What’s On: Leake Street Arches Launch by admin on June 16, 2018

On Saturday 16 June, the Leake Street Arches at Waterloo are officially being launched, following the street’s shiny make-over. The area has been a creative playground for some of the city’s best graffiti artists since 2008, when Banksy saw its potential and ran an event he called The Cans Festival; he and his team of artists transformed the tunnel into what he described “an oasis of beautiful art”. Walk through the tunnel today and you’ll still see graffiti artists updating various patches of wall. But prior to now, you wouldn’t have had any reason to go there unless you were a graffiti artist, visiting the Vaults – the street’s tucked-away performance space – or using it as a cut through to buzzy Lower Marsh.

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