Bring the kids along to our Breakin’ classes with Bboy Litefoot.
Over the weeks, your child will learn the different levels that make up the dance we call Breakin’ - from TopRock, Go Downs, Footwork patterns and Freezes. They'll have loads of fun learning the moves and being creative with it. They'll also make friends, build their confidence and get to know and understand Hip Hop culture.
Folk music fills the Howard Assembly Room this month as the venue hosts Lau-Land, the acclaimed weekend festival curated by multi award-winning alt-folk trio Lau and recently performed at Edinburgh International Festival.
From Friday 17 – Sunday 19 May, audiences can experience and take part in a host of different events, from exhilarating live performances to workshops with the musicians, and even a family-friendly ceilidh.
Byron St Mills,
Millwright St,
Leeds
LS2 7QG
United Kingdom
Leeds-based SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial writing competition for UK-based Black and Asian women writers, which is currently open for submissions of unpublished fiction. Closing date for submissions 13th May.
"Emily Barker has a gift for great melodies" - The Guardian
“an album of spare, striking beauty” - Mojo ★★★★
“…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” - UNCUT 8/10
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all…” – Emily Dickinson
The opening line of Emily Dickinson’s short poem ‘‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers’ inspired the central image of Emily Barker’s new single ‘Feathered Thing’, written while she navigated cumulative grief.
MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville’s Drop of Sun studios, but the recording setting doesn’t seem to matter much – at its core, a Lenderman song rings true.
Formed on the cusp of a global pandemic, Dublin’s newest alternative addition, Gurriers, embody the emerging Irish genres of post-punk, noise rock and shoegaze. Made up of five best friends, roommates and co-workers Dan Hoff, Emmet White, Ben O’Neill, Mark MacCormack and Pierce Callaghan, each louder than the last.
Join us at Mahogany Market for our grandest event yet, as we transform the Archive Leeds into the Pre Carnival Fam Fest! Get ready for an exciting line up of Leeds' finest DJs to get your waists warm for Carnival Weekend. Enjoy authentic Caribbean cuisine from our vendors and sip on drinks from the house bar. Explore market stalls offering carnival outfits, accessories & more.
The day will be divided into two sessions:
Join Leeds Art's Centre this July for a raucous and colourful rendition of Shakespeare's captivating comedy; A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pulling the tale of rival lords and ladies, star crossed lovers and eager mechanicals, into a twenty first century setting. Where the modern industrial heart of Athens clashes with the mystical neon forest of dreams.
Mischief will be sown, substances consumed, forms transfigured, and no one will make it out of the woods quite the same as they were before. But that's OK, with lessons learned all things will end with one hell of a party.
As part of Chapel Allerton Arts Festival, presented by Folk Roots Fringe.
Open to all. Led by local musicians.
Ireland is famous for their traditional music sessions and their pub singalongs.
So to warm up the trad music session at Seven Arts we are bringing you a bit of the craic found in an Irish pub with a few popular singalong songs from the local duo Celtic Cowboys.
Everyone welcome to listen.
Or bring an instrument or a song and join in.