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Four Ways to Spend your Time Credits!

So you have given some time to one or two projects and have saved up some hours, but you are not sure how to spend those hours. Here are four ideas of ways to spend your time…

1.Make a film just for fun. Yorkshire Life Aquatic spent time credits making a this film in a fountain in Doncaster: Maria Spadafora filmed it, Annabeth Robinson edited and gave it the 1950’s film reel look/ background music, and Ivor Tymchak did the voice over. A total of 12 hours

What small project could you put together on time credits?

2. Spend time with another member. This is a photo from an exhibition Wave by artist and Timebank member Jo Lee. In asking her to photograph some objects, I found out lots of things about her work and how she works with small objects. Spending a couple of hours to meet someone or see their approach to a creative task is very interesting.

3. Participatory Art Cycle -Walk – Member Caleb, (now time banking in Bristol), paid members time credits to cycle in shared pedestrian-cycle walk spaces across the city. Maybe you have an idea you want to test with members or have them help out with public workshops.

4. Moving Premises – Members helped Live Art Bistro move into their new building. This included de-rigging lighting/sound and a whole lot of general moving and lifting.

Don’t have enough credits? Maybe another member will gift you some?

That is just a few to be thinking about. Over the next few months, we will share more ideas from members about how they use the Timebank and about their work as we’ll as ideas of how to spend and earn time credits.

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Meet Jon Eland…

Strawbleu is the pseudonym of member Jon Eland.
A timebanker since 2015, he has two photographic art practices and loves collaboration and collective development – he has been involved in several local and international artistic collectives.

Photo of Planetine by @strawbleu for @timebankleeds member @LunaLeFey

Whilst his photographic style does differ between practices and from project to project you can be certain that each series will have a sense of narrative that also has some unreality.

His strawbleu practice is focused on capturing what it is to be in a place; responding on a personal level to the environments he finds himself in, his But I Like It practice uses gay and queer men as it’s subject – looking at identities, tribes and society impacts how individuals react with the world at large.

Alongside his photographic projects Jon worked to develop a real-world element for Flickr (the social network) in Leeds before founding the Exposure Leeds photographic group (which ran for 5 years), as part of this he brought the Photocamp concept to Europe. Since this he created the (we are) Obscured international queer art collective and has exhibited with the Homosurrealism group in London, Warsaw and Paris as well as other exhibitions throughout the UK, in Athens, Rome, Dortmund, Louisville, Los Angeles and New York

Currently Jon is refining his practices looking at assemblage with fabric and needle crafts as can be seen from his most recent work, shown at Homosurrealism Paris:

résister aux bandes parallèles si vous pouvez (2019) – assemblage with mixed media.

You will find more of his work posted:


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Whats Your Bright Idea?

Join us Saturday 9th 6-9pm for Light Bulb Moments – a social of ideas.

For our 10th anniversary we want to begin to change how the Timebank works and move towards a new era of supporting your creativity.

Do you have a Big Idea or would you like to help devise one?

You can email us with your idea before the night or just bring it on the night.

Come along, meet other Timebank members, eat, drink, chat and have fun.

What’s in for you?
Boost your hours – Bring homemade food and get 1 hr time credit, 2 hrs time credit for attending.
Be part of shifting LCT into the next decade.

When is it?
Leeds Creative Timebank SOCIAL – 9th March 6.30 – 9.30
in Workshop Press Basement Gallery at 10 Back Newton Grove

Join us Saturday 6-9pm for the Leeds Creative Timebank BIG SOCIAL

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Cycle through the City

Cycling Art Project with Caleb Parkin and Paul Hurley

This was one of a series of projects happening in the city in 2013 with Paul Hurley and Caleb Parkin. The projects were cycling as a vehicle for creativity. On this trip, time bank members were used as guides to support the main leaders. This activity went out to all members as we had no idea who cycled and had a bike…its great when the activities challenge the set up. We try to be flexible and versatile to accommodate any creative suggestion. We cycled in groups around the city, with particular tasks. In the one I was part of, we were observing people and trying to pick up bits of their conversations. We then discussed what we had noticed and heard at intervals. It was an interesting way to engage with the city and the people in it. We mapped the experience afterward in Magellan House where we had met for the trip. As a time bank member, its as a valuable experience to part of. i got an insight into how these artists worked and new ways of engaging with public spaces which I really enjoyed.

Caleb and Paul live on a canal boat and have since this time moved out of Leeds down to Bristol.

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LCT Big Social – Here’s what we got up to!

Photo by Magda Szymanska LCTB Big Social July 2014 LR-20

So July 9th was our latest Big Social held at Wharf Chambers. This was arranged predominantly by Sarah Spanton and Lynette Willoughby. In the Social, members got the chance to socialise and to take part in ‘The gift’. The Gift is a project where members can pitch a project idea that they are currently working on, and other members get to vote on which project or projects they would like to support. This time Lynette Willoughby, Sue Ball and Sarah Spanton kindly donated hours to the time bank to make this possible. Members can donate hours to other members at any time through our gifting transaction service.

[Read more…] about LCT Big Social – Here’s what we got up to!