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Neville Street officially re-opens
Neville Street officially re-opens
Friday saw the official re-opening of Neville Street complete with red carpet, canapes and cocktails provided by City Inn Leeds and our very own shoe-shiner.
If you missed it you can see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/holbeck-urban-village/sets/72157622659853640/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/holbeck-urban-village/sets/72157622659969016/
Neville Street
Neville street will officially re-open today welcoming the Leeds public with red carpet treatment, a free shoe-shiner and a little something for the journey home, we’ll see you there!
Light Neville Street
Testing has started on the east wall art installation in preparation for the unveiling of the refurbished street. If you were one of handful of people walking through Neville Street recently you would also have been treated to the sound of U2’s Beautiful Day as the speakers are also being tested for the unique sound installation created by Hans Peter Kuhn.
The artists himself is also in Leeds for the next two weeks putting the finishing touches to the eats wall and the sound installation. Keep watching this space for the finished piece.
Creative Networks event
24th September 2009
The night before Expo Leeds kicks off, Creative Networks is proud to announce that its September speaker is David Rogerson, Digital and New Media Manager for ‘Sound and Music’, the UK’s landmark organisation for new music and sound.
Former Publishing Director of Sonic Arts Network, David will deliver an exciting exploration of Sonic Arts; what it is and why it has become such an incredibly rich Art form – crossing over so many different platforms. True to the Art form and subject matter itself, David will offer lots of really interesting audio visual ground-breaking examples that will capture the imagination of even the most hardy of enthusiasts.
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Leeds College of Art
Blenheim Walk, Leeds, LS2 9AQ
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18.00 – 19.00 Hot Food and Registration
19.00 – 19.30 Welcome and opening pitches
19.30 – 20.30 David Rogerson – Sonic Arts “put a Donk on it!!”
20.30 till late Networking in the Mosaic Bar
This event is free to creative, digital and cultural industry professionals.
If you would like to join us, please contact Creative Networks on 01422 399444 or email Bridget March at bridgetm@leeds-art.ac.uk.
Five years of design and debate is finally coming to fruition as the ‘Light’ Neville Street project sees the first of it’s unique and innovative panels installed.
The design team, led by Leeds-based Bauman Lyons, has painstakingly sourced innovative materials and solutions to a blight that the majority of UK cities face – a grimy underpass which has become a major route for businesses and residents alike as cities expand.
Neville Street is used by more than 13,000 people daily to travel to and from work and by default has become the main entry point to the city centre for first time visitors and would-be investors. The panels, filled with Quietstone (TM) which was used to drown out the noise of the commuter rush in the London Underground, are being installed at the same time a a large overhead canopy.
This canopy will house the technical power behind the two innovative lighting schemes and the sound art installation. It will also save many a pedestrian from the woes of the ever-present drip from the overhead railway lines.
Already Neville Street is starting to present a much better welcome to the city and to the south.
The steel work is currently being installed at Neville Street so keep your eyes peeled for the panels coming soon!
PS – This is a video for no other reason than I was trying to take a photograph and this is what I got – back to technology school for me 
The ‘Light’ Neville Street design team is delighted to announce the appointment of Safe Road BLG (formerly Balmer Lindley Group) as lead contractor for the remainder of the project.
Many of you will have been walking through Neville Street wondering where all the work is. Over the last six months the large aluminium panels have been under construction off-site in factories and manufacturing plants. This week the work on-site begins afresh with the kerb stones being added to the newly extended pavements and the steel work due to be brought on-site over the next couple of weeks so keep watching that space!
Saturday 1st November, Saturday 8th November, 12-6pm
Free guided tours start at 1pm and 3pm, from the Cockpit on Swinegate.
Four new pieces of sound art around Neville Street and Holbeck Urban Village invite visitors to re-tune their ears to the sounds of the city, as imagined by five young Leeds artists. Listen to stories of other people’s journeys as you pass along Swinegate; hear birdsong created from traffic noises in a tree by Victoria Bridge; experience Granary Wharf’s sound history back to industrial Leeds and beyond.
The free sound-trail will lead visitors through Swinegate, Granary Wharf and along the canalside to PSL [Project Space Leeds].
