Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
This is the nearest you will get to having your lockdown locks tended to for quite some time, unless you are self-isolating with a hairdresser. The National Theatre are screening a never-before-seen archive recording of Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles which is a Leeds Playhouse and Fuel co-production and is one of my absolute favourite…
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If you think that you don’t like opera, take a look at this. Opera North are streaming Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein on their YouTube channel from 7.00pm on Wednesday, 6th May until Monday, 1st June. This production was first performed at Leeds Grand Theatre in October, 2017 as part of their Little Greats…
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One of the things I was looking forward to before the C word struck was a performance by The Orchestra of Opera North of Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was due to take place in Leeds Town Hall and Huddersfield Town Hall. They always say that you can tell if someone is cultured by how they…
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Please see the wonderfully comprehensive guide as to the latest position regarding eateries and bars in Leeds. Leeds Playhouse, Grand Theatre and Opera House are both closed until further notice
Read MoreHi everyone! Other than requesting you to take a look at my websites I have never asked for anything before but the current strange situation in which we find ourselves has prompted me to appeal to your better nature. Would you please consider using your local independent traders whenever you possibly can, especially in the hospitality…
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I say, I say, I say! What do you get if you cross a library, an art gallery, a bakery, a coffee house and a philanthropic organisation? I don’t know, what do you get if you cross a library, an art gallery, a bakery, a coffee house and a philanthropic organisation? Café 164. I don’t wish to know…
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Let me take you back to September 1956. There was a queue of young children waiting to start their school year, but it was not just the first year’s intake who felt nervous and excited about starting at a new school, it was all of them, as well as the teachers and even the Headmaster,…
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