16 August 2017
Between now and October, Pavilion and Hyde Park Picture House are presenting Notes from Another India, a free programme of artists’ film and video in search of alternative representations of India. Notes from Another India looks at representations of the city of Kolkata and Indian life in Britain in the 1980s, and asks questions […]
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09 August 2017
West Yorkshire Playhouse and BBC Radio Leeds have collaborated to present Partition, a unique radio broadcast and live performance marking the 70th anniversary of the division of India and creation of Pakistan. This specially commissioned radio play, written by Leeds writer and established arts journalist Nick Ahad, explores the devastating legacy of a religious division […]
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09 August 2017
Dance company Gracefool Collective returns to Riley Theatre at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance on 28th September for Northern Connections – a triple bill profiling up-and-coming choreographers. Describing themselves as makers of ‘post-intellectual-pseudo-spiritual-feminist-comedy-dance for the modern day’ the four-woman company has been making waves on the Yorkshire dance scene and across the […]
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09 August 2017
Leeds College of Art is the highest ranked independent higher education arts institution in the Nation Student Survey for the second year running. The National Student Survey (NSS), measures student satisfaction based on teaching, tutor support, feedback, and learning of final year students at education intuitions across the UK. The survey results confirmed that […]
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08 August 2017
Summer may only just be upon us but the Howard Assembly has already announced some outstanding chamber concerts on sale for its Autumn season. The treats on offer include modern and contemporary experimentation, emerging and world-renowned artists, Romantic and Classical masterpieces, the return of Leeds Lieder, and festive choral music for Christmas. Gavin Bryars’ […]
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08 August 2017
The eighth biennial Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Regional Festivals Championships takes place at Carleton Community High School, Pontefract on Saturday 9th September from 10.30am – 4pm. Performers from throughout the Region will be taking part in a bid to win the Championship titles and prizes for Speech and Drama, Dance and Music, both Vocal and […]
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07 August 2017
This small hilltop wood in Horsforth has a long geological history having been formed as part of a huge delta 250 million years ago. Ancient trees bordering the estuary eventually became coal seams and sand became hard sandstone used to build many of Horsforth’s buildings. During the last Ice Age 10000 years ago […]
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03 August 2017
Heartbreak Productions return to Roundhay Park this summer with a ten-day festival of open air theatre throughout August. Shows include the all-time classic family favourite The Secret Garden, and an original murder-mystery spoof, Murder on the Terrace. Renowned for their unique style, Heartbreak Productions tour each production with a small but multi-talented cast of actors […]
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01 August 2017
For artists and performers all over the world, the countdown is on to the opening of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – the world’s largest arts festival that welcomes thousands of performances every summer – and for Bradford-based Mind the Gap, England’s largest learning disability theatre company, it is a particularly exciting time. “The last time Mind the […]
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01 August 2017
Sally Cookson’s energetic and imaginative new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, Jane Eyre, is on at Leeds Grand Theatre from Monday 31st July for one week only. In the year that marks the 170th anniversary of the novel’s first publication, this highly acclaimed production features Nadia Clifford as Jane Eyre and Tim Delap as […]
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