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ISSUE 17 June/July 2016

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Contents ISSUE 17|June/July 2016

7_NOTE FROM THE EDITOR 8_In the news 12_shipley street arts festival 20_the bingley show 24_shakespeare in the park 31_aby vulliamy 36_ann davies 42_picks of the month 46_what’s on?

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Another popular event returning this year is Shakespeare in the Park and we have a unique insight from Mike Farren, who will be appearing in the production himself. Mike also brings us a fantastic interview with local musician and composer Aby Vulliamy, who discusses her love of music and range of talents. As always a huge thanks goes to all the local businesses who continue to support the magazine and to everyone who has contributed information, images or articles. Have a great summer. haigh simpson

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The Hop lands Pub of Library re-opens after the Year award extensive refurb The Hop Saltaire has scooped Bradford CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2016 award. The Bradford Branch of CAMRA attended the bar on Wednesday 4th May to present the award to General Manager, Paul Huntington. The award recognises quality of beer, atmosphere, style service and how well a venue matches up to CAMRA’s aims. A spokesperson for Ossett Brewery said, “The venue is less than two years old and we are truly honoured to be awarded Pub of The Year by CAMRA Bradford. The team work extremely hard to maintain such high standards in the keeping of real ale. Thank you to all our customers old and new for continuing to support the Hop.”

Shipley Library has re-opened following an eight month, £640,000 refurb. Extensive works included repairs to the roof, new carpets, heating improvements and new lighting. The library also has an improved exhibition area and has redesigned its meeting rooms to encourage greater community use. Meeting and conference rooms have been repositioned and redecorated with the aim of encouraging more community groups to use them. Additional social services provided by Bradford Council will also be moved into the town centre building on Well Croft in a move to centralise staff. The library is one of the busiest in the Bradford district, with almost 300,000 visitors every year, but no major works or improvements have been carried out since it opened in 1985.

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Shipley Street Arts Festival By Tom Taylor This July sees the return of the Shipley Street Arts Festival, a hugely popular event and one of the region’s most impressive creative spectacles. Now in its third year the three-day celebration of street theatre, circus, music and dance sees the centre of Shipley transform into a vibrant platform for the creative arts, with free events across the town from internationally-touring theatrical shows to family workshops and activities. With events running from Friday 1 July to Sunday 3 July, this year’s Festival embraces the theme of storytelling. Iconic literary characters such as Peter Rabbit, the Big Bad Wolf and the Owl and the Pussycat will be popping up throughout the Festival to inspire and entertain alongside a host of other storytelling events, activities and interactive trails. This year’s headline acts, The Wheel House and Reliquary, both tackle storytelling in unique and intriguing ways.

Described as a ‘tender, post-apocalyptic love story’, The Wheel House is a unique, rolling acrobatic theatre show which unfolds inside and around a stunning circular home as it travels with the audience walkingQ alongside. Combining acrobatic virtuosity with engaging design and moving storytelling, Acrojou - the widely-acclaimed company behind The Wheel House - will be entertaining crowds on Friday and Saturday before continuing on their global tour, which has so far seen them perform to well over 200,000 people across 14 countries. Avanti Display’s Reliquary, a spectacular work of art, engineering and obsession, joins The Wheel House as co-headliners for 2016. Featuring sophisticated electronics, mechanics and animatronics, a stunning surreal casket will make its way around Shipley allowing passersby the opportunity to peep inside and create their own tales, stories and questions from what they see within. Drawing on a rich national tradition of popular

theatre, Avanti Display combine comedy, surrealism and spectacle to create shows imbued with a unique charm, and will be performing three times a day throughout the Festival. Strong and successful artistic partnerships have been key to the Street Arts Festival’s success and this year sees that network of local, regional and national links continue to grow. The Wheel House and Reliquary are both funded by the Yorkshire Festival in partnership with Without Walls Street Arts Consortium. Providing and showcasing 18 days of world class music, dance, theatre, visual art and outdoor performances, Shipley’s involvement with the Yorkshire Festival is both a coup for the Street Arts Festival and the town as a whole. Popular community arts organisation Sponge Tree return as a community partner for 2016 as they take over the recently refurbished

Shipley Library for a weekend of creating props, costumes, puppets and creatures from Jeanne Willis’ book, The King Of Tiny Things. Both the Arts Trail and Urban Canvas, two of the most popular events from last year’s programme, return this year adding to the Festival’s rich offering of visual art and community engagement. Involving everyone in creative play and offering interactive pavement art for all the family, Urban Canvas will again be reinvigorating Well Croft Precinct with colour and concept, whilst the Arts Trail, which last year showcased hundreds of pieces of artwork provided by local schools and community groups in the windows and premises of local businesses, will help turn the town into an art gallery. The Arts Trail will be officially launched as part of the Schools and Community Artwork

Unveiling taking place on Friday at 12.30pm and featuring work from Titus Salt School, Shipley C of E Primary School, St. Anthony’s Catholic Primary School and Hazelbeck School. Children aren’t the only ones encouraged to get creative though as the Festival relaunches its photography competition which this year, fittingly, asks happy snappers to ‘tell a story through (up to three) photos’. Alongside the range of spontaneous street performances, walkabouts, magic and stilt acts, 2016 sees the construction of a fullyrigged main stage in the Market Square car park which will host a festival of music and dance – a festival within a festival – for the duration of the three day event. In between a programme of professional shows, the Festival have embraced their ethos as a community-driven not-for-profit organisation and invited local performers

to take the stage and showcase their talent. In an already impressively large and varied programme, the Festival are also expanding their offering of evening events for 2016. The Friday night sees the inclusion of another community partner, the Windhill Community Centre, who will host an evening of food and entertainment. Saturday night sees the return of the Festival’s raucous and hugely popular Cabaret Heaven which received rave reviews when it launched the Street Arts Festival in 2014. Finally, the Festival draws to a close on Sunday with its inaugural Poetry Evening, an enjoyable evening of poetry and cake led by local poet Jo Brandon. Online booking for Cabaret Heaven and the Poetry Evening is strongly advised. A fantastic free fun event for all the family, Shipley Street Arts Festival takes place on Friday 1, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 July. www.shipleystreetarts.com.

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The Bingley Show By David Hempel

Preparations are well under way for the 135th Bingley Show, once again staged in Myrtle Park and organised by the Airedale Agricultural Society. This year’s event is on Saturday 23 July and expected to draw over 14,000 people. Traditional agricultural exhibits will be on show to enjoy along with attractions such as the Wise Owl Bird Of Prey Display Team, The Sheep Show and a fast-paced motorcycle trials display by three-times British Trials Champion Steve Colley. Those with a competitive streak can enter some of the wide range of competition classes held on the day. These range from cattle and sheep classes, through poultry, cavies, handicrafts and horticulture.

Further details, schedules and entry forms can be found on the Show’s website. Those who like competition of a more strenuous nature can take part in the Bingley Harriers 10km Race starting from the main show ring at 11.45am. The cattle and sheep shown by exhibitors from across the North of England will be in peak condition, many having only recently returned home from the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. Hopes are high that both the quality and quantity of livestock present in recent years will be on show once again in 2016. The show jumping events are one of the day’s major attractions, taking place in the main ring throughout the day. The event attracts

Among the many attractions at the Bingley Show will be prize cattle from accross the North.

some of the sport’s top riders and their horses, as well as local competitors looking to compete at one of the region’s most popular shows. The show jumping begins at 8.30am, and returns later in the afternoon for the action packed Accumulator. Always a crowd pleaser and a good reason to both arrive early in the day and enjoy the early evening in the glorious amphitheatre of Myrtle Park. A revised show layout for 2016 includes a new and larger Members Marquee in the bottom meadow alongside the main ring. It will allow members access to a private bar facility, luxury toilets, ringside seating and tables, and lunch is included. This promises to be the perfect location from which to enjoy the Show’s programme of main ring attractions and

the surrounding backdrop of Myrtle Park. The Show’s organising committee is working hard to put on another top class event and aims to offer a day for the whole family to enjoy. So whether you wish to enjoy the many exhibits or be wowed by the main ring attractions, shop at the numerous trade stands or take part in the 10km race, make sure you get your ticket and head to Myrtle Park for a great family day out in Bingley. For further details of ticket prices, membership packages, schedules and entries, sponsorship opportunities or if you wish to get involved please visit www.bingleyshow.co.uk or follow us on Twitter - @ BingleyShow.

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Shakespeare in the Park By Mike Farren

400 years after his death Shakespeare has once again been hogging the literary news this year. With extensive TV coverage, exhibitions and conferences, as well as the usual big ticket productions in London, Stratford and beyond, it can all feel a little remote. However a community group is bringing one of the Bard’s best-loved comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, to Roberts Park for a free open-air production on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 July. I caught up with director Ged Quayle, producer Stephen Pearson and actress Stephanie Hindle (playing Beatrice) to get more information about the background to the production. First I feel the need to enter a small disclaimer. As well as writing about the production I’m also a member of the cast. Please don’t let that put you off though!

This year’s production marks the return of Shakespeare in the Park, following their presentation of The Taming Of The Shrew at the same venue in 2014. Stephen and Stephanie had known each other for some time before that, meeting as students at the Yorkshire School of Acting. Following that experience they were involved in the formation of an acting workshop at the Shipley Kirkgate Centre, which eventually became an improvisation session - SASIT (the Shipley And Saltaire Improv Troupe). It was at SASIT that Ged was recruited. “He came along to the improv group and we got to know him. Obviously, he’s had a lot of experience,” comments Stephen, with Stephanie adding, “We thought he’d be the best person to lead the team.” Ged has a professional background in community theatre, while Stephanie and Stephen both act professionally. Stephen is heavily involved with short films, especially in conjunction with his son’s production

Saltaire Bandstand will stage productions of some of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies this July.

company, Twenty Twenty Films. Meanwhile Stephanie combines work with Sneaky Experience, location-based pop-up cinema experiences, with being a stay-at-home mum. Shakespeare in the Park has a strong practical, DIY-ethos about it. Ged describes the project as community theatre, while Stephanie explains, “It’s all self-funded. It’s all completely volunteer-based. That way we don’t have worries or arguments about money. It’s just ‘Have you got time? Do you fancy doing Shakespeare?’” Despite such a pragmatic approach there’s also a theoretical background to the group. SASIT’s improvisational technique derives from the teachings of Sanford

Meisner. Stephen explains, “Meisner was involved with the Group Theatre in New York in the 1930s. He invented these techniques called repetition, where you just repeat what the other person says.” Stephanie adds, “It’s getting your reactions from the other person, rather than your personal experience or memories. Your brain picks up inflections, the way your eye moves and body language, and that makes you react instinctively.” Stephen also tells me about another influence that’s perhaps more directly relevant to Shakespeare in the Park. “I found a book called Free For All, about Joe Papp, who was a producer in New York. He started

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If you force stuff on kids, they don’t like it. They rebel. But if they can go, ‘Look at that. That looks cool.’ they’re more likely to enjoy it.

Shakespeare in the Park. He insisted that theatre should be free. I found the story very inspiring, and that’s how I got into producing.” The setting of Papp’s productions in Central Park and their starry casts of A-list actors, including Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and Denzel Washington, may be so far removed from a community production in Saltaire as to make comparisons seem fanciful, but what the team really want is to involve people who don’t normally go to the theatre and who can get utterly emotionally absorbed in a play. Steve relates a story about a Papp production: “There was a street gang watching Romeo and Juliet, and when Romeo was going to kill himself, they were shouting, ‘No, Romeo, don’t do it, she’s not dead!’ They got it, just like that. Instinctively they knew what was happening within the plays.” Stephanie tells similar stories about the 2014 production of the Taming Of The Shrew,

“We had members of the public coming up to us with their kids and saying, ‘I wasn’t sure they were going to get it and I wasn’t sure we were going to enjoy it, but it was really good and it was funny.’ It’s that element of sharing something with a community. For the most part, the people in the Park would never in a million years pay to see theatre, but get the opportunity to see it for free in an environment where, if they didn’t like it, they could just get up and go, and nobody would be offended.” Stephanie was also charmed by the reaction to dress rehearsals in the Park. “When Kate and Petruchio were rehearsing, there were some kids saying, ‘Are you getting married?’ There’s the school right at the top, so you get a lot of the kids who can hear stuff and they come down. It entices them into a world they would otherwise have forced upon them. That’s important. If you force stuff on kids, they don’t like it. They rebel. But if they can go, ‘Look at that. That

The cast of the 2014 production of Taming of the Shrew.

After a successful 2014 production, the volunteer nature of the group stymied a similar event in 2015, especially as the previous director was by then studying for a Master’s degree. For 2016 however, Ged was recruited and the core of the team was in place, with others (myself included) being recruited from open auditions.

Such work made him familiar with the challenges of Shakespeare. “You don’t realise how big Shakespeare’s plays are until you get inside one,” he says. Although there are differences in resourcing from his earlier projects he comments that in other ways the productions were quite similar. “It was a very broad range of abilities in the cast – same as we have here. That’s the marvel of it, having a spectrum of experiences and abilities.”

Originally from Liverpool Ged was no stranger to the area, having studied for a Community Arts degree in Bradford before taking a certificate in directing at Liverpool University. “I was involved with community and small scale theatre,” he tells me. “Most relevant to this project is that I initiated a Shakespeare in the Park project there, too.”

I ask Ged about the particular challenges of directing in the open air, and he tells me, “You’ve got an audience where most of them haven’t been raised on live theatre. They’re raised on television and they’re used to being informed about the flow of the narrative by changes in lighting, music, camera position and all that sort of thing. You don’t have any of that.”

looks cool.’ they’re more likely to enjoy it.”

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It’s a good, strong community production. The cast have broad experience, and are pulling together, working together and handing in work I’ll be proud to put in front of an audience.

The epiphany for him came with a production of As You Like It. “There’s a point where we have to switch from a dank, dark castle and cut instantly to a bright, sunlit forest. How am I supposed to do that with no lights, no scene changes? What Shakespeare did was to march his chief goody on stage and have him bellow very loudly, ‘Isn’t it great in this sunny forest?’” Now working in the much better paid area of IT, Ged clearly still has theatre very much in his blood and he is enthused about the way performances are shaping up. “It’s a good, strong community production. The cast have broad experience, and are pulling together, working together and handing in work I’ll be proud to put in front of an audience.” This year’s production will have three airings - the first on the evening of Friday 29 July, followed by afternoon and evening showings on Saturday 30 July. “It will be interesting,” says Stephen, “especially the

evening performances. Success for us would be that people really enjoy it. That’s all we’re bothered about, that people come into the park, have a great time, are entertained and go away with a buzz, feeling happy.” As one of the cast I’m already feeling the excitement of being part of this event. For actors and audiences too, what better way to spend a summer afternoon or evening than experiencing one of Shakespeare’s most charming plays in the beautiful surroundings of Roberts Park? Much Ado About Nothing will be performed in Roberts Park on Friday 29 July (evening) and Saturday 30 July (afternoon and evening). The performance is free - just turn up. For more information, go to www.saltaireshakespeare. com If you’d like to volunteer to help out or to become an event sponsor, the team can be contacted by email at saltaireshakespeare@gmail.com

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Vulliamy Interview by Mike Farren

“It’s not about the money. If it’s good music and I like the people, I’m happy to get involved.” Aby Vulliamy – Shipley resident, musician and music therapist – is talking about her time in Glasgow and what she enjoyed about the city’s vibrant, open music environment, and that attitude typifies her approach to music and performance. Collaborating with a wide variety of musical partners in many genres and sometimes over considerable distances, she is firmly established as part of the music scene in Shipley and Bradford. She has recently played at Merchants Quay, both in a supporting

capacity and in a duo with her partner, trombonist George Murray, while she’ll shortly be playing in Leeds and at Bradford Threadfest with Glasgow / Shipley outfit, Bravest Boat. Aby’s journey

musical has not

and geographical been straightforward.

Growing up in Hull she received piano tuition at home, while at school instrumental lessons united her with her main instrument, the viola, after a brief false start with the violin. It was an inspired choice, as she explains, “There are never enough violas! It’s an endangered species. I like being the underdog. I love to accompany and to improvise, where it won’t

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I like being the underdog. I love to accompany and to improvise, where it won’t be the same in any given performance.

be the same in any given performance.”

stuff and I don’t want just to dabble in it.”

Alongside her early classical experience there was a strong parental interest in jazz and a deeper family background in eastern Europe and its music. Despite this Aby initially did not take the study of music beyond GCSE. “I studied fine art,” she tells me, “I thought I wasn’t a performer, but you end up having to justify and talk about your work, and I found it really hard. It put me off, so I’m glad I didn’t study music, if it might have pushed me away from it.”

Developing this insight Aby went to train at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the only person on a Master’s course in Music Therapy who did not have an academic music background. “I felt like an imposter,” she recollects, “but I also felt liberated by it. We all had all sorts of anxieties, but when we started doing improvisation and trusting ourselves to be in touch with our feelings, I felt freed by having not been properly trained.”

After study she took a job in social work and occupational therapy. It was in the latter role that the idea of music therapy first came to her, “I was doing all sorts of things with adults with mental health issues in a forensic unit. They didn’t have a music therapist and they knew I played music. There was one girl who was in her mid-twenties but talked like a child. I remember playing the blues and improvising, and she just began singing like an adult about what she wanted, how she felt, who she was... I remember feeling - this is powerful

Since that time, music therapy and music performance have gone hand-in-hand. Work both for herself and her partner, also a music therapist - led her to Shipley around five years ago. With two young children, she happily claims, “Shipley’s where I want to be. I love it. It’s got all I need at the moment - the parks, the close countryside and the swimming pool.” Describing her working life, she tells me, “I work with boys who’ve had a raw deal. Music can give them a sense of confidence and a feeling of being part of something bigger. It

Aby is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer and also works as a music therapist.

can be demoralising, but there are instances where I’ve made a real, positive difference. There’s one boy who just yesterday played the grand piano at the LGI. It’s a big deal for him. They’re arranging for him to go into a nursing home one day a week where he’s going to play for the residents and they’ll love him.” Another way in which her work feeds back into her music is in the close attention to communication in a variety of modes. “It’s tone of voice and pitch contour, the way a mother can communicate very intimately, even though they don’t have shared language.” Aby has developed an occasional project, called Motherese - the term for this kind of ‘babbling’ language - which explores this communication in musical form, using a changing cast of guest vocalists, all mothers. For her other current project, Bravest Boat, her stay in Glasgow forged collaborations

and opened up musical opportunities. She tells how, knowing no one in the city, her partner spotted a fellow trombonist, and the chance encounter led to an introduction to a variety of bands. Including Scatter, The One Ensemble, the National Jazz Trio Of Scotland (“Not jazz. Not a trio. Not national. Not entirely Scottish”, according to their Twitter page), and The Sound Of Yell. “I like not being tied to any genre,” she says. While Aby and George Murray are based in Shipley, the other Bravest Boat members are in Glasgow. Although this poses logistical difficulties, the improvisational background shared by Aby and the other members ensures that when they do get together performances will be exciting, individual experiences. For more info visit www.abyvulliamy.co.uk

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AKA Dance Studio - Motown Magic Sunday 10th July, 3:00pm & 6:00pm All Stalls: £8.00 Concessions (OAPs and under 15): £5.00

Stage 84 - Starlight Express Thursday 14th July - Saturday 16th July, 7:15pm Also 16th July at 2:00pm Front stalls: £15.00 Concessions (over 60 or 16 and under): £14.00 Rear Stalls: £14.00 Concessions (over 60 or 16 and under): £13.00 Stage 84’s spectacular production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express returns to the Arts Centre this summer by popular demand!

The Dead Daisies Wednesday 27th July, 7:45pm All tickets : £12.50 Influenced by 70’s and early 80’s hard rock, The Dead Daisies sound is soulful and accessible .

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Ann Davies

This month’s cover art comes courtesy of local painter Ann Davies. After a long career in nursing, Ann decided to fulfil her lifelong dream of being a full time artist and now works out of a studio space at The Butterfly Rooms on Gordon Terrace.

What is your relationship with Saltaire? Currently I have a studio at The Butterfly Rooms in Saltaire, and I’ve been there for nearly eighteen months now. I’ve lived in the area for over thirty years. I love Saltaire and feel privileged to be part of a very creative environment.

How would you describe your art? I would say my artwork relies heavily on drawing - most pieces start with a drawing in pen and ink and then watercolour is added.

Do you have a favourite subject matter? One of my problems is that I have too many favourites! I love landscape, architecture, urban buildings, natural forms, textiles and find I’m inspired everywhere - I am never ever bored. But I am learning to do less better...concentrating on architecture and urban buildings. My current favourite subjects are greenhouses, glasshouses, old cinemas and picture houses.

Some pieces remain as a monochrome drawing and also I’ll often use the same image again and again. If a particular composition works I enjoy playing with different colour effects in watercolour, as you may notice with my views of Salts Mill. I think my work reflects an enjoyment of architecture and colour. What are your preferred mediums/ techniques? I love to draw - it’s one of the most satisfying experiences. I was fortunate enough to have been taught to draw on my Foundation course which was very unusual in the 1970s, and I am eternally grateful. Watercolour is my next love. I was taught it as a child and it’s a medium I love to experiment with. I also enjoy other mediums such as collage and pencil crayon, to add texture and pattern. When do you do most of your work? I produce most of my work during the day at my studio but I’m always gathering information and images wherever I go.

What have you got going on at the moment? We’ve had the Art Trail recently, which is always a great event. Earlier this year I had a painting accepted by the Royal Watercolour Society’s Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition in London. This was a huge achievement for me. I’m working on a collection of paintings of old cinemas around the area, also another collection of paintings of Scampston Garden near Malton which I hope will be part of an exhibition next year. Long term I’ll continue to enter events such as the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and The Royal Watercolour Society’s election process and competitions. To see more of Ann’s work visit www.annd49.co.uk or www.thebutterflyrooms.co.uk.

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Golden Cabinet are bringing Shit and Shine ($&$) back to the Kirkgate Centre for what promises to be another brain-frying performance.

He started playing Sunday afternoons at Winston’s, a small bar in Ocean Beach just west of San Diego and is now recognised for his musical talents on four continents. A four-time San Diego Music Award winner, he has also taken home some of the highest honours at the Best of Blues Awards, including Best Male Vocal, Best Contemporary Blues Artist, Best Album, and Best Songwriter.

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Shipley Street Arts Festival 2016

A Syrian Love Story

With three days (Friday 1 July to Sunday 3 July) of fantastic performances from internationally-renowned street theatre companies and creative arts from the local community on the streets of Shipley, this year’s Shipley Street Arts Festival is set to be bigger and better than ever.

The film A Syrian Love Story will be shown at Bradford Cathedral on Friday 17 June at 7pm.

This year’s headliner acts are The Wheel House and Reliquary, plus there’s the return of last year’s artistic sensation Urban Canvas. success of our evening entertainments with Cabaret Heaven, which has sold out for the last two years, 2016 also sees the Festival’s first Poetry Evening, led by local poet Jo Brandon. A fully-rigged main stage will also host a full programme of music and dance for the duration of the Festival.

Amer, 45, met Raghda, 40, in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. Over months they communicated through a tiny hole they’d secretly made in the wall. They fell in love and when released got married and started a family together. This film tells the poignant story of their family torn apart by the tyrannical Assad dictatorship. Filming began in Syria in 2009, prior to a wave of revolutions and changes in the Arab world. At the time, Raghda was a political prisoner and Amer was caring for their young children alone. Tickets £5 from the Cathedral and on the door.

Wednesday 1 June

What’s on?

Saltaire Fine Arts & Decorative Society Lecture 2pm - 3pm, Victoria Hall, Saltaire The society aims to educate and inform in the decorative and fine arts through lectures and outings. This week’s lecture by Angela Findaly is entitled The Other Side: Germany’s Post-WWII Culture Of Memorial and Counter Memorials. Craft Club 7pm, Kirkgate Centre, 39a Kirkgate, Shipley First Wednesday of the month at 7-9pm, third Wednesday at 1-3pm. A long established and friendly group of creative ladies that meet to create and chat. Call the Kirkgate Centre on 01274 580186 for further information, or just come along! A cafe is open, daytime only. GATHERED LEAVES BY ALEC SOTH ‘TIL 26 JUNE, NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Alec Soth is widely considered one of the world’s foremost documentary photographers. Gathered Leaves is his first major UK show, a unique opportunity to see the journey his photographs make from the printed page to the exhibition wall. Free entry. Nationalmediamuseum.org.uk UNOBTANIA EXHIBITION UNTIL 18 JUNE, BRADFORD CATHEDRAL An exhibition by Bradford-based artist Peter Robson who uses his surrealistic style to convey and critique the inhumanity of war. References to WW1 are particularly poignant at this time. bradfordcathedral.org WEDNESDAY @ ONE ORGAN RECITAL 1PM, BRADFORD CATHEDRAL Organ recital every Wednesday from 1pm. Free entry. bradfordcathedral.org