Building Enterprise through the Arts.

Thursday 26th August 2010

Barrie Rutter is the artistic director of Northern Broadsides, a theatre company that specialises in producing Shakespeare in Yorkshire accents and which famously brought Lenny Henry to the classical stage in his production of ‘Othello’.

Due to unforeseeable circumstances we have had to wave goodbye to Pudsey markets. Pudsey has served us well over the last couple of years and we'll be sad to see it go. Artsmix are dedicated to finding the best possible sales and promotional opportunities for our artists, designers and craft makers and we still have a lot of great venues to chose from including Castle Howard, Malton and Brewery Wharf...check out our newly updated application form for more details, and watch this space for some exciting new opportunities coming soon!

We have some really exciting news, another venue to add to our ever
expanding market and events calendar.....

After recent successes at Castle Howard artsmix* Markets have been invited into Malton Town centre for 5 dates this year with the first being May 16th. For those of you who aren't familiar with Malton, it really is a beautiful town with a fantastic feeling of community spirit and it's certainly captured our hearts in recent visits.

We are always looking into new and exciting opportunities for you wonderful Artists, Designers and Crafts people. We have a couple of potential new markets/events in the pipeline, please let us know what you think and register any interest in the following:

Garforth Arts Festival - The Playground Party - 10th July
Garforth Community College, Lidgett Lane, Garforth, LS25 1LJ
2.30pm to 7pm

Hi Everyone,

We've been reviewing our pricing structure and are happy to
announce a huge reduction of stall fees for Pudsey!

A full stall will now cost you just £25 and there's still a couple of spaces for the next market on Saturday 15th May, which will include performances from Light Cliffe Brass Band. We've had an additional banner made also which will be displayed on railings at the main traffic lights in Pudsey Town Centre from the Monday leading up to each market (this is in addition to the banner that goes up in the entrance to the market place)

On Sunday 16th May, The artsmix market will be heading to Malton Market Place for the first in a series of Art, Design and ‘high end’ Craft markets.
This is an brand new and exciting development for Malton designed to dramatically increase footfall in the area and offer a new and original shopping experience in the town which will compliment rather than compromise existing adjacent retail outlets.

You can expect to see a number of stalls selling original, high quality goods ranging from jewellery, photography, textiles, wood work, design and more.

After a hugely successful 2009 programme, Brewery Wharf events are back kicking off with Leeds Outdoor Bar Festival on Saturday 15th May from 12 noon.
The festival will feature the second ‘Leeds Best Bartender’ competition, sponsored by Chase Vodka, the winner of which will receive a price to the value of £500. Fantastic food and drink offers from Brewery Wharf’s bars and restaurants put on especially for the day as well as the artsmix urban market where you’ll find modern, unique products including fashion, graphic design prints, photography, jewellery and more.

The Emerging Artists Awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday 31 March 2010 at The Loft, Leeds, from 6-9pm. The winners of the four award categories, as well as all short-listed artists, designers and crafters, will be announced on the evening.

On display throughout the venue will be the submission pieces entered for all award categories, and there will also be a chance to buy original art and design from a selection of the entrants.

Please email gina.yates@artsmix.co.uk if you'd like to attend the Awards ceremony.

Leeds born artist, Oliver Neilson, will be exhibiting a new collection of his street construction art work in ‘Self-Assembly Yesterdays’ at The Design Innovation Centre, Leeds from 3rd to 25th March.

Oliver’s work is inspired by his native Leeds and adopted Bradford. Both cities offer through abandonment, change and regeneration, objects, materials and imagery for this exceptional artist to transform into unique artwork. Oliver’s reworking of familiar and rejected objects, possessions and building materials links the past to the present and gives value back to the redundant.

‘The city continually constructs, deconstructs, reconstructs.
Its texts, textures, structures and reflections configure and refigure.’

‘Self-Assembly Yesterdays’
3rd to 25th March, Monday to Friday 9-5
The Design Innovation Centre, The Calls, Leeds

The Leeds based Aerial Performance organisation Urban Angels, during March and April, will be presenting a unique showcase and insight into their performance, installation and animation of space. The showcase ‘Wing & a Prayer’ will be open on Thursdays from 4th March to 8th April (10-3) and gives a rare opportunity to view the work of this special collective of artists.

Funded by the Arts Council, ‘Wing & a Prayer’ explores the hidden spaces of Holy Trinity Church, through an imaginary presence and the traces of her existence.

‘Wing & a Prayer’ is Urban Angel’s prize winning showcase for the 2009 Artsmix Emerging Artists Awards, Enterprise Category.

arts@trinity, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds.


Opening Times: 10-3 Thursday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March
10-3 Thursday 1st, 8th April

For more information please contact gina.yates@artsmix.co.uk