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Casey Orr
Oct 20, 20230 min read
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Casey Orr
May 18, 20233 min read
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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Casey Orr
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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Casey Orr
Oct 3, 20222 min read
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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Casey Orr
Sep 16, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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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Casey Orr
Jun 15, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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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Casey Orr
Feb 28, 20221 min read
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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Casey Orr
Feb 7, 20220 min read
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Casey Orr
Jan 25, 20224 min read
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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Casey Orr
Dec 16, 20214 min read
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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Casey Orr
Dec 3, 20214 min read
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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Casey Orr
Nov 22, 20213 min read
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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Casey Orr
Nov 17, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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