16 April 2014
When Leeds-based singer-songwriter, Fuzzy Jones attended the premiere of ‘50 Kisses’, London Screenwriters’ first crowd-sourced feature film, in London recently she’d gone along because one of her songs is included on the end credits of the film. What she didn’t know was that her track, ‘Swans’, had just been voted ‘Best Song’ at the London Screenwriters’ […]
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15 April 2014
Following its premiere as part of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ last year, Anthony Clavane’s play about legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring, Playing The Joker is to tour rugby clubs in Yorkshire and the North West. Kicking off at Headingley Carnegie Stadium in Leeds on Saturday 3 May the […]
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15 April 2014
The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies (LCVS) at Leeds Trinity University is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a Public Lecture by Professor Regenia Gagnier, professor of English at the University of Exeter and former President of the British Association of Victorian Studies, on Monday 19th May at 7pm. Professor Gagnier’s lecture will be on the […]
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15 April 2014
Greg Mulholland MP has called for the formation of a group of transport experts to consider the best modern integrated system for the city. The controversial New Generation Transport (NGT) trolleybus scheme is to be the subject of a public inquiry starting at the end of the month and currently is the only thing being […]
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15 April 2014
Under The Skin Directed by: Jonathan Glazer Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay Cert: 15 Running Time: 108 mins This fantastically strange, disorientating and utterly original picture might seem, at first glance, to share its premise with a mostly forgotten mid-90s daft Sci-Fi horror B movie called Species. Both films feature aliens in […]
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15 April 2014
Weetwood residents have just become aware that a planning application has been submitted to Leeds City Council to convert the Grade II listed Spenfield House on Otley Road (beside The Village Hotel) into six flats and to build seven terraced houses and a gatehouse on the land behind it. Although there has been a previous […]
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11 April 2014
Innovative, anarchic collaboration with Graeae brings Brecht’s “beggars opera” bang up to date. At a time of financial insecurity and grinding poverty, never has there been a more relevant time for a fresh exploration of society’s reaction to surviving economic hard times and allowing the social under-dogs to have their say. Imagine a world […]
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11 April 2014
Last month Yorkshire Dance invited the public to vote online for two of six shortlisted dance works to be commissioned. Around1,600 votes were cast and the two artists selected to create and perform their new pieces are Robbie Synge and Hagit Yakira. Douglas, by Robbie Synge, will be a solo inspired by Robbie’s work outdoors […]
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