Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Leeds Playhouse stages three powerful stories dissecting the lives of modern men in the run-up to the Northern Man Festival I don’t know about you but I am delighted that the Leeds Playhouse is back in full working order, bigger and better than ever. There have been productions, of course, even when the main auditorium…
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https://www.facebook.com/sartopasta/ Another day, another Day. There seems to be a never-ending string of Days to celebrate something or other, this time it is World Pasta Day but it was purely by coincidence that I was invited to call at Sarto, the eagerly anticipated new collaboration between Laynes Espresso and The Brunswick, to see what I…
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The email I received asked if I would like to come to Nomadic Brewery for a presentation from Compass Live Art about the role of pubs in our lives entitled Public House. After due deliberation, lasting well over a second and a half, I accepted. As you can see by the photograph on my website…
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https://www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/ It seems as though we are having ‘days’ or ‘weeks’ for everything lately and this Saturday, 12th October is National Album Day. As this is a subject close to my heart I thought that I would see what is happening locally to celebrate the occasion. I must confess that I still can’t come to…
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Now that we are well and truly into autumn and the daylight hours will be decreasing until the end of December that is no reason to mourn the end of summer, rather an excuse to utilise the extra hours of darkness and what better way to do this than by visiting Leeds Light Night? For…
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The weather could not have been more Caribbean, with the thermometer hovering around 30c and the sunshine unbroken. I have to admit that this is my first visit to what has become a National Institution. In fact, I was speaking to a lovely family who had come from Nottingham especially. The start of the parade,…
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It’s a funny thing, a handshake, yet it’s used to signify so many different things. We shake hands to seal a deal, to congratulate an opponent who has just humiliated us at one game or another (smashed the living daylights out of us at rugby) when presenting or receiving a prize or when bumping into…
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Kirkgate Market holds a special place in the hearts of most Leeds residents, especially those of a certain age who were dragged there by their parents to do the weekend shopping. I was a weird kid in that I liked going with my dad to buy the stuff we needed for Saturday night dinner and…
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After my perusal of the Yorkshire Sculpture International works in the City Centre spaces, I took a walk to the main hub of the event so far as Leeds is concerned. The venue is the combined Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery which, although two separate entities, are linked by a footbridge on the…
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In the middle of May I was asked to visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton to see the first exhibits to be put on show as part of the inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International event. Officially the exhibition runs from 22nd June until 29th September but the Damien Hirst figures are so large that…
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Tyke It To The Limit 