15 January 2011 - 16 January 2011

Event 2: Art’s Birthday

In January, Art will be 1,000,048 years old. Compass will be joining a range of worldwide celebrations with a weekend of spontaneous playSaturday 15 & Sunday 16 JanuaryParticipating artists include Ganghut (Dundee, Scotland) and Our Ideas Are Everywhere (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Roddy Hunter (York); Sarah Spanton (Leeds); Benedict Phillips (Leeds) and Contents May Vary (Manchester).The second…

25 November 2010 - 27 November 2010

Compass Symposium

A weekend series of engaging discursive workshops on live art in the public realm and live art as socially engaged practice.

A weekend series of engaging discursive workshops on live art in the public realm and live art as socially engaged practice. This event is aimed at practitioners, programmers, curators, producers, academics and post graduate students. The Symposium will bring together national and international artists and programmers to actively participate in a series of facilitated provocations. The Symposium coincides with and…

25 November 2010 - 25 November 2010

Event 1

The first in our series of six events taking place across the region, which launched the Compass project

Helen Pritchard: Spirit Rally 3: The event is youSPIRIT RALLY 3 was a distributed performance event, a cheerleading rehearsal, a celebration of conversation and a temporary community of practice. Based upon emerging models of crowd-sourcing, the event aimed to explore how we might share a sonic language in order to facilitate individual thinking to a collective level.Helen invited those attending…

1 November 2010 - 1 November 2010 November 2010

Live Art Practice Workshop 1

Workshop 1: November 2010  in association with Lawrence Batley Theatre, HuddersfieldThe first event in the 6 month programme of 3 practical live art workshops took place at Lawrence Batley Theatre in November 2010. Led by experienced solo cross-disciplinary artist Sarah Spanton, the workshop was attended by over 20 artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. The workshops were designed to help participants…