Super Soup Lunch Art Stunt

UPCOMING PROJECT! On 4th March, Leeds Active ARTS is holding an event to support the Super Soup Lunch!

We are going to head to Leeds City Centre and do a huge art piece - about 8ft x 6ft in size, which will be an 'art attack' style collaborative piece to promote the Super Soup Lunch event. The materials we are going to use will be... SOUP INGREDIENTS! That's right, we are going to take plentiful amounts of things like beans, vegetables, rice, pasta and lentils and create a wonderful art piece for all to enjoy.

Our huge art attack on 4th MARCH in Leeds City Centre will be a one day only project. It will be a fun and jolly day and we are wanting to get as many people involved as possible! Afterwards, it will all be turned into yummy, delicious soup! This will be in preparation for the SUPER SOUP LUNCH......

On Friday 25 March 2011 people across Britain will having soup for lunch, to raise money for the world's poorest communities. With the work of Christian Aid, we want to create hype about this, voicing the need and ability to help end poverty now.

Millions of people today are living in poverty. Let's do something about this!! We can raise money and awareness, and help to support charities like the Ukamba Christian Community Services who actively support people who are faced with poverty.

Homemade soup is absolutely delicious and there are so many recipes to try. Using fresh vegetables, soup is definitely nutritious and good for you! You can get such value for money and the benefits do not stop there. You can make it in batches and freeze it, storing it ready to be conveniently heated up for lunch whenever it takes your fancy!

Get creative, get active and get involved by joining us on 4th March in Leeds City Centre, for our big art attack-style stunt, or by making your own soup for lunch on 25th March to help raise money to fight poverty.

Happy Alternative Valentine's Day!

Today is the day! Our Valentine's Day cards and keyrings lovingly made at this workshop a few weeks ago were ready to be delivered across Leeds City Centre at dusk this morning, ready to be found by members of the unsuspecting public! Were you lucky enough to find one?









We wanted to create these Valentine's Day cards to distribute in order to raise awareness regarding Women and Women's Rights. Did you know that there are over 100 million missing women across the world?

We at Leeds Active ARTS wish you a Happy Valentine's Day and urge you to think about topics outside your daily life and more on a global scale, such as Gender Inequality. For more information regarding this subject please click here.

Lots of love from all at Leeds Active ARTS.
xxx

Alternative Valentine's day Cards Workshop 31/01/11 at Remade in Leeds

This week Leeds ActiveARTS held its first ever workshop!! It was held at a cool little vintage shop in Hyde Park, Leeds called Remade. We are very pleased to report that it was a huge success!



ActiveARTS group members and friends gathered around to chat, eat cookies and create shrink wrap key rings for our 'Alternative Valentine's Day' cards. Everybody created a love heart with a personalised message reminding you to spread the love.



The love heart keyrings we made will be placed inside alternative Valentine's Day cards to be left out for the public, all over Leeds this Valentine's Day. Why? Well we want to do something different this Valentine's Day. Instead of the usual stigma associated with Valentine's Day, we want to show and spread neighbourly and global love!



We made these cards and keyrings in order to spread awareness about topics which are usually forgotten about in the midst of this commercialised holiday. Gender Inequality, Women's Rights and Climate Change are all subjects we wish to address.

The Craftivist Collective have been hijacking Valentine's Day this way for the past 3 years. Their manifesto is as follows:

"To expose the scandal of global poverty, and human rights injustices though the power of craft and public art. This will be done through provocative, non-violent creative actions.”

This statement sums up the intentions behind this action, and the best part is, it's fun to get involved with. Already there have been Crafty Collectives springing up across the world, from Bangor to Vancouver, all coming together to work collaboratively on this project.

We teamed up with Remade Leeds, Platform 2 and Christian Aid to make this workshop possible. Many thanks to all you Active Artists for getting involved! A video of the workshop is to come, so please watch this space!