Creative workshops in Burley Park, Autumn 2025 – Summer 2026

Pages of the Park is a year-long community arts project bringing people together through creativity, nature, and shared experience. Developed by our Arts and Community Coordinator, Leah Anderson, in partnership with local artists Nat Hues and Delilah Sykes, the project invites residents to take part in free, hands-on workshops inspired by Burley Park and the stories it holds.

From Autumn 2025 to Summer 2026, a series of small, welcoming sessions will explore how spending time in the park can spark imagination, encourage self-expression, and build confidence. Together we’ll experiment with visual art, sound, and storytelling—creating an open space to notice, play, and reflect on our connections to our local environment.

Workshops will be shaped by participants, with each session offering something unique:

• With Nat Hues, you’ll discover “treasures” hidden in the everyday landscape, foraging for objects and ideas that become the starting point for creative works in print, collage, drawing, and more.
  
  
• With Delilah Sykes, you’ll dive into local history and sound, looking and listening closely to Burley’s past and present to create a collaborative multimedia map of the area.

Community Cabinet of Curiosities Creation with Nat Hues

Join Nat Hues as she takes you on a walk around Burley Park, and we discover the joy of practicing creative curiosity and noticing our natural environment. We will each explore our relationships and connections with the park and nature as a whole, by foraging for tiny ‘treasures’ amongst the ordinary, banal and everyday sights of an urban park.

Our findings will form a collaborative Wunderkammer (“room of wonder") or cabinet of curiosities, a style of collecting, documenting and preserving natural found objects originating in the 16th Century, and popularized by the Victorians.

We will head back to Leftbank to reflect on and share with each other our findings, before documenting them in a creative way. Choose from a variety of mediums, from simple relief printing to collage, writing or drawing, to create your own record of your treasure. Your piece will then be added to an ongoing archive which will eventually form a collaborative ‘cabinet of curiosities’ style piece celebrating Burley Park and its community.

A chilled, accessible and reflective session, this Autumn Session is the first of 4 seasonal workshops with Nat!

All sessions are free to attend (but ticketed) through funding from Love Leeds Parks and are open to everyone. The sessions are designed to be friendly and accessible. Workshops will be hosted in Burley Park, with Left Bank as a base and wet-weather backup. All materials provided!

Volunteer opportunity: We’re also looking for volunteers to help develop the digital archive of the project, capturing workshops and supporting the creation of a lasting record of community creativity - Interested? Please email leah@leftbankleeds.org.uk to find out more.

Come along, try something new, and add your page to the story of the park.

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