JAZZ TO WARM YOUR HEARTS!

A welcome return by Jean and her fantastic musicians, with guest players from Jean’s Northlight jazz group, to entertain and delight you with well-known jazz standards and some original songs. Do join us – it will be lovely to see you!

Jean Watson, voice

Alex Fisher, saxes

Alex Oldknow, guitar

George MacDonald, piano

Fergus Quill, double bass

Josh Smout, drums

And members of Jean’s Northlight jazz group.

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“Beautiful” – Kenny Werner, New York pianist.

The Art of Simon continue to perform an extensive range of songs made famous by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel from the early years through to some of their solo hits. The duo has just returned from two sell out tours of southern Germany where they play to enthusiastic, capacity audiences.

Let The Art of Simon bring back some warm, nostalgic memories for you. With songs such as For Emily Wherever I May Find Her, The Poem on the Underground Wall and classic hits such as The Boxer, Homeward Bound and Baby Driver.

You will be in for a treat, don’t miss this night.

A family Halloween story event with all the smiles and no scares! 

An interactive storytelling session from Debutots where we meet Rory the Rabbit on his first ever Halloween. Rory wants to make the "Biggest Bestest Halloween Pumpkin" - but things don’t quite go to plan!

This is a 90 minute class, with the first part of the session including singing, dancing, meeting puppets and popping bubbles as we embark on our Debutots original Halloween story adventure.

For this week’s Visiting Artist’s Talk at the University of Leeds, we welcome art historian, former journalist and art-markets expert Tom Flynn to demystify what emerging artists need to know about how art markets actually work.

Tom Flynn is a UK-based art historian and former art market journalist with specialist interests in the professional practices of the international art markets, historical and contemporary sculpture, and issues in art crime and cultural heritage.

For this week’s Visiting Artist’s Talk at the University of Leeds we welcome designer and artist Boris Maas to introduce us to the processes and cares behind his solo exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk at the University of Leeds we welcome cultural producer and consultant Stephen Welsh to talk to us about how the value(s) of art, artists and arts institutions come to be framed and discussed.

Stephen Welsh is a freelance curator, consultant and cultural practitioner specialising in supporting museums and heritage organisations to embed co-creation, diversify decision-making and prioritise the needs of underserved communities.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk at the University of Leeds we welcome Jelena Sofronijevic.

Join Yoga Hero for a special Superhero Yoga Flow to see out 2024 in style!

Holly will be leading a dynamic, challenging (but all-levels) yoga flow to a lively soundtrack. Expect to get warm, mobile joints, increase the heart rate, challenge yourself, and smile... Before cooling down with some delicious Yin and Restorative poses and ending with a meditation about letting go of anything that you want to leave in 2024, and setting intentions to cultivate self-compassion in 2025, then ending with a completely wonderful Savasana.

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As part of the Leeds Festival of Play and Creativity join us at Boardgames night at Horsforth Brewery... 

... because play is not just for children. Play boosts creativity, it can be a mindful and absorbing activity, reducing stress. It's also a lovely way to connect with others. 

Come along and play an old favourite or give those neural pathways a work out by learning a new one. I'm there to teach and recommend from a massive selection.