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Hello and welcome to the new website
for the Constellations festival!

We’re pleased to say the fine people at
Leeds University have invited us back on November 12th 2011 for another day of amazing live music, art and film.

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Constellations: Volume 01

The Artists

We’re pleased to announce that the following artists are currently confirmed to play at Constellations 2011:

The Terrace Bar

As well as providing a new home for the screen printing and poster exhibition which proved so popular in 2010, the Terrace bar will also provide a home to a range of new artworks which have been commissioned especially for the event, and will be available to purchase.

Firstly we are thrilled to announce that we'll be working in partnership with the legendary Sheffield based WARP Films on curating a special program of moving image work to be shown in our freshly christened 'pop up' cinema. We aim to screen a selection of rarities alongside favourites from their vast archive, more details on this soon but it promises to be pretty special.
Constellations’ resident art director / designer Michael Connolly (Studio xiiixiii) is currently putting together a quality roster of talented illustrators and designers who have been commissioned to create a poster in response to the theme 'Constellations' especially for the event. These artworks will be exhibited on the day and also available for purchase as part of a special, limited edition newspaper which will accompany this year’s festival. Confirmed artists are below:

Accept & Proceed / Box-head* / Bruce Usher / Everyday Something / Lisa Harker / Mike Lemanski / Narcsville / Peter O'Toole / Qubik / Red Design / Studio Tonne / Tom Hudson (PABH) / UNIT / Yehteh / Yukiko
Studio xiiixiii are also working on this year’s visuals and stage sets, cards are pretty close to the chest at the moment, but we’ve been discussing some pretty spectacular ideas involving projection mapping, keep checking back for further updates.

Last year’s gig poster exhibition was a huge success and we look forward to welcoming some of the artists back for 2011 together with a handful of new exhibitors. We’ll also make sure we have some spare bulbs for the live screen printing this year ; )

The Venue & Ticketing

Constellations takes place at:

Leeds University Union
Clifton Place
Leeds, LS2 9JZ.

Early bird tickets for 2011 are now sold out. Standard price day tickets are still available from Crash Records, Jumbo Records and Seetickets.com.

Wristband exchange will open at 12:00 along with the Exhibition Hall. The first bands will hopefully be taking to the stage at approximately 14:00.

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Schedule

A schedule for this year’s performances and exhibitions will be released nearer to the event although bands are loosely scheduled to start at 14:00 and finish at 23:00.

Gallery

A selection of images from last years Festival, courtesy of Flickr...

Pictures tagged with 'Constellations' & 'Leeds' on Flickr
Constellations 2010 on Flickr

Soundcloud

You'er going to have to go over to Facebook to hear our exclusive playlist for the time being. Clicky click ... Constellations Playlist on Facebook.

About Us

Constellations is an arts and music festival based at Leeds University. In 2010 we played host to some of our favourite musicians and artists. A big thank you to:

Broken Social Scene, Four Tet, Les Savy Fav, Los Campesinos!, Liars, Local Natives, Sleigh Bells, Gold Panda, Esben & the Witch, Chickenhawk, The Vaccines, The Spectrals, Sky Larkin, I Like Trains, Cloud Nothings, Dam Mantle, Polarsets, Wingman, Dog Is Dead, Superhumanoids, Honour Before Glory, Breton, Runaround Kids, xiiixiii, Nous Vous Collective, Phil Paul Daniels, Dance To The Radio, The Brudenell Social Club, Room 237, Drowned In Sound,
Wichita and everyone that came and
had fun.

Site design & build by xiiixiii.

Contact & Networks

We hope you like the site, it should answer any questions you might have, but if not email us at info@constellationsfestival.com, or message us on Facebook or twit it at @cnstlltns. If you’re that way inclined you could even join the mailing list.

Press

If you would like to speak to someone about press accreditation for constellations then please mail constellations@ilikepress.co.uk, you should receive a pretty prompt response that will take you through the rest of the process.

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Constellations: Volume 01
Limited edition 64 page tabloid newspaper, containing fifteen posters.
Printed on high quality 70gsm white newsprint.

Now only £6 inc postage & packaging (Available at a reduced price
on the day for ticket holders)

As well as giving an overview of all the bands and everything that's happening at this year's event, we commissioned fifteen exceptional studios and illustrators to create a poster based on the theme 'Constellations'.

The newspaper can be kept as it is, or broken down into these individual artworks — give them a quick once over with a warmish dry iron (no steam!) on the back and they are ready for hanging / framing.

Click on the posters to the right to see bigger versions, click here to see shots of the actual paper on Flickr.

Poster contributors: Accept & Proceed /
Box-head* / Bruce Usher / Everyday Something / Lisa Harker / Mike Lemanski / Narcsville / Peter O'Toole / Qubik / Red Design / Studio Tonne / Tom Hudson (PABH) / UNIT / Yehteh / Yukiko