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Compass Festival gains charity status and new members of…

Compass Festival has recently been granted charitable status (UK Charity Registration no. 1177590). As we continue to grow and develop, registering as a charity has allowed us to further clarify our…

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Compass Placement Opportunties 2018

Compass Festival returns for 2018.Animating the city with brilliant interactive live art projects in stations, markets, shopping centres and secret locations. Incredible artworks that invite the people of Leeds to…

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Creative Europe awards grant to Compass and partners

This month we learned our application to Creative Europe has been successful.We are part of a larger consortium including L'Entorse (France), Buda Festival (Belgium), Anti Festival (Finland) along…

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Compass awarded EFFE label

Compass awarded EFFE LabelFollowing an open call to apply for the EFFE Label 2017-2018, hundreds of festivals submitted applications to demonstrate their devotion to three EFFE Label criteria: artistic…

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Call for Projects: Compass Festival 2018

We’re preparing the fourth edition of the biennial Compass Festival in Autumn 2018 taking place in Leeds, UK. We invite project proposals from artists working in any medium…

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New Compass Festival publication!

Personal Shopper: a Kirkgate Market Mis-GuidePersonal Shopper Book - Now On SaleBack in November, over 1,300 people passed through the 'Personal Shopper: Cornucopia!' shop in the heart…

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Compass Festival on the Wireless

Festival Director Annie Lloyd and Rosana Cade who brings her acclaimed Walking: Holding to Compass Festival 2016  popped into Radio Leeds to wax lyrical about Compass Festival with Jonathan…

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Call Out for Child Guides for Playing Up!

Playing Up! is a 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…

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Vesper Time replaced by History,…

Due to a family emergency Stacy Makishi has had to return to Hawaii urgently and it is with huge regret that we must cancel Vesper Time. We are really sorry…

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