Join us for an exhibition in our Project Space, featuring work by Michelle Duxbury, Oliver Getley, Maja Novak, Connor Shields and Kate Stockwell.
Loose Environments brings together the work of five Leeds based artists, created during their AA2A residency at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies during the 2023/24 academic year.
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
‘To understand the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death’ – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
Blood provides a unique and valuable perspective on contemporary social relationships the world over due to its powerful symbolic meanings and essential role in healthcare. Its close ties to how we live and identify, our relationships and the boundaries we set become ever more prescient when it comes to the practice and perceived limitations of blood donation.
Together we celebrate life.
Join us with your family and friends for the 7 Locks Walk where we invite you to celebrate life, whether it is lives lost, people who have supported you within your own life or the NHS who take care of lives.
This a beautiful 4.4 mile (7km) walk, starting at Kirkstall Forge and ending at Granary Wharf, where we can come together as a community to honour, remember and celebrate.
This event is open to all, including wheelchair users, families and pets.
On the Day:
9:30am Meet at Kirkstall Forge – registration
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
Louis XIV’s rear end inspired the British National Anthem.
Queen Victoria’s armpit led to the development of antiseptics.
Robert Jenkin’s ear started a war.
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin’s ideas about evolution, a controversial new idea began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerful. Enjoying huge popular support for over 60 years, the legacy of eugenics persists in our language and literature, from the words ‘moron’ and ‘imbecile’ to the themes of some of our greatest works of culture.
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
In the 1950s, polio terrified Americans almost as much as the atom bomb. Thanks to a 30-year global campaign, we are on the brink of eradicating polio for good – but can we ever succeed? This is a compelling story of heroes and villains, that begins in Ancient Egypt and brings in a US President, the iron lung, two brilliant scientists who hated each other’s guts, and a cutthroat race to develop an effective vaccine.
A Horsforth Village Historical Society talk at the Museum. All welcome.
Disappearing village green pubs and the interesting history of a turnpike coach house.
£3 including refreshments.
Call 0113 2819877 or horsforthmusem@hotmail.co.uk for further information.
Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London’s West End.
Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders, Doctor Who) as Shylock, Shakespeare’s classic is transported to 1930s Britain in this ‘striking and impactful’ (Guardian) new production that ‘makes theatre history’ (The Telegraph). It is adapted by Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman.
One dark night in December, Mr Cracker’s infamous Christmas pudding is snatched from the window sill. The next morning, the whole town is flabbergasted; who would dare take the delicious dessert? It's only when Ivy from nextdoor is accused, that she hatches a plan. Her mission? To find the real culprit. And to prove that her hands aren’t sticky!
Join New Leaf Productions at SCRAP in Sunny Bank Mills for a brand new Christmas show, suitable for children 3+ and their families. Prepare for plenty of audience interaction, live original music and a sprinkling of magic.