Discover Leeds' hidden queer history on a group walking tour of the city centre.
On this walking tour the Hold It Up Collective or Kit Heyam will take you on a tour of Leeds' queer history highlights. From Pride to squats, from 1840s court cases to 1990s raves, you'll see the city and its past in a new light.
What is Art Theology? Join Leeds Church Institute's Faith and Creativity Lead Bronagh Daly to learn how you can use art in your spiritual life.
Get inspired to use art as a conduit for learning about faith, a tool for social change, and a reflective practice for everyone to engage with.
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This half hour talk is free of charge and open to all. The same talk will be repeated at two sessions. You can choose:
12.30 Lunctime: Bring your own lunch and join us during your lunch hour. This daytime session is parent friendly.
Sharan Hunjan is a poet and teacher from London. She is part of the literary collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE, whose first collaborative book was published by FEM Press, and has had work published in the poetry anthology Slam! You’re Gonna Wanna Hear This (Pan MacMillan 2020).
She published her pamphlet, ‘Hatch’, as part of the 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE publication with Rough Trade Books in 2020.
With 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE she has performed at Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, British Library and Tate and appeared in British Vogue.
Deftly weaving history and politics in engaging, conversational prose, The Full English is a love-letter to England written in Maconie’s inimitable style.
There have been classic portraits of a nation in turmoil before. Before Orwell there was Bradfordian polymath JB Priestley, whose English Journey is a warm, funny and tender forgotten classic: scathing about vested interests, intensely patriotic and politically progressive. Ninety years on, Stuart Maconie undertakes his own inventory of the English, with Priestley’s itinerary as guide.
Helen Lederer was a regular on the stand-up circuit and new-wave sketch shows in the decade that launched the careers of today’s comedy household names and national treasures.
From the iconic Absolutely Fabulous to Bottom, Happy Families, Naked Video, French and Saunders and Girls on Top; it is difficult to think of a comedy show that Helen wasn’t a part of. So... plain sailing then? Well, not really.
To coincide with the UNESCO 24th session of the ‘Return & Restitution’ Committee, we’re hosting a debate on the future of museums.
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.
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.
AJ Close’s novel What Doesn’t Kill Us combines the tension of a police procedural with the power and passion of the women’s lib movement.
Based on true events, including the 13 Yorkshire Ripper murders and a feminist arson campaign against porn outlets in Leeds, the novel also speaks to today’s conversations about the police and their failure to protect women.