Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (March)

Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month! 

There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.

There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.

Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (February)

Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month! 

There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.

There will be a rotation of both male and female life models and on occassion we will have multiple models in the same session.

Go Figure - Monthly Self-Led Life Drawing (January)

Come and join us for a fun and friendly life drawing session. 

Go Figure is a regular event held here at Swarthmore, look out for it every first Thursday of the month! (apart from this month where we've gone for the second Thursday to allow everyone enough time to recover from Christmas and the New Year!)

There will be no tutor leading this session but it will be hosted by a member of the Swarthmore team. There are a number of easles and drawing boards available to use, but do feel free to bring your own.

To Leeds, With Love

This December, LeedsBID (Leeds Business Improvement District) is set to transform The Queens in City Square, once again, as it hosts the highly anticipated Christmas projection. This festive spectacle will feature an original animated story entitled “To Leeds, With Love,” with a massive 187 showings across 11 days.

Threads of Change: South Asian dance conversation

Sprouting from my embodied inquiry at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, I was curious to understand the responses of other South Asian classical dancers to the question ‘What is YOUR Kathak/Bharatanatyam/Manipuri/Odissi?’.

Emerging from this question, ‘One Dha At A Time’ was created in collaboration with four fantastic performers representing four different styles in November 2023.

Double Bill: The Snowman and The Snowman and Snowdog - Toddler Friendly Screening

The Snowman (1982, 26min)

On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.

The Snowman and Snowdog (2012, 24min)

A young boy whose dog has recently died moves to the house where The Snowman (1982) was built.

No adult unaccompanied by a toddler will be admitted.

Double Bill: Robin Robin and Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas - Toddler Friendly Screening

Robin Robin (2021, 32min)

In this stop-motion short film, a bird raised by mice begins to question where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of self-discovery.

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021, 30min)

Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the Flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else's present?

No adult unaccompanied by a toddler will be admitted.

The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child (Double-Bill) - Toddler Friendly Screening

 

The Gruffalo (2009, 27 mins)

Adapted from the best-selling book, this short animation centres on a crafty mouse (voiced by James Corden) protected from harm by his own vibrant imagination. Faced by peckish predators - a snake, an owl and a fox - the mouse distracts them all with tall tales of a terrifying beast on the loose. All is well until the seemingly fictitious ''Gruffalo'' (Robbie Coltrane) roars on to the scene.

The Gruffalo's Child (2011, 27 mins)