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Library Libations: Peepal Tree Poets Call to Power

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

Poetry Wellbeing Group

Join Leeds Poetry Festival for these monthly wellbeing poetry group sessions where you can talk with fellow poets about how you're feeling while working on your latest poetic piece. The sessions will be group-focused, not run by any individual, but supervised by Poppy-Lee Jennings, our organiser.*

Storytelling Sessions for Children

Join Leeds Playhouse's storytelling sessions on the last Saturday of the month. We’ll be exploring lots of exciting stories taking little people on big adventures with magical characters and tonnes of fun along the way.

Led by a professional storyteller, the sessions will take place in our Brooke Room on Level 2 and cost £5, suitable for children aged 3-7.

April - Jack and the Beanstalk
May - Venturing into the forest
June - The Mystery of the Story Suitcase (build-a-story)

Shaun Ryder: Happy Mondays, and Fridays, and Saturdays, and Sundays

He’s the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour.

The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on – including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others – redefined the sex ’n’ drugs ’n’ rock ’n’ roll lifestyle during the halcyon age of Madchester.

He’s touring in support of his new book: Happy Mondays and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.

Wild Irish Tales for Global Rehabilitation

Global Rehabilitation is a small Leeds-based charity which trains and supports rehabilitation doctors and other medical professionals in countries in the Global South, in particular Madagascar, mainly through the transfer of skills and knowledge.

Madagascar is a huge island nation off the east coast of Africa and has very poor health systems and health infrastructure and a small number of extremely dedicated medical professionals who work hard to improve the lives of patients living with disease and disabilities in very challenging conditions.

Geraldine Connor Foundation - New Responses To Leeds Black History Walk

The Geraldine Connor Foundation and Heritage Corner commissioned four performance artists to create new responses to the Leeds Black History Walk, a walk created by Joe Williams around Leeds University campus that explores the African history of Leeds. The four artists performed to the public live on two walks and the performances were filmed and shared via social media.

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