About Our Organisation
We work with people and organisations, using practical action projects and creative dialogue processes to bring people together, get things un-stuck and move towards the sustainable futures we all want to create.
Funding Change
Participatory Leadership
Environmental Leadership
About our Space
Our resource centre on Kirkstall Road, Leeds, provides the space and tools for artists, performers and creative businesses to develop their practice. We offer a dance studio, performance space, artist studios, manufacturing workshop and yarden.
Our Team: Mutual Strength
Open Source Arts is built on the strength of each individual in our team, and the stronger our team becomes, the more we flourish.
We have an incredible team of people: Expert facilitators & organisational coaches, systems thinkers, passionate climate advocates, strategic storytellers & youth advocates through to expert yoga instructors, fabricators and makers – our diversity keeps us strong!
Authenticity in Every Step: Practicing what we Preach
Our processes for navigating emergence & complexity help organisations get work done amidst chaos. We practice these methods daily as a team, so when we lead change processes for organisations, we speak authentically from the heart of personal practice.
Meaningful Events to Build Capacity & Enhance Resilience
We design events, meetings and strategic conversation processes to inspire. We train teams and individuals to empower them with the skills necessary to connect across difference, build trust and navigate these uncertain times with grace – including taking processes online
An Appetite for Action: Fast Prototyping to Innovate Amidst Chaos
We have a passion for action as a means to exploring possible futures. We teach organisations how to restructure their appetite for risk so they can experiment amidst chaos and find what works to generate opportunities for real change to happen, whilst others remain stuck by inaction.
OSA Studio Membership
Open Source Arts supports artists by providing space, facilities, community and inspiration to help create and develop work.
You can become a member with a dedicated artist studio on Kirkstall Road, or make use of our dance studio, manufacturing workshops, performances spaces and equipment.
Whether you are a budding artist, new graduate, or a seasoned professional who needs some space to make and create in likeminded company with access to well stocked workshops and equipment, please get in touch to visit.
Environment and Sustainability
We recognise that we are in a climate and ecological crisis and that we are faced with a huge challenge globally to make drastic changes to reduce our carbon emissions, limit our impact on the natural environment and promote global social justice.
This requires us all to make changes to our lives – however great or small – and push for greater systems change from those in positions of power.
Contact Us
Open Source Arts
Unit 1a Aire Place Mills
143 Kirkstall Road
LS3 1JL
01132 468 975
