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Readings by a different local published poet each month. This month we’re delighted to welcome TIM BROOKES.
Tim has lived in West Yorkshire most of his life. He started writing after recovering from a Stroke in 2017. Now he helps run a food bank and Under the Lobby Lights (previously Getting Gobby in the Lobby) spoken word night in Wakefield. His first pamphlet Taking 6 away from 100 was published in December 2023.
Masters of storytelling Northern Ballet bring to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister – better known as Gentleman Jack.
A powerful Yorkshire woman, it was only after her death when her secret diaries were decoded that a truly exceptional life was uncovered. Anne lived, dressed and loved as she desired, not as 19th century society expected her to. With her words dancing across the page, she vividly chronicled her adventures, heartbreaks and triumphs.
World-famous hypnotist
The Greatest Disco Show On Earth premieres on Fri 27 June. The most interactive disco show that will make you cry with laughter, sing your hearts out and bust the old disco moves from the very first song to the end!
DJ Murray Mint with a full live band, the amazing singers The Sisters Of Sledge and the Luvbug dancers will take you to disco heaven!
Heartbreak: The Tom Petty Show is a sensational new show celebrating the Grammy Award-winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and all-round American legend Tom Petty. Featuring hit songs by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Travelling Wilburys and Stevie Nicks throughout the evening.
Tom Petty was one of the biggest selling artists of all time and endured mass appeal through a string of solo hits spanning four decades, and through other projects like The Travelling Wilburys and collaborations with artists including Stevie Nicks, Roy Orbison, and Mudcrutch.
An exploration of North African creativity in the North West of England, Leeds and beyond. Join Jessica El Mal (Manchester Morocco) of the Arab British Centre chair a panel with Hannaa Hamdache (Leeds/Algeria) Mohammad Sultan (Manchester/ Libya) to find out more about their work, engage in cross-community dialogue and celebrate North African heritage and its impact on contemporary diaspora identities in the UK.
Programme Highlights:
Traditional & Contemporary North African Dance
Live Music & Spoken Word Performances
Please come and join us at Bowers Allerton Hall for our first open mic night. We are hoping that this will be a monthly event. We will be running the evening as a fundraiser for our beautiful building that is in desperate need of repair and refurbished in order to keep it open for the use of our local community.
Most Saturdays between 10.00 and 12.30
Arbeau, our dancers in residence, rehearse in the Picture Gallery on most Saturdays. With a repertoire spanning 500 years of historic dance, you are invited to watch the rehearsal or even join in!
These are not polished performances but give you a glimpse of what goes in to recreating dances of the past.
If you are visiting especially to see this, please check with us first to ensure the group are in residence. Included in normal admission fees.
The annual 'North East Early Music Forum Day Out' at Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
An opportunity to hear NEEMF members and their friends perform throughout the day in this magnificent setting.
11.30 Leeds Waits, mid-17th century instrumental
12.00 Roger Blomfield, viol and lute solos
12.30 Peter Bull, Stuart vocal and instrumental
2.00 Primavera, late Medieval instrumental
2.30 Gillian Chippett and Carmen Troncoso, Baroque recorder duets
3.00 Doncaster Waites, Renaissance instrumental
3.30 Simon Nisbett, lute solos
Chemistry is back on Friday 28 March, with another night of poetry and spoken word, two brilliant headliners and our amazing open mic. This time round our headliners are the brilliant Helen Kay (with her sidekick Nigella the hen) and all the way from Suffolk, Sue Wallace-Shaddad.
The events are themed on the elements of the periodic table, so this time it’s element number 18, which is Ar for Argon. The theme is entirely optional, but we hope you might use it as a creative prompt to come up with some new work to reveal on the night.