I realise it is a bit early to be promoting an event in October, but anything emanating from the partnership between LeedsBID and Welcome to Leeds is bound to be in great demand. They also don’t mess about by cutting corners as can be seen from the Christmas spectaculars and the Summer Holiday specials, details…
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2025 Leeds International African Arts Festival Launch at Hyde Park Picture House.
It’s not often that I spend a Tuesday tea time dancing to the beat of two African drummers, in fact I can’t remember it ever happening before, but this event was to change that. I was at the amazing Hyde Park Picture House for the launch of the 2025 Leeds International African Arts Festival, but…
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To Leeds, With Love – in City Square
Sadly, I missed last year’s inaugural mega animation using Queen’s Hotel in City Square as a screen, so was excited to be at the launch of the 2024 version. The weather was drizzly but good enough for the gathered crowd to enjoy the spectacle in reasonable comfort, especially the people ambling round the Christmas market…
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To Leeds, With Love at The Queens Hotel
As you can see from the feature image, LeedsBID and The Queens Hotel have got Christmas all wrapped up and tied with a bow, or they will have from 12th to 22nd December. After last year’s spectacular light projection which saw the Gingerbread Man work his way round the hotel to give those in City…
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The Big Opera Adventure from Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre
What a brilliant way to get children into opera. My first experience of live classical music was back in the Sixties at grammar school, when the second form was herded into a building in Rossington Street, just opposite where the Merrion Centre stands today, and made to shut up and listen to a string quartet…
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MONOPOLY Takeover Update
If you want to know why I love Leeds so much then just read on….. Should you wish to take a browse back on this site to the articles relating to the City Centre MONOPOLY Takeover during the summer holidays, you will see the efforts put in by the parties concerned, including LeedsBID (Business Improvement…
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Strings Together from South Asian Arts and Red Violin Festival at Seven Arts, Leeds.
When anyone mentions the violin, most people don’t immediately think of Indian music, but the instrument has become a staple in the South Asian classical world and this evening proved why. After an introduction from Keranjeet Kaur Virdee MBE, CEO and Artistic Director of South Asian Arts, the event began. Ms Virdee said that there…
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Travel Light from South Asian Arts and Foxglove at ChapelFM Arts Centre
Now here is something different, an event to celebrate the birthday of a lighthouse. Not just any lighthouse, but the Eddystone in Plymouth, which celebrated its 265th Anniversary on 16th October, 2024 when this concert was staged. The structure was built by Leeds lad John Smeaton, who was born, and died, in Austhorpe. He was…
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Launch.
Christmas shows at Leeds Playhouse have garnered an impressive reputation, and quite rightly so. They are always spectacular, innovative and brilliantly presented with no corners cut. This year’s offering promises to live up to the high standards already set, and maybe even surpass them. The 2024 show is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe…
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Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2024, Nile Rodgers, The Evolution of Creativity at Leeds Playhouse
You can look at the cv of Nile Rodgers and see that he has written, produced and performed on singles that have sold over 75 million copies as well as 500 million albums worldwide. He has collaborated with artists such as Madonna, David Bowie, Dianna Ross, Sister Sledge, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and…
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Tyke It To The Limit 