Chapeltown Word Junction 2022 is a one-day take-over of Leeds Art Gallery. It is a literary event, inviting audiences to engage with contributions from established and emerging Leeds based writers, primarily descendants of previously colonised countries.

The event will elicit emotional, spiritual, creative and historical responses to the exhibition ‘Shifting Perspectives’, which explores colonial legacies within the Leeds Art Collection.

There will be catharsis, there may be pain but these processes are necessary to resist neo-colonialist tropes that continue to be part of our everyday lives, liberate thinking and transform minds.

The event is an important artistic step in the process of decolonising this public institution and ensuring that the creative output of all the citizens of Leeds is included and welcomed into our city’s art gallery.

Artists, writers, and authors include, Joe Williams (Heritage Walks), Asher Jael (World Re-imagined), Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett Univesity), Corinne Bailey Rae , SAA-UK and Sable Radio. More on the day.

The image in the banner is a painting by George W Joy ‘General Gordon’s Last Stand’