About Look Up Look Up is a large scale, high-impact outdoor visual arts exhibition that aims to take great art celebrating the refugee experience into the public realm. Artworks are enlarged and exhibited on the exteriors of buildings across the city, creating an outdoor gallery and art trail as part of Journeys Festival International. Look Up 2018 This year’s Look Up exhibition created by acclaimed artist and photographer Farhad Berahman, will be a collection of 10 large-scale postage stamps that will be screen printed on glass and exhibited in public spaces throughout Leicester City Centre during Journeys Festival International (17 - 26 August). The work explores the theme of displacement
Journeys Festival International celebrates the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists and shares refugee experience through great art and culture. Produced by ArtReach, the sixth edition of the festival takes place in different venues in Leicester from 17-26 August 2018. In order to deliver a brilliant programme of events for #JourneysLeics, we are seeking a team of enthusiastic volunteers to carry out a variety of roles including supporting artists and workshops, envigilating exhibitions, backstage support, crew work and assisting with evaluation. As well as covering travel and other expenses for all volunteers, we hope that participating in the event will provide
