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Fran Graham

Fran moved to Leeds 13 years ago, on a whim, and liked it so much she stayed. She works in communications - for arts organisations mainly. She gets about, but lives in Bramley, LS13 and you're all welcome round for tea! Not you though, sorry.

Forced Entertainment – The Yorkshire Tour
November 5, 2011 – 9:50 am | No Comment
Forced Entertainment – The Yorkshire Tour

Forced Entertainment, the Sheffield-based theatre company with a string of plaudits as long as the M1, are about to embark on a grand tour of Yorkshire, starting with a brief stay-cation in Sheffield to celebrate …

Bringing the Happy
September 24, 2011 – 12:15 pm | 4 Comments
Bringing the Happy

Richie Warburton, one third of Invisible Flock, talks about the ups, downs & serendipitous nature of making a show about the happiness of Leeds…

Future Everything
May 17, 2011 – 10:08 am | 2 Comments
Future Everything

Playing with glue and jam jars at Victoria Baths: a review of Handmade, Future Everything’s craft day…

Art ‘appening
May 11, 2011 – 1:30 pm | One Comment
Art ‘appening

Big news for hometourists as Art in Yorkshire unleashes it’s app. What’s that all about then…?

The Abbey Inn
April 1, 2011 – 5:19 pm | 6 Comments
The Abbey Inn

Dogs, children, real-ale and a canal? Sounds like a horror film, but guest-blogger Chris Ball & Fran Graham would like to tell you otherwise after a lazy afternoon at their LS13 tavern-of-choice…

Mission to Mars
February 11, 2011 – 3:17 pm | One Comment
Mission to Mars

Spoiler Alert: A play for anyone aged 7+ that gives science the dramatic tension it deserves; Fran Graham enrols on a Mission to Mars…

Mandrake’s Marvellous Machine
December 8, 2010 – 7:59 pm | No Comment
Mandrake’s Marvellous Machine

Absolute anarchy, audience participation, top hats, sword-fights, DJs and art…what’s that? Bradford Playhouse gets ready for a SteamPunk Pantomime…

Junction – Goole Opens Up in Second Life
November 14, 2010 – 10:09 pm | 2 Comments
Junction – Goole Opens Up in Second Life

Junction – Goole opens up in Second Life; Fran Graham has a look about..and meets a horse

Mind your Language
November 5, 2010 – 9:11 am | 8 Comments
Mind your Language

Which way to hinterland, there’s an art gallery there I think? Fran Graham asks whether its time to clean up our language?

Future Everything
May 15, 2010 – 4:43 pm | One Comment
Future Everything

Drop what you’re doing, Manchester’s future-gazing festival of art, music and ideas is happening right now…

Bathtime in Bramley
April 28, 2010 – 1:29 pm | One Comment
Bathtime in Bramley

You want fitness, well fitness costs and here’s where you start paying. In sweat. Fran Graham discovers the health benefits of sitting down at Bramley’s Russian Steam Room.