Join Leeds-based author Sarah Brooks as she talks about and reads from her stunning debut novel The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands. Read more here.
It is the end of the Nineteenth Century, and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow.
An unmissable reading from two Leeds-based poets with debut collections from the mighty Peepal Tree Press.
Emily Zobel Marshall’s Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality.
Adam Lowe’s Patterflash is a PBS Recommendation, receiving acclaim from The Big Issue and featuring on BBC radio. Find them at peepaltreepress.com
Dietrich, Lemper, La Voix…The cabaret has given rise to some of the most boundary- pushing female performers of the 20th & 21st Centuries. Yet the songwriters that get remembered remain staunchly male. No more, we say!
Amy J Payne, Anna Pool and Oliver Rundell invite you to a relaxed and intimate cabaret of words and music from a dazzling array of female songwriters. Expect riotous laughter, quiet reflection, and plenty of joyful surprises as we journey from Piaf to protest song to…penguins?
Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met – and grew up in ten different foster homes in California. When he is finally adopted into a loving family, he is hopeful that life will finally be stable and safe.
But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence mark his adolescence, and Henderson enters the military upon completing high school.
UK general practice has reached crisis point. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has placed a strain on an already crumbling primary care service, leaving both patients and NHS staff struggling. Seventy-five years after the NHS was created, Dr Ellen Welch lifts the curtain on general practice. She looks back on the history of the profession exploring how the job has changed – particularly since the pandemic – then ahead to what the future of general practice might look like.
The Johnson era will be remembered for a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the British government.
From questionable PPE tenders and public appointments to the ‘partygate’ fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted.
How did this downward spiral begin, and what can be done to reverse it?
Monique Charlesworth’s mother Inge was German, half-Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny. Talented and able, charismatic and infuriating, she surged through life constantly reinventing herself. Sent out of Nazi Germany, she eventually arrived in London and a new start until her past caught up with her.
International drag artist* and Drag Idol runner-up Ruby DeLong dazzles Leeds with her sensational one woman show, "Painting The Town Ruby”.
Following the sold-out success and rave reviews of the February debut, Ruby is ecstatic to bring the magic to LEEDS, the birthplace of her drag odyssey!
“Prepare for uproarious stand-up comedy, outrageously campy performances, and captivating tales, all revolving around everyone's favourite subject: me” - Ruby DeLong
Indulge in cabaret-style seating with intervals to ensure you can drink the bar dry!
An explorative exhibition crossing multiple disciplines encapsulating the meaning of Curve.
Whether relevant to form, function or figure this exhibition celebrates local artists interpreting the theme in their own practice
Join us in as we launch the newest independent gallery space in Leeds, above Fabrication Crafts a Social Enterprise supporting local artists and makers.
The exhibition runs until the end of June.
Ed Gamble has minced a load of meat (thoughts), piped it into a casing (show) and it’s coming to a bun (venue) near you – and he’s back by popular demand!
There will be all your classic Gamble ranting, raving, and spluttering but he’s doing fine mentally. Promise.
Co-host of the award-winning mega-hit podcast Off Menu with James Acaster, judge on Great British Menu, Taskmaster champion and host of Taskmaster the Podcast, and has his own special Blood Sugar available worldwide on Amazon Prime.