Place & Memory – Exhibition and Film Screening.

PLACE AND MEMORY WARMLY INVITE YOU TO THE FOLLOWING EVENTS

 EXHIBITION PREVIEW

 PLACE AND MEMORY

Friday 11^th October, 6pm to 8pm, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane Leeds.

The exhibition continues from Saturday 12^th to 19^th October inclusive, 10am – 3pm Monday to Saturday.

Artists, writers, and filmmakers have responded to the city of Leeds. Sharing personal and collective memories, they examine the hidden and overlooked corners of the city, finding beauty in unexpected places. Exploring graveyards, wastelands, woodlands, and a hospital’s echoing corridors, they have created drawings, installations, photographs, video, poetry, sculpture, and sound.

The evening will include a wind-up gramophone DJ set courtesy of artist Sandy Holden, and a poetry reading by writer, actor, and artist Nigel Stone.

The PLACE AND MEMORY artists are: Amanda Burton, Donna Coleman, Sarah Deakin, Charys Ellmer, Sandy Holden, Lorna Johnstone, Morticia, and Nigel Stone.

FILM SCREENING

 PLACE AND MEMORY: Eight Artists, One City

 Saturday 12^th October. 3 – 4pm, White Cloth Gallery, 24 Aire Street, Leeds.

A poetic journey with the PLACE AND MEMORY artists as they journey through ‘edgelands’ and echoing corridors, housing estates and wooded walks, underground rivers and hidden graveyards, finding hidden beauty in the overlooked and the unseen. The film was created by Judit Bodor, Emma Bolland, Brian Lewis and Tom Rodgers, in partnership with the PLACE AND MEMORY artists.

Contact: Emma Bolland. Email: placeandmemory2@gmail.com

To find out more go to http://placeandmemoryblog.wordpress.com/

These events are part of the Love Arts Festival http://loveartsleeds.co.uk/

PLACE AND MEMORY is generously funded by Arts Council England, Leeds Inspired, and the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We are grateful for the support of Arts and Minds Leeds, Inkwell, Holy Trinity Church, and White Cloth Gallery