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Friday, 6 May 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
Papergirl Leeds: The Art of Giving
What is Papergirl? The Papergirl project is essentially a movement dedicated to getting art into the publics' hands, originally created by Aisha Ronniger in 2006 in Berlin. Papergirl is a show, an urban action, a bicycle workshop and a party! The elements are key: participatory, analog, non-commercial and impulsive. Anybody who wants to, can participate. You can submit work or help to distribute. Papergirl is distributed unedited and consisting of original artwork.
Papergirl, Berlin exhbition photo by berlincat
Art is collected and submitted, exhibited and then lovingly bundled up to be handed out by papergirls and boys on bicycles to unsuspecting members of the public. Suprise! Imagine if you got one of these beautiful original artworks placed in your hands in a flash by a bicycling papergirl distributer! The spontaneous action will hopefully put a smile on the recipient's face.
A true movement grows and grows, and that's exactly what Papergirl has done. Started in Berlin, Germany new "branches" of the Papergirl tree have popped up into action all over the world! It made its UK debut in Manchester, with Glasgow and Bristol following suite.
PAPERGIRL LEEDS
ActiveARTS member, Laura Jordon has brought Papergirl to Leeds and has set up Leeds' first ever Papergirl event. Yay, the fun is spreading! Leeds will be the fourth UK city for Papergirl. This is a not-for-profit, radical event that will happen this Spring/Summer 2011 in Leeds City Centre.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
We need artists of all shapes and sizes to submit their work. All submissions will be shown in an exhibition. Venue to be confirmed! After the exhibition, all work will be rolled into bundles, ready for distribution.
Papergirls (and boys!) will cycle around Leeds City Centre handing out the free artwork in the style of American Papergirls in a one-day event. We need people to help with spreading the word, cycling at the event, submitting their own artwork and curating an exhibition. YOU need to get involved!
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All submitted work needs to be between A4 and A1 in size and must be able to be rolled up. Please write 'Papergirl Leeds' and any contact details you would like for the lucky person to receive your work (perhaps a lovely message too?)
There is no limit to how how many pieces of art you want to submit. The more the merrier!
By submitting your work you are consenting for it to be shown in the Papergirl Leeds Exhibition and to be given away to the general public for free in the Papergirl Leeds Ride Event. Submissions may be shown on the Papergirl Leeds and Papergirl World Blog (credited where URL details are included of course)
Please post all submissions to:
Papergirl Leeds
Flat 5,
6 Springfield Mount,
Leeds,
West Yorkshire,
United Kingdom,
LS2 9ND
For more news please join the Papergirl Leeds facebook page
Papergirl, Berlin exhbition photo by berlincat
Art is collected and submitted, exhibited and then lovingly bundled up to be handed out by papergirls and boys on bicycles to unsuspecting members of the public. Suprise! Imagine if you got one of these beautiful original artworks placed in your hands in a flash by a bicycling papergirl distributer! The spontaneous action will hopefully put a smile on the recipient's face.
A true movement grows and grows, and that's exactly what Papergirl has done. Started in Berlin, Germany new "branches" of the Papergirl tree have popped up into action all over the world! It made its UK debut in Manchester, with Glasgow and Bristol following suite.
PAPERGIRL LEEDS
ActiveARTS member, Laura Jordon has brought Papergirl to Leeds and has set up Leeds' first ever Papergirl event. Yay, the fun is spreading! Leeds will be the fourth UK city for Papergirl. This is a not-for-profit, radical event that will happen this Spring/Summer 2011 in Leeds City Centre.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
We need artists of all shapes and sizes to submit their work. All submissions will be shown in an exhibition. Venue to be confirmed! After the exhibition, all work will be rolled into bundles, ready for distribution.
Papergirls (and boys!) will cycle around Leeds City Centre handing out the free artwork in the style of American Papergirls in a one-day event. We need people to help with spreading the word, cycling at the event, submitting their own artwork and curating an exhibition. YOU need to get involved!
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All submitted work needs to be between A4 and A1 in size and must be able to be rolled up. Please write 'Papergirl Leeds' and any contact details you would like for the lucky person to receive your work (perhaps a lovely message too?)
There is no limit to how how many pieces of art you want to submit. The more the merrier!
By submitting your work you are consenting for it to be shown in the Papergirl Leeds Exhibition and to be given away to the general public for free in the Papergirl Leeds Ride Event. Submissions may be shown on the Papergirl Leeds and Papergirl World Blog (credited where URL details are included of course)
Please post all submissions to:
Papergirl Leeds
Flat 5,
6 Springfield Mount,
Leeds,
West Yorkshire,
United Kingdom,
LS2 9ND
For more news please join the Papergirl Leeds facebook page
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Hijacking Valentine's Day for Womens' rights
The Women's Memorial March came about as a response to the increasing number of missing or murdered women. A particularly brutal murder of a women happened in Vancouver, Canada which prompted women to action. An annual march on Valentine's Day was started to commemorate those women and to bring about compassion in the community as well as providing awareness on a national and global scale.
Decades later, the march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women, as well as raising awareness regarding the welfare of women today.
Gender inequality is an important issue that affects women all across the globe. Millions of women in developing countries are facing gender inequality which is in turn reducing them to poverty.
Six out of ten of world's poorest people are women and girls, less than 16 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women, and two thirds of all children who are not in education are girls [http://www.womankind.org.uk/statistics.html]
Many other young girls will leave school early, marry too young, and miss the chance to reach her full potential. A survey in India found that girls who married before age 18 were twice as likely to report being beaten, slapped, or threatened by their husbands as were girls who married later (International Center for Research on Women, Development Initiative on Supporting Healthy Adolescents [2005], analysis of quantitative baseline survey data collected in select sites in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand, India [survey conducted in 2004].) The subject of gender inequality contributes to the endless cycle of poverty and we need to do something about it!
The Craftivist Collective has been hijacking Valentine's Day for the past 3 years. The crafty activist group aims to spread some global, neighbourly love by hiding alternative Valentine's Day cards around the public area; cashpoints, supermarket ailes, park benches..the possibilities are endless, which is what makes it so much fun!
Photo by Craftivist-Collective
We at Leeds ActiveARTS are proposing to hijack Valentine's Day this year by leaving alternative Valentine's Day cards and handmade gifts to the unsuspecting public of Leeds. We want to raise awareness of Womens' issues and equality rights.
ALTERNATIVE VALENTINE'S DAY WORKSHOP IN LEEDS
Want to get involved? We are holding an Alternative Valentine's Day workshop at REMADE in Leeds Hyde Park, at 6.00PM on MONDAY 31ST JANUARY. Come along to make cards, letters and heart shaped keyrings! Then help us deliver them across Leeds!
Decades later, the march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women, as well as raising awareness regarding the welfare of women today.
Gender inequality is an important issue that affects women all across the globe. Millions of women in developing countries are facing gender inequality which is in turn reducing them to poverty.
Six out of ten of world's poorest people are women and girls, less than 16 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women, and two thirds of all children who are not in education are girls [http://www.womankind.org.uk/statistics.html]
Many other young girls will leave school early, marry too young, and miss the chance to reach her full potential. A survey in India found that girls who married before age 18 were twice as likely to report being beaten, slapped, or threatened by their husbands as were girls who married later (International Center for Research on Women, Development Initiative on Supporting Healthy Adolescents [2005], analysis of quantitative baseline survey data collected in select sites in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand, India [survey conducted in 2004].) The subject of gender inequality contributes to the endless cycle of poverty and we need to do something about it!
The Craftivist Collective has been hijacking Valentine's Day for the past 3 years. The crafty activist group aims to spread some global, neighbourly love by hiding alternative Valentine's Day cards around the public area; cashpoints, supermarket ailes, park benches..the possibilities are endless, which is what makes it so much fun!
Photo by Craftivist-Collective
We at Leeds ActiveARTS are proposing to hijack Valentine's Day this year by leaving alternative Valentine's Day cards and handmade gifts to the unsuspecting public of Leeds. We want to raise awareness of Womens' issues and equality rights.
ALTERNATIVE VALENTINE'S DAY WORKSHOP IN LEEDS
Want to get involved? We are holding an Alternative Valentine's Day workshop at REMADE in Leeds Hyde Park, at 6.00PM on MONDAY 31ST JANUARY. Come along to make cards, letters and heart shaped keyrings! Then help us deliver them across Leeds!
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