hannah Festival has four events that are especially suitable for families and young people, and they are all spaces for play, exploration, testing, learning through doing, sharing, and fun.
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Why Would Anyone Say That Leeds Was The “Best City”?
Why would anyone say Leeds was the “best city”? @philkirby has a better idea …
Siegfried. Opera North. Leeds Town Hall. Saturday 15th June 2013.
Dan Potts (@danpotts78) was astonished by the Opera North production of Wagner’s Siegfried on Saturday.
Steve Hewlett Comes to Grassington Festival
“The BBC is like a yacht with a particularly heavy keel. You can knock it flat but you can’t turn it over”: Guardian columnist, Steve Hewlett, at Grassington Festival. Tom Swain reports for us.
New Addition to Hull’s Artistic Quarter
Michelle Dee writes about a new addition to Hull’s artistic quarter, Projection Rooms, opening this August.
Hull Drama Students Rise to Challenge of 4.48 Psychosis
Hull Drama Students Rise to Challenge of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis
Academics (and Students) Need To Get Out More
Journalist-turned-tutor Richard Horsman (@leedsjourno) looks at innovative ways in which students from Leeds’ three Universities are engaging with the wider community, and suggests they could do more.
Roots and Wings – Or How Hull Is Enjoying Its Overnight Success
Roots and Wings – or how Hull is enjoying its overnight success. Isabelle Tracy on how independent Hull got together and won a £3 million bid from Creative People and Places.
Fracking Ruined My Saturday Night
The more you know the worse it gets? @markvsmedia discovers Fracking and considers the impact that a protest taking place now in Poland might have for us in the future
The Enough Project, Theatre in the Mill, Bradford
Vicki Galloway-Place on her first trip to Bradford’s Theatre in the Mill to see the Slung Low/Dep Arts production of The Enough Project.
Steve Hewlett at Grassington Festival Tonight: The BBC, Lord Justice Leveson and Rupert Murdoch
Steve Hewlett, renowned Guardian columnist and broadcasting veteran, is speaking at Grassington Festival tonight: The BBC, Lord Justice Leveson and Rupert Murdoch …
The World Curry Festival, 21st to 23rd June, Bradford
The World Curry Festival returns to Bradford between the 21st and 23rd June, taking over the wonderful City Park for a weekend dedicated to the unofficial taste of the city.
Bettakultcha Comes to Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Bettakultcha comes to Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Tuesday 25 June, at The Trades Club: Ivor Tymchak explains what the Arts Furnace is all about.
The Band Anyone Could Join
Hope and Social played Grassington Town Hall with The Band Anyone Can Join last night, and Dom Burch makes it sound like most of Grassington played along too!
Battle of the Organs. Leeds Minster. Wednesday 13th June 2013.
Dan Potts (@danpotts78) enjoyed musical variety on Wednesday as battle commenced at Leeds Minster.
Boldly Going to an Organ Concert at Leeds Minster
Boldly Going to an Organ Concert at Leeds Minster … how many Star Wars references can John Baron squeeze into one review?
Hope and Social Play Grassington Town Hall Tonight
Leeds band, Hope & Social are playing Grassington festival on today, but in the lead-up they’ve been involved in something rather more intriguing, as frontman Simon Wainwright explained to Matty Hebditch
What’s The City Centre For?
Ed Carlisle (@edleeds) wonders what the city centre’s for, and introduces a brand new ‘thing’ for the Leeds calendar: the Leeds Midsummer Feast, Sunday 23rd June, 5pm til 10pm on Briggate.
Ranking Roger Interviewed
Ahead of The Beat kicking off Grassington Festival, Matty Hebditch interviewed Ranking Roger
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June Banner Designer: Matthew Suff
This month’s banner designer Matthew Suff is a self proclaimed technology nerd specialising in print media design. Wendy Denman put on some trouser jazz and quizzed him like it mattered.
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Why I enjoy getting Naked
The massively popular Naked Wines are touring the UK and stopping in Leeds on the 30th June. Frank Bearman loves them so much he wrote his first blog post for us about them. You can win tickets and a box of wine! Go for it
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An Evening at ‘As The Lobster Said’
Beige food, mingling and giant pencils – A retro inspired evening at Lord Whitney’s studio…
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A Day at the Cricket
Irna Qureshi visits Headingley to watch the cricket and find out about great British institutions; degenerating wickets, men dressed as toadstools, and the popular mass participatory form of artistic expression that is the beer snake.
Jobs & Opps »
Fundraising Manager for “Here To Thrive” – Job Opportunity
Here to Thrive, a project supported by the Arts Council’s Catalyst Programme to boost individual and private giving, are looking for a fundraising manager.
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The Beat Open 33rd Grassington Festival Tomorrow
The 33rd Grassington Festival gets underway this weekend with a performance from Birmingham-based 2-Tone legends, The Beat.
People and Places »
An Evening at ‘As The Lobster Said’
Beige food, mingling and giant pencils – A retro inspired evening at Lord Whitney’s studio…
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The Dunwells
Vicki Galloway-Place goes to see The Dunwells at Bojangles, Pudsey …
I was introduced to this local band maybe a year ago by my hairdresser at the time, a young, trendy girl who has her …
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Why Bollywood Carmen is Coming to Bradford
The BBC rolls into Bradford this weekend as Bollywood meets the opera Carmen. The musical spectacular will be broadcast live from Bradford’s City Park this Sunday, 9th June. Irna Qureshi gives us a bit of background.
Speakers’ Corner »
D Day For Democracy; Should Leeds City Council Webcast Meetings Live?
Richard Horsman (@LeedsJourno) has some thoughts about the Leeds Webcasting decision facing the council tomorrow
Tavern Tales »
Beer-Ritz: Bottling Success
Leigh Linley meets Zak Avery of Beer-Ritz in Headingley and makes this non beer drinker almost want to take it up…
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Poundland or Prada?
Once she got over the crushing disappointment of months of hard work being pushed over by a Poundland, Emma Bearman reflected upon the feelings incurred by a new retail inhabitant of the old Borders store on Brigatte
Who Would Work…? »
Who would work in an office like this?
Our intrepid photographer Rick Harrison snuck into someone’s office and took a few photographs…Can you do a ‘Through The Keyhole’ and guess who works here?
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