26 and Sun 27 July.


Time: 4 – 6pm


Friday 25 July

RJC Dance Breeze summer camp performance

Come along to a contemporary urban dance performance by the young people who have been at RJC Dance’s Summer Camp this week.

Where: Mandela Centre, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 3HY

Time: 3pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Telephone 0113 239 2040 or email [email protected] to book your ticket.



Friday 25 July – Sunday 27 July

The Deciding Machine by Pyramid of Arts

A game in which you will discover that all decisions, no matter how small, can have surprising consequences!

Where: Customer Services Lounge, Trinity Leeds, Albion Street, Leeds, LS1 5AT

Time: 11am – 4pm (drop-in)


Saturday 26 July

Cross art-form workshops with Phoenix Dance Theatre and First Floor

Join Phoenix Dance Theatre and First Floor for a fun, exciting workshop combining dance, drama and creative writing.

Where: Phoenix Dance Theatre, St Cecilia Street, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7PD

Time: 11-15 year olds 1.30 – 2.30pm 16-19 year olds 3 – 4pm

Tickets: Free, but booking is essential. Please telephone Lauren Houghton on 0113 236 8130 or email [email protected] to book your place.


Saturday 26 July

The Fly Market

Street Art, Break-dance, BeatBox, Double-Dutch competitions, PLUS one hour of pure entertainment from tomorrow’s star headline acts!

Where: The Corn Exchange, Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 7RB

Time: 12.30 – 5pm

Tickets: Free with a Breezecard, just turn up.


Saturday 26 July

Breezereads BookfestTardis trivia

Calling all Dr Who fans. Test your Timelord knowledge with Mark Wright, co-author of Who-ology, the ultimate guide to Dr Who.

Where: Garforth Library, 1-5 Main Street, Leeds, LS25 1EH

Time: 2 – 3pm


Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July

Revolutionary Art workshops

Tell the Tetley what you want using the power of revolving pedals! Take part in workshops run by young people that use bicycle powered generators to create art installations. The workshops are aimed at 11-14 year olds.


Time: 11am – 2pm (drop-in)


Saturday 26 July

March of the Robots: Design a Doodlebot game

Create teams of motorised Doodlebots, then invent your own game to play with them!

Where: Scrap Creative Reuse Store for Arts and Play, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, LS28 5UJ

Time: 10am – 12 noon and 1 – 3pm



Sunday 27 July

Breezereads BookfestAn out of this world afternoon with bestselling author Steve Cole

Join Steve Cole, bestselling author of Astrosaurs, Slime Squad and Cows in Action for a fast, furious and fun event about his new book, Aliens Stink!

Where: Horsforth Library, Town Street, Horsforth, LS18 5BL

Time: 1 – 3pm


DJ School UK

DJ School UK have been running a DJ course over the past six weeks, teaching young people the skills and knowledge they need to become a DJ and performer. They have been using professional industry-standard DJ equipment in a brand new studio. The course members have been planning and rehearsing for a performance in a working nightclub and will be showing off their skills at Breeze on Briggate on Saturday 19 July.

PARTNERS

Book, Music and Lyrics by Piers Chater-RobinsonAdapted from the play by J.M. BarrieAn amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French LTD.

City Varieties Youth Theatre Company present Peter Pan, The Musical – their take on the classic tale of the boy who couldn’t bear to grow up.

Fri 25 July & Sat 26 July 7pmTickets: Adults £9.50, Child £7, Family Ticket £28 (max. 2 adults)

TO BOOK TELEPHONE: 0113 243 0808

Saturday 19 July, 7pm.Tickets: Adults £9.50, Child £7, Family ticket £28 (max. 2 adults)

CITY VARIETIES YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

KASPAR THE WILD

BY TIM CROUCH

Sleep Tight and... Three people, three lives, three dreams.Empty your minds and enter the dreamers’ secret world of sound and image in a new piece of music theatre devised by the Opera North Youth Company. Nothing is what it seems, anything is possible when sleeping beasts and beauties dream.

Saturday 19 July 2014Matinee and evening performances, 3pm and 5pmHoward Assembly Room, Opera North

Tickets: £4 per adult, £2 per child (under 18), £10 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children under 18)

To book: contact the Opera North box office on 0844 848 2700 or visit the box office in person

Opera North Youth Company is kindly supported by the Opera North Future Fund

It’s a gift. That’s what they say. But I’m not so sure. Maybe being a genius is a curse. Maybe I’d rather be normal.

Join the innovative youth theatre CYTM for the culmination of their year with Extraordinary, interweaving stories of child prodigies and asking ‘what is it like to be a genius?’

Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Square, Leeds

Saturday 26 July 2pm and 7.30pmTickets £7 (£5 concession)

Book online: www.carriageworkstheatre.org.ukBox Office: 0113 224 3801

ExtraordinaryCarriageworks Young Theatre Makers

and Ruth Cooper present:

LeedsMuseumsandGalleries @leedsmuseums

We run activities at all sites across the school holidays for all ages. Please see our website for more details:

www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries

Saturday 19 July and Wednesday 23 July, 10am - 12 noon,Leeds Museum Discovery CentreFestival of British Archaeology: What Survives Beneath? Join our Curator of Archaeology as we take a closer look at the unlikely things in the collection which have survived natural processes of degradation despite being interred underground for years.Booking essential, telephone for details: 0113 378 2100

Thursday 24 July, 10 - 11.30am, Kirkstall AbbeyGet Arty in the Abbey and make clay tiles to celebrate the British Festival of Archaeology.

Thursday 24 July, 11am - 4pm, Leeds Art GalleryPaint yourself and get into self-portraits in Artspace!

Friday 25 July, 10 - 11.30am,Kirkstall AbbeyCourt Jester circus skills: Be a court jester and practice your circus skills in the abbey. Can you balance a feather on your nose? How many plates can you spin? Can you walk on stilts? Come and find out.


Date Event Venue TimeSat 19 July Breeze on Briggate Briggate 11am – 4pm

Breezereads Bookfest:Ways to write a ghost: creative writing workshop with Leeds Book Awards author Emily Diamand

Guiseley Library 10.30am – 12 noon

Breezereads Bookfest: Cosplay afternoon

Central Library 2 – 4pm

No more now Chapel FM 7pm

Sun 20 July Stop-Mo Sunday Hyde Park Picture House

12 noon – 4pm

Breezereads Bookfest: Make your own journal with author and illustrator Teresa Flavin

Headingley Library

1 – 2.30pm

Mon 21 July DJ workshops DJ School UK, Yorkshire Dance

5 – 6.30pm for 11-15 year olds6.30 – 8pm for 15-19 year olds

Breezereads Bookfest: Comic workshop with Matt Dyson

Bramley Library 5 – 6.30pm

Tues 22 July Breezereads Bookfest: Performing in public workshop

Seacroft Library 1 – 3pm

Town Hall tour Leeds Town Hall 5pm

Wed 23 July – Fri 25 July

RJC Dance Breeze summer camp Mandela Centre 10am – 4pm

Wed 23 July March of the Robots: The flashing RoboQuilt

The Tetley 10am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4pm

Breezereads Bookfest: Manga crafts afternoon

Wetherby Library 1 – 3pm

Breezereads Bookfest: Open games day

Central Library 1 – 6pm

Breeze Arts Foundation performance First Floor 2pm

Thurs 24 July March of the Robots: The Unloved Toy Orchestra with Greenmount Studio

Interplay Theatre 10am – 4pm

Breezereads Bookfest: Robot football tournament

Moor Allerton Library

1 – 3pm

Breezereads Bookfest: Create comics with Jim Medway

Halton Library 2 – 4pm


Date Event Venue TimeThurs 24 July ‘What I Would Change’ film

premiereArts@Trinity 7 – 8.30pm

‘Kick Off’ boys youth dance platform

Northern School of Contemporary Dance

7.30pm

Fri 25 July March of the Robots: 3D Printed Minecraft Leeds

Central Library 9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4.30pm

Lego animation workshop Leeds Town Hall 10am – 2pm

Special effects make-up for stage and TV

First Floor 10.30am – 2pm

Breezereads Bookfest: It is rocket science!

Compton Road Library

1 – 3pm

RJC Dance Breeze summer camp performance

Mandela Centre 3pm

Revolutionary Art exhibition launch

The Tetley 4 – 6pm

Fri 25 July – Sun 27 July

The Deciding Machine by Pyramid of Arts

Trinity Leeds 11am – 4pm

Sat 26 July The Fly Market Corn Exchange 12.30 – 5pm

Cross art-form workshops with Phoenix Dance Theatre and First Floor

Phoenix Dance Theatre

1.30 – 2.30pm 11-15 year olds3 – 4pm 16-19 year olds

Breezereads Bookfest: Tardis trivia

Garforth Library 2 – 3pm

March of the Robots: Design a Doodlebot game

Scrap Creative Reuse Store for Arts and Play

10am – 12 noon and 1 – 3pm

Sat 26 July – Sun 27 July

Revolutionary Art workshops The Tetley 11am – 2pm

Sun 27 July Breezereads Bookfest: An out of this world afternoon with bestselling author Steve Cole

Horsforth Library 1 – 3pm

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