UP THE STEPS

A Leeds based collective creating pop up arts events for young people @recreativeuk @leedsartgallery

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Our video documenting our first event - enjoy! Pop down to the gallery today from 5-7.30, we've got even more happening with artist Chris Harman coming in and forming one of his dens within the gallery space!

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Our origami creations were popping up in the gallery spaces today, just a small taste of what's to come on wednesday for our follow up event!

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Sipho Mabona is a professional origami artist based in Lucerne, Switzerland. He creates origami on mass which he arranges in a space to create a narrative. Flocks of sparrows and swarms of locusts.

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Flying Money Origami Locusts (by Sipho Mabona)

His ::tumblr :: Found Here

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Sipho Mabona - Origami artist

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Origami crane bonsai by ~cridiana

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holding-3 by Marie in NC on Flickr.

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Thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴 Senbazuru?) is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes (鶴 tsuru) held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane. Some stories believe you are granted eternal good luck, instead of just one wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.

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Going up the steps. You should too!

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Up The Steps is born.

Working in partnership with REcreative and Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project, Up The Steps is a Leeds based collective of young people creating pop-up arts events in association with Leeds Art Gallery.

  The Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project and REcreative have thus far been securely set in the art scene of London. But REcreative Yorkshire (#REcreativelive), in association with Leeds Art Gallery, Project Space Leeds, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Hepworth Gallery acts as an initial outreach by the online platform into the regional areas of the UK. Up The Steps is thus one of four young people’s groups in Leeds working on behalf of REcreative towards the shared aim of engaging young people (aged 16-25) in art and the gallery/museum spaces of their city. http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/Leeds-Art-Gallery.aspx http://www.recreativeuk.com/ http://www.louisvuittonyoungartsproject.com/ Come along to any of our arts events to join in with our projects.

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