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Dear Readers, Ah June....lovely long, sunny days! I’m so looking forward to them! This month, we talk about Leeds Kirkgate Market – such a fabulous asset for the city – and the plans for its future. Leeds City Council is conducting a consultation, so make sure you have your say. Eve Bradford tells the story of the amazing Leonora Cohen who spent most of her life fighting for women’s rights. And, we talk to Anthony Clavane, whose book Promised Land, all about Leeds and its football club, is brought to the stage at The Carriageworks. There’s a fantastic new exhibition about our lives on-line at the National Media Museum in Bradford. The Thackray Medical Museum is celebrating 15 years of telling the story of medicine, with lots of events planned, including a Jubilee Tea Party. It’s well worth a visit.
THE QUAY WHAT’S TOBROTHERS BECOME CELEBRATE PUBLIC OF LEEDS KIRKGATE ART IN LEEDS MARKET?
Plus, there are Jubilee teas and parties breaking out all over the place. Dragonfly Week launches from Rodley Nature Reserve; and Leeds Waterfront Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever!
MARCO PIERRE WHITE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH RETURNS TO ILKLEY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL THIRD YEARMEDICAL FOR HEADINGLEY THACKRAY MUSEUM MUSIC FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY
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What’s to Become of Leeds Kirkgate Market?
Leeds City Council is currently conducting a public consultation on the future of Leeds Market – one option is to cut the size of the market by 25%.
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Thackray Medical Museum Celebrates 15th Anniversary Today the museum houses over 44,000 objects and 18,000 books, including the largest collection of medical trade literature in the world.
The amazing story of Leonora Cohen
A Northern Love Story from Anthony Clavane
Promised Land chronicles Clavane’s experience growing up in Leeds in the 1970s
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CARING FOR LIFE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS Caring For Life, a Christian charity based in Cookridge that has helped give an estimated 3,500 people a second chance in life, marks its 25th anniversary this year.
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On Saturday 16th June, Crag House Farm hosts a Family Open Day to celebrate this milestone. The day will include equestrian demonstrations, falconry displays, tractor safaris, and opportunities to watch country skills such as sheep-shearing and horseshoeing.
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“We hope it’s a day that will appeal to everyone”, said Peter Parkinson who founded the charity. “We are calling it a family day and that’s exactly what we want it to be. “Our open day allows us to demonstrate the difference love and support can make in the lives of those less fortunate, and gives us an opportunity to say ‘thank you’ for the support we receive from the community.” Caring For Life has been helping the homeless and victims of poverty, neglect, physical and mental abuse since 1987. It began by offering sheltered housing to the most needy in Leeds, coupled with therapeutic outdoor projects.
Since then, the charity has developed agricultural, horticultural, conservation, art and craft and woodwork projects along with adult literacy, office skills, and even a drama project. And, The Granary Tearoom and shop is now an established social enterprise, selling local produce, plants and herbs. For more information, please contact Pam Parkinson on 0113 230 3610.
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FRIENDS OF LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY SUMMER WALKS On the first Saturday of each month, Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery have been holding ‘action days’ (attended by 20 – 30 people), to physically counter the years of neglect. The graveyard has seen verges trimmed back, drains exposed and cleared, leaves raked, shrubs trimmed, and some paths have been widened by as much as a meter.
Events are planned across Leeds to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Celebrations will focus around the extended bank holiday weekend, 3rd – 5th June. For many people, celebrations will take place in their local communities, but there are also great events taking place in Leeds.
Now, The Friends are ready to launch a summer programme of walks which aims to share some of the cemetery’s history.
There is much more work to be done at the cemetery. If you would like to help, please contact The Friends at: Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery, c/o Lawnswood Cemetery, Otley Road, Adel, LS16 6AH, on the above email, or call Ann Lightman on 0113 261 1363.
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The Friends are ready to launch a summer programme of walks which aims to share some of the cemetery’s history
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All walks are free to members (membership £5). Non-members pay £3 except for Ann’s walks which are free (donations accepted!) and all should be booked in advance at friendsoflawnswoodcemetery@yahoo. co.uk
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On Briggate there will be a Jubilee Jazz Jamboree on Sunday, 10am – 4pm, where people can enjoy big bands throughout the day
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These include ‘Leeds: City of a Thousand Trades’ with Andrea Hetherington (Chair) at 2pm on Saturday 9th June; ‘The Leeds’ Pals’ also with Andrea, 2pm Sunday 1st July; ‘The Lord Mayors of Leeds’ with Ann Lightman (Sec.), 2.30pm Sunday 29th July (part of Festival of British Archaeology); ‘Medical Men of Victorian Leeds’ with Kate Vernon, 2pm Sunday 19th August; and ‘An introduction to Lawnswood Cemetery’ with Ann Lightman, 2pm Sunday 9th September (part of Heritage Week).
A RIGHT ROYAL TIME TO CELEBRATE!
On Briggate there will be a Jubilee Jazz Jamboree on Sunday, 10am – 4pm, where people can enjoy big bands throughout the day. And on Millennium Square, picnic tables and benches will be set up so people can bring their own picnics and become part of the nationwide Big Lunch event between 12 noon and 2pm on Sunday. They will then be able to stay and watch the national celebrations on the big screen. For more information about these events and others, visit www.leeds.gov.uk, go to the ‘leisure and culture’ page and click on ‘arts and entertainment’.
TURNING THE CORNER HELPS TRANSFORM NEGLECTED AREA ASDA staff and local teenagers recently transformed a neglected area behind Holt Park Leisure Centre.
businesses and make positive improvements to benefit the whole community and gaining new skills and confidence in the process.
The Turning the Corner initiative, co-ordinated by the Big Lottery funded, provides opportunities for young people to work with businesses and organisations to build positive relationships and carry out environmental improvements. Interserve, the main contractor for the new leisure centre, also supported the planting scheme.
“The partnership, which also involved the leisure centre, youth services and Holt Park Tenants and Residents Association, has been crucial in terms of the progress made at Holt Park. We hope that through these relationships we can continue to have a positive impact on the area.”
“This is the second project TTC has been involved with in Holt Park in recent months to help transform a tired area”, said Ellie Branch-Evans, Environmental Youth Officer for Groundwork, which delivered the TTC scheme. “The planting scheme has been a great success, giving young people the chance to work alongside
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NEWS FROM YOUR COUNCILLORS Councillor Clive Fox Adel & Wharfedale Ward These are difficult times. We are officially in recession, but at last there is some good news. It transpires that according to a council report every household in Leeds is £130 better off than previously thought. Now before you rush out to spend the windfall it’s only fair to tell you that getting your hands on the cash won’t be that easy. What’s happened is that it has just been decreed that henceforth all councils shall ‘recognise their heritage assets’ on their balance sheets. Personally I’ve never had a particular problem recognising the likes of the Black Prince or Queen Victoria. Nevertheless, these two public statues are Grade II* listed, and the
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Adel with 2020 Vision in Mind The search is on to find local residents and community representatives willing to commit themselves to work over the next two years to develop a plan for Adel that is acceptable to the majority of residents. What will Adel be like in 15 – 20 years? What would you like to see put in place? What do we want to hand on to the generations to come? These may seem like heady questions but if we are to preserve the best of Adel and make sure that it remains an attractive area, unspoilt by inappropriate development, work has to begin now to shape its future. Under recent government legislation, communities are invited to develop Neighbourhood Plans that can be 10 June 2012 | northleedslife.co.uk
bean counters have decreed that their value, and that of the council’s other heritage assets, must be totted up and duly recorded. Works of art and civic regalia are included and the balance sheet also requires a disclosure relating to less easily valued heritage assets. That, as you would expect, includes battlefields. So it is that Adwalton Moor (Civil War 1643, you won’t need reminding) is to be solemnly recorded as having an unquantifiable value. The council doesn’t even actually own the farmland concerned but it’s good that someone has the time to spend on these things. We are now actively marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. She has done a magnificent job over the past 60 years and remains a true heritage asset in her own right. Let’s make the most of the opportunities to celebrate. After all, Diamond Jubilees don’t come round every day.
used to influence future planning development. The work of developing the plans has to be undertaken by members of the local community representing homes, schools and businesses. The draft plan when completed will have to be agreed by the community with detailed consultation, and a community referendum will be held. The Adel Association has helped in supporting the development of the Adel Neighbourhood Design Statement but sees the development of the Neighbourhood Plan as needing to secure the interest of wider community representation. We need representatives from all aspects of Adel life. If you are interested in contributing to the plan, and feel you have the relevant interest or skills, please contact Ian Bond bondster@btinternet.com or Nick Brown nick.brown@architecture2b.com Ian Bond and Nick Brown have agreed to co chair the initiative to create a Neighbourhood Forum for Adel
BRAMHOPE IN BLOOM CREAM TEA Bramhope was awash with flowers for the judging of Bramhope in Bloom on 17th April. They continue to work hard to make the summer display just as magnificent! Bearing in mind the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee, Bramhope in Bloom is holding a ‘Cream Tea’ event on Saturday 16th June, 10am – 2pm at their chairman’s award winning garden at 40 Leeds Road, Bramhope. Admission £4 adults/ £2 children/ £10 family, including tea/coffee and cream scone with jam. Biscuits and soft drinks for children, plus posters to colour and bags to make for plug plants. Enquiries: Kit 0113 203 7666 or Janet 0113 2037744
OPEN DAY AND MONEY ADVICE The Horsforth Children’s Centre’s fourth annual Open Day and BBQ will be held on Friday 13th July, 12 – 2.30pm. This is a chance for Horsforth families with children below school age to visit the centre and enjoy a number of activities, including taster sessions for pre-school classes, visits from the Police/Fire Service, and lots more. Money Advice Sessions run at Horsforth Children’s Centre the third Tuesday of every month. So, if you’d like to find out how to make the most of your money, if you have debt issues, are worried about your pension, or planning to return to work after a break, The Money Advice Service can give you free, clear and unbiased advice. For further information, or to make an appointment, call 0113 259 1786.
THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE BRAMHOPE FESTIVAL Saturday 26th May Concert and Buffet with The Evening Post Brass Ensemble. Promoted by Bramhope Royal British Legion 7.30 pm Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane. Tickets £15 Tuesday 29th May Meet Clive Fox at the Puritan Chapel at 7pm for a history stroll around the old centre of Bramhope. Free. Friday 1st June Bramhope Primary School Garden Party with the children in their Kings’ & Queens’ costumes. 2 – 2.45pm. Friday 1st June A Night at the Opera with West Riding Opera. 7.30pm at the Puritan Chapel. Tickets £7 Sunday 3rd June The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Service 10am at St Giles Church. (Also day of nationally promoted Big Jubilee lunch) Monday 4th June Bramhope Beacon & Fireworks Display. Free family event on the Recreation Ground. Old Lane. Bring chairs and picnics. Beacon lighting and firework display from around 10pm Tuesday 5th June Bramhope Methodist Film Club. ‘Bertie & Elizabeth’ - the story of the romance between King George VI and Elizabeth BowesLyon set against the background of landmark events including the Abdication and WWII. 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall. Open to all. Donations on door Thursday 7th June Bramhope Village Players. ‘Poets, Prose and Music’ from past 60 years. 7.30pm at the Puritan Chapel. Tickets £5 Sunday 10th June Bramhope Methodist Church Buckingham Palace Style Garden Party (ladies wearing hats please!). Live music, special guests, treasure hunt and flower arranging competition 3.30 – 5.30pm followed by a Special Evening Circuit Service at 6pm
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Saturday 16th June Cream Tea and Open Garden Event at Dyneley Close, 40 Leeds Road. 10am – 2pm. Sale of cakes and plants in aid of Bramhope in Bloom. Bring your cakes and any surplus plants. Access via Breary Lane opposite The Knoll through the wrought iron gate in the wall or off the main road Details and tickets: Diane Fox 0113 267 4360 up to 8pm or clive.fox@leeds.gov.uk
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ADEL PLAYERS PRESENT ‘ON THE ROAD THROUGH ADEL’
To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Adel Players are joining with Adel Church and Adel St John’s Primary School to perform the Adel History Play ‘On the Road through Adel’, written by Pat Riley & Val Crompton, in Adel Church, Church Lane LS16, at 7.30pm on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd June. Following the play on both evenings, there will be a Jubilee Supper in The Stables. This will be part of Adel Church Patronal Festival Weekend. Tickets for the Play, including supper, are £8 adult, £4 child. All proceeds will go towards the upkeep of Adel Church. Tickets are available from Sylvia Halliday on 267 1708 or Val Crompton on 225 9142. The Adel Church 1682 window, with the Royal Coat of Arms, features in the play:
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The Lifelong Learning Centre at the University of Leeds is organising a programme of summer workshops which will run from Monday 25 - Saturday 30 June inclusive. Creative Writing ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
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WHAT’S TO BECOME OF LEEDS MARKET?
At a recent public meeting organised by the Friends of Kirkgate Market, we were made aware of various suggestions being put forward by Leeds City Council regarding the future of the Market. The one apparently favoured by the Council advocates cutting the size of the market by 25%, reducing the number of stall holders from 400 to 100, demolishing the newer halls and selling off this prime real estate that’s smack, bang in the middle of the city. With pound signs in their eyes, it appears the Council is ready to sacrifice one of the city’s most valuable assets. We have watched it being systematically run down over the past 20 years. Rents (now the highest market rents in the UK, 14 June 2012 | northleedslife.co.uk
including London) have priced regular market traders out of the market, or forced them to downsize – many of whose families have traded there for decades. Walk through the market today and you will be struck by the number of boarded up stalls.
A FANTASTIC ASSET FOR THE CITY Does the market need upgrading? Yes, of course it does. For years it has suffered from lack of investment and promotion. The Market makes around £1.5 - £2 million a year for the Council – surely some of this should have been ploughed back in? What we have here is a fantastic asset. Let’s make it thrive, not cut it back. As the rest of the city centre turns into a faceless high street favouring national brands, let’s
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know what you’ll find and it will be at a fraction of the price you’d pay in supermarkets. FULL OF COLOUR AND VARIETY Where else will you find weird and wonderful Afro Caribbean vegetables and Indian spices? A whole row of
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Where else can you find a huge variety of fruit and vegetable stalls offering top quality as well as ‘eat soon’ produce? You never know what you’ll find and it will be at a fraction of the price you’d pay in supermarkets.
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Where else in Leeds will you find fabrics and haberdashery? Samuel Taylor’s is the only such shop remaining in Leeds, but at the market you’ll find a number dotted around. There are curtain traders, bed linens, second hand furniture, clothing, shoes, phone and computer accessories, nail bars, hairdressers, fish pedicures – the list goes on. UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE AND PERSONALITY In reducing the number of stalls to 100, this fantastic variety and choice will disappear - competition will be a thing of the past, prices will rise and the unique atmosphere and personalities of the market will be lost. As Liz Laughton, Chair of the Market Traders told us at the meeting:
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“People matter in the market. I love the market humour and personalities. I love the noise and the colours of market life; the code of honour that exists; the weird and wonderful people of Leeds. And, I experienced first hand the friendship when I celebrated the 100th anniversary of my business.” It’s true. Over the years we too have built up a rapport with a number of people we shop with regularly. “We like to get to know our customers”, continued Liz. “A market stall is a small stage. We can be comedians, counsellors or teachers. We serve families, office workers and TV personalities. We say hello to the homeless and lonely. We embrace the strange and loopy and help those having difficulties. That’s what the market is all about. It’s special and can’t be replicated. It needs protecting so that money, greed and short-sightedness don’t destroy it.” CATERING FOR ALL The beauty of the market now is that it is big enough to cater for all tastes and purses. We don’t want a
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butchers? Several fishmongers? Where else will you find dressed crabs?! There are all kinds of bakery products (some day-old to benefit the less well off). There are Polish stalls, Greek and other nationalities. One stall specialises in nuts and dried fruit, another cheeses.
The beauty of the market now is that it is big enough to cater for all tastes and purses
A little reorganisation at the market could capitalise on the available space. Have an open ‘plaza’ area in each hall where people can sit and eat and chat. Where there can be live performances that would draw more people in. Where students, young designers or existing stall holders can put on a fashion show. Stage special food tastings highlighting the huge range of ethnic foods available. Have a dedicated number of stalls available at very low rents to help new entrepreneurs get started.
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COULD SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BE THE ANSWER? Perhaps, as someone suggested at the public meeting, the way to go would be to operate the market as a social enterprise. All traders would be stockholders and membership could be thrown open to the wider Leeds community. With a bit of imagination and commitment Leeds Kirkgate Market has all the ingredients to become a world-class, successful attraction.
Leeds City Council is launching a public consultation on the future of Leeds Kirkgate Market which will run until mid June. To have your say, complete the online questionnaire at www.leedsmarkets. co.uk/strategy. Paper copies of the survey are available at the Kirkgate Market information centre and in libraries across the city.
For full text of Liz Laughton’s comments at the public meeting, please visit www.northleedslife.co.uk
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For further details regarding the situation at the Market, contact Friends of Leeds Kirkgate Market, go to www.kirkgatemarket.wordpress. com , email friendsofkirkgatemarket@ gmail.com or call 07511 275896.
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THEY LIVED IN LEEDS Leonora Cohen, 1873 -1978 JP, OBE, Militant Suffragette
On Saturday 1 February 1913 an elegantly dressed woman followed a group of school boys into the Jewel House at the Tower of London. The Beefeaters assumed she was a teacher until she suddenly pulled an iron bar from her coat and flung it over the boys’ heads, smashing a glass showcase. She was forced to the ground and arrested. Wrapped around the bar was a piece of paper declaring: ‘This is my protest against the Government’s treachery to the working women of Great Britain’. Her name was Leonora Cohen, a housewife from Leeds. Leonora was born in 1873 in Hunslet. Her father, Canova Throp, a sculptor, died of TB when she was only five, and his widow Jane struggled to bring up their three children alone, working as a seamstress. At 14, Leonora was apprenticed to a city centre milliner and worked long hours without pay until she was upgraded as a probationer, then paid 2s 6d a week. By 16, having proved herself skilled and efficient, she was promoted to head milliner. In her mid-twenties she became a millinery buyer in Bridlington, and in 1900 she married Henry Cohen, her longterm sweetheart from Leeds. Neither family approved. The Jewish Cohens were dismayed that their son was marrying an outsider, and cut him off. Leonora’s mother felt that her daughter should not marry at all, but devote her life to improving the lot of her fellow women, ill-paid, exploited, and with no political voice. Leonora and Henry set up house in Leeds. Their first baby died, but a son followed, and for the next nine years Leonora devoted herself to being a wife and mother. Henry prospered in his jewellery business and their life was happy and comfortable. But Leonora did not forget her earlier experience and her mother’s sense of injustice: she took an increasing interest in campaigns to improve women’s pay and conditions and in the women’s suffrage movement. Henry and her brothers encouraged and supported her political activities. By 1911 Leonora was secretary of the Leeds branch of the militant 18 June 2012 northleedslife.co.uk
Leonora was put on trial but acquitted on a technicality. Back in Leeds, she continued her militant activities alongside other fervent loyalists. Asquith’s visit to Leeds in November 1913 was a red rag. In spite of tightened security, two suffragettes tried to set fire to the Headingley football stand, and violent demonstrations took place around the Hippodrome where Asquith was to speak. Leonora was arrested for smashing windows and was sent to Armley Gaol. She declared a hunger and thirst strike. Two days later, near collapse, she was released on licence under the notorious ‘Cat and Mouse’ Act. Desperate and angry, Henry wrote to the Home Secretary in protest, but was persuaded to take Leonora away to avoid further life-threatening imprisonment. They moved to Harrogate, where Leonora set up a vegetarian boarding house, once giving sanctuary to a suffragette fleeing from the police.
Women’s Social and Political Union. In November the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, broke his commitment to votes for women by announcing a manhood suffrage bill. This betrayal inspired Leonora to fight on. Although terrified by the prospect of violence, she joined a deputation to Westminster, and a huge demonstration ensued, ending with window-smashing and stonethrowing. She and many others were arrested and imprisoned. She served seven days in Holloway, an experience which only hardened her resolve. Her family staunchly stood by her, though they lost all their friends. Under the leadership of the Pankhursts, suffragette guerrilla activities spiralled and in Leeds Leonora addressed meetings and rallies, exposing herself to constant abuse and threats. In 1913 she joined demonstrations in London, where she chose the Tower of London for her own dramatic protest. She was so nervous that she travelled round twice in the tube before entering the Tower with her hidden weapon.
The outbreak of war in 1914 interrupted the suffragette campaigns and brought about a change of heart in government. In February 1918 women over 30 were given the vote, and 10 years later women over 21 finally attained full voting equality with men. Leonora remained energetic and active during and after the war, and in the 1920s the family moved back to Leeds, to Clarendon Road (marked by a blue plaque). Awarded an OBE in 1928, she served as a Leeds magistrate for over 30 years. She never lost her ideals, devoting much of her time to the Trade Union movement, campaigning for better working conditions. Her devoted Henry died in 1949, but Leonora, fighter as she was, lived on until she was 105.
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LEEDS WATERFRONT FESTIVAL On Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July the city will host its fifth Leeds Waterfront Festival! This year it’s set to be bigger and better than ever with the return of the Leeds Community Foundation Dragon Boat Racing Spectacle and the new IWA Boat Gathering at Thwaite Mills. The Festival also features live music, arts and dance, walk-on-water balls and canoe sessions, heritage boats, boat trips and much more, all at the coolest waterfront venues in Granary Wharf, Brewery Wharf, Clarence Dock and Thwaite Mills.
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The Dragon Boat Racing sees some of Leeds’ biggest employers taking to the water to raise money for community initiatives. Forty foot long boats, each with 16 paddlers and a drummer in colourful fancy dress will be racing at Clarence Dock. Leeds Waterfront Festival is coordinated by waterfront representatives and river management non-profit partnership Aire Action Leeds and is aimed at raising the profile of the regenerated Leeds waterfront. Individuals, businesses, volunteers and organisations are encouraged to get involved - for information on opportunities on offer, contact Project Officer Rachel Clunas on 07917 780 151 or rachel.clunas@aireactionleeds. org.uk To enter or sponsor a Dragon Boat team contact Amanda Bennett on 0113 242 2426 or amanda@ leedscommunityfoundation.org.uk Find out more about the festival at www.leedswaterfrontfestival.com 20 June 2012 | northleedslife.co.uk
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ARTS & CULTURE
PROMISED LAND – A NORTHERN LOVE STORY FROM ANTHONY CLAVANE
This month Red Ladder Theatre company, in a co-production with Leeds Civic Arts Guild and The Carriageworks, brings Anthony Clavane’s book, Promised Land, to the stage. Written as a personal memoir and cultural history of Leeds, Promised Land chronicles Clavane’s experience growing up in Leeds in the 1970s with particular emphasis on the turbulent fortunes of the city’s football club.
that the optimism engendered by the cultural and economic regeneration of Leeds since the 60s suggests that LUFC may well rise again and gain entry to the ‘promised land’ denied them when they lost the European Cup Final to Bayern Munich in 1975. Anthony Clavane
Clavane has lived away from Leeds for twenty years and considers himself a ‘Loiner in exile’, however, as Promised Land and his frequent pilgrimages to Elland Road attest, his love for the city and his devotion to Leeds United remain undimmed. Being the descendant of Russian Jewish immigrants, the book also addresses Clavane’s ancestry and illustrates the role of Leeds’ Jewish community in shaping the history of the city. As with many formerly industrial northern towns, the sense of community that surrounds the local football club (especially in a one club city such as Leeds) is integral to the identity of the city. As Clavane puts it: “football is the last bastion of working class communal solidarity”. Clavane feels that with a city such as Leeds, the story and character of the city is inexorably linked with the triumphs and failures of its football club. He feels
The play, like the book, looks set to be an exuberant celebration of Leeds, its football club and its communities. The passion and loyalty of Leeds fans is legendary and, in addition to the live band playing original music also written by Clavane, the production will feature the singing of Leeds fans who act as a kind of Greek chorus.
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As an aspiring writer growing up in Leeds, Clavane was deeply influenced by the work of Keith Waterhouse and strongly indentified with the dilemma of Billy Liar, whether or not to leave his home city to pursue the enticing opportunity of London. Throughout the book there are many nods to Waterhouse’s hero and in developing it theatrically Clavane continues his homage with new embellishment to his love letter to Leeds. For the stage version of Promised Land, which Clavane has adapted with Nick Stimson, a parallel love story has been introduced concerning the flourishing romance between Nathan and Caitlin, two Leeds youngsters divided by their religious and cultural backgrounds. As well as presenting a story which hits close to home for many of us, the production is also a showcase for local talent and a rousing expression of civic pride. As Anthony Clavane himself says: “I’m really excited about the opportunity to bring this story to life with such a large cast of local performers – in a month when Leeds is celebrating sport with the arrival of the Olympic torch – I think it’s a great chance for us to recognise the ambition and self belief that built our city – the Don Revies, the Cuthbert Brodericks and the pioneering immigrants, who aimed for the top.”
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LEEDS HAYDN PLAYERS AT SEVEN ARTS
The Leeds Haydn Players will perform at Seven Arts, Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton on Saturday 30th June at 8pm. Conducted by Adam Ferguson, the programme includes Mozart’s Overture Don Giovanni, Haydn’s string quartet Op.33 No.6 (arranged for orchestra by Adam Ferguson), Haydn’s Overture
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JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN (LEEDS) Nigel Grizzard, who has a strong interest in statistics and Jewish history and who has been actively involved in the Jewish community in Leeds for many years, will give two short talks at The Sinai Hall, Roman Avenue, LS8, 2.30 – 4.30pm on Sunday 24th June. The first is ‘Jewish names in the 1911 census’ – how we can search this census to look at the demographics of the AngloJewish Community; followed by ‘The bombing of Spriggs Oak Maternity Home, Epping, 1940’ – an interesting story that reminds us of the Jewish casualties on the Home Front during WW2.
Doo Wap Girls A dynamic programme of international Jewish music, drama and comedy is heading this way! This year’s International Jewish Performing Arts Festival comes to Quarry Hill in Leeds from 25th June to 1st July.
and a whole load of explosive world music energy. The band won two prizes at Amsterdam’s prestigious International Jewish Music Festival in 2010, during which they performed to crowds of thousands.
Four evenings of high quality UK and international shows will hit the stages of Northern Ballet and the Leeds College of Music, both on St. Peter’s Square, Leeds. Now in its 12th year, this entertainment showcase, bursting with versatility, will celebrate Jewish related performing arts and talent on a huge scale!
For drama buffs, award winning US television and stage actress, Deborah Jean Templin, brings her celebrated one woman show ‘Unsinkable Women’ to the Festival. Playing nine female characters, Deborah Jean tells how Molly Brown and other extraordinary women on board the Titanic not only survived that night... but changed their own lives and the world around them.
The majority of artists coming to Leeds this year are from the US, Poland and Israel, including the talented Doo Wap Girls from Jerusalem. This vocal Vintage Trio offers a fresh musical perspective on all-time classics combined with unbeatable harmonies.
Other highlights include Cities of Light – drama/cabaret performed by New York actress Rebecca Joy Fletcher; Graffiti Classics – outrageous comedy music theatre; Tina Law sings Streisand – a tribute show to the music of Barbra Streisand; and Mark Maier.
Presenting a young energetic take on popular Klezmer music is Klezmafour from Poland. Inspired by their region’s Klezmer traditions, they take an innovative approach to the music adding in rock beats, Balkan sounds
To see the full festival programme, visit www.leedsjewishfestival.co.uk, call the Festival Office on 0113 268 0899 to request a brochure, or email info@makor.co.uk
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NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORES SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE INTERNET
STARS STAGE JOHN GODBER’S MEN OF THE WORLD The North Leeds amateur theatre group STARS will present John Godber’s Men of the World at Adel and Ireland Wood Community Centre, New Adel Lane, LS16 from Wednesday 13th – Saturday 16th June at 7.30pm.
Life On-Line, a permanent exhibition that opened recently at the National Media Museum in Bradford, is the first gallery of its kind in the world to explore the social, technological and cultural impact of the internet and the world wide web. The project has been a long time in gestation and the subject is almost impossible to surmise as the story of the internet continues to unfold and technology evolves ever more rapidly. In preparing the exhibition, curators at the museum would return to reference works published in the last few years only to find them already outdated. As many visitors to the exhibition will be unable to remember what the world was like before the world wide web, the first exhibit displays the technology and means of communication we used before computers and the internet infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives. Younger visitors will likely be amused and surprised that before e-mail people relied on the telegram and post, before search engines like Google people looked up information in a book called an encyclopaedia. Even for those of us who recall life before the dawn of the Information Age, the primitive, archaic technology shown here seem like artifacts from prehistory. From there the exhibition takes us on a journey charting the evolution and development of the internet we know today, from the first gargantuan computers which look like they were 28 June 2012 | northleedslife.co.uk
steam-powered right through to the latest hand-held technology such as smart phones and tablets. Along the way we learn about the visionaries and pioneers who have made our brave new world possible. Inevitably, attention is paid to the rise of social media and the potential for such platforms as an instrument of social change, as seen in the use of Twitter in the recent Arab Spring.
The shared experiences of coach travel are brought home to us by three longsuffering coach drivers, played by Chris Binns, Jane Collins and Garry Darbey (pictured). In true Godber style, we are introduced to a range of characters, played by the cast of three. Mostly ‘seniors’, they give us forthright opinions, reveal their little foibles, and offer gems of mature wisdom. It is in turn hilarious, poignant and touching.
The problems and controversies that continue to plague the internet are also addressed with sections dealing with computer viruses, privacy and the security of intellectual property. As one would expect, the exhibition is highly interactive, allowing visitors to take a hands-on approach to learning more about the most important technological development since the printing press. In addition to the permanent ground floor gallery space, Life On-Line includes [open source], situated on the top floor of the museum and featuring work by contemporary digital artists exploring the future of the internet, particularly whether it will remain an open and free resource or if its democratization will be compromised by commercial interests. Life On-Line is an innovative, timely and exciting exhibition that impressively helps us get to grips with the dominant media phenomenon of our age.
“It is several years since our last Godber productions: Up ’n’ Under and Salt of the Earth”, said Chris Binns, STARS Chairman. “Men of the World is a welcome return to the particular style that is the hallmark of a John Godber play.” For tickets (£7.50/£6), call 0113 293 9596, email tickets@starsleeds.co.uk or visit www.starsleeds.co.uk
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ODD DOLL PRESENTS THE TRICK AT THE CARRIAGEWORKS
HIDDEN GEMS BRINGS NEW PLAY TO SEVEN ARTS Hidden Gems Productions is a new theatre collaboration between actor, writer and director Amanda Huxtable and award-winning writer Marcia Layne. Having worked together in numerous capacities over many years, they have now created Hidden Gems to share new work with their audiences.
Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Shadow and Franz Kafka’s Obeying the Law, this contemporary fairytale combines puppetry and object theatre with a live original music score. Featuring angry pegs, dancing scissors, magic taps and flying creatures, The Trick is playful, bizarre, beautiful and tragic. Driven by a desire to create something original, a man releases control of his own shadow in the hope that it will discover the kind of beauty he can only dream of. Instead, it reveals to him a stark reality, as creative success swiftly degenerates into a moral battle between light and dark. Formed last year by former Total Theatre Award winners and artistic directors of Chotto Ookii Theatre 30 June 2012 | northleedslife.co.uk
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Odd Doll, an emerging, Leeds-based puppetry company, presents their latest production, The Trick, at The Carriageworks on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th June at 7.45pm.
Somebody’s Son is Marcia’s latest play and the company’s second production. It is a powerful, funny, heartbreaking story about three teenage boys who make music together, play on school teams together, and are failing together. They’re tight friends until Rochelle and Angel come along, challenging everything they thought they knew about each other and themselves. What you see isn’t always what you get in this surprising comingof-age drama.
Somebody’s Son (suitable for 13+) is currently on tour, playing at venues in Huddersfield, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Salford. It will be at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton on Friday 15th June at 7.30pm. Tickets £10/£8 available from 0113 262 6777, www. sevenleeds.co.uk
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JACK THE RIPPER Retired Murder Squad Detective, Trevor Marriot presents a revealing cold case investigation into The Whitechapel Murders of 1888.
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GIRLS NIGHT
WRITTEN BY LOUISE ROCHE A warm-hearted look at the friendship of a group of fortysomething women with an all-new cast featuring Eastenders’ Gillian Taylforth and her sister Kim.
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GARDENROUND-UP By Kath Hall, Paxton Horticultural
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It seems a long way off, but you can start sowing biennials polyanthus, winter pansies and hellebore seeds now. Look out for new plants, gently dig them out and pot up. Tidy oriental poppies after flowering and leave seed heads to ripen, then store the seeds in used envelopes or scatter ready for next year. Keep some seed heads for use in dried flower arrangements. Keep on top of trailing, rambling and climbing roses. Getting at the branches where you need to tie them is not an easy task – try using sweet pea rings rather than ties until you can manage to tie in properly. Try planting clematis, choosing ones which bloom throughout the year, and let them intertwine with the roses. If you don’t want to under plant roses, lay clematis down round the bushes for a carpet of colour. Keep an eye on pests and treat accordingly. A piece of carpet at the base of cabbages will stop cabbage root fly which likes to lay its eggs close to the stem. Salad crops are doing well and hopefully you will have sown in succession so that you won’t have any waste. Strawberries are fruiting well and raspberries will soon be ready – there’s nothing nicer than freshly picked berries with clotted cream! Keep on top of dead-heading, to encourage more flowers. If you don’t want to pull out wallflowers cut them back and they will bush out making good plants for next year. Antirrhinums can be treated the same way after saving seeds – this saves sowing for another year and cuts the cost of compost. Hopefully it will be a ‘flaming June’ so that when all the chores are done you can sit back with a cool drink and admire your labours.
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DRAGONFLY WEEK LAUNCHES AT RODLEY NATURE RESERVE
On Saturday 9th June, the British Dragonfly Society will launch National Dragonfly Week at Rodley Nature Reserve, on Moss Bridge Road just off Rodley Town Street, LS13. The Reserve is combining this with its annual Springwatch and an exciting day of events is planned from 8am, including building a giant willow dragonfly that will remain at the dragonfly ponds throughout the summer. The British Dragonfly Society (BDS) promotes the study and conservation of dragonflies and their natural habitats and runs a national recording scheme to map the diversity and distribution of species in the UK. In the past 60 years Britain has lost two species of dragonfly and a third of the remainder are in decline. The society is working to reverse these trends and encourages the construction of ponds and improvement in the quality of existing water bodies and rivers. On the positive
side, no fewer than four species of damselfly and three of dragonfly have been found in Britain for the first time in the last 20 years. The BDS is currently collecting records of dragonflies and damselflies for a National Dragonfly Atlas. This year is the final year to collect records for the
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Abbey Runners are putting the final touches to their preparations for the Eccup 10 road race which takes place on Sunday, 15th July from Adel War Memorial Association on Church Lane, Adel. The Eccup 10, now in its 19th year, takes a scenic route around country lanes and closed roads in Adel, Alwoodley and Eccup reservoir. Junior races and a Family Fun Run are also staged on the same day.
Despite rising road closure costs and the difficult economic climate, Abbey Runners are anticipating another successful race and a record turnout. “At a time when many local races are being cancelled due to rising costs and loss of corporate sponsorship, we are pleased that we have been able to keep this popular race alive”, said Martin Browne, Race Director. “We have had tremendous support from sponsors like Ring Automotive in Leeds, but we have
But it isn’t just local athletes who enjoy the benefits of the Eccup 10. “In the last five years we have donated nearly £10,000 to local charities”, said Treasurer Jim Whittaker, “plus many participants raise money for their own charities. This year we are proud to be supporting Wheatfields Hospice and Hollybank Trust again.” The Eccup 10 is part of the Leeds Athletics Network Race Series, comprising 16 races in Leeds in 2012 between one and 10 miles, as well as part of the Yorkshire County Athletics Association 10 mile Championships 2012. To download an entry form for the race, visit www.abbeyrunners.co.uk, or enter online via www.ukforms.net
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SOUND & VISION The film opens with a pair of company officials in the employ of some shadowy organization tootling about a sprawling, vaguely governmental building complex discussing the logistics of a work project, speculating as to whether or not other departments are up to speed and so forth. The action then cuts to a group of college kids gearing up for a weekend at a remote cabin where they will try and have sex with one another and … well, you know the rest.
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS DIRECTED BY: DREW GODDARD STARRING: : BRADLEY WHITFORD, RICHARD JENKINS, CHRIS HEMSWORTH, ANNA HUTCHISON, BRIAN WHITE, JESSE WILLIAMS CERT: 15 LENGTH: 95 MINS The conventions of horror movies are now so familiar and well worn it’s becoming ever more difficult to do anything original with the genre. The grim predictability of events is often part of the fun and, oddly for a style of filmmaking that relies so heavily on shocks and surprises, it’s comforting that you pretty much know where you are with a horror movie. You know the drill; a group of pretty but vacant teens try and have sex with one another and are gorily dispatched one by one by a deranged axe-wielding psychopath/ supernatural being/backwoods inbred cannibalistic hillbillies (delete as appropriate). Well, as the tagline for The Cabin in the Woods exclaims, “You think you know the story … think again.” Co-written by Buffy creator and genre-twisting fanboy favorite, Joss Whedon, the film amusingly toys with ones expectations and preconceptions of this strain of horror movie. Whedon isn’t the first to attempt this, Wes Craven had his post modern take on the genre that made his name with his New Nightmare and, later, the increasingly poor Scream movies (themselves lampooned in the woefully abysmal Scary Movie
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It transpires that the organisation we glimpsed at the start of the film is in the business of orchestrating these familiar horror scenarios and bumping off nubile youngsters as sacrificial offerings. The whole thing is an intricately stage managed set up. So, basically, we’re talking Evil Dead meets The Truman Show. Ever wondered why the kids in horror movies are so dumb and continue to make increasingly irrational decisions no matter how much you yell at the screen “No, wait, don’t go in there! You’re gonna... oh, you’re dead now”? Well the explanation offered here is that the organisation pumps in mind altering chemicals that impair the cognitive reasoning of the soon to be deceased. The cabin itself is fully wired up with cameras and microphones and when a bugging device is discovered by one of the group he excitedly assumes he’s in a reality TV show.
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Planet Leeds, the multicultural street festival, returns to Briggate, Leeds City Centre, on Saturday 16th June, 11am – 4pm. This free, annual street festival showcases performers from diverse cultures and communities across the city. Previous festivals have featured Iranian guitarists, homeless theatre groups, belly dancers, Congolese drummers, Chapeltown poets and hiphop artists, Irish and Indian dance, Eastern European klezmer music, folk, rock and much more.
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RUPERT STROUD RECORDS ALWAYS FOR ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH
Leeds singer-songwriter Rupert Stroud has released a single entitled Always to help boost funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The single is available from Rupert’s charity site rupertstroudforaruk.com and 100% of the profits will be donated to the UK’s leading dementia research charity. A video has also been produced and is well worth seeking out at youtube.com/rupertstroudmusic Over 820,000 people in the UK are living with Alzheimer’s and this figure is set to grow to 1.7 million by 2038. “This song is a wonderful tribute to Rupert’s much loved grandma, who died two years ago after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s”, said Miranda Mays, Community Fundraising Manager for Alzheimer’s Research UK. “The money raised from downloads will go towards world-class research, bringing us closer to finding ways to diagnose, prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.”
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Maggi Stratford (one half of Encore!!) returns to her old stomping ground in Headingley to create another fabulous French soirée, this time at HEART on Bennett Road.
Together with Daniel Bowater (piano, accordion, guitar) Encore!! will present some of the best-loved chansons of France, from Edith Piaf to Jacques Brel, Jacques Prévert, Gilbert Bécaud and beyond. Songs with poetry for lyrics, telling stories that will move you to laughter and to tears. The music evokes a time and place, conjuring up the atmosphere of the French café-cabaret with familiar songs, sung in French but interwoven with histories and explanations. Encore!! is at HEART on Thursday 28th June at 8pm. Tickets (£8/£6.50) available from HEART on 0113 275 4548 or admin@heartcentre.org.uk
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Jazz at HEART Fri 1June,
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7:30pm at Brudenell Social Club. KW has teamed up with Simon Edwards & Ginny Clee for a pop project – more Gorillaz than Guthrie - that will take many by surprise. £16.50 Pink Peg Slax, River Moon & Guests Fri 1 June, 8pm at
New Headingley Club, 56 St Michael’s Rd. £5 Jubilee Jazz Jamboree – a Big Band Boogie on Briggate
Sun 3 June, 11am – 4pm. Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee weekend. Fantastic line-up incl. New York Brass Band. Free. DB Toots Sun 3 June,
1-4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Saxman & flautist Jon Taylor with singer Kate Peters. £5/£4 under 16s free. Stealing Sheep/Simian Ghost Sun 3 June,
from 8pm at Nation of Shopkeepers, Cookridge St. Leeds. Support by PINS. Tickets £7 Jumbo Records. Horsforth Music Centre Dixieland Jazz Group Sun
3 June, 2.30pm Canal Gardens, Roundhay Park
Anais Mitchell Sun 3 June,
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Sun 17 June, 1-4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. One of the new crop of Leeds College of Music guitarists with his group. £5/£4 under 16s free.
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COMA (Contemporary Music for All) Wed 20 June,
8.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Salsa band.
June, 1-4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. £5/£4 under 16s free.
1.30pm at South Parade Baptist Church, North Lane. Tarantismo Mon 11 June,
8pm at Cafe Lento, North Lane. Salsa & Cuban music. ‘Chewed Up’ Mon 11 June,
11pm – 3am at Hi Fi Club. Showcasing live hip hop, MCing, beatboxing & DJs, dipping into Grime, UKG, funky, future-bass & eclectic sounds. Hosted by the infamous Matter. Endellion String Quartet
Tues 12 June 7.30pm The Venue, Leeds College of Music. Playing Haydn, Debussy Mendelssohn. Tickets £19.50/£17.50 from 224 3801 Tanz Tues 12 June, 8pm
at Cafe Lento, North Lane. Klezmer with ska, hip hop & reggae grooves Paul Buckley Thurs 14 June,
7.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Singer/Songsriter playing folk, blues, jazz. Django Django Thurs
14 June at The Cockpit, Leeds. ‘Psychedelic art pop at its brilliant best’ -The Guardian. Tickets £9.50 Jumbo Records. Al Morrison’s Blues Experience Fri 15 June,
8pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Celebrating the music of great blues artists. The Rezillos Sat 16 June,
from 8pm at The Brudenell. Classic 70s punk band from Edinburgh. Tickets £14.50 from Jumbo Records. Barnsley Concert Band Sun
17 June, 2.30pm Canal Gardens, Roundhay Park
7.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Premiering new work by composer Alison Wrenn Warsaw Village Band
Thurs 21 June, 7:45pm at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Grand Theatre. Unique sound incorporating strings, furious drums, trance, improvisation, experimentation & elements of roots music. Winners of Best Newcomer BBC World Music Awards 2004. The Impossible Gentlemen
Sat 23 June 8pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton Anglo American superstars help celebrate Seven Jazz’s 5th anniversary. One of the most exciting jazz collaborations for a long time. Tickets £20/£18 from Seven Arts 262 6777 Boo Hewerdine+ Brooke Williams Sat 23 June,
8pm Brudenell Social Club. Frontman of 80s band The Bible, songwriter & accomplished performer is joined by brilliant guitarist & singer/songwriter from Boston.Tickets £11 from Jumbo Records. Lightyear Sun 24 June,
from 7pm at Brudenell Social Club. Derby’s finest punk outfit performs a select few final explosive shows. £10 from Jumbo & Crash Advance Wilful Missing + Fran Smith
Sun 24 June, from 7pm at All Hallows Church, off Hyde Park Rd. Bradford band whose album received critical acclaim. Support from Wakefield songstress Fran Smith, with her
distinctive voice & poetic, acerbic lyrics. £6 on door . Beverly Beirne Sun 24 June, 1-4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Swinging Leeds jazz singer with the Graham Hearn quartet. £5/£4 under 16s free. Phoenix Concert Band Sun
24 June, 2.30pm Golden Acre Park Yorkshire Brass Quintet
Sun 24 June, 2.30pm Wharfemeadows Park, Otley Leeds Bluegrass Club Thurs
28 June, from 8.30pm at The Grove Inn, Back Row, Holbeck (off Water Lane). Live acoustic Americana roots/ Bluegrass/Country music. Resident bands + guests. Picking sessions in back rooms, musicians welcome. Lots of Real’ Ales. £3 on door. Details: John 267 0761, Kevin 267 7040 Encore!! Thurs 28 June,
8pm at HEART, Bennett Rd. Headingley. Soirée of fabulous French music from Piaf to Brel & beyond. Tickets £8/6.50 from HEART 275 4548 Roots Fri 29 June, 8pm at
New Headingley Club, 56 St Michael’s Rd. Sea Fret - folk & blues from Harry Draper & Jack Sedman prolific song-writing duo from Bridlington, recently signed to major record label. Moonshine Music Men -bluegrass, country blues & Americana from seasoned players Nigel Atkin & Chris Draper. £5 Sam Watts Quartet + Aeddan Williams Group Trio Sat 30 June, 7.30pm
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YOUNGER LIFE
A FAIRYTALE KINGDOM AT EUREKA!
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum in Halifax is holding a right royal week of magical fairytales from Saturday 2nd June to Sunday 10th June, to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Drawing on a mix of fairytale traditions and stories, the whole week is designed to help children discover dashing heroes, wicked villains, charming princes and beautiful princesses. There will be regular Princess Workshops where aspiring young hopefuls can learn what it takes to be a royal for a day, while children aged five and under can make crowns and coronets and get a taste for wearing royal headgear!. Around the museum two very ugly sisters will be searching for their elusive prince (to no avail), while dashing knights battle it out to win the affections of an equally elusive beauty who might just, if her dreams come true, become a princess. Will everyone live happily ever after or will it all end in tears? Join the unfolding story at the Fairytale Kingdom of Eureka! All events and activities are free with standard admission.
Recently Leeds Met Young Curators hosted the opening of the exhibition entitled ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ in the Concourse Gallery of Leeds Metropolitan University. Horsforth School students Adam Morton-Delaney and Heather Kealey were chosen to be part of the team after displaying their talent through their artwork and their knowledge of art. The aim of the exhibition was
to present a team of young curators with the challenges and difficulties of art curation. They had to name the exhibition, and choose all the art that was to be displayed. It was a lengthy process, with preparations starting six months ahead of time. The curators ranged from Year 11 through to university students, all with a passion for art or photography. The exhibition was amazing and a huge success.
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THACKRAY MUSEUM CELEBRATES FIFTEEN YEARS OF TELLING THE STORY OF MEDICINE equipment, books and trade literature which was the company archive. Over the years, this has grown to over 44,000 objects and 18,000 books, including the largest collection of medical trade literature in the world. An award-winning museum
Housed in a unique, 150 year old, Grade 2 listed building, which was formerly the Leeds Union Workhouse, the Thackray Medical Museum has its origins in the Beeston-based medical supply company, Chas F. Thackray Ltd. Paul Thackray, a former director and major shareholder, established a charitable trust with the aim of building a medical museum based around the small collection of medical
The Museum, conveniently located next door to St James’s Hospital and just five minutes from the city centre, first opened its doors in 1997. Since then it has won an Interpret Britain Award, a Museum of the Year Award, has been nominated for European Museum of the Year and received a Sandford Award for Excellence in Education. Set over two floors, with nine interactive galleries for people of all ages, you can step back in time and experience the sights, sounds and smells of the streets of Leeds in 1842; discover how medicine has changed our lives through fun activities; and try fantastic games; there are even live leeches! Learning about medical advances The award-winning galleries look at how improved living conditions and medical advances have helped to extend life expectancy by about 50 years since 1840. In Pain, Pus and Blood you can learn about surgery without anaesthetics, and see how childbirth has become safer in Having a Baby. InThe Life Zone you can enter a giant gut and
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explore the human body – great for mini-medics! The education centre has great school sessions and family drop-in activities – free all year with annual tickets and catering for children of all ages. The Museum Café is all about healthy eating, and the Victorian gift shop sells interesting items, ranging from retro toys to leech jars, giant pill boxes and blood filled slime bags! A fantastic programme for its anniversary year As part of the year long anniversary celebrations, museum staff have created a ‘best bits’ calendar of themed events, drop-in activities and exhibitions, which are open to the public all year around, seven days a week, (apart from a few days over Christmas and New Year). The Thackray is an independent charity dedicated to telling the story of medicine. For further information visit www.thackraymusuem.org or call 0113 244 4343. Tickets now last all year and on-site car parking is only £1 for museum and café visitors.
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FARSLEY AFC’S LUCKY MASCOTS! Farsley Vixens under-13 girls proved to be lucky mascots for Farsley AFC’s play-off push. The girls ran out with the first team at Throstle Nest ahead of their 2-1 victory over Wakefield, which helped clinch their place in the Evo-Stick Division One North play-offs. The Vixens, which includes players from across Leeds, finished fifth in this season’s West Riding Girl Football League Division One. They train on Monday evenings and any girls interested in joining should call manager Dean Horner on 07947 921 473 for more information. Players should be aged 13 and under on 31st August this year.
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MAKE THIS YEAR A RECORD BREAKER FOR CHILDLINE! The ChildLine Big Birthday week (8-12 October) will see schools across West Yorkshire take part in a host of fun and quirky fundraising activities to celebrate the milestone and raise £250,000. As part of this, ChildLine is hoping to break a GuinnessTM World Record by inviting every school to send in their birthday greeting for inclusion in the giant card.
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ACTIVE Adel Crown Green Bowling Club in the grounds of Adel Sports & Social Club, next door to Adel Church. New members welcome. Details: Phil 267 6152, www. adelbowlingclub.co.uk After Eights Badminton Club Mon 8.30 – 9.30pm at Holt Park Sports Centre. New members welcome. Come along for a free session at our friendly club. Details: Helen 305 3327 Adel Tennis Club Ideally situated in Adel WMA’s sports ground, Church Lane. Excellent playing facilities for family, social & competitive tennis. New members welcome. Details: John Micklethwaite 267 4071 Badminton Anyone? Friendly badminton club looking for experienced players. Fri 7.30-9.30pm at Trinity University, Horsforth. Details: Sylvia 259 0113, Graham on 258 4532 Ballroom & Sequence Dance Wed 1.30 – 4pm at Queenswood Social Club, Queenswood Dr. LS6. £1.50. Bar open. Will play requests. Details: Tom & Gwen 0113 258 1835 Bramhope Table Tennis Club. Meets Mon 8 – 10pm & Tues 1.30 – 3.30pm at Robert Craven Hall. New members welcome. Details: Stewart 267 3311 Briggate Morris (Women’s Northwest Morris Dancing) Mon 7 – 9pm at Brownberrie Lane Preschool, Horsforth. New members of all ages & abilities welcome. Details: Katie 07890 754115, www. briggate-morris.blogspot. com
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Cookridge Rambling Club meets Sun, 9.30am in the car park of Cookridge Village Hall for walks of approx 6/8 miles. Transport can be provided when required. Details: Barbara 267 1522
Leeds HF Rambling & Social Club Walks on a Sunday geared to public transport from Leeds. Social events in winter. Details: Send SAE to John Maltman, 52 Vesper Gate Mount, Leeds LS5 3NN.
St Chad’s Tennis Club Join our friendly club & play tennis throughout the year - fun club sessions & competitive opportunities. New members welcome. Details: Anne Wallace 274 9917
Father’s Day Skydive Sun 17 June in aid of St Gemma’s Hospice. Jump for your dad or with your dad. Raise the minimum of £395 & you jump for free! Details: Michelle 218 5570, michelleb@stgemma.co.uk
Moortown Rugby Union Respect, teamwork, discipline, fun. Brilliant club for under 7s (Year 2) to adults. Currently recruiting all ages, especially Under 10s squad (Year 5 in Sep 2012). They train & play Sun 10:30am at Moss Valley, LS17 7NT. Details: Damian Curtis 07860 454701, damian.curtis@ bt.com or www.pitchero. com/clubs/moortownrufc/
Yarnbury Angling Club Matches 1st Sun of month. Members only. Coach transfers to & from venues. Details: Adrian Addy 07956 964713.
Jane Tomlinson Leeds 10K Run For All Sun 8 July. St Gemma’s has 20 guaranteed places for this popular run. Join their team and help raise funds for the hospice. Details: Michelle 218 5570, michelleb@stgemma.co.uk Horsforth Tennis Club (off New Road Side) welcomes new members for social & competitive play. Four tarmac courts + floodlights. Try us out Sundays 1pm. Details: Hillary West 07739 457438 Last Man Stands are looking for additional teams to enter their summer cricket leagues. They cater for all standards. Details: Paul 07795 154444, leeds@lastmanstands. co.uk Leeds Area Disabled Swimming Club Mon 7 8pm at Holt Park Leisure Centre. Are you disabled or recovering from a condition where swimming/exercising in water could help? We provide a safe, sociable private pool session where you can work to your own ability to gain strength & confidence. Details: Roger 267 4716, Sarah 287 6250 www.ladsc.co.uk
Pudsey & District Rambling Club: Walks of 5 - 10 miles Sundays & alternate Thurs. Friendly, long established club with members from all around area. New members very welcome. Annual membership £5 (£1 juniors). Try before you join. Details: 01943 430657 or pat_barnett@yahoo.com with PDRC as subject St Gemma’s Hospice Fitness Challenges Make this the year you help the hospice. Skydive, trek to Everest Base Camp, climb Mt Kilimanjaro, run the Great North Run, London Marathon, Leeds 10k or walk 10 miles. There’s something for everyone. Details: 0113 218 5555, www.st-gemma.co.uk/ events/events.html Scottish Country Dancing Thurs 7.30 – 9.30pm, St Columba’s, Headingley Lane. All abilities welcome, no partner necessary. £2.50 incl. refreshments. Details: 269 1791, pathynes001@tiscali.co.uk
Zumba Low Impact Class Thurs 11am – 12 noon at Bramhope Methodist Church Hall. Suitable for older adults & anyone wanting to return to fitness. Details: Carol 0750 3165127, 261 1807 ARTS & CRAFTS Adel Art Group Learn to paint with Alex Purves. Tues 7 – 9pm at the Old Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel. New members welcome. Details: John Hartley 01943 874162 Chinese Brush Painters Society Sun10 June, 10am – 4pm at Pool-inWharfedale Memorial Village Hall, Arthington Lane, Pool, Painting workshop run by Anne Allan on ‘Tigers’ in half freestyle/ half meticulous style. New members welcome. Details: Anne Allan 01422 368482, mail@cbpsyorks.co.uk Flower Arranging Classes 1st Thurs of month, 1.30pm & 7.30pm at Paxton Horticultural Society, 186 Kirkstall Lane. Beginners welcome. Details: Kath Hall 275 2436, kaybeehall@ talktalk.net
Flower Arranging Classes Wed 7 – 9pm at The Grammar School at Leeds, Alwoodley, LS17. Beginners & experienced arrangers welcome! Details: Judy Watker 07538 132053, 261 2379, watkers@ btinternet.com. Horsforth Arts Society meets Wed, 7.30pm at The Studio 15 Back Lane Horsforth, for a full & varied programme. June 6: Watercolour Workshop with Rachel McNaughton; 20 June: Auction & social evening; 27 June: outside sketching, starting 6pm. Details: 259 0259, www. horsforthartsociety. wordpress.com
Yorkshire Flower Club Wed 27 June, 2pm at Almscliffe Hall, Harrogate Rd, Huby LS17 ‘Sizzling Summer’, demonstration by Pamela Alexander. Visitors welcome. Details: 01943 863172 COFFEE MORNINGS, FAIRS & MARKETS Bramhope Farmers’ Market 2nd Sat of month, 10am – 2pm at Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane. Home baking, organic meats, sausages & pies, free range eggs, bread & cheese, plus veg produced by local farmers. Wheelchair access.
Headingley Farmers’ Market 2nd Sat of each month, The Rose Garden in front of The Arc, North Lane. 9am – 12.30pm. Headingley Fleamarket Sat 30 June, 2.30 – 4.30pm at HEART, Bennett Rd, Headingley (further markets 29 Sept & 1 Dec). Stalls £15 for large table. Booking starts 1 June – email fleamarket@heartcentre. org.uk Indoor Carboot Sale Sat 23 June, 10am – 1pm at St Gemma’s Hospice, 329 Harrogate Rd. Moortown. Free parking. Entry by donation. Refreshments. Diamond Jubilee Coffee Morning Sat 2 June,10.30am – 12 noon at The Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel. Homemade scones & cakes - come & enjoy a festive occasion! Leeds Feline Friends Cream Tea & Plant Fair Sat 9 June, 1.30 – 3.30pm Alwoodley Community Hall, The Avenue, Alwoodley, LS17. Wide range of plants & goods for sale. Delicious cream scones.
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guest speakers, monthly colour magazine, trips and social events. Details: Dave Senior 0113 282 1818, www.airyorkshire.org.uk/
Table Top Sale Sat 9 June, 10am – 2pm at the Yorkshire College of Music & Drama, St Mark’s House, 1 St Mark’s Ave. LS2. Bargain hunters welcome! Parking available. Details & to book a table: 243 1605.
Alwoodley Motor Club Every other Thurs, 8.30pm, The Wharfedale Inn, Arthington Lane. All welcome. Details: 391 0403, www. alwoodleymc.org.uk
West Yorkshire Fuchsia Society Annual Display & Plant Sale Sun 10 June, 10am – 3pm Blenheim Courtyard, Golden Acre Park, Bramhope. Sat 16 June, 10am – 3pm: Open Day at Chevin Nurseries, East Carlton, LS19 6BG. Find out more about the propagation & growing of these fascinating plants & the Society. GROUPS Adel Bridge Club meets Fri, 7.15pm at Adel Memorial Hall, Church Lane. Relaxed Chicago Bridge club. New members welcome, whether improvers or more experienced players. No partner needed. Details: Janice 230 6387 or 07713 402405 Adel Crag Community Assoc keeps you informed about what is happening in your neighbourhood, with up-todate information on local news, events etc. Details: Francis Garbutt 261 0846, www.adelcrag.org.com Air Yorkshire Aviation Society Interested in aviation, aircraft old and new, airports? Why not try Air Yorkshire - regular
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Bramhope in Bloom Small friendly group welcomes volunteers of all capabilities. Was awarded ‘Silver’ for spring & ‘Silver Gilt’ for summer displays last year. Everyone has an area of responsibility & works together to make Bramhope even lovelier! Aiming to achieve overall Silver Gilt this year. Details: Kit 203 7666, kit@ hemsley1eclipse.co.uk or Janet 203 7744 janet. hobson@hotmail.co.uk Bramhope Bridge Club Mon 1 – 4pm, Tues & Thurs 7 – 10pm. Lessons for novices Wed pm at Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane. Details: Bob 225 7495 Cookridge Gardening Club Sat 9 June: Visit to The Manor House, Heslington, York. Using own transport meet Methodist Church car park 1.15pm. Sun 24 June: Visit by coach to Cath’s Garden Plants & Holker Hall & Gardens, nr Grange-overSands, Cumbria. Details: Katherine 2671858. Cookridge Gardening Club Annual Show Sat 8, Sept. Open to nonmembers. Start thinking about possible entries for Clicking Cameras, Careful Craftwork, Creative
Cooking, Horticultural Classes – flowers, fruit & veg. Photographic classes are: 44 – Stiles/Gates; 45 – Summer Swelter; 46 – Flood/Drought; 47 – Trees in all seasons; 48 – Something to make you smile. Details: Katherine 2671858, katherinehill@ live.co.uk Cookridge Methodist Church Film Society Enrolling now for new season. Films shown on giant screen in Church Hall 7pm for 7.30pm 2nd Wed of month. Oct – April. 7 films £20/ 5 films £17. Details: Shirley 267 2464 Friends of University Art and Music (Leeds) helps to foster the musical & artistic outreach of the University of Leeds. Membership open to all. Regular activities. Sun 1 July: Garden Party. Details: 343 2584, www. leeds.ac.uk/fuam Grove Methodist Church Ladies Group Birthday Event Thurs 7 June, 7.30pm at Grove Centre, New St. Horsforth. A talk on ‘Leeds City Council - Gold Medals at Chelsea’ by Martin Walker. Tickets £5. Details: 258 3518 or pay on door. Holt Park Residents’ Association Provides a voice for all residents & tenants in the Holt Park area. Regular monthly meetings at Ralph Thoresby School. Details: Alan Mann 07901 656886, www. holtparktra.btck.co.uk Horsforth in Bloom meets Sat 2 June, 10am in Horsforth Museum to discuss planting &
encouraging people to take care of their township to so we can win Gold in Yorkshire in Bloom! HIB plant stall at Horsforth Gala, Sat 30 June. If you would like to help come to the meeting or contact 258 3521. Horsforth Duplicate Bridge Club Weds 7.15pm & Thurs 1.15–4.30pm at The Horsforth Club, New Road Side. New members welcome. Details: Mike Bent 258 1580 Horsforth Retired People’s Club meets 2nd & 4th Thurs of month, 9.30 – 11am at St Margaret’s Parish Centre. Speakers on a wide variety of subjects plus refreshments & time to socialise. Visitors & prospective members very welcome. Details: Everett Cooke 258 9149, Beryl Harland 258 6907 Kaleidoscope Social Club for over 50s & unattached with a zest for life. Monthly programme of events. Not a dating agency. Details: 262 1455 or 261 2619, www. kaleidoscopeleeds.weebly. com Leeds Anglo German Club Wed 27 June 7.30pm at St Columba’s URC, Headingley Lane. ‘Komm Mit Nach Tirol!’ Illustrated talk on different aspects of the Austrian Tirol (in German & English) with Chris & Ishbel Willey. Sat 30 June: Sommerfest – Summer meal at Castle Grove. Details: 268 7697
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265 0651, www.lps1852. co.uk Leeds Skyrack Lions Club meets 2nd & 4th Thurs, 7.45pm at the New Headingley Club, 56 St Michael’s Rd. Headingley. New members & helpers welcome. Help the needy of Leeds & create new friendships. Details: 01943 510106, Granville.barker@ sky.com, www.105c.org.uk/ leedsskyrack Leeds University Old Students’ Association welcomes all former students of the University. Next event: visit to Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn, on Wed 13 June, 2pm. Details: 261 4564, gmroche@ btinternet.com Mahjong Thurs 10am – 12.30pm at Robert Craven Memorial Hall. Lively, Chinese game played with small tiles. Happy, friendly group. Details: Jenny 230 0094 Mercury Movie Makers meet Weds, 7:30pm at Rawdon Conservative Club. Advice, regular film & practical evenings & occasional events. Details: 257 7274, www. mercurymoviemakers.com National Trust Supporter Group (Leeds) supports National Trust properties & places in Yorkshire & the North East. The summer programme of visits, walks & holidays is underway. Indoor meetings at St.Chad’s, Far Headingley, begin again in Oct. Details: Pam 258 8178 New Weetwood Writers Group at Weetwood Hall. Whether you want to write for publication, profit or pleasure, you’ll be very welcome. Evening & weekend workshops planned. Details: Liz 0113 267 9894. Social Events Club Meals, pub nights, theatre/film/ music, walks, badminton, book group, weekends
away, holidays & more. Mainly over 30s. Monthly new members’ night in North Leeds. Details: 0844 8111025, www.leedsivc. org.uk The Other Bridge Club Friendly bridge played Thurs 7.15 – 10.15pm at Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Bramhope. New members welcome. Details: Sandra 01943 463332 Trackrod Motor Club Meets 1st Tues of each month, 9.30pm at Old Modernians Club, Cookridge Lane. New Members welcome. Details: www.trackrodmotorclub. co.uk Wharfedale Speakers Club meets 1st & 3rd Wed of each month at Cross Green Community Centre, Pool Rd, Otley. New members welcome. Speakers of all ages & backgrounds. Come along & improve your speaking skills. Details: Tony Morris 258 3507 Yorkshire Malaya & Borneo Veterans’ Assoc. meets 1st Sat of month, 1.30pm at New Headingley Club, St. Michael’s Rd, Headingley. Anyone involved in the Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation in 50s & 60s most welcome. Represents all units of the armed forces. Details: Eddie Seville 263 7583. MUSIC Amici Singers Friendly mixed voice choir welcomes new singers, experienced or not. No auditions. Rehearsals Thurs pm at Adel Methodist Church. Details: 228 5932 or 267 1292. The Chippendale Singers, a mixed voice choir, rehearse Wed, 7.45 – 9.30pm Methodist Church, Boroughgate, Otley. Repertoire includes madrigals, folksongs, spirituals & sacred works, plus lighter music & songs from shows. Vacancies for male singers (music
readers essential). Details: Chris Denton 0113 284 3744 chrisjdenton@gmail. com To book choir: Jan Wilkinson 01943 461318 www.chippendalesingers. co.uk Fairfax Singers (Burleyin-Wharfedale) sing for charities & have helped raise significant funds. If you would like to book a concert please contact Marjorie Hall 01274 597024, marj.hall51@ yahoo.co.uk. www. fairfaxsingers.org.uk Horsforth Leeds City Brass Band A friendly, community brass band welcomes new players. Possible instrument loan, if needed. Rehearsals: Mon 7.30 – 9.30pm at Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth. Details: Hannah Rowlands 250 0208, Betty Emberton 267 6529 Lawnswood Singers A female choir, practices Wed 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church, Green Lane, Cookridge. Good female singers welcome to come & try us out. Wide repertoire of music & friendly people! Details: Brenda Hawer 0113 2671292, www. lawnswoodsingers.co.uk. Leeds & Bradford Barbershop Harmony Club Mon 7.30pm, Rawdon & Guiseley Conservative Club, Leeds Road, Rawdon. Male singers who can take on four part harmony most welcome. Details: 01274 583 989. Opera North in Rawdon Mon 4 June, 7pm St Peter’s Church, Rawdon. An evening of musical celebration in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with 12 of the company’s top artists. Favourite operatic excerpts, songs from the shows & something patriotic! Tickets (£10/ £7.50 incl. glass of bubbly & nibbles) from 07956 879 726.
Phoenix Concert Band A community wind band rehearsing Thurs, 7.30 – 9.30pm at West Park Centre, Spen Lane LS16 All players at least Grade 5 welcome – especially brass players. Interested in joining or booking the band? Details: secretary@ phoenixband.co.uk or www. phoenixband.co.uk. Players for Pleasure offers playing opportunities to adult amateur musicians. All levels, beginners to advanced. All instruments & all ages over 18. New performers especially welcome. Friendly, informal & supportive atmosphere. Details: www. playersforpleasure.co.uk Seven jazz Improvisation Group Fri 8 & 22 June, 7.30 – 10pm at the Methodist Centre, Chapel Allerton, LS7. Run by Dominic Moore. £5 per session – just turn up & play! www.sevenjazz. co.uk Seven Jazz Summer Workshops Sat 9, 23, 30 June, 2.30 – 4.30pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. £10/£8 Details & booking: Jean Watson 237 0700 jeanwatsonlifeskills@ hotmail.com Society of Recorder Players – meets 2nd & 4th Sat pm in Bingley & Headingley. Different conductors take each meeting. Intermediate players, all recorders. New members welcome. Details: Caroline 01943 467348 Soroptimists’ Midsummer Prom Sun 24 June, 7pm at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Singing for the Brain’ project. Featuring City of Bradford Brass Band plus soloists Joanne Wagstaffe & Lucy Bates. Tickets £10 plus 50p postage from 07543 098 987, midsummerprom@ yahoo.co.uk
We Can Help Your Charity Organise a musical evening & Fairfax Singers will bring lovely music to help raise those much needed funds. With a 14 year reputation, they cover charity fundraising & corporate events. Details: 01274 597024, 01943 877464 www.fairfaxsingers.org.uk West Riding Opera has vacancies for chorus members to participate in concerts & staged opera selections. All voice ranges welcome, no audition. Rehearsals Wed, 7.30pm at West Park Centre, Spen Lane. Details: 01274 595978, davewb8@sky. com The White Rosettes Female barbershop chorus (four part unaccompanied harmony), 12 x national champions, rehearse Wed 7.30 – 10pm at Moorlands School, Foxhill Dr, Weetwood Lane, LS16 5PF. Details: Jan Spencer 07852 210640, membership@ whiterosettes.org.uk Yeadon & District Male Voice Choir Would welcome new members to take them through to their 100th anniversary in 2013. Rehearsals Thurs 7.45pm at Yeadon Methodist Church (side entrance), next to Yeadon Town Hall. Details: John Atkinson 294 9095 SENIORS Beaus & Belles Summer Dance Sat 23 June, 7 – 11pm at Adel Memorial Hall, Church Lane, Adel, LS16 (please note change of venue). Ballroom, sequence & fun dances. Licensed bar, buffet & raffle. New dancers very welcome. £5 on door. Details: Ken 230 1213, Edna 267 9670, Sheila 217 9136
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Christian Meditation Group Meets every other Tues, 7.30pm in the Chapel at Trinity & All Saints College, Horsforth. Part of World Community for Christian Meditation. Everyone welcome. Details: 258 3780, www. christianmeditation.org.uk Cookridge Methodist Church 10.30am Morning Worship. All ages welcome Excellent crèche facilities & refreshments served afterwards. 2nd Sun of month: Family Parade Service - informal, friendly worship for all ages. Evening Meditation Classes Ideal for beginners, everyone welcome. Halfday course of guidance for starting, improving & making the most of regular meditation practice. Suitable for those new to meditation & those wishing to improve. £10, including refreshments. Details: 265 8164, www. meditationinleeds.org Fourth Way Philosophy & Meditation Group Introductory meetings & readings from ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ by P.D. Ouspensky. Meetings in Leeds & Otley. Details: 07814 951231, info@ gurdjieff-leeds.com The Leeds Gurdjieff Society Free Group Meditation Sun 7- 8pm (ex 3rd Sun: 6.30-7.30pm). Experience peace & calm with guided meditations. Brahma Kumaris, West Park. Details: 275 7727, leeds@ uk.bkwsu.org, www.bkwsu. org/uk/leeds Horsforth Churches Together Thurs14 June, 7.30pm at Lister Hill Baptist Church – f undraising Quiz Night with pie & peas. HCT will be at Horsforth Gala in Hall Park on 30 June with inflatables & all sorts of free fun. They will also be joining in the celebrations on 4 June with St Margaret’s Beacon &
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The Owls New city-wide informal childminding group offering support, training & information, & social events. Membership £5 pa. Details: 240 2956. Wharfedale General Hospital Cardiac Club (affiliated with British Heart Foundation) is open to former cardiac patients & their partners. Opportunity to take part in exercise classes under supervision of qualified instructors. Meets Mon, Wed & Thurs at Wharfedale General Hospital. £3. Details: Clive Wilkinson 0113 267 1721 The Yorkshire Cancer Help Centre is now at the Day Therapy Unit, St Michael’s Hospice, Harrogate two Saturdays each month, offering support for people with cancer & their loved ones. Details: Esme 01423 881392/ Karen 01937 573166, www.ychc.org.uk TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Forum 2000 Next meeting Wed 19 Sept. Details: hm.taylor1@ntlworld.com, 258 3521 Headingley Cafe Scientifique meets Tues 12 June, 7.30pm at New Headingley Club, 56 St. Michael’s Rd. LS6. Adrian Nixon’s topic is ‘The Future – a User’s Guide’. All welcome. Adm £2. Details: ann.clarke17@yahoo.co.uk Leeds Astronomical Society meets 2nd Wed of month with a guest speaker presentation & regular telescope nights at Quaker Friends Meeting House, Woodhouse Lane, LS2. Visitors welcome, first visit free. Details: info@ leedsastronomy.org.uk, www.leedsastronomy.org. uk Leeds Decorative & Fine Arts Society (DFAS) Wed 20 June, 2pm at Castle Grove Masonic Hall, Moor Rd. Far Headingley. Denise
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Jewish History Month continues at Moor Allerton Library until Wed 6 June. Exhibition, talks & readings & more. Details: 268 0899, helen@makor.co.uk Jubilee Event Sat 2 June, 12 – 4pm at Holt Park Shopping Centre. Organised by Holt Park Tenants & Residents Association in partnership with ASDA, Leisure Services (LCC), OPAL, Kidz in Kampz & local schools. Volunteers welcome. Details: Alan Mann 07901 656886, Cathy Lone 07532 Kidz in Kampz Community Shop invites donations of clothes, shoes, bric-abrac, jewellery, unwanted gifts, books, DVDs & CDs, household goods (no electrical). The charity supports vulnerable children in camps for stateless people close to the Burmese borders. Please drop off at the shop at Holt Park Shopping Centre, or they will collect locally, please call 267 6800 Leeds Civic Trust’s Guided Supper Walks Thurs 7 June – Holbeck Urban Village; Thurs 14 June: Leeds Waterfront; Tues 26 June: Musical Leeds. Walks start 7pm from Trust office, 17 Wharf St. LS1, & last about 1½ hours, ending with supper at Wharf St. Cost £10 per walk. Details: 243 9594, office@ leedscivictrust.org.uk Meeting Rooms & Hall available For Hire Mon – Sat, Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane, Bramhope. Would suit educational or leisure classes or activities, concerts, dances, children’s parties or weddings. Wheelchair access. Details: Paul 284 3361, ewartlewis@ googlemail.com www. robertcraven.org.uk
Meeting Rooms & Hall for Hire with kitchen facilities – Bramhope Methodist Church, Eastgate, Leeds LS16 Details: Jack Foster 267 2906, Bernard Neville 267 8169 OPAL Needs YOU! Drivers required. Hours to suit you, or offer regular lifts to activitiesfor local older people: Tues Chair Exercise Group 1.30-2pm & again 3.20 – 3.45; Weds Gentle Exercise Class, 10.30 – 11am & 12 – 12.30pm; Thurs Chair Exercise Group, 1.30 – 2pm & 3.20 – 3.45pm; Fri Coffee Afternoon, 1 – 1.30pm & 3.30 – 4pm. Details: Sally-Anne 261 9103, sally-anne@opalproject.org.uk, www.opalproject.org.uk Open Garden in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance Sun 24 June, 2 – 6pm at Wits End, Long Causeway, Adel, LS16 Open Garden Sat 30 June, 10am – 2pm at St Gemma’s Hospice, Harrogate Rd. Moortown. Visit the Hospice’s award winning garden. Gardening specialist Joe Maiden will speak & the gardening team will be on hand with advice. Cake stall, entertainment, plant sale & refreshments. Adults £2, children free Paxton Horticultural Society Rooms for hire at competitive rates at Paxton Hall, Kirkstall Lane, LS5. Details: Doreen Sergent 266 5237.
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COMMUNITY NOTICES Save the NHS Public Meeting Thurs 21 June, 7pm at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane LS1. The fight continues. Speaker: Dr John Lister. Join in the discussion on how we can save the NHS from the attack of the privateers. Organized by Leeds Hospital Alert & Leeds Keep our Health Service Public. All welcome. Details: leedshospitalalert@org.uk St Gemma’s Family Garden Party Sun 8 July, 12 noon – 4pm at St Gemma’s, Harrogate Rd. Moortown. Fun & games for all ages, huge variety of stalls, live entertainment, hot food & bar. Details: Michelle 218 5570, michelleb@stgemma.co.uk
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