Live Art Development Agency PLAYING UP
Sat 19 Nov, 11am–4pm
7Leeds City Museum
Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 8BH
For kids aged 6 years and up, and their adults.
PLAYING UP is an artwork by Sibylle Peters, exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations. Drawing on Live Art themes and key works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together. Kids, adults, families and friends are all welcome.
Make clothes out of food, remote control your parents,
dance with animals, search for miracles, build
what-happens-next-machines!
This public Play-In is an energetic and enjoyable game that involves kids and their adults working together as a team to complete activities and tasks to create their own work of Live Art. Activities last between 20 and 60 minutes and players can choose to do one or all of the artworks available throughout the duration of the event.
“Kids are explorers of the everyday. For them to light a match can be something extraordinary that needs focus and time, and creates an experience. The same is true for everyone who practices Live Art.” – Sibylle Peters
“PLAYING UP offers the tools to take risks [...] while having fun and making art.” – The Guardian
“I didn’t know playing a game could be art” – Oshin Biswas (age 10)
PLAYING UP is a collaboration between LADA, Theatre of Research (Germany), Tate Early Years and Family Programme, Best Biennial (Sweden) and Live Art UK, with the support of the Goethe Institute.
This edition of Playing Up will be hosted by local children, Ansuman Biswas and Lily Craig.
PLAYING UP has been conceived and created by Sibylle Peters of Theatre of Research (Germany). PLAYING UP is a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency (LADA, UK), FUNDUS THEATER / Theatre of Research (Germany), Tate Early Years and Family Programme (UK), Best Biennial (Sweden) and Live Art UK, with the support of the Goethe-Institut London. PLAYING UP forms part of LADA’s contribution to the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) supported by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
WALKING:HOLDING
ROSANA CADE
Fri 11 – Sat 12 Nov
1Live Art Bistro
11am–1.30pm and 3pm–5pm | , FREE, please book
PERSONAL SHOPPER
ETHERIDGE & PERSIGHETTI
Fri 11 – Sat 19 Nov
2Kirkgate Market
9am-5pm | Tours at various times, Free
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OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD
STAN’S CAFE
Wed 16 – Sat 19 Nov
5Leeds Central Library
Wed: 9am–7pm · Thu: 9am–6pm Fri: 9am–5pm · Sat: 10am–5pm | , Free
LAST ACT OF REBELLION
Lone Twin
Sat 19 Nov
8Howard Assembly Room
7.45pm | , £12, concessions available.
PLAYING UP
Live Art Development Agency
Sat 19 Nov
7Leeds City Museum
11am–4pm | , FREE – no booking needed, just turn up and join in
THE PERFORMERS ARE MAKING A PERFORMANCE
JORDAN MCKENZIE
Sat 19 Nov
6Trinity Leeds
Sat 19 Nov: 11am, 11:45am, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm | 15 mins, Free
AMBULATION
TIM SHAW
Sat 19 – Sun 20 Nov
4Art Hostel
Sat 19 Nov: walks at 1pm, 4pm, 9.30pm
Sun 20 Nov: walks at 8am, 12pm, 2pm | 50 mins
MYSTIC CHICK
FELICITY BARROW
Sat 19 – Sun 20 Nov
10Leeds Corn Exchange
Sat 19 Nov 11am–5pm Sun 20 Nov 11am–4pm | , Free
WHERE TO BUILD THE WALLS THAT PROTECT US
STEPHEN HODGE
Sat 19 – Sun 20 Nov
9@Playbox01
Four sessions daily at 10am, 11.30am, 2pm and 3.30pm | , FREE
PUBLIC SELFCARE SYSTEM
RHIANNON ARMSTRONG
Sat 19 – Sun 20 Nov
5Leeds Central Library
Sat 19 Nov, 11am-1pm & 2-4.30pm Sun 20 Nov, 11am-12.30pm & 1.30–3pm | 20mins, Free