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Saturday Town
10 years with my pop up portrait studio documenting youth culture

May 18
3 min

Saturday Town 10 years with my pop up portrait studio documenting youth culture

Saturday Town started here in Leeds in 2013 as Saturday Girl. I saw young women with “big hair”: backcombed 1960s-style, teased and...

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Saturday Town
Where Everyday is Saturday and ART IS REAL

Casey Orr

Feb 23
4 min

Saturday Town Where Everyday is Saturday and ART IS REAL

It is the end of February, the light is returning, the crocuses are out, the daffodils are showing their yellow petals. I am in my own...

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Casey Orr

Dec 23, 2022
2 min

SATURDAY TOWN IN GO IN 2023!

We are ON for a year of all things SATURDAY with our funding secured from Arts Council England, Leeds Inspired, Leeds 2023, Mid Pennine...

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Saturday Girl About Town Blackpool - LAUNCH!

Casey Orr

Oct 3, 2022
2 min

Saturday Girl About Town Blackpool - LAUNCH!

Saturday Girl About Town launched in Blackpool on September 29th with the most wonderful afternoon at Blackpool School of Art. The...

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Ron's Place with Jan and Chris of The Caravan Gallery IMAGINATE FESTIVAL - SEPTEMBER 25TH!

Casey Orr

Sep 16, 2022
4 min

Ron's Place with Jan and Chris of The Caravan Gallery IMAGINATE FESTIVAL - SEPTEMBER 25TH!

Ron Gittens lived in Birkenhead, across The Mersey from Liverpool in a rented flat from 1986 until his death, at the age of 79, in 2019....

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Casey Orr

Aug 20, 2022
1 min

Burnley Creatives!

I was so pleased to be a part of this collaborative photoshoot for Burnley Magazine last month with Fashion designer Sameera Mohmed and...

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Casey Orr

Jun 25, 2022
3 min

WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!

Across America folks are piling into the streets to protest yesterday’s Supreme Court decision overturning of Roe V Wade and a...

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Saturday Town meets Beat-Herder Festival!

Casey Orr

Jun 15, 2022
2 min

Saturday Town meets Beat-Herder Festival!

Saturday Town looks to the spaces of freedom that are festivals, melas, carnivals. These hedonistic gatherings are steeped in ritual, in...

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Casey Orr

Mar 3, 2022
3 min

IMAGINATION (some thoughts on)

Ripley from Blackpool Since 2013 I have been looking for clues about culture and world views, for embodied values that can be read...

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Saturday Girl About Town Chester and The Watergate Street Gallery hatch plans for Springtime!

Casey Orr

Feb 28, 2022
1 min

Saturday Girl About Town Chester and The Watergate Street Gallery hatch plans for Springtime!

Winter is over! (Yeah it's still February but I'm calling it.) I am so ready for more light, more sunshine. Aren't we all ready to shed...

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January and all the news that fit to read (an interview in AP Magazine)

Casey Orr

Feb 7, 2022
0 min

January and all the news that fit to read (an interview in AP Magazine)

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Casey Orr

Jan 25, 2022
4 min

Happy New Year Chester!

Ok this is the last time - Happy New Year! It’s January 24th and no longer time to wish folks a Happy New Year. We are in it. 2022. The...

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On the Road. To Wigan. To Peer. (sorry I couldn't help myself)

Casey Orr

Dec 16, 2021
4 min

On the Road. To Wigan. To Peer. (sorry I couldn't help myself)

It is the first date for Saturday Girl About Town Wigan and it is December 4th. It is dark and lashing with rain. The streets are awash...

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The Weather! The Weather! Burnley and Redcar

Casey Orr

Dec 3, 2021
4 min

The Weather! The Weather! Burnley and Redcar

Burnley November 27th and Storm Arwen has been blasting the North with gale force winds, icy below freezing temperatures and SNOW SNOW...

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Saturday Girl Out and About in November Towns
The Dark Season

Casey Orr

Nov 22, 2021
3 min

Saturday Girl Out and About in November Towns The Dark Season

It is November 22. There is ice on the car windows. The shadows are long and stretch over everything into darkness by 4:30. We are out on...

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Calling All Redcars! Calling All Redcars!

Casey Orr

Nov 17, 2021
3 min

Calling All Redcars! Calling All Redcars!

it is the end of October on the last day of summertime. The clocks fall back tonight and Halloween is in the air as we set up the pop up...

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Casey Orr

Oct 17, 2021
4 min

First up ! Burnley and Blackpool

The first sessions of Saturday Girl About Town started this week. After months of meetings, funding bids, writing and planning here we...

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Casey Orr

Oct 6, 2021
1 min

EVERYONE WELCOME! FIRST STOP BURNLEY!

Saturday Girl About Town, the pop up portrait studio touring the North to photograph the styles, fashions and tribes of all fashionable...

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Casey Orr

Oct 2, 2021
3 min

Saturday Girl About Burnley

Saturday Girl Burnley Takes Shape Friday October 1, 2021 It is the first day of October and one of those days where I don’t know what...

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Casey Orr

Sep 21, 2021
1 min

Saturday Girl About Town is GO!

Saturday Girl About Town is a pop up portrait studio on the high streets of Burnley, Redcar, Blackpool and Wigan. On Saturdays in 2021/22...

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