BOWLING OVER POVERTY - Leeds ActiveARTS Crafts stall/Art exhibition Cake/Soup Event

This weekend, Leeds ActiveARTS held their debut event: Bowling Over Poverty. It was hosted at Remade in Leeds, a vintage clothing and alteration shop in Hyde Park, Leeds.




Our crafts stall featured handmade work by local artists.


We had shrink plastic charms, prints and posters and handmade keyrings for sale


Beautiful wooden brooches made by Claire Belia


Cute screenprinted cushions by Sarah Renwick


Handmade jewellery made by Mrs Stephens


Lovely handmade trinket boxes


Cool screenprinted t-shirts and tote bags by Rosie


Pretty and colourful handmade notebooks by Olga


Pressed leaf stationary


The cake stall looked and smelled amazing!! We had mini cup cakes, crispie cakes, brownies, rock bakes, tiffins and fair trade chocolate! Thank you to everyone who helped baked these cakes :)


Alongside our cake stall we had yummy soup! This was to support the Super Soup campaign with proceeds going to Christian Aid.


Our art exhibition featured drawings by pupils at Mahrishi Dayanand School, Jaislamer, Rajasthan. This school is humble but forward thinking, and we wanted to help The Inner Gift Foundation to raise money to improve their school.


Films and information from Ctrl Alt Shift


Watching Ctrl Alt Shift films


Click! Snap! Boom! is a great and fun activity where you donated a pound and had a mini photoshoot by yourself or with friends. Check out the awesome handmade bunting background for the photos. Thanks to Sophie Ashcroft for organising this!


We had hair braiding on offer, with your choice of colours :)


Pretty hair braid


The hair braiding stall was a great sucess, Thank you to Laura Dove for organising this!


We set up a sewing and crafts table and held a workshop where you could sit down with a cuppa tea and create your own little felt creature.


Everyone had fun making colourful and cute little critters. Thanks to everyone who got involved!


Dan concentrating on cutting out his panda pieces


Awesome lizard with googly eyes by Katie


Tom makes a cute penguin


Getting the pieces together ready for sewing


Tom's Teddy made at the crafts workshop


Some of the results from our crafting workshop - mouse by Olga, Elephant by Lottie and Cuboid Panda by Lelly. Thank you to everyone who got involved!!


We also had our resident henna artist Lana Johnson offering henna designs for a quid.


Beautiful henna!


More beautiful henna work by Lana


Our first event was a raging success. It was a fun day of cake and crafts, and Active Arts would like to give a huge THANKS to EVERYONE who helped to make this day a success. We raised over £70 for charity and had a jolly good time doing it. Thank you!

Leeds Active Arts - Cake/Soup Recipe Book Zine for our event: Bowling Over Poverty

For the second Active Arts zine, we decided to do a recipe book featuring some of our favourite cakes and soup recipes. The idea was to illustrate each page and then combine them to create a recipe cook book!

We each created 2 pages - a cake recipe and a soup recipe:



Good Vegetable Soup / Classic Victoria Sponge by Tom Woodland




Leek and Potato Soup / Scones by Patrick Kirk-Smith




Cream of Garlic Soup / Death By Chocolate by Katie Broadley




Winter Veg Soup / Chocolate Chip Cookies by Lana Johnson




Chicken Noodle Soup / Chocolate Tiffin by Kat Truong




Sweet Potato Soup / Grandma's Rock Bakes by Claire Selman




Creamy Mushroom Soup / Carrot Cake by Mark Stephens

Our final zine/recipe book is lovingly hand bound. Thanks to Anne who created the covers! On one side features sweet recipes, flip it over to find soup recipes! These recipe zines are handy to keep in your kitchen, and were lovingly illustrated by Leeds Active Arts!


We will be selling copies of these cookbooks at our event Bowling Over Poverty, with all proceeds then being donated to charities which help to alleviate poverty in our world.

Leeds ActiveARTS presents 'BOWLING OVER POVERTY' Event - Art Exhibition - Craft stall on 26th March

Hello all, please join us for our upcoming event 'Bowling Over Poverty' which is going to be a fun day of art, crafts and food!

It is going to be held on SATURDAY 26TH MARCH 2011 at Remade in Hyde Park, Leeds. (Back Kensington Terrace) If you are unsure whereabouts that is, check the map below:


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At the event will be craft stalls selling handmade jewellery and keyrings, posters and prints. Homemade cake and soup will be for sale, as well as other artsy things!

The new edition of the official Leeds Active Arts zine will also be for sale! It will be a full colour illustrated zine featuring illustrated recipes of two of our favourite things - cake and soup!

There will also be a fun photobooth event, film screenings from Ctrl Alt Shift, art exhibitions and of course, vintage clothing for sale from Remade Leeds.

A percentage of all sales made from this event will be donated to charity.

Come along from 11am to 4pm and check it out!!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
If you are a creative type with some goods to sell, we are calling for submissions for this event! We are looking for items for the craft stall, including jewellery, accessories, handmade cards, prints and anything else! Please feel free to contact us and have your work showcased. Please leave a comment here or email us at leedsactivearts@gmail.com.

Leeds Active Arts Fair-trade Awareness Workshop at Leeds College of Art

As a part of RAG week at the LCA, Active Arts were asked to create a practical work shop to engage the students  and greaten their knowledge regarding poverty and inequality. It was the official RAG Poverty & Inequality day for LCA.

It was fair-trade month and their campaign was to emphasise the use of fair trade cotton. Therefore Active Arts decided to participate by creating a patchwork quilt using upcycled goods, manpower, and basic sewing machine skills, to entice passers by to, so they would then enquire about our motive and engage with the workshop.

Mmm Fair-trade chocolate was the best especially the orange flavoured.

We proceeded to stage an event at the canteen of Leeds College of art on Thursday the 17^th of March, in order to promote the use of Fair-trade products, within the everyday life of students.

Just loving the patch work, I would like to thank again all those who participated and those who donated materials, and resources. It was a big success and we got loads of sewing done.

Getting down to business, on our stall

Laura from Christian Aid brought useful resources about Fairtrade and to help sew some patches.

The final outcome - thanks everyone again who got involved and helped.