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What’s On For Families and Young People at hannah Festival

June 11, 2013 – 5:01 pm |

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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Steve Hewlett Comes to Grassington Festival

June 18, 2013 – 1:32 pm |
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“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

June 18, 2013 – 12:24 pm |
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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

June 18, 2013 – 11:47 am |
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Hull Drama Students Rise to Challenge of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

Academics (and Students) Need To Get Out More

June 17, 2013 – 9:04 pm | One Comment
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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

June 17, 2013 – 5:01 pm | 3 Comments
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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

June 17, 2013 – 3:25 pm | 2 Comments
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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

June 17, 2013 – 1:14 pm |
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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

June 17, 2013 – 12:33 pm |
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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

June 17, 2013 – 10:15 am |
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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

June 17, 2013 – 8:18 am |
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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

June 16, 2013 – 4:41 pm | One Comment
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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.

June 16, 2013 – 3:59 pm |
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Dan Potts (@danpotts78) enjoyed musical variety on Wednesday as battle commenced at Leeds Minster.

Boldly Going to an Organ Concert at Leeds Minster

June 16, 2013 – 3:55 pm |
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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

June 15, 2013 – 2:37 pm |
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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?

June 15, 2013 – 12:37 pm | One Comment
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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

June 14, 2013 – 7:00 pm | One Comment
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Ahead of The Beat kicking off Grassington Festival, Matty Hebditch interviewed Ranking Roger

Pie Dreams and Cake

June 14, 2013 – 7:49 am | 2 Comments
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In this weeks food blog Andy Levine (@Vino_73) reveals his unsportsmanlike side, quits his job, has a bit of a niggle at the Council, tells us his dreams for the future and shares a Lemon Cake recipe from one of his favourite bakers … been a busy week!

The Beat Open 33rd Grassington Festival Tomorrow

June 13, 2013 – 5:53 pm |
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The 33rd Grassington Festival gets underway this weekend with a performance from Birmingham-based 2-Tone legends, The Beat.