Compass Festival

🧭 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.

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📢 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.

🔗 https://t.co/80ErRJ14dV

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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:

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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: https://t.co/5TM6bVI7Rj

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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: https://t.co/hXUTGppbto

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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.

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@QtineMcr have been at Leeds Central Library this week, presenting 'Building of spines' as part of Compass Festival.

Today, Saturday 9 November, artist Kate Daley is hand making a book containing a work of collective fiction based on conversations with people in the library.

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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

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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: https://t.co/HHHBbloGJ9

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🥂 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: https://t.co/KTXfcWCurH

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@dutchyinleeds Thank you Wieke!

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📢 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.

🔗 https://t.co/80ErRJ14dV

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@UniLeedsCulture Thanks for sharing – we can't wait!

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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: https://t.co/kAjCyxMMsf

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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! 👇
https://t.co/sLS9UNbWmH

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New blog post live with reflections from residency artist Alisa Oleva about her recent project Walk Me There!

Read more here! 👇

https://t.co/rnvaI6UZkc

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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!

https://t.co/XcpeP9Gh3c

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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👇
https://t.co/rSItQOud6v

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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! 👇
https://t.co/EnOa1iK8Fg

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Our fresh #ArtOpps

💰 Commission @chaptertweets
🌱 Professional Development @factoryintl
🔎 Residencies @whatsnextculture & @ArtsatCERN
🤝 Collaboration @CompassFestLDS
🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity @dergreif_org

More #OpenCalls this way 👇
https://t.co/F43H9Dy1Jb

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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!🤩

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🚶‍♂️ 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.

https://t.co/Y874ZNvdf8

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Want to become a Compass Trustee?🧭

We're currently looking to expand our Board of Trustees!

To find out more, follow the link below! 👇

https://t.co/CxzWXJ5s3Z