4 February 2016 - 4 February 2016

Autobiographical Food

Ready, Steady, Cook! Meets Autobiographical Performance

Selina Thompson and Bobby Baker will prepare dishes live from recipes based on personal stories in a Ready, Steady, Cook style set up, hosted by Invisible Flock, with Terry O’Connor as master of ceremonies, in an evening of eating and sharing.Selina and Bobby have been invited to prepare meals that they…

7 November 2015 - 7 November 2015

Happiness Forgets

at Live Art Bistro

Compass are very excited to announce Season Butler's new show Happiness Forgets coming to Live Art Bistro in Leeds on its first UK tour. Remember the good old days when everyone got along, when life was simple, when our television screens protected us from sex, violence and the discomfort of difference? Remember when politicians were statesmen, mothers were…

29 October 2015 - 29 October 2015

The Notebook

in Huddersfield at The Lawrence Batley Theatre

Compass are very happy to have supported The Lawrence Batley Theatre in presenting Forced Entertainment's groundbreaking adaptation of the award winning novel by Ágota KristófSet during World War II, The Notebook tells the story of a pair of twin brothers evacuated to their impoverished grandmother’s farm in order…

14 August 2015 - 16 August 2015

DIY 12: Spaces of Radical Agency

A two day retreat exploring how we may transform the ‘safe space’ into a place for radical change.

Following successful residencies in 2013 and 2014, Compass are pleased to be hosting Selina Thompson and Ria Hartley in Yorkshire for their DIY 12 Project.  Project SummaryOver the next few years, we are explicitly looking at race and identity as core and central  concerns in our respective research projects. As we journey through these topics, we time and again…

29 May 2015

Stupid Women

at Yorkshire Dance

BOOK TICKETS Five guests of high calibre and low pay attempt the impossible and quite probably fail in this live directed improvisation. Stupid Women: TC Howard, Rachel Krische, Lucy Suggate, Grace Surman & Sophie Unwin directed live by Wendy HoustounCombining idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music, Wendy Houstoun presents Stupid Women.Initially performed…

28 May 2015 - 28 May 2015

START: Programme Launch Social

James Watt Room, The Cross Keys, 107 Water Lane, Leeds LS11 5WD.

Since 2011 Compass has delivered a variety of professional development opportunities for live artists in Yorkshire and northern England. This year we made an open call for an artist or artist group to propose a year-long programme of initiatives, events and activities that support regional artists while contributing to the lead artists’ own practice and concerns. We think that artist…

21 May 2015 - 21 May 2015

Webmaker Workshop

ODI Leeds, 3rd Floor Munro House, Duke Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS9 8AG

Workshop with Mozilla FoundationA workshop open to artists, creatives, designers and anyone with an interest, exploring a prototype webmaker tool and how it can be used to tell stories. This workshop will be lead by the Webmaker Field Research team from the Mozilla Foundation and Invisible Flock. Thursday 21st May @ 1 - 4pmODI Leeds, 3rd Floor Munro…

1 April 2015 - 8 April 2015

Personal Shopper Artist Residency

a new artist residency in Leeds Kirkgate Market

THE RESIDENCYFollowing their successful Compass Festival 2014 project, artists, Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti return to Kirkgate Market to further explore and celebrate the life of this unique place while meeting shoppers, traders and friends, old and new.“Continuing our research into the network of relationships between shoppers, traders and goods in Kirkgate Market, we will be…

6 February 2015 - 6 February 2015

BLOC Assembly

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Continuing our committment to supporting platforms for new and experimental live performance around the region, we've teamed up with BLOC Projects in Sheffield to offer this great one off event.This Bloc Assembly creates a short-term, experimental platform to support the work of two artists at different points in their careers, whose practices incorporate performance and live elements in…

5 February 2015 - 5 February 2015

Britney Spears Custody Battle vs. Zeus in Swan…

Live Art Bistro are currently showing a great programme of new perofrmances to help blast away your post New Year blues. Have a look at this one with Lucy Hutson:How do you know if you are living the life of a good person? How do you act to make people like you and how do you dress to…