Join experienced personal development coach and book club host Ros Jones for top tips on classic business books and the latest releases
Join us for the final session of Start Up Day 2024. We'll be joined by personal development coach (and book clubhost) Ros Jones, for a roundup of her favourite picks for start ups.
This will be an open and interactive session.
About Ros
Join us for quickfire networking with a range of experts on marketing strategy, branding, social media and market research
Meet a range of experts and find out more about how they can support you through BIPC Leeds. There will be four 15-minute rounds of networking your fellow Start Ups and:
Rebecca Hopwood, YouBee Media, Social Media Expert
Hear from four local Start Up Stars on an informative panel discussion, hosted by BIPC Ambassador Becca McClure, North Sky Yurts
We'll be joined by four local Start Up Stars to hear about the highs, lows and practical insights learned by starting a business form scratch. The panel will be hosted by BIPC Ambassador Becca McClure of North Sky Yurts.
Our Start Up Stars are...
Loredana Principessa, Mar-Co Digital
Join us for the opening session of Start Up Day 2024! We'll hear from an inspiring entrepreneur before a specialist planning workshop.
Emma White, Inspiring Entrepreneur
Emma is a jeweller, a teacher and storyteller based in Sunny Bank Mills, West Leeds. She was a finalist in the BBC2 jewellery competition/talent show 'All That Glitters' (series 2), designs and makes exquisite heirloom jewellery and also runs jewellery classes and workshops.
An evening of words and music centred around transness and prison abolition. Hosted by Leeds Queers Against Fascism.
Featuring:
Sarah Jane Baker
Dalton Harrison
Disco, Slick & Rose
Cultural expression provides the foundation stone for the endurance of a Palestinian identity, enabling it to remain strong despite 75 years of expulsion, occupation, and destruction.
The closing event of our tenth anniversary programme is less a celebration, more a testament to the powerful and enduring voices of Palestinian film-makers, musicians and artists.
In these darkest of times for Palestinians, art and culture remain uplifting rays of light. They are sources of inspiration, restoration and determination. They defy the destruction of a people.
We were amazed and inspired to learn that not one, but two Film Festivals have taken place in the displacement camps of southern Gaza this year.
We bring you a selection of the best films screened at both festivals: Creators Despite Displacement - the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Film Festival marking its 7th year – and Al-Aouda Festival, in its 8th year.
With equipment frequently destroyed, many of the poignant films depicting perspectives and feelings on the current reality were shot on phones. Red carpets were rolled out among the tents and rubble.
In this Palestinian classic, the mayor of a West Bank village wants his son to adhere to Palestinian tradition in his upcoming wedding. Custom conflicts with the Israeli military curfew. Against expectations, the father gets clearance from the occupying governor. But there's a catch: the governor and his Israeli colleagues have to be on the guest list…..
After-film discussion with Fred Coker, founder member of the Workers’ Film Association in 1974, who has carefully kept the original reels of the film.
Michel Khleifi, Palestine, Belgium, France, 1987 1hr 40mins
With international reporters locked out, Palestinian journalists have made huge sacrifices to keep the world informed of the genocide in Gaza. More media workers have been killed by Israel since October 7 than in any other conflict in modern history.
Using film, presentation and discussion, Palestinian journalists Juman Quneis and Ahmed Alnaouq will tell us about the crucial work that journalists do in Gaza and the West Bank to keep the world informed of the unprecedented killing and destruction.
Before it evolved into a series of outrageous spy capers, Fast & Furious actually began life as something very different. The first films in the franchise were mid-budget crime pictures set within the world of underground street racing, and they featured a cast of relative unknowns. This Film School Day will be a crash course in the unusual origins of Fast & Furious.