Fearns to host opening party for Compass Festival 2024 and collaborate on reimagined Leeds Sauce
Leeds Dock kitchen, bar and event space, Fearns, has been announced as the location for the opening party for Compass Festival 2024, taking place on Friday 1st November from 6 to 8pm.
The opening party also kicks off Compass Festival’s Leeds Sauce Week (1–8 November), a celebration of Leeds’ incredible independent food and drink scene. Over the week, Popeye Collective’s bright pink, punchy condiment Leeds Sauce will appear on menus across the city, including in a special drink and snacks menu served at Fearns on the night of the opening.
Leeds Sauce contains locally harvested rhubarb, rose petals and Leeds-brewed beer. The bright pink, punchy recipe was first created in 2022 by the artists of Popeye Collective Freddie Yauner, Kiran Gill and Eddie Blake, in collaboration with the people of Leeds. This year’s batch has been reimagined with a slightly tweaked recipe by Jade Crawley during her time as Head Chef at Fearns.
As well as the beginning of Leeds Sauce Week the Opening Party at Fearns celebrates the beginning of a whole month of interactive art across Leeds as part of Compass Festival 2024. Organised by Compass Live Art, the festival, now in its seventh year, is set to feature unexpected experiences in familiar places across Leeds, from communal feasts to meditative moments; introspective workshops to celebratory projections – and everything’s free or Pay What You Can.
Jade Crawley, development chef for Shiko group and Fearns says, “Two years on since the first batch, we believe we have the winning recipe for Leeds Sauce and can’t wait to showcase it at this year’s Compass Festival during Leeds Sauce Week. When it comes to rhubarb, what’s not to love? And better yet it’s locally sourced. Our menu at Fearns is all about championing Yorkshire’s finest and Leeds Sauce typifies what we’re all about.”
Peter Reed, director at Compass Live Art adds, “Compass Festival is all about bringing art to the everyday, bringing people together who might not usually meet, and creating chances for art encounters on the street, on the menu, in the market. The support of chef Jade and Fearns have been invaluable in developing the next batch of Leeds Sauce and we’re thrilled that they’re hosting us for a night of celebrations to kick off the festival. We can’t wait to see you, and join you in tasting, talking, moving and making at Compass Festival 2024.”
For more information about Fearns, the opening party venue for Compass Festival 2024 visit, www.fearnsuk.com and for regular updates follow Fearns on social media via www.instagram.com/fearnsleedsdock
For the full programme and booking head to: www.compassliveart.org.uk
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About Fearns
Fearns Leeds showcases the creative side of Yorkshire’s people, product and produce, and is managed by Shiko group.
Shiko Group is a boutique hospitality company that has recently taken on several bars, cafes and event spaces across Leeds and Manchester. Adding to their existing portfolio, The Lawn Club and Canary Bar, Shiko Group now also operate Fearns Leeds, Side Street Studios, Deck & Dome, Foleys XYZ, Foleys ABC and The Stables.
About Compass Festival
Compass Festival returns 1–30 November 2024 for its seventh edition with a whole month of interactive art across Leeds – and everything’s free or Pay What You Can.
Compass Live Art commissions and presents interactive live art projects in Leeds. They run an artist residency programme, present standalone projects, exhibitions and artist development initiatives and programme the biennial Compass Festival.
Since 2011 Compass has been animating the city with interactive live art projects in which the public are invited to join them in playful enquiry, silent contemplation, astonishing feats of madness, hospitality and communality within and beyond the theatre or the gallery, in the places where we live, work and play.
Compass presents thought provoking, entertaining and moving projects in a range of settings including libraries, markets, museums, shopping centres and the city streets.
Compass Festival 2024 is funded by Leeds City Council through the Leeds Cultural Investment Programme; Arts Council England; Leeds BID and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
