OUR MISSION
Transform is the UK’s leading festival for inclusive, international performance. The festival nurtures, creates and presents extraordinary, cross disciplinary performance with the power to change the way we see the world. Drawing on the rich cultural diversity of the Leeds City Region, Transform is a global meeting point, where performance drives urgent social agendas and imagines new futures.
OUR VISION
Our vision is for a future where bold and brave performance is a catalyst for social change, where the Leeds City Region is celebrated as a global hub for innovative collaboration and where a new generation of change-making artists and arts professionals are supported to reimagine the world around us.
Transform is
AMBITIOUS
We create and present outstanding work, the quality and scale of which is fundamental to increasing audience trust, engagement and enjoyment, to driving a sense of local pride and possibility and to positioning ourselves and our city as national and international leaders.
BOLD
We deliver projects and programmes that have real impact on audiences, communities and the wider art sector, that explore new creative territories and confront challenging issues and experiences with ambition and confidence.
ROOTED
Connecting the local and the global, our work, the way we make it and the people we make it with reflect the places and communities around us and the social issues that we face together.
ETHICAL
All of our activities, our working methods, governance and communications reflect our responsibility to the wellbeing of those we work with, our wider society and our planet.
What we do
FESTIVALS
We produce biennial international festivals taking place across Leeds
SUPPORT
We support the next wave of bold performance makers across the North
COMMISSIONS
We commission and produce remarkable productions
NURTURE
We facilitate a collective of younger people (aged 16-21) from across the Leeds City Region, supporting them as creatives, curators and change-makers
PARTNERSHIPS
We are a core partner delivering brand new international performance showcase – Horizon
LEADERSHIP
We lead Creative Europe network Festivals of the Future
PROJECTS
We sometimes produce special events and one-off projects