Sponsored by
I Love West Leeds Festival 2010: Photo exhibition on lampposts
Keen snappers in west Leeds are putting together a photo exhibition which will be showcased on a very unusual backdrop – the city's lampposts.
Throughout July, the main streets of Armley, Bramley, Pudsey, Rodley and Farsley will become galleries of new work by photographers from the Leeds Flickr community as part of the 2010 I Love West Leeds festival.
* Click here to watch latest YEP news and sport video reports.
In 2009, the outside walls of Armley prison were adorned with photos of inmates and their families, but this year festival organisers wanted to find an even more unusual – and even more public – gallery space.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from your YEP.
Festival director Jane Earnshaw said: "Lampposts offer the perfect backdrop to the biggest outdoor photography exhibition the festival has ever done.
* Click here to follow the YEP on Twitter.
"They are common to all neighbourhoods, rich or poor but they are
generally ignored or unnoticed."
* Click here to become a fan of the YEP on Facebook.
The photo showcase is just one of an array of events happening as part of the three-week festival.
As usual, this year's event – the sixth festival of its kind – is a mix of the weird and the wonderful.
Ms Earnshaw said: "There's going to be a whole host of fun, frolics, film, dance, exhibitions and family activities.
"We've got hippo decorating, face painting, printmaking, space hopper races, amazing acrobatics and a 9ft man called Rory.
"And don't miss this year's main event, the Big Free Festival Day on
Sunday, July 4, with performances, sheds, arts activities, live music, comedy characters and some amazing acrobats from Tanzania."
Other highlights this year will include 'Play It Again Bram' – a tag team of pianists who will park on the pavement at Bramley Shopping Centre to play some family favourites.
The Armley Hippo Trail will see hundreds of decorated plaster hippos in shop windows and a touring magical caravan will bring two dotty, fruity and flowery ladies to neighbourhoods across west Leeds.
There will be room for poignant and personal showcases too. Among them will be Something I Want You To Know at Bramley Library, which will feature paintings by asylum seeker families in West Leeds, expressing their hopes, dreams and fears as they begin new lives in a new country.
The festival runs from July 3 to 25 and most of the events are free.
For more information, visit www.ilovewestleeds.co.uk or call 07870 581566.
aisha.iqbal@ypn.co.uk
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Leeds
Saturday 11 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: -2 C to 0 C
Wind Speed: 8 mph
Wind direction: South
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 2 C to 5 C
Wind Speed: 8 mph
Wind direction: North west
