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Poetry or Bust: Tony Harrison on the Trail of 'The Bingley Byron'

An oboe buried on a moor; a lichen-encrusted name carved into a rock; a lost grave; an empty plinth in a Bingley park; a chipped Burmantofts ceramic plaque...

This display tells the cautionary tale of ‘The Bingley Byron’, John Nicholson – and playwright and poet Tony Harrison’s efforts to bring his story to the stage.

John Nicholson was a woolsorter who achieved local fame as a poet in West Yorkshire in the 19th century, but was undone by a fatal combination of arrogance, pliability and drink.

Light Night Leeds: You have seen nothing yet

Dutch artist Boris Maas responds to the mystery and atmosphere of the moonlit paintings of Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw with his own immersive light installation and photographs.

As part of the Light Night Leeds programme reaching across the University of Leeds’ campus, visitors can experience two paintings by Grimshaw from the University of Leeds’ collection before entering Maas’ immersive installation, which is divided into two parts.

Annabelle Richmond-Wright: Gatekeepers of The Body

Whether it is the controversial unwanted kiss of a male FA president planted upon a female sporting figure, or the litany of abuse from other males embedded in the power structure of our society, it is impossible to ignore the sweaty palmed grip of the patriarchy.

Annabelle Richmond-Wright is a recent graduate of Leeds Arts University who is now a resident of South Leeds. Utilising sculpture, installation, film and performance her art addresses issues around capitalism and technology as well as the more personal subject of reproductive health and rights for women.

Stuart Croft: Eternal Return

Eternal Return is a major exhibition of artist film works by Leeds-born Stuart Croft, the first since his untimely death in 2015. Visitors to the gallery are invited to journey through a sequence of immersive spaces, each containing an infinitely looping narrative film with no distinct beginning, middle or end. The films transport us from the bedroom of a gothic mansion where we eavesdrop on a macabre fable, to the passenger seat of a car on an endless road trip, and from the abandoned film-set of a 1950’s musical, to the claustrophobic vault of a spacecraft flying at blinding speed.

LORE

LORE is a group exhibition featuring 14 artists exploring contemporary folklore through their practice.

Folklore is continually evolving and can be used as a tool to help us connect and make sense of personal and social landscapes that can be challenging to navigate. Folklore is created by people. It encompasses customs, tales, sayings, dances, material objects or any art forms preserved among a people, rooted in place and time, memorialising communities and celebrating the personal craft of the artist or artists.

Alisa Oleva: Sounds Like Home

Sounds Like Home creates sonic connections to distant hometowns through a series of sound stations.

Join one of the collective listening walks to discover these sounds from far away places, reflecting on ideas of migration, home and belonging.

Building on relationships artist Alisa Oleva developed during her residency in Leeds last year, the project began as one-to-one walks with people who moved to Leeds from other countries.

Quarantine: Building of Spines

Over 7 days in Leeds Central Library, Quarantine artist Kate Daley hand makes a book containing a work of collective fiction based on conversations with people in the library.

The finished book enters the library’s collection for future readers.

A beautiful object, carefully made, the book is an offering to the people who shaped it, an alternative portrait of the library and the knowledge it holds.

Installation: Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown

Addressing the climate crisis through intervening in our food systems, Leeds’ Low Carbon Chinatown is an installation that combines data science and Chinese diasporic food culture.

This two-week installation at Kirkgate Market showcases an experimental food farm and data pop-up store, housing locally grown ingredients that will be used in a one off Supper Club hosted at Kirkgate Market on Friday 15 November, 6.30–8.30pm.