Studio12 continued to work in partnership with Brighter Sound to help address the gender gap in the industry, this time collaborating on Both Sides Now: Film Music. Over 5 days 10 young women and non-binary artists created, recorded and mixed their own short film...

As part of the Channel 4 Diverse Festival Studio12 worked in partnership with 4Talent to deliver a spoken word workshop with the award winning poet and activist Asma Elbadawi. Asma’s workshop explored diversity in the TV industry and raised questions for the young...

A project partnership with Boomsatsuma, Khadijah Ibrahiim and Studio12. Borderlines was a transnational poetry project: 7 centres in England, 3 in the UK and 7 across the EU took part to produce Europe’s largest ever online exhibition of spokenword, exploring the...

I am Spark is a 3 minute film capturing the diverse, cultural zeitgeist of the city. A vibrant spoken word monologue highlighting the cultural aspects of Leeds, the enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude of its people, their capabilities and how together as a city we can...

Shakespeare at Carnival Studio12 worked in partnership with BBC Look North and commissioned Chicken Shop Shakespeare to create a film celebrating Leeds West Indian Carnival’s 50th anniversary. The Caribbean carnival is Europe’s longest running parade celebrating...

Words First is a partnership with BBC Radio 1Xtra and the Roundhouse that seeks to find the hottest and freshest spoken word talent from across the country, supported by Arts Council England. Studio12 and Leeds Young Authors were chosen to host workshops and...

As part of the build up to the 1Xtra Live event the BBC worked in partnership with a number of community organisations across the city to bring grass roots experiences to the young people of Leeds. Studio12 felt it was really important to allow real DJs and...

As part of the build up to the 1Xtra Live event the BBC worked in partnership with a number of community organisations across the city to bring grass roots experiences to the young people of Leeds. The Women in Music idea formed between Studio12 and BBC 1Xtra aimed to...