Big Up Festival

In November 2023 we returned to our roots of hosting community festivals and produced ‘Big Up’, a multicultural festival of arts and social change that worked with artists as community catalysts to design and host the event. Here is a short video showcasing the event, which engaged over 200 people across Leeds and the surrounding region. The Team members leading and coordinating the festival included: Asher Jael, Tami Pein, Olivier Nkunzimana, Ed Carlisle, Mike Love & Sarah Autumn. Here’s a list of who took part in the festival.

In building networks between creatives, social change-makers and audiences, the aim is to make the voices of change too loud to ignore’