An opening to go to.
It would be useful to fit this in if you have not written about how audiences engage with any shows/exhibition spaces yet or just need to deepen your engagement with how art is displayed or curated. In this case you could consider exploring the issues surrounding themed exhibitions. Also the relationship between the work and the document/catalogue could be reflected on. After all, it's just over the road.
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Parkinson Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
0113 343 2778
gallery@leeds.ac.ukwww.leeds.ac.uk/gallery
The Object of Photography
7 April-19 June 2009
Opening Tuesday 7 April 2009 6.00-8.00pm
Four Yorkshire-based artists - Ignaz Cassar, Hondartza Fraga, Joe Mawson and Andrew Warstat - explore the medium of photography itself as their subject. The artists respond to and critique photography and theories of photography in a variety of media, using traditional and digital photographic formats, collage, drawing, installation and animation. Playful and subtle treatments of the photographic process show that there is more to the medium than meets the eye. A full-colour catalogue with new essays on the artists will be available for sale from the Gallery shop.
Artist Roundtable Discussion21 April 2009, 6-8pm
The Burton Gallery will also host some of the Evolution Festival this year.Go to: http://lumen.org.uk/?page_id=106

Evolution is an internationally respected visual arts festival that concentrates on screen based art. Some of the worlds best artists have shown in this festival so it’s really important that you look out for screenings. Again in terms of audiences, how does the festival format work? Why would you as an artist engage with this type of event? Lumen the company that host Evolution also operate as a support service for artists and the hire out everything from projectors to audio gear as well as provide excellent technicianing services. Without their support many of the media based projects in Leeds wouldn’t be able to exist. You may want to reflect on how artists often need to engage with others in order to make their work public and whether or not these collaborations are successful.

Another festival coming up is: Expo Leeds 24-29 September 2009
Like most festivals there are commissions available for artists. This one below is typical and is something you might think about as a way of reaching a particular discrete audience.
Expo LeedsPresented by Sound and Music and MAAP
Call For Submissions and Commission Proposals Now Open
Expo is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound artscene in the UK and beyond. Free and open, the event mobilises anational network of artists and engages with communities from allbackgrounds – placing sonic art and the people who make it in directcontact with the public. Expo steps out from traditional venues and intospaces that lie at the heart of the community -inspiring practitionersand the public to reconsider their environments.Expo will land in Leeds in September 09 for a long weekend ofperformance, exhibition and presentation which will take place across avariety of physical and virtual spaces.The weekend aims to highlight the broadest possible range of approachesand thinking that surround the sonic arts. We welcome submissions of allkinds. Alongside international artists, the festival has previouslyshowcased work by young people, disabled adults and those with learningdifficulties, students and hundreds of emerging UK artists. We want allwork of all kinds that has sound as a central element. As well as asking for all kinds of submitted work for its programme ExpoLeeds is offering £4000 of commission money towards the creation of anew installation work that will sit within the Leeds Arena space atLeeds City Museum during the festival weekend. Please visit www.expofestival.org <http://www.expofestival.org> for details on how to submit and updates on the programme. The closingdate for submissions and commission proposals is 29 May2009.