Meet the new addition to the Leeds 2023 cultural programme

Emma Beverley will be joining the Leeds 2023 creative team as executive producer in January.

Earlier this month Emma Beverley was appointed as the latest member of the creative team of Leeds 2023 who are working towards delivering an exciting year-long programme of cultural experiences for the city region in three years’ time.

An accomplished producer and programmer with an impressive track record of presenting award-winning art in a variety of contexts, Beverley takes up her post in January and is looking forward to working with the many arts organisations and individual artists in the city, established and emerging.

Beverley knows Leeds well, having developed her own career as a producer there since 2013, working with acclaimed performance artist Selina Thompson and ground-breaking Eclipse Theatre. “One of the things that is so exciting about Leeds is the level of cultural activity already going on, and the quality of it,” she says. “It is also quite a big, diverse geographical landscape with rural and urban neighbourhoods. I am really excited about doing as much work as possible in all those areas to make the programme as inclusive as it can be.”

Inclusivity and accessibility are key considerations for the Leeds 2023 team in the development and delivery of their programme, and it is a passion that Beverley shares. “It is one of the main reasons I applied for the job,” she says. “I could see that both were at the forefront of the team’s decision-making.”