April 2O13
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Events Events In April - Page 3-4
Featured Event Leeds Trinty Shopping Centre Opens - Page 5-9
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Art
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Donald Weber & Maciej Dakowicz At White Cloth Gallery - Page 1O-11 Robert Filliou : The Institute of Endless Possibilities At The Henry Moore Institute - Page 12-13
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Jake & The Jellyfish Album Launch At Royal Park Cellars - Page 14-15
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Bouncing Souls At The Cockpit - Page 16
Film & Theatre OZ The Great & Powerful - Page 18-19 Trance - Page 2O-21 Info/Contacts Positive Leeds is a cultaral magazine/newspaper based in the city of Leeds. Tired of seeing nothing but negative news broadcast to us all across the media, Positive Leeds aims to bring you fresh, exciting and most importantly positive news happening right here in the city.
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Events In April
Mock & Roll Aoril 28th - 7th May Leeds Gallery Illustrator Jack Hudson teams up with 3D image-making duo Lord Whitney. Edgelands of Leeds April 13th - 12th May Gallery 2, Leeds Gillian Holding’s explores the incongruity and strangeness of an explosion of wild flower meadows in an industrial wasteland.
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A Card Game Called Leeds April 17th, 6:OOpm - 9:OOpm Herny Moore Institute, Leeds The card game Leeds was invented by the French artist Robert Filliou.
FLYPOSTING #2, March 1st - 11th May THE Gallery at Flannels, Leeds An exhibition of hand printed contemporary gig posters. Postscript April 17th - 4th May Birds Eye View Unit F1, Leeds March 2nd - 29th June A curious exhibition of contemporary installation and The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds site specific works sited in the atrium of Unit 1F. Four printmakers explore the beauty of birds in this group print exhibition. Northern Art Prize March 28th - 16th June Leeds Art Gallery The sixth Northern Art Prize exhibition runs from 28 March until 16 June 2013 at Leeds Art Gallery Donald Weber & Maciej Dakowicz F, 7eburary 21st - 3Oth April White Cloth Gallery, Leeds An Exhibtion from two great photographers.
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PARTICIPATE: Rock-a-Bye-Baby April 13th, 11:3Oam - 12:3Opm Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Bring your babies and toddlers to learn and sing rare beautiful English lullabies and nursery songs. To Kill A King April 11th, 7:OOpm The Brundenell Social Club
Robert Filliou - The Institute of Endless Possibilities March 21st - 23rd June Frank Turner Herny Moore Institute, Leeds April 19th, 7:3Opm The Institute of Endless Possibilities is the first The Refectory, Leeds institutional solo exhibition devoted to Filliou in the UK. Fossil Collective Small Town Ink Traditional Print Day April 26th, 7:OOpm 24th Apr, 1O:3Oam - 5:OOpm The Brudenell Social Club University of Leeds, School of Design, Grass Studio Specialised, heart-warming and unique, traditional print Fun. is making a resurgence amongst young designers. April 16th, 7:OOpm O2 Academy
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Ballake Sissoko And Vincent Segal 25th April, 7:45pm Howard Assembly Room Ballake Sissoko, one of Mali’s greatest kora players, joins forces with cellist Vincent Segal to perform material from their sublime 2O11 album Chamber Music. Minus The Bear April 3Oth, 7:OOpm The Cockpit, Leeds
Music Industry Seminar #7: Ben Robinson (Kendal Calling) April 18th April, 7:15pm The Leeds Music Hub The third in the Spring series of seminars at the Hub.
Film & Theatre Oblivion Released on 12th April Vue Cinema Following a war of the worlds, a soldier returns to a devastated Earth only to find evidence that the war isn’t everything it was made out to be. Trance Out Now Vue Cinema An art auctioneer becomes caught up in a major art robbery but, having been hit in the head, forgets where the booty is. Maybe hypnosis can help. Olympus Has Fallen Released on 17th April Vue Cinema The President has been kidnapped and only his disgraced bodyguard is in any position to save him and the country from terrorist atrocities. Iron Man 3 3D Released on 25th April Vue Cinema Our hero is pitted against a worthy enemy when he sets out to find and punish those responsible for trying to destroy his life.
The Place Beyond The Pines April 12th - 18th Hyde Park Picture House A motorcycle stunt rider who turns to robbing banks to provide for his lover and their newborn child. Shell April 13th - 17th Hyde Park Picture House Shell lives with her withdrawn, epileptic mechanic father in a barely viable petrol station, touching everyone who comes across her with warmth. Transform: My Leeds My City April 16th - 27th Transform is West Yorkshire Playhouse’s festival of theatre and performance which pushes at the edges of practice and helps re-imagine what theatre can look like and what it can do. For details of events go to www.wyp.org.uk/what’s-on/2O13/transform-my-leedsmy-city/ The Market April 16th - 2Oth April Kirkgate Market, 8:3Opm Performed by a company of professional and community actors, this is a story about Leeds, its people and one of its most treasured landmarks.
Food & Drink Transform - My Leeds, My City: Feast April 21st,All Day West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square An afternoon of ideas, food and music amongst excellent company. Amazing Graze April 5th - 7th Left Bank Leeds Organised by Left Bank and Manjit’s Kitchen, Amazing Graze will feature the best street food. Second Annual North Leeds Charity Beer Festival April 26th - 27th St Aidan’s Community Hall This years festival will see drinkers choose between 18 Yorkshire and 18 Scottish cask ales
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Featured Event
Leeds Trinity Shopping Centre Opens! Upon arriving in Leeds some five years ago now, I was quite surprised by its shopping centres. With the diverse collection of people living in Leeds and those visiting from far and wide, these centres didn›t do the city justice. Now that Leeds Trinity has opened its doors, that has all changed - giving the people of Leeds something to brag about.
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The centre opened on the 21st March with a vast amount of people queuing to get a look inside. It is hard to believe just how big the place is once inside with an open plan shopping experience the like of which I haven›t seen before, spreading out over three floors all looking out onto each other. The sheer expanse of the glass ceiling makes sure the centre never feels claustrophobic and the entrances add to this by being wide open spaces rather than electronic doors or turnstiles. Chapman Taylor are the architects behind this truly outstanding building, and having the like of Heathrow Terminal 5 and Media City UK on their C.V, you always knew visually that this space would be something special. The domed room is sensational, giving you a perfect view of the spire of the 18th-Century Holy Trinity Church which literally sits next to the shopping centre. The way in which the building is structured with lots of different entrances and with some shops having two or more entrances themselves, gives a feeling of being in a huge fun house where you could just run about all day going in and out of each shop. The centre is in two parts - Trinity East and Trinity West with the East being the refurbished Trinity and Burton Arcade the seemingly endless centre will make you want to explore every nook and cranny On the opening day, shoppers and onlookers were greeted by a huge square box in the middle of the centre with the words «wonder what›s inside?» printed on it and a clock counting down the seconds. Finally, after half an hour of anticipation, the world›s largest dress was revealed! Wearing it was aerial acrobat and former Cirque Du Soleil principal artist Colette Morrow. She was hoisted up from out of the box and thousands of shoppers watched in amazement as she rose to the magnificent domed roof. The man behind the dress, Henry Holland, wanted to create a memorable opening spectacle for the launch and he surely did. The dress, measuring 15 metres high and 480 square metres wide, had Holland›s trademark yellow and pink polka dot design and was embellished with Swarovski crystals to create a visually stunning performance. Continued On Next Page..
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Trinity also has permanent and temporary art installed. The Scottish sculptor Andy Scott, famous for “The Kelpies� two 3O metre high horse heads, is the man who was commissioned to do the work for Trinity. It gives the centre that cultural necessity - his huge sculpture looking over the centre of the building. The famous Leeds Owl Trail is now also part of Trinity thanks to Leeds based artist Antonia Stowe. Leeds Trinity Shopping Centre boasts over 12O shops, restaurants, cafes and bars, bringing together old and new stores in Leeds. The whole of Leeds benefits from this exciting new centre and it defines Leeds as a great cultural
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Art
Donald Weber & Maciej Dakowicz At White Cloth Gallery
Donald Weber Interrogations The exhibition consists of a series of portraits taken from Donald Weber›s book Interrogations. It is the result of a seven year journey through the Ukraine and Russia. It provides a bleak look into the difficult world these people inhabit and the exhibition showcases this in its huge portraits of these human beings. Weber has captured the moment when these people are scared and unsure of what is to become of them. This begs the question that at what point would Weber have turned the camera away if at all? Weber›s work often takes place in Eastern Europe and if you haven’t had the chance to view some of his other works do so with Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl and The Underclass and Its Bosses: Crime & Punishment in Ukraine showing the power of his imagery. When you walk into the exhibition and cast your eyes around the wonderful open space in which the portraits are displayed in The White Cloth Gallery, you get a real sense of the intensity there must have been in those interrogations. With the images literally surrounding you as you stand there you feel sympathy for these “poor” people without knowing what crime they have committed - whether it was something petty or more sinister. You are made to feel this way by the way Weber›s artistic photography never shows the interrogator; they become something of a mystery. The only glimpse we have is of them intimidating a man with a gun fixed to his temple. With any photographic process like this it raises fundamental questions. By sitting through all these interrogations and photographing the content without taking any action, is Weber accepting this form of physically bullying or is he giving us an insight into a world to which we are turning a blind eye. We tend to easily forget the conditions in which these people live - and if they are that scared and frightened when a camera is on them it makes you wonder what happens when the camera is off. Interrogations is something Weber should be proud of; it is a first-class collection of stunning portraits which asks so many questions of the viewer and fits in perfectly in The White Cloth Gallery which must be overjoyed with the presentation of the work.
Maciej Dakowicz - Cardiff After Dark In this series of photographs taken from the book “Cardiff After Dark” Maciej Dakowicz takes to the streets of Cardiff to capture the nightlife fuelled by alcohol and emotions. The subject matter is something to be ashamed of and shows vividly why we have such a reputation for binge drinking. As a nation we humiliate ourselves most weekends and Dakowicz has been able to show an array of shocking, desperate and intriguing images and all from a few streets in Cardiff. When first looking upon Cardiff After Dark at The White Cloth Gallery, you glimpse at these photos one by one in their frames - elegantly hanging for people to observe them. To a certain extent I believe that is what people in Dakowicz’s photos want they want people to stop and look at them although in real life we might walk past them and strongly try to avoid them. In their life or friendship group it may be admirable to be arrested, fight, litter and abuse. The fact of the matter is our society is becoming more like this and Dakowicz is portraying it brilliantly in his photography of this city. When you look closer and study these images in more detail, they become more vulgar and embarrassing, and yet it must be realised that these people are apparently enjoying themselves! This may however come to an abrupt end as they are carried away but the police. It has to be stated that for a large percentage of young people this is normal behaviour and they enjoy it. Dakowicz’s work is often very open in the sense that he doesn’t hide away and sneak about to take his photos - he is very much in the thick of it. His work “Weekend In Blackpool” which has its similarities with “Cardiff After Dark”, is a great example of this and can be considered as a prequel to Cardiff After Dark. They both focus on the people of the cities. This can show a powerful portrayal of what a city is like - it gives it a sense of character and personality. Dakowicz has a talent for being persistent and capturing the energy of his subjects. If haven’t already seen this exhibition I strongly suggest you do! Both Interrogations and Cardiff After Dark run until 3O/O4/2O13
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Robert Filliou: The Institute of Endless Possibilities The Henry Moore Institute devotes its latest exhibition to Robert Filliou and the first solo exhibition of his work in the UK. Robert Filliou is known for being part of the Fluxus movement - producing live conceptual art. He had a unique look on life: proposing at one point that art should have its own birthday. He suggested that 1,OOO,OOO years ago art didn’t exist, until January 17th when someone happened to drop a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Art’s birthday was first publicly celebrated in 1973 in Germany and France. Filliou’s work often consisted of games and tricks and this is what The Henry Moore Institute has chosen to present us with. The exhibition takes work from the 70s and 80s in which Filliou asks the audience to think about what they are seeing. You may wander up to his piece “Eins, Un, One’ and not realise that every side of every die has the number one on and you could quite easily walk around the exhibition in 10 minutes and leave thinking nothing of it. This is why I would recommend learning about Filliou’s work and his approach before going to see this latest exhibition. You will then find yourself staring at each piece for what seems to be an eternity as you feel cheated when you noticed all 16,000 die faces are showing one. When you learn about the card game “Leeds” which Robert Filliou invented on an earlier visit to Leeds, you become puzzled by the rules in which double-sided playing cards and blindfolds are required in an exercise that is only beneficial to the audience who are laughing at you whilst trying to tell you what to do! The exhibition is dancing around the idea that all games are rigged and that the people organising them are laughing at you as you try to figure them out. The exhibition is definitely worth a visit, but if you have anytime beforehand read a little about Robert Filliou and you will then leave more satisfied and with a greater understanding of the wonderful art you have just seen.
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Music
Jake & The Jellyfish - Album Launch
Jake & The Jellyfish - Album Launch The Royal Park cellars were the venue as Jake and The Jellyfish released their debut album. Credit cards & Overdrafts and played in the heart of Hyde Park. The cellars were tonight home to Leed›s up and coming musicians - Jake McAllister (Frontman) and his Jellyfish James Cafferkey - Bass, Rich Maher - Guitar,Violin and Steve Sharp - Drums. With some animated and lively support acts from Sam - Bad Ideas, Dear America and special guests Random Hand the stage was set. They were welcomed onto the stage to cheers and launched into “Tunnel Vision”, the opening track off their debut album. By providing an upbeat atmosphere with real passion and punch, Jake and The Jellyfish kept their audience captivated with songs new and old such as “Spare Change”, “Slave to Day Time T.V”, and the fans favourite “Dotted Line”. The band quite simply write songs about what matters dear to them and you can tell how much each song means as they play their hearts out. The thing I like most about watching these guys is that you can tell they are enjoying their music. They laugh and joke on stage and deliver song after song of folk/punk crowd pleasers. This is most evident as they delve into the crowd to play the remainder of the tracks and, with a circle encasing them, Jake and the Jellyfish pound out their tunes to their beloved fans and finish on their title track “Credit Cards & Overdrafts”. The album Credit Cards & Overdrafts is a great example of British folk music with punk roots and a hint of reggae thrown in. Their songs are witty and speak about the issues affecting their lives; when you mix all these elements together it sounds pretty good! The band›s success isn›t surprising once you listen to the album and without knowing it you›re playing it over and over. The songs stick in your head and you find yourself singing them on your way to work! The album is available on Amazon and iTunes and I would highly recommend it. Also if you haven›t seen these guys live yet, I urge you too as soon as possible!
Set List Tunnel Vision Black White & Grey Slave To Daytime T.V Spare Change Parking Space Forever Cynical Same Old Dotted Line People Watching Rise And Shine Credit Cards And Overdrafts 5 13
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Bouncing Souls At Cockpit In their 25th year, The Bouncing Souls are like a fine wine getting better with age. Coinciding with their 25th anniversary tour, is the release of their latest album Comet. It might not have their die-hard fans raving about it, but altogether it is a decent collection of songs. It hasn›t got that same energy as with Soul›s earlier records, but it still has the same feel as they deliver their unique pop punk style in song after song with hits such as “Baptized” and “Coin toss girl”. The only down side to the album is that it only has ten songs which is the lowest on any Bouncing Souls album. It may just be that they didn›t have enough material that they thought was good enough as there is a sense of things slowing down towards the end when listening to the album. Seeing them live several times before, I was half expecting to be disappointed when I strolled into Cockpit. It has been about 5-6 years since I last saw them live and I was worried that they might have faded like so many great bands before them. I couldn›t have been more wrong! To get you in the mood the Souls were supported by “Luther” and “Cheap Girls” who played their parts well in warming up a tense and cold crowd. When The Bouncing Souls emerged and proceeded to play “Sing Along Forever”, you thought the crowd might just do that as they went crazy throwing beer and stage diving throughout. Souls have never been the best live performers and with that I mean they let their music do the talking which I think is how it should be. Ever record you listen to in your bedroom sounds note to note just as good as it does live. With the crowd in their hands, they played several requests from the sweaty mob that hung onto frontman Greg Antonito›s every word and with good reason to. With such hits as “Private Radio”, “Lean On Sheena”, “Gone”, and “True Believers” blasting out, this was a night to savour.
Photo By Lee Brown
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The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (2OO5)
Return to Oz (1985) - sequel to the 1939 film version
The Wiz (1978) - Starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
Journey Back to Oz (1974) - Animated
The Wizard of Oz (1939) -The most popular version starring Judy Garland.
The Land of Oz (1932) - First Oz Film with sound
Wizard of Oz (1925) - Starring Oliver Hard, Silent Film
His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz (11915) - Silent film
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) - Silent film
Land of Oz (191O) - Last in the series of this trilogy, Silent film
Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (191O) - Sequel to the above film ,Silent film
Wizard of Oz (191O) - based on a 19O2 stage musical - Silent film
The prequel to The Wizard of Oz, «Oz the great and powerful», hit our screens this month and had many people wondering if it could live up to its classic predecessor. It most certainly does! Director Sam Raimi, whose most famous other works come in the form of the The Evil Dead and the Toby Maguire Spiderman Trilogy, was not everyone›s first choice, but he proves himself worthy of the role. The film tells the story of how Oz came to be and opens in black and white in Kansas, where fairground magician (James Franco) is soon whisked off in a tornado to the wonderful land of Oz. He there meets the witches, played by Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz, and must save the land from the wicked witch, but figuring out who the wicked one is proves more difficult than first imagined! The film has your attention throughout with an engaging story line and snippets of humour with support roles from Zach Braff and Tony Cox. I was afraid that the overuse of CGI and 3D effects would dampen this film, but it only enhances it as anything else would seem wrong in the manner in which the film is made. It would be hard to duplicate the stunning visual effects and the excitement that they bring with anything else and although I am not always in favour of these modern techniques and the 3D elements we now seem to have with every major release, I feel «Oz The Great and Powerful» is a film that put those techniques to good use. It is a film that can be enjoyed whatever the age with enjoyable performances from all the cast. With the film set to look like there could be a sequel, it is worth the trip back to land of Oz!
Other Oz Films
Film & Oz The Great And Powerful Theatre
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Trance Danny Boyle’s tenth feature film comes in the form of Trance, a remake of the T.V movie written and directed by Joe Ahearne in 2OO1. As the film begins, it seems you are in for a high action-packed heist movie, with James McAvoy playing Simon, an art auctioneer, who’s in on the heist. However within minutes this all changes, for in the hustle and bustle of it all Simon is hit over the head and proceeds to lose his memory. More importantly, he can’t remember where has stashed the painting. Without wanting to give too much away, Simon is questioned by his associates about where the painting is and when even the most nail biting torture methods fail to work they seek the attention of a hypnotherapist, though the doctor Simon choses may have more to offer than they first know! Danny Boyle is a house hold name these days if not for such films as “Trainspotting” “The Beach” “28 Days Later” “Slumdog Millionaire” or “127 Hours” he is even more so for his stunning opening ceremony of the Olympics but now you can add Trance to that list. It’s hard to know where to start when talking about Trance it grips you from the word go but has so many twists and moments where you are unsure if what you are seeing is actually happening or just in one of their minds. The three main characters played Simon (McAvoy) Dr Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) and Franck (Vincent Cassel) are all excellent and throughout the film and their 3 way relationship has you attached to them as they go from hero to villain and then back again. The film is full of surprises and twists and leaves you wondering who actually played the good character if anyone? It is shot wonderfully accompanied by an impressive soundtrack with artists such as Moby and Emilie Sande. If you’re a fan of Boyle’s work then you love this film and even if you’re not a fan of his earlier films this is an all round crowd pleaser with enough action,passion and thrills to suit everyone.
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Chairty Beer Festival
Transform: My Leeds My City
Mock N Roll My Leeds My City: Feast
Fossil Collective The Place Behind The Pines
Graze Food Festival Traditional Print Day
Oblivion Record Day - Jumbo Records
Northern Art Prize
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